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cvbncvbncgbc··on SpaceX Sues Government to Break US Air Force’s National Security Launch Monopoly
Points and time determine the position of a story. But if a moderator decides that he wants to, he can flag the story for a certain amount of position, 20, 40( next page )... You will probably only find such story only if you dig quickly enough using more.

It is an effective way of removing content. Deleting it would cause uproar, but that way the story fades almost unnoticed even to the commenters who noticed it.

There are also similar methods employed for specific users.

cvbncvbncgbc··on SpaceX Sues Government to Break US Air Force’s National Security Launch Monopoly
Make it harder to post a submission perhaps? I would limit the rate for frequent submitters.
cvbncvbncgbc··on CEO Gurbaskh Chahal Fired by RadiumOne Board
I'm quoting a news article: The RadiumOne founder and CEO pleaded guilty to one count of domestic violence battery and one count of battery. Remaining charges were dismissed.
cvbncvbncgbc··on SpaceX Sues Government to Break US Air Force’s National Security Launch Monopoly
Except for one with 7 comments there are no discussions in them. A lot of articles with identical topic are usually posted on HN, yet the only relevant ones are those with activity. Others fade automatically.

Do you have a purpose with your fullscreen comment?

cvbncvbncgbc··on SpaceX Sues Government to Break US Air Force’s National Security Launch Monopoly
Limiting launches is not the proper solution. If you want change, start with your local state representative.
cvbncvbncgbc··on Illustrated Sorting Algorithms
Calling it fastest is not fair. Timsort appears to be very fast because most real world data we operate it on is somewhat sorted, but requires O(n) extra memory. It simply depends on the situation and data.
cvbncvbncgbc··on FPV with Oculus Rift and a Quadcopter
Since the movement and change of speed of the copter isn't very fast you can apply time warp to this; or just make the camera film in 120 fps.
cvbncvbncgbc··on Will you drown?
Is the game deeper as it seems on the first playthrough?

Are there any harder to reach options, like having children or reaching old age?

edit: I looked in source, there are no hidden options, you will get everything on the first playthrough.

cvbncvbncgbc··on SpaceX Successfully Soft-Landed Booster Rocket in the Atlantic
Are you sure?

https://ia600706.us.archive.org/32/items/gov.uscourts.cacd.1...

cvbncvbncgbc··on SpaceX Press Conference Live Stream [1PM EDT April 25]
I missed it; was the first stage found and recovered, even in pieces?
cvbncvbncgbc··on Ludum Dare is about to start
LD14 has a very innovative mechanic, you should expand on that.

Did you use Box2D in your games?

cvbncvbncgbc··on RadiumOne CEO escapes felony charges
Someone has been desperately trying to edit his Wikipedia entry many times, trying to remove the Domestic violence conviction section.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gurbaksh_Chahal&of...

cvbncvbncgbc··on How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm
The apparent size of the structure in the sky, is on the order of three magnitudes smaller compared to the size of the moon.
cvbncvbncgbc··on How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm
So instead of improving the algorithms that support our virtual currency, we brute force the problem with sending stuff to space(!).

Sounds like a plan that could destroy a civilization in the long term.

cvbncvbncgbc··on How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm
In what orbit, that doesn't require propulsion, do you get constant line of sight?
cvbncvbncgbc··on How Japan Plans to Build an Orbital Solar Farm
Elon Musk's opinion the concept( not this one in particular though ).

http://youtu.be/J_af0ow1__E?t=43m12s

Let me tell you one of my pet peeves: space solar power. Okay, the stupidest thing ever. If anyone should like space solar power, it should be me. I got a rocket company and a solar company. I should be really on it, ya know. But it's like, super obviously, not going to work because, ya know, if you have solar panels - first of all, it has to be better than having solar panels on Earth, so then you say, okay, solar panel is on-orbit, you get twice the solar energy - assuming that it is out of Earth's shadow - but you've gotta do a double conversion. You've gotta convert it from photon to electron to photon, back to electron. You've got to make this double conversion, so, okay, what's your conversion efficiency? Hmm. All in, you're going to have a real hard time even getting to 50%. [The solar cells are better.] It does not matter, put that cell on Earth then. See, that's the point I'm making. Take any given solar cell, is it better to have it on Earth, or is it better to have it on orbit? What do you get from being in orbit? You get twice as much sun - best case - but you've got to do a conversion. You've got to convert it the energy to photons - well, you have incoming photons that go to electrons, but you - you've gotta do two conversions that you don't have to do on Earth, which is you've got to turn those electrons into photons and turn those photons back into electrons on the ground, and that double conversion is going to get you back to where you started, basically. So why are you bothering sending them to bloody space. "I wish I could just stab that bloody thing through the heart." BTW - electron to photon converters are not free and nor is sending stuff to space. Then it obviously super doesn't work. Case closed. You'd think. You'd think case closed, but no. I guarantee it's gunna come up another ten times. I mean, for the love of God.

cvbncvbncgbc··on Vkontakte Founder Flees Russia
He actually did ask a question directly to Putin( I must admit he has guts ) that is relevant to this debate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1yH554emkY

cvbncvbncgbc··on Falcon 9 first stage found, but probably not recoverable
Huh, somehow I always though the first stage would orbit the earth once and then land. I never considered that it doesn't have enought speed or fuel to do so even if forced.