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I’ll never forget after de Gaulle ordered all American soldiers out of France, US Sec of State Dean Rusk retorted “Does your order include the bodies of American soldiers in France's cemeteries?"

I imagine curiosity like most things on HN.

They look ugly as hell but if it works and makes carriers job easier and more efficient then it’s a success in my book.

People always interested and fascinated by the algorithm whenever it comes up. Dang makes the (correct) assertion that people will much more easily game it if they know the intricacies. PG always churlishly jumps in to say there’s nothing interesting about it and any discussion of it is boring.

Pretty asinine response but I work in Hollywood and each studio lot has public tours giving anyone that wants a glimpse behind the curtain. On my shows, we’ve even allowed those people to get off the studio golf cart to peek inside at our active set. Even answering questions they have about what they see which sometimes explains Hollywood trickery.

I’m sure there’s tons of young programmers that would love to see and understand how such a long-lasting great community like this one persists.

Wow 5.5 inches did a number on them. In my part of Los Angeles we got 12 inches in 24 hours* a few weeks back. It was pretty bad but thanks to our hideous concrete river we didn’t have the Dubai experience.

* https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-02-09/climate-...

Lords of Scam is the English title.

Terrible for you but saves them a boatload of money at their scale.

He’s being chanted as an adult. It’s a bunch of paragraphs down.

Someone needs to do a deep dive because it could end up another CIA front like Crypto AG was for decades.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/world/national-...

Mirror: https://archive.ph/emy0p

There’s been a bunch of discussion in tech about caste discrimination. Newsom vetoed a bill that would’ve outlawed. Now we are getting pieces of the story as to why he did that.

Mirror: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/vsE9l?wr=true

We should look at this as an old long term relationship where you only remember the good times. The magazine we all grew up reading isn’t the same one it was today.

You’re right, but I bet there’s a sorta defensible position by the parent—they’re footing a massive college education bill so their kid doesn’t go into debt.

Sliced bread is from 1928 which is nuts to me.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sliced_bread

Sounds like an invitation to help border states. Tough luck.

Yes. California voted down gay marriage with Prop 8 in 2008.

Approved for human use in Australia. Schedule 4 which is the same category as Amoxicillin and anabolic steroids.

I’m with Gorsuch in thinking the Federal Analogue Act(banning designer drugs) is unconstitutional nor is it good policy, but if the majority want it why not pass similar legislation?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Analogue_Act

Or instead of outright banning pass onerous taxes so that it’s only used in applications that absolutely must have it and not every throw away piece of clothing and wrapper.

Giving the DEA or another executive agency more authority here seems like a terrible idea but sometimes I’m not in the majority and I understand that.

It mostly isn’t, but it does make occasional appearances. Go back and read threads about the Google Memo or Gamergate.

The Progressive laid out how to build a hydrogen bomb: https://progressive.org/magazine/november-1979-issue/

The US government said that info was born secret and sued: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Progressive,_....

I won’t spoil who won the argument.

The fertility of nearly all nations has slowed beyond replacement. Your concern would be valid if we were on pace to feed a quadrillion people but we aren’t.

It’s strange how people trot that out and never discuss the inverse.

Christian made one gigantic error. Giving an estimate for his prorated refunds. He thought people would sympathize with having to come up with $250K, but it actually made a large portion of users realize how much he was raking in.

That’s a pretty good gravy train and that in 6 months he’s going to try and get back. I’m willing to bet any amount this isn’t the end of Christian developing a Reddit client. He’ll be back.

There’s nearly infinite made up words like that. The point they are illustrating is just an example.

Serious Problems With RCTs And EBTs Exposed By The Satirical 'Parachute Study': https://www.forbes.com/sites/toddessig/2018/12/30/serious-pr...

You rediscovered the black belt. Also where cotton is produced: https://qph.fs.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-5dcb98887fb22c1d3a920a...

It’s likely nothing but if it does solve it for real that’ll be AI’s true mushroom cloud moment that the world has changed.

An aptronym, aptonym, or euonym is a personal name aptly or peculiarly suited to its owner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym

Just so we’re clear—the most recent ice age was already ending before the industrial revolution.

Unless you believe like a couple did in the 70s that there was a coming ice age which we completely stopped and reversed. I would love to hear the steelmanning for that.