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Categorizing some of the most meaningful, most fundamental human experiences as "brainless" is no doubt part of the reason you struggle with having community. And, I'm guessing, why communities struggle with you.

> If the reminder was 'i see you are going in the direction of a store: we need milk if you have time to stop' that would work.

Reminders basically does have this: you can set a given item to alert when you are arriving/leaving from a specific location.

No: grow up and realize that expressing an emotion is neither childish nor shameful.

You are about five hundred years late to this argument.

This (i.e., gambling specifically) is a very common definition of the word "gaming". Certainly that predates online video games, obviously.

They're making the tongue-in-cheek observation that those who don't use an ORM end up reinventing one, poorly.

More than it's worth. Even if their fees weren't astronomical, their platform is a nightmare to work with.

> This is such a myth and I have no idea where it's coming from.

It's advice for people new to diet-and-exercise, not a law of the universe.

> it's a nice lie one can tell himself to continue eating junk and not feel guilty about it.

Exactly the opposite: it's saying that, in terms of weight loss, that eating the junk matters a lot more than going to the gym.

I think they're doing that because they took the GP's bait. etchalon was doing the same thing.

Does it have to be?

> We just keep hitting snooze.

Hah I wish - hitting snooze would at least push it back.

We're just putting our heads under the pillow to try and ignore the blaring alarm.

> This is written about quite a bit.

Go on.

There wasn't anything subtle about it.

Surely by now we must be tired of this kind of pointless hair-splitting.

It's not exactly subtle. Leia says it outright:

> Leia: They let us go. It was the only reason for the ease of our escape.

> Han: Easy? You call that easy?

> Leia: They're tracking us.

> It’s essentially a coup of Republicans

Do not pretend otherwise.

Of course; no one said otherwise.

The Pulp Fiction context is a [imo, poor] defense of the name from the original team - saying that's where they picked it from, as opposed to the ableist slur. It was the mid-90s at the time, after all, and there was an Uma Thurman Pulp Fiction poster in half the dorm rooms in the damned country at the time.

So, now we're back to the comment you're responding to: even if it is genuinely just about Pulp Fiction, is that any better?

Outside of places like HN, it is barely known at all, and the name is a big reason for that.

> "He is under no obligation to [do nice thing | be social | act friendly]" is a very Reddit attitude

It's also a very Hacker News attitude, as you are witnessing in this thread.

I don't understand why people HN talk down about Reddit so much when it's really no better here, either.

You're factually wrong, as described in the linked case study and a million other similar ones - whether they're about Toys R Us specifically or otherwise.

Toys R Us still exists where I live (Canada). I admit I don't go in often outside of holiday shopping, but it's still the same Toys R Us it's always been, natural shifts in toy inventory notwithstanding, of course.

I'm not sure why you're riding for the predatory PE firms, here. "That's why they don't exist"? My brother in Christ, they still do - and still would if it weren't for this aggressive bullshit.

Because they're dancing around specific complaints and this line, for example,

> were I to give a factual description of the childrens and teens sections, I would get banned by dang.

reeks of "I don't want LGBTQ representation in my library" or similar.

If I'm wrong, so be it. But the commenter isn't helping their own case.

Why were they scolding you?

No one asked.

> Progress over the long run only goes in the right direction, there's no path to undoing broad acceptance of homosexuality just like we'll never go back to forbidding interracial marriage or women voting.

This is remarkably naive. I wish you were right, but this sentiment isn't optimism; it's complacency.

i.e., people for whom my violin is very tiny.

Do you know what "rule of thumb" means? Did you think you were being helpful?

"Getting"? HN has always been like this.

Christ this website can be so full of insufferable pedantry. I don't know why people think that such comments are a good contribution.

God, thank you. I really dislike the old aphorism that if you can't teach something you don't understand it.

Teaching is a whole complicated skill unto itself, especially if one is teaching to beginners. Like (since we're on HN), how easy is it to imagine someone very good at programming but would be a terrible choice as a Comp Sci 101 prof? I'm guessing "very."

The whole idea deeply undermines teachers of all subjects.

I'm unclear; what is the point you're trying to make here if not "welp who cares"?

> six-month

ten-year