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Yeah definitely downvote manipulations going on again...

At this point I'm not even upset or shocked. It just further supports the narrative Russia is seeking to manipulate/exploit the internet to their benefit.

Considering the average Russian is poorer than an Indian, it looks like Putin is going to fuck over his country as his countrymen cheer him on and suffer in poverty and alcoholism.

The West will crush the feeble Russian economy back to Tsar days.

it took me a while to realize this is live....

Isn't it peculiar that Russia remains the least hit or not even hit at all? It seems like the West was a clear target. Connecting the dots here, it's suffice to say Shadow Brokers serves Russian interests.

We are seeing bullet holes from what seem to have been cyber warfare between the former cold war foes.

Interesting to see fundraising articles peaking out in 2014, I think we are definitely seeing a bear market.

So basically, a crowd funded No Man's Sky

My theory is scope creep. These guys have done a good job of convincing people that they can live the ultimate space exploration fantasy that's been talked about since the 80s.

It's the ultimate simulation. We know very little about space and even fiction (ex. star wars) seems to generate even more demand.

As people got excited and started throwing money at them, so did the scope obviously. I love Star Citizen's attention to detail but it's suffice to say that they've hit people's patience.

Of course, but can you do the same with Arabic in the same time span? I think not.

With Hangul, you can start writing your own name, lot of English words in Korean which is understood in Korea. Even Konglish (Phonetically typed Korean in English) is understood to a certain degree.

Anything beyond that, you will need to learn the Korean words, but it gets you a lot farther than most languages.

No I don't have scientific evidence to support this but from anecdotal experiences. Somebody wants to write a paper on it let me know, I'll give you 0.1 bitcoin.

Why do you require scientific evidence to support opinions? What's so shocking about claiming English is "less expressive" than Latin? Care to show scientific evidence that suggests that isn't the case?

Please post your scientific references using APA format in all of your comments from now on. Anything less is a disappointment to your high standards.

> So, can you give me a scientific/academic source that says anything about "how scientific" Korean is?

https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=korean+language&btnG=&hl...

> The only unique feature of Hangul is that all the letters making up a syllable are arranged in one square

That's one feature that makes it superior to say Chinese. Chinese character is a bitch to learn and it's been bastardized by the communist party to increase literacy.

I won't disagree that my piece on Soylent was inflammatory but it was because in my humble opinion, it's shitjuice. It could've been put in a better way.

I also won't apologize for criticizing the defense industry and any individual/startup involved/acquired by it.

After all, I turned down money from a VC who I found out sold his company to the defense industry and had multiple off-shore shell accounts that I tracked using https://panamapapers.icij.org/

All that aside, I don't believe it's fair to have ANY and ALL of my comments downvoted because some people disagree with my views.

I have nothing but respect for HN folks. So many smart people, so much talent and potential, I only seek to learn from everyone else who is clearly smarter and successful than me.

I will dial it back but this downvote manipulation is very real and I'm seeing high karma accounts abusing their power very openly with little to no repercussion.

I feel like HN is approaching Stackoverflow levels, where contribution is discouraged unless high karma accounts approve.

Yeah except the timing of the downvotes are always the same, which made me think somebody is doing it on purpose.

Having said that, I believe that there is a ring of high karma accounts manipulating and censoring comments. I see regular comments that shouldn't be downvoted censored because it's critical of some startup/company that has HN users involved.

Anyways, my trust for HN is at an all time low.

it started a few months ago, at first I thought it was a coincidence but the similar number of downvotes always make it with no explanation for downvotes.

Now it's blatantly obvious somebody is drive by downvote manipulating my comments.

> It's considered that by lay people, largely due to Korean patriotism, not by real linguists (can you provide a source?)

I didn't say the MOST, it's among the more scientific languages. I'm not pushing for Korean patriotism, that's just your own assumptions.

> So, you're talking about the alphabet used to write the language, not the language itself. At best you've proven that Korean has a highly regular writing system. But I'd argue that the average HNer could learn to read, for example, Spanish in about two minutes.

Hangul is the writing system that is uniquely different from a latin based system like Spanish. Your argument is moot.

Interesting stuff. The Korean language is considered one of the most scientific language on the planet. I'm puzzled why that NASA guy would push Sanskrit to be an actual application language. In my opinion, an HN'er should be able to read and write Korean in about an hour. I don't know if that's true for Sanskrit.

Taking a look at Sanskrit, it looks very cool. I think it's aesthetically better looking than Korean alphabet.

http://www.omniglot.com/images/writing/sanskrit_cons.gif

This is like that movie where US pilots have to battle a super advanced AI stealth drone.

AI really should have no place in military but it's going to happen. Some spineless fucks are going to spread their legs for a 5 star general to sell their company.

The defence industry is in the business of killing humans and you play a direct role by selling your knowledge and skills to make it more efficient. Fuck that shit.

Except Soylent marketed itself as a replacement. All those shakes you talk about are aimed at supplementing. They weren't stupid enough to tell people to live on it because of the legal liability.

Soylent's behavior needs to be brought to the attention of the FDA and you can do so with the following link:

https://www.fda.gov/safety/reportaproblem/

Let's not forget about alleged mold in Soylent not that long ago:

https://www.reddit.com/r/soylent/comments/53eikw/mold_on_soy...

This is yet another example of how dangerous VC money is because it enables idiots to push their garbage with little to no oversight.

I meant more from the investors angle. I definitely don't get any sense of confidence from the business point of view but I can see there is little doubt in your technical execution.

But there lies the problem. You are deeply attached with your ideas and product. You said yourself, you spent 19 years changing the world in this area but not satisfied. It makes sense why you would point to marketing as being the fault. I hope you can see it from a passerby's point of view and not take offense at what is being said like the other guy below reacted.

When I spent a good chunk of my 20s writing software that I thought would change the world, I was defensive, had a huge ego ("My idea changed the industry and I feel like others with VC money have stolen the lime light"), and just refused to let things fail.

I admire that you've found happiness in life. There's more to life then just running a business and making money. I think it's definitely ignored in our world.

I think you mistook me for someone else. My name is not Larry McVoy.

> Powered by Standard Bank South Africa

Doesn't give me much confidence. Allgedly hacked & involved in a fraud case [1] [2]

[1] http://city-press.news24.com/Business/standard-bank-r300m-fr...

[2] https://businesstech.co.za/news/mobile/170629/major-sa-banks...

I learned Japanese by osmosis-watching lots of JAV in my younger days forced me to learn in order to identify what was being said to maximize utility.

Our drivers were different but you actually produced a patch enjoyed by a lot of j-RPG fans that came

What I wrote is going to be super harsh but I'm being purely analytical and this is not to be taken personally:

You definitely don't sound confident at all and I feel like your problem is much deeper one where taking VC money or not isn't the issue.

It's clear from reading you would've spent the money on non-marketing as the hindsight speaks for itself.

Marketing is a small part of the equation but shouldn't be most of the funding goes. Depending on your business and industry, it will vary greatly.

I really don't see any negative impact on you. It might feel that you missed out but maybe it was never a good fit.

Of course, today, you are wiser and know exactly what to do with it, so consider it a lesson that can't be taught in schools.

Lesson #1: Stick with your ideal customers because a customer who isn't a good fit for your product will inevitably experience problems and decide to blame you for it. This is why a refund policy makes sense but even that could be avoided by sticking to rule #1.

I think the law is flawed when it incorrectly assumes everybody's mental age progresses at the exact uniform rate.

They don't. Some people even at 20s, 30s, 40s, haven't had the necessary mental/emotional development.

It's absolutely a bubble very much like the HYIP forums from the early 2000s.

I posted this because the submission with Facebook Female Engineers Claim Gender Bias was removed by mods very promptly.

I think it's pretty clear that we now have active censorship perpetrated by HN mods.

As an AMD fanboy I'm delighted to hear it but saddened that this isn't going to make a dent against Intel.

AMD has been two steps backward for every step forward for the past decade.

who would actually support yelp sales extorting small buinesses? wtf HN?

Oh there is a clear us vs them mentality here.

I was surprised to see transphobic comments go unremoved. Negative comments criticizing YC backed ventures or saying Peter Thiel is gay is heavily censored through downvotes.

let's not forget that YC companies have an "edge" compared to other submissions.