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If a regime wants to make up a crime and arrest some targets, what difference does it make if there's a genealogy database?

I was one of the backers of this, and have had it for a couple weeks. The product is of extremely high quality and it's really fun. Happy to answer any questions.

What country? How much do you anticipate needing to start it? Do you have experience in hospitality?

Where are you quoting this from? A link would be nice, I don't see this in the article.

What do you make of this one's approach? Just wondering since you're on opposite ends of the spectrum. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022113

What do you make of this one's approach? Just wondering since you're on opposite ends of the spectrum. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34022113

Sounds to me like that younger teen needs an intervention, i.e. more oversight. I wouldn't grit my teeth and bare it on that.

fantastic analogy, A+ if you came up with that

> racebent

This is the first time I've encountered this term! What an excellent word.

This tangentially reminds me of a very interesting idea I think I encountered in a Borges story - for a map to be useful, it must be inaccurate.

That is to say, a perfectly accurate map would just be a replica of the the terrain it is mapping - anything less would technically be inaccurate. Only by leaving things out and "summarizing" an area does a map become a useful representation of the terrain.

I see a flag.

Definitely took less time to type these few sentences than it would take to read that wall of text

Ah that is truly a very obvious scam

Why would he send them money though? Like what was the given reason why he would be sending them anything?

Could anyone be so kind as to comment a tl;dr of this one? I am curious but it was very long and I haven't the time at this moment.

Hmm.

> My opuscula do not aim at changing people or making them go out and do something. They are written for warm-blooded heterosexuals in railway trains, airplanes and beds.

This is a bit of a turn-off. Sounds like a modern day conservative whining about not being able to say Merry Christmas and people convincing children to destroy themselves with surgery.

And I say this as someone who loved reading Moonraker...

Oddly that was that account's only comment and they never commented again in the 9 years since.

How do you go about asking it a question like this? I would like to ask it for recommendations in other genres LOL.

I wouldn't say so....90k is low for someone with a lot of experience. New grads expect more than that.

This comment conveys to me Asperger's levels of superrational thinking and lack of empathy. "How could someone be resentful at losing their job to a nonsensical decision making process? How could someone possibly be frustrated to be shown zero gratitude for their very profitable work for someone else? I simply don't understand, on paper it is the logical outcome." Okay spock.

I had never heard of this feature before but I'm having a hard time seeing why it's useful. It doesn't seem to add anything substantial beyond what a commit message already allows.

Interested in comments from anyone who lives in India or has experience/familiarity with it as to whether reality on the ground matches the rosy picture painted in the article.

Normally I would downvote a comment like this on HN, but...

Yet these colleges were nice in 1980 too, before the price of tuition went up 1200% per the graph in the article. I don't think your argument really makes any sense in view of that.

These random detours into climate-related topics are insanely disruptive of an otherwise interesting essay. I absolutely hate this pattern. I see what he's trying to do - you don't want to read about climate change but you want to read this other thing so I'm going to mix them together so you can't avoid the one if you want the other - but it's an awful dark pattern and makes for a frustrating and confusing reading experience. I kept thinking he was making an analogy before realizing he was just changing topics at random again. It certainly isn't making me more interested in his trees project. If anything I'm less interested now.

Lol what's going to stop that type of person from just marking the task completed then? which is the equivalent of ignoring the reminder

The game Gruntz. Amazing puzzle game from the 90s, long forgotten. It was made by the studio that went on to make F.E.A.R., the hit horror FPS for which they are better known these days.

> The JSON format is not stable. Do not treat it as such. I reserve the right to change the formatting or semantics of the JSON format at any time without warning.

I find this snippet mildly hilarious. As though it's a realistic risk that someone is going to be building an app or API dependent on this guy's blog post, and then might take legal action.

It's not really practical or sensible to task your developers with making sure that Spiderman can start digging a hole if he wants to. In the long run probably frameworks will start to handle these things - soil mechanics, building infrastructure, metal deformation, and so on, and then all games will start to include them by default by gradual degrees. But hoping the game developers themselves make working hedge trimmers instead of focusing on actual gameplay is silly.