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Sure, it may be too much to say it's someone's "fault". My point is just that even the people who give Nobel prizes probably agree that the aforementioned authors deserve getting something at least very similar to it, they just didn't get it because of some fake scarcity that implies someone else deserved it "more". So although no one has any obligation to change the tradition, it might be a good idea to do so.

I don't know, maybe it is someone's fault if a system with arbitrarily defined rules expressly made for awarding those who deserve recognition doesn't award all those who deserve recognition?

You mean "the one that matters" to you? You realize most people don't live in the US, right?

Sorry, I agree with you, but I don't understand what your point is. This post is about Erlang, which is far from a "new language".

It was a joke referring to the FAQ on donttouchyaface.com

> 9. I looked up your code because you don't know how to hide it and have made my own cloned app for some reason.

> - Nobody liked you in high school, I'm sorry you had to find out this way.

Do you even have any idea what Brave is? It was literally made to address everything you said.

Just nitpicking - it's her (at least according to the linked page, second last paragraph).

It's more like I stepped on your foot's shadow and you call me a foot-stepper.

... But words can break hearts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVN_0qvuhhw

Well, Amazonas is also the name of the largest Brazilian state by area and one of the largest subdivisions in the world.

Similarly, one must only count how much time is used for self-maintenance tasks such as eating, pooping and sleeping to conclude that living isn't worth it.

In addition to being offensive (which, mind you, goes against HN's guidelines), you're literally agreeing that the current way scoring works is bad for finding up-to-date answers (of course "relevance" is more vague). I'd say any solution that makes it easier to automatically push better (in this specific case, updated) answers to the top is a win, especially for such a widely used system.

Don't put yourself down. I (and I'm sure many others) have thought the same at first. But maybe we're all stupid?

You haven't explained why "this would be terrible UX", and it would be fairly trivial to add a special "theory" tag or something more general (maybe restricted to high-rep users or mods) to avoid the problem of unwanted decay.

About the video:

https://www.jasondavies.com/collatz-graph/

One of the first results if you Google "collatz online". That's also probably why it's confusing - because it wasn't made for the article.

Reread the text you pasted: It says they proved it for _almost_ all sequences.

> in Latin countries

If you mean “in Spanish-speaking countries”, alright. In Portuguese “nova” just means “new”, just as French's “nouveau” or Italian's “nuova”.

In order to “just spend some time around functional adults”, you're expected to be “functional” yourself. If you don't have social skills, it's way harder to “just” do things around people, both because of your limitations and their expectations.

Actually, your examples just showed how useless roots are to make up words. I wouldn't be able to guess the meaning of any of the words you mentioned just by knowing their roots. So maybe they're easier to memorize than random syllables, but that's about it.

Don't feed the troll.

> the low, middle, and upper classes are all mildly satisfied with him.

See, that's where you're making a mistake. People being satisfied != things going right. Apparently you can't say this and not be called all sorts of names, but democracy doesn't work when most of the population is deeply ignorant.

You don't even have to dispute him. He rarely has any clue of what he talks about, and that's blatantly true here when he believes oil spillings are all about "fish".

Let me try this with even less snark: No one who replied actually knew if paideic meant it.

> Github started being kinda gross

Mind elaborating?

I swear one day I'm going to write a WebExtension whose sole purpose is to auto pin comments about 3B1B's videos on calculus and linear algebra HN threads.

because something something mutable state

I almost can't believe I had to scroll this far to find a sensible comment.

Honest question (as someone very ignorant about the business world), why do people spend money on this stuff? And why do so many people (based on the comments here) act like it's OK to create such products (i.e. products that bring literally nothing innovative or useful to the table)? By OK I mean ethically, considering that there are so many more pressing problems in the world.

The text and the examples are good enough, but I'm sure just one example accompanied by some nice illustrations would be much more immediately illuminating.

I may be even more "special" (in the article's own words) since I can give myself goosebumps at will. It's kinda like flexing a muscle, just on the back of my head.

Funnily, I searched for "I can give myself goosebumps" for the first time just a few days ago, and this[0] article popped out. Same website, identical title. (Then I also searched for "music gives me goosebumps" and got the one posted here.)

[0]: https://www.indy100.com/article/if-you-can-give-yourself-goo...

I don't understand. What's the difference between this and just cloning (not forking) a repo? If it's the same, why not just add a button called "clone" that appears in _all_ repos?