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chistevon China's Utter and Total Erasure of Kylian Mbappé

Hurting the Feelings of the Chinese People

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50278003

The discussion thread from the Soccer subreddit - https://old.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/1xihdle/chinas_utte...

Interesting comment here -

You have to love China. They couldn't repeat what happened or even mention Mao because of censorship. So it was already people getting mad because they saw other people get mad about something they didn't know.

Now they won't be able to say who they are mad at either.

chistevon Reddit will require you to log in eventually, CEO confirms

Requiring login for old reddit was part of boiling of the frog.

chistevon No Fly List

Alan Shore's (Played by James Spader) closing argument on No Fly List.

https://youtu.be/Zix-L4D4ZRg?si=ymJgt32DTBOO3H8Y

chistevon Hurting the Feelings of the Chinese People

Posting this because of the whole Mbappe saga, for those who follow football.

chistevon Ask HN: What do you believe or not believe about AI?

Humans are bad at predictions.

Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions? (2010)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21936234

Ask HN: A New Decade. Any Predictions?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21941278

Ask HN: What are your predictions for 2023?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628

chistevon Tesla cancels Cybertruck in Australia and NZ after 7 years of deposits

https://xkcd.com/1053/

chistevon I Do Understand Relativity

> For example if you hear something like "did you know that aliens from Alpha Centauri see Earth as it was 2 years ago, as it's the time light from Earth takes to reach Alpha Centauri?".

I've always thought of this as true, and I don't understand why it isn't?

chistevon What the singer Tems's rise taught me about careers

How to increase your luck surface area -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25968751

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44662690

> When you finish something you're proud of, share it beyond the person who asked — the wider team, or online if it's a personal project. Someone you've never met sees it and thinks we could use this person.

Alright, then. Here's my blog - https://www.rxjourney.net/

chistevon What Makes Us Human

Selecting all images with traffic lights.

chistevon Appreciating the beauty of all your body's scars and scratches

https://youtube.com/shorts/e2A8czGPQxc?si=ZM87lybg9PAYikqb

chistevon I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

I think it's one of those famous quotes that was never said. The one I quoted was what he apparently said.

chistevon I don't understand quantum physics (2018)

"I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."

- Richard Feynman

chistevon Most advice is right for the person giving it

Solomon's paradox is the observation that people can give reasonable advice to others, but fail to apply this advice to their own situation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon%27s_paradox

chistevon Most advice is right for the person giving it

"you can't outwork a bad diet"

chistevon Ask HN: Does anyone else just want to disconnect from everything?

"I want to earn enough money I can get away from everyone"

chistevon Ask HN: Enshittify in Advance?

You can't enshittify when you know it will be a friction for onboarding users. That's what makes it so appalling to existing users, that the product got worse after they committed to it.

chistevon Why do computers/phones have a restart option along with the power off option?

Do Macs behave differently?

chistevon The Economic Complexity of the Western Roman Empire

You should read Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics by Tim Marshall.

Another commenter mentioned the book under the comment you responded to.

I wrote about it here in #30 - https://www.rxjourney.net/30-things-i-know

chistevon Japanese people still aren't having sex. And nobody knows why

But we shouldn't be slaves to our impulses.

chistevon DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49752046

chistevon How many shots are in the average movie today?

Yea, lol.

chistevon The Making of Grand Theft Auto VI

Posted three days ago.

The Making of Grand Theft Auto VI - 7 points, 1 comment -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50085386

chistevon Ask HN: What was your favourite thread in the last two weeks?

Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50115565

chistevon Woman who rescued injured crow keeps getting 'thank-you gifts' from birds [video]

When a crow dies, the other crows investigate the cause of death (2015)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12126284

Photographer captures 'odd but exciting' crow behaviour known as anting

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27416217

chistevon Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?

Flowers for Algernon is the most mentioned book in this thread thus far. I listed it too in my comment.

Highly recommended to those who haven't read it!

chistevon Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?

I mentioned this in my comment!

chistevon Ask HN: Which books did you read at least twice?

1. Animal Farm by George Orwell

2. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes [1]

3. Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley

4. I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette Mccurdy

5. Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris

6. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe [2]

7. Cosmos by Carl Sagan

8. The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution by Richard Dawkins [3]

9. A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson

10. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander [4]

11. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka

12. Billions and Billions: Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millennium by Carl Sagan [5][6][7]

13. Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide to Atheism by Richard Dawkins

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50076596

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47452253

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48326741

[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49539535

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49751771

[6] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49740712

[7] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49739256

chistevon How many shots are in the average movie today?

This is nice, but diminished by how obviously choreographed the fights are.

chistevon How many shots are in the average movie today?

Oh, it's such an incredible show! That episode three with the boy and the psychologist is one of the greatest pieces of acting I've ever seen.

Holy shit! I'm glad you mentioned it here because I was going to.

Also, for more continuous shots, the chase sequence in Adolescence is linked here - https://youtu.be/VQnyL7pagYY?si=oZiJJlTbnoyE0bBa and the behind the scenes here - https://youtube.com/shorts/dQ3F6qs3L0U?si=EEWEQOPKqh7bxsOy

But, really, the whole show is a classic. Highly recommended.

Then, of course, there's the continuous shot in True Detective Season one involving Rust Cohle. "30 seconds in and out. 30 seconds" - https://youtu.be/vnRTITzYnXs?si=tJZQ7BNAzPmOGsM-

chistevon Social platforms have 'responsibility' to block US execution live stream

If it's so deplorable that it shouldn't be streamed, then perhaps the act itself shouldn't be done? I'm just asking and not taking a position.