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I think it could be useful to read: https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2016/mentalhealtherror_an_ex...

Brazil is a potential superpower. Indonesia is 4th most populous country in the world.

Very interesting points:

- He wants to open source Factorio in about two years

- He wants to create successor language to C++

And other fun tidbits. Very interesting interview, done during recent Space Age LAN party.

I wonder why Stripe would buy green hydrogen from them.

That it isn’t the same translation they read as children and that was used in movies.

It is not a particularly high-brow debate, as HP, unlike Dostoyevsky in en-world, is read by everyone. People usually concentrate on proper names. Rowling uses a lot of “meaningful” names like Snape, Sprout or Ravenclaw, and translator have a choice of adapting them or leaving them be. Either choice leaves somebody unhappy. The same problem was with LotR a generation before. (LotR broke through the iron curtain only in 90s).

When I read HP in original, I realised that the “proper” translation is also extremely bad. I don’t know what I should do when/if I have children. Either I’ll start working on my own translation during the pregnancy, or I’ll teach them English from the birth.

Funny how translations of Dostoyevsky is a contentious topic in English-speaking world. In ru-speaking world, we bicker about Harry Potter and Lord of Rings translations :) There’s a particularly inflammatory translation of HP which causes people to swear that they won’t let their children read it.

This was an incredible article. Thanks for sharing!

I understand the sentiment, but to be fair, CGI doesn’t give you an infinite scalability. AWS Labmda based solution is far less susceptible to something like HN hug-of-death.

Wow, thanks for Cyrillic, Armenian and Georgian, not many fonts have support for all three. Will definitely give it a shot. Iosevka doesn’t have Armenian and Georgian, for instance.

I’ve definitely enjoyed working out today’s puzzle. Thanks!

However, I am not sure about the daily aspect. I doubt I’ll remember about the puzzle tomorrow, and in any case, I like to do puzzles in larger batches, like for one hour in the evening.

Re: visual design: I think showing the actual line of mirroring would be nice. Also, the numbers of taps and swipes were too small for me to notice, I’ve discovered them quite late.

Quick PSA: If you want to do a facecam-overlayed screen recording on a Mac, all you need is QuickTime.

1. QuickTime -> New Movie Recording

2. View -> Float on Top

3. Position face view where you want it to be.

4. Hit Cmd+Shift+5 to record the entire screen.

Voilà!

Well, how many languages have flags? There are thousands of languages, but hundreds of countries. Surely, some languages would be left without a flag?

And this doesn’t affect just some "obscure" languages. For instance, what flag would you use for Arabic, an official UN language? What language does a flag of India, most populous language stand for?

How many flags would you use for English? If you want to use flags of the most populous countries where English is the primary language, the second country after the US is Nigeria (182 m people).

How many flags would you use for Spanish? French?

Why using $ symbol to represent English is less correct than using the US flag?

(Re: colors: see my suggestion to use these colorful icons to represent time zones)

Well, why not use currency symbols to represent language? Same amount of correctness.

If you like flags because they are colorful and memorable icons, you can use them to represent time zones. Much more convenient than some obscure "UTC+7" or "PT", isn’t it?

Can’t you use aliases or functions in the ~/.bashrc? That’s what I do for complex lines I want to reuse.

Yep, I’ve learned most of my English vocabulary from Harry Potter and man pages, sorry :)

Whoops, I’ve just checked the thread and it seems that I angered some folks. Not that this comment would be read by anyone, but just for history: as non-American, it was hard to wrap my head around the fact that the minimum wage is $11 de facto, not de jure. It’s almost $2k per month, which is a salary of an educated (non-IT) specialist in lots of countries. I also forgot that minimum wage must be a hot political topic in the US. Sorry for writing stupid things on the Internet, I guess.

I didn’t like this article at all. Maybe I am missing something, but the thesis seems just too shallow, borderline pseudoscientific.

The main argument is “fine-tuning”: the fact that global constants in the universe are in an optimal state for existence of complex matter and, by extension, humanity. For me, the simplest explanation is the anthropic principle, or survivorship bias. If the constants weren’t optimal, we wouldn’t be able to make this observation.

The article barely touches this obvious explanation, and uses weak “multi-universe” theory. And refutes this strawman in a weird, in my opinion demagogic way (see for yourself).

Also: this line of thinking doesn’t refute creationism! The only argument against creationism was made against omnibenevolent god, so creationism was also strawmanned.

I regret that this article has gained so much attention on HN.

I’ve looked up minimal wages in Arkansas. It’s $11/h, which seems ridiculously high, but I’m not an American. I think that in a depressed town, it shouldn’t be hard to find someone for, say, $35 per 12-hour night shift, just to patrol the property with a torch, so that it wouldn’t look abandoned? Which amounts to about $13k per year.

I think buying a warehouse is kinda cool! But if he’s facing security problems, can’t he just hire guards? The labor price must be as low as land price there.

What’s the story of dbcooper?

Coming from classic Pixel Dungeon and a bit of Nethack, I can suggest the following heuristics:

- Don’t leave a level without finding a ration

- Identify scrolls and potions as early as possible by using them in a safe context

- Use doorframes to fight one enemy at a time

Very cool! I am often frustrated by the lack of SQL features in Google Sheets.

Heh, I thought it was L1, symbolising both aerospace (Lagrange point) and “close-to-hardware” (cache).

(odin means one in some languages)

Haha, are you talking about Sakhalin? Russia would never sell it, it has imperial/geopolitical significance.

1. That’s not a very nice thing to say. Raised in Russia, I know that there are some people who hate Poles, however, all these haters are backwards and anti-progressive in general.

2. Lithuanians are not Slavs.

The original article suggests that reverse-osmosis filters might generate nanoplastics

Well, legalisation of crypto is a known issue. You really can’t just transfer a large amount of money from crypto to fiat and buy a flat or a car — the state will intervene in some way or another. I think you’ll find the same problem if you try to put into a bank a large amount of unexplained cash.

This is repressive. Many things in our world are: say, the institution of citizenship could be viewed as a modern serfdom!

I guessed the game just by “show HN” title :)

We played this game a lot in the Urals during high school, but upon arriving in Moscow for higher education discovered that locals don’t know about it. Good memories. I implemented a version of it in MIDletPascal in my 10th grade.

Another popular modification was “rivers” which would drown any unit placed in the next turn, and also support for 3rd and 4th player, you just have to have enough pens of different colors :)