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hengri··on Lead poisoning probably did not cause the downfall of the Roman Empire
Do you think that average people throughout history had the means of going on weekend camping trips.
hengri··on Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond
Random question, but is this from the Google bare metal team? I remember interviewing with them and the work they did was fascinating.
hengri··on Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes
It's low interest rates to blame
hengri··on Scala at scale at Databricks
> Some of the prior employees enjoyed playing with advanced language features and writing libraries for the most general possible case even when that made it hard to understand how they were used for the 2 actual cases we needed to handle. Akka, Cats, and Shapeless were all over the place.

This hurts me a lot

hengri··on Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability
PRISM is old news, google encrypts data between datacenters now
hengri··on App store payments will have increased competition
Could be that HN is more inclined to use OF than play mobile games heh
hengri··on TV Advertising Effectiveness and Profitability
I was under the impression that marketing costs fall under a cost of revenue column and goodwill is just a BS account item to account for differences in money spent and 'market value' during m&a.

See https://www.investopedia.com/terms/g/goodwill.asp

hengri··on Blizzard has lost almost 29% of its overall active playerbase in three years
If that was true, we would still be using myspace and friendster.
hengri··on Is Disgust a “Conservative” Emotion? (2019)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
hengri··on Starlink is now Accepting General Pre-orders
Urban population density is the only thing that is keeping our(US) carbon footprint from going through the roof imo. I'd much rather have people live in high density buildings within walking distance to most things. Sewers, electricity lines, gas, roads, water is all shared.
hengri··on What I’ve Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry
they dont
hengri··on Is Everything Securities Fraud?
You are an inspiration to the rest of us
hengri··on A Beginner's Garden of Chess Openings (2002)
I have ~3000 blitz games in Lichess and I have never once had to play 2 bishops or bishop knight end games.
hengri··on What Did the Past Smell Like?
I can't tell them apart. Maybe I just like them both too much.
hengri··on The Last Children of Down Syndrome
Because most people with Down Syndrome are sterile
hengri··on The Gods on Hacker News
Blind is terrible. I think only the toxic ones stick around though. I doubt most people are like this.
hengri··on Chess’s Cheating Crisis
It's much simpler than that. Every chess move has an accuracy score where 100% means that it is optimal play according to the top chess engine(which can easily beat any human). Anyone with an abnormally high accuracy is a cheater. Anyone with a high accuracy simply needs to verify who they are a la twitter style.
hengri··on Google's Sundar Pichai says future of office is employee 'on-sites'
I'm guessing it's a uncomfortable fact for the hackernews crowd who seem to travel a lot and also claim to care for climate change.
hengri··on Rocket League now requires an Epic account to play, even through Steam
Okay, but what if I want to play with strangers and NOT have to worry pervasive cheating?
hengri··on Ireland to Order Facebook to Stop Sending User Data to U.S.
Regulations like this only widen Facebook's moat. Compliance is a huge challenge for resource starved startups.
hengri··on Rare plants that ‘bleed’ nickel
How does it work? I figured you'd have to somehow dispose them in a way such that it doesn't reenter the biosphere.