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I love this book! The part about the implication of digitized minds and long distance space travel was really eye-opening. It really makes you understand that, no, aliens are not visiting earth.

We need to differentiate between a "What this is" comment and a "What this does" comment. "What this does" is a lot closer to "Why" than it is to "What this is". I would hope "What this is" is rarely needed but "What this does" can certainly be helpful pretty often.

I'm always finding sponges and gloves that were left inside our patient after previous operations.

Takadanobaba has always been my favorite. The Tetsuwan Atom theme song.

This is the World Wide Web?

This is what the World Wide Web is supposed to be.

Has Trump taken credit for it yet?

This x1000 when you're working with people in different time zones.

Also `a lot` not `alot`

Not to dash everyone's hopes but somebody has been inventing this every 5 years since 1997.

Just the other day I was thinking this hasn't been posted to HN for a while. I'm glad to see it again. Although I feel no need for religion in my life, I recognize that most people seem to need it. So why not this? I think it's better than any of the other ones.

I've used both of these a lot, Marp being really easy to get started with and Slidev being a little more complex but well worth the (minor) effort. To me, presenterm doesn't appear to offer any compelling features compared with these.

So they think they can wait till 2030 when a different guy will be in the White House? They better think again.

Yes, this exactly. In fact, we need a new term to describe the type of "cult" that pushes this agenda (probably the goal is just to get impressions/retweets more than an actual agenda though).

Human languages are full of idioms that have origins that no longer relate at all to the way the terms are used. It doesn't make them wrong or less useful.

I've always said: Good artists borrow, great artists steal. You can quote me on that.

I love this song and I feel so lucky I was able to see it live at their final Japan show last spring! They come out for an encore like "we're just gonna do one more song" then play for another 20 minutes.

I agree that urls for this sort of thing are unreliable and there is some merit in requiring the reader to type the code in manually but how about putting an outrageously complex QR code in the book that you can scan to get a copy of whatever function or class the author is trying to demonstrate?

In Japan, they're not banned but there's an extra 2 or 3 yen charge if you want one. This charge amounts to just about nothing but it was enough to get almost everyone to switch to "eco bags". I suppose it's not the "savings" of a couple yen here and there that motivated people to use their own bags but simply the awareness that there was something of an expectation that they would bring their own. Prior to this, you might have looked a bit eccentric bringing your own bag to carry your groceries in but now it's just normal and Japanese love nothing more than being normal.

Also laser swords.

Ah! I think I get it now. The question you have a problem with isn't "Why?" but "Why me?", right? I still think that, even in the context of the aftermath of some disaster or trauma, it's a good idea to ask "Why?" but it has to be an open-minded, impersonal "Why?". "Why did this happen?" rather than "Why did this happen to me?"

The part I don't get is where he says "Why" is an arrogant question. I think "Why" is usually the most important question. What about it is arrogant? Am I just too arrogant to see it?

They are green. Japanese people just call them blue (青). The colors we call green and blue are just ranges on a spectrum. Where you draw the line between them to call one green and the other blue is partially a matter of personal perception and maybe more a matter of culture but there is no absolute right answer.

I'm not sure if there's any connection to why Japanese tend to lean towards blue rather than green but the Japanese word for green, midori (緑) is linguistically different from most other colors. It doesn't have a true adjective form and is instead used as a noun or "adjectival noun". Does this difference create a subconscious aversion to it in the Japanese psyche? I really have no idea.

The Tommy Lee Jones campaign was wildly successful and extremely long-lived but the post makes it sound like it launched the brand. This is not true. Boss was around for some time before that campaign.

I think the answer is obvious. It is and it isn't.

> > Questionable methods get mass debated in public.

> By people who don't know what they're talking about.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who finds all these public mass debaters disgusting.

This seems dumb but harmless unless they're also saying "maths". Then it's a sign of the apocalypse.

Or do you merely believe that to be true because Previous Leon is currently filling your head with false memories?

> has no pronounceable name in English or any other speakable human language.

Wrong. He is called ピエン (Pien). Please call him Pien.

No. Stricter mode can't just change the way things work because there will be environments that aren't aware that stricter mode exists. It must only serve to disallow the way things shouldn't work in the future.

Most of the ideas here are not good enough that they deserve to be the future of Javascript. The one part that is probably a good idea is the import reordering but, before you have a strict mode for this, you first need JS to accept either order during some transitional period.

Don't you see what these plants are capable of? You put one in your house and it cleans your air... but then, the plant makes the air cleaner and keeps on making it more clean... Can you imagine it? What would it be like for your air to be way, way too clean? I'll tell you something: you don't want to know and I don't know.

Watch your back, fax machines.