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One can read the article and read the prosecution's argument and still disagree with it. I do.

In the end you're buying something that doesn't exist. If you want to believe it exists that's fine. Complaining that you bought magic and someone sold you fake magic though? C'mon now. The fake predictions were just as real as the real ones would be.

They might have if they sought a 2nd opinion like you're supposed to with all professional services.

It's a bit silly to trust the first psychic you come across, I sure wouldn't do it.

I probably wouldn't trust the 2nd.. or th- nevermind.. you get it. If you don't, consult a psychic.

Nobody has the ability to give you a psychic reading because psychic readings don't exist.

I'm glad you brought up the paragraph of text because are literally buying a fictional paragraph. It can say anything and will still be a psychic reading.

I'm struggling to understand how you can equate something that isn't real and something that's tangible.

My only point was it takes more than a billionaire with a dream to create a space program. VG is a complete failure from a getting into space perspective, I don't care how much money investors have given to them. They don't have anything unique or worth mentioning.

How Branson shuffles money around between VG and VO is irrelevant if the goal is getting into space and the name of the company matters even less.

The haters don't want to admit space flight is really really hard and Elon, excuse my language, fucking nailed it.

Richard Branson is a billionaire who tried to do spaceflight long before Elon and Virgin Galactic hasn't launched anything useful (before SpaceX) as far as I know. If someone thinks a suborbital flight is impressive I highly recommend them to play KSP and find out how easy that is compared to getting into orbit.

edit: they have reached orbit; I stopped following Virgin after it became clear they can't do the job https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LauncherOne

So many people want to erroneously believe Elon is some child with the mental capacity of a 3 year old with access to billions of dollars because they don't want to like him or give him credit for anything.

It takes more than a pile of money to run a successful space program and how nobody can see that by now is beyond me.

I want to make this perfectly clear: The Canadian people are not responsible for the per-capita emissions of the country; we have no control over it and there's nothing citizens can do to reduce our footprint.

Canada's high emissions per-capita are a combination of its disproportionately large industry, 2nd largest landmass in the world, a large part of the country being a frozen wasteland, and its miniscule population.

Per-capita is useless in practice because a factory pumping out 1000000 units in Canada will look bad per-capita.

A factory pumping 1000000 units in China looks great per-capita.

It's not a fair comparison at all and if Canada was 0.0 emissions per-capita it would make 0 difference in the world because China outputs the equivalent to a Canada in a short time frame.

Canada's energy is the cleanest in the entire world by a massive margin. Ontario is 100% non-emitting energy. Canada never gets any credit for any of this, ever, while European countries still buying natural gas from Russia are lauded as trailblazers in clean energy.

Canada does far far more than its fair share for the rest of the world and it doesn't deserve to be singled out due to an idiotic statistic that is only useful for comparing local phenomenons.

Per-capita data for global problems are useless to look at because the planet doesn't care where the emissions come from.

He took that back.

https://fortune.com/2023/04/29/elon-musk-twitter-jack-dorsey...

There is something about successful men who get away with giving the finger to the woke crowd that _really_ tick people off.

That's why I think of it as more of reading a motivational quote that will inspire me to do something that day. I try not to take it too seriously, but my conflict with astrology is that I don't want to believe it, but I can't shake the fact that the moon affects the tides on Earth from my brain.

That makes me question if the moon can affect humans. The whole personality prediction and things like that I'm not a believer at all, but the moon affecting our mood? I can buy it.

We are made up of a lot of water, especially our brains, and I'm not confident enough to say it's impossible the moon can affect us. Mars and Venus are a lot more kooky, because even though we don't know how gravity works we're pretty certain it doesn't have a strong effect for small masses over long distances.

I will admit I'm more willing to say astrology is a "maybe, who knows" compared to the existence of God. For me the existence of God is a firm no and I'm pretty confident in that.

We are on a tech site with highly intelligent individuals who have been programming computers since we've been in diapers.

If you don't believe the text then how would you believe the video? Anything can be done in devtools beforehand and I can think of a million different ways to fake the video.

Personally, if I didn't trust the text then an easily faked video wouldn't placate me either.

Ahh, I honestly don't pay attention to usernames. I replied to someone who is defending your attacker and making the same low effort quips so I assume they have no problem with the bizarre employment question or they would have flagged the comment or called it out for what it is.

Is checking your horoscope considered believing in astrology? I ask because I check mine, but mostly for morning reminders and put my head on straight.

Today mine starts with "The universe may deliver an ego bruise or two today, dear Virgo, as brooding Pluto squares off with the Nodes of Fate" and while I don't believe they're predicting a specific event it's nice to have that in the back of my mind today.

Coincidentally, I have an email I'm expecting to be in my work inbox this morning that could be a bit of an ego bruiser. I've been dreading it all weekend and I was thinking about how to approach it last night and decided I was not going react and reply to the email today. After reading my horoscope this morning I had the idea that skipping the email today and not even reading it might be a good thing to do. It's not going to be urgent or require a reply so why not ignore it today if I think it's going to ruin my day? It damn near ruined my weekend and I don't even know if it's in my inbox.

For me, my horoscope is no different from reading a random motivational quote every morning.

Why don't you name the pieces of facts that are missing then so the parent can respond to it?

You keep making personal attacks and asking if the parent is employed by the state of Florida. What does their employment situation have to do with anything?

Have you read what Nazis write on the internet?

They would stay there because there's a huge userbase to convert and they probably enjoy being challenged and justifying their horrible views because they want lurkers to read it.

If you ever meet an actual Nazi you should ask them if they want to discuss Jews with you. I'm willing to bet they won't shy away from accepting the invitation even if you were offering it because you wanted to challenge their views.

It takes a very special kind of person to openly be a Nazi and they don't think like your typical Joe.

I work at ${bigCorp} and am not allowed to use playgrounds :(

Additionally my company won't run their own playground because they can't figure out how to store and audit code people put into it.

> It's arguably in the user's interest if you look at the blogger and reader as participants in an ecosystem.

I don't want to be part of the ecosystem. I want to read the article, leave, and never come back. It's not in this user's best interest to be bothered by a popup.

In fact, I believe it's actually the best interests of the author that's being looked after, not the users or readers, by using a modal popup to interrupt somebody's reading. It's as rude as walking up to someone while they're reading a book and waving your hands between their eyes and the book they're reading to get their attention if you noticed they were reading a book you personally wrote in an effort to sell them more books or to ask them for their email so you can send them special offers.

I suppose I could stop going to the park where authors think this is acceptable to do and limit my reading to parks where "ecosystem" authors avoid, but eventually other people start using their annoying tactics and you can't escape it no matter where you go.

Thanks for the warning, I won't try to tell you otherwise hahaha! Besides, if you like marquees who am I to say you're wrong!? I have exactly 0 design or taste bones in my body and think lime green text on a blue background is the pinnacle of human beauty.

> how do you find a "__bold__ in a phrase" or "bold in a __phrase__" reliably?

Can't you use regex?

_[^_\n\r]+_

edit: I think double underscores are easier, you should be able to use __.+__ and there's no reason to have to avoid matching single_underscore words.

I miss all that weird styling :(

It gave the internet character and flaws. Now it feels like everyone limits themselves to publishing nothing but perfect images of themselves.

I've tried learning Ember, React, and Vue and have tapped out pretty early. Now I'm learning how to build a site using only vanilla JS and doing everything from scratch unless I find a reason to switch it. I think I'm making decent progress.

I even wrote my own simple test framework that shoves the results on the bottom of a page. After adding a few features I decided to switch it to Jasmine.

One thing I'm noticing is how often you need npm which I find very annoying. How is a JS library or framework anything more than a single JS file that you have to include in your page? Why is everything npm this and yarn that? Jasmine has standalone install instructions that are easy to find but I can't say the same about Jest.

This is a good way of putting it and I think would resonate with some people!

I've not been able to get my dad to understand why you should switch with 1,000,000 boxes because he refuses to believe the 3 box and 1,000,000 box case is the same. I can't even convince him a 3 and 5 box problem are the same.

I actually think I could convince him switching is correct using this strategy because I suspect if he thinks he's tricking or cheating at the game he'll be more open to the explanation.

My favourite casino game is craps. I find it amazing they created a game that has two basic strategies you can play and the one that has better odds is the "dark side" and is frowned upon to play that strategy.

Sometimes I'll lose a ton of money and a superstitious pass line bettor will make a quip about how I'm playing the dark side and deserve it for betting against the table. My usual reply is along the lines of: we're all playing against the casino and the dark side beats the casino more often than the pass line ;)

> You're obviously entirely welcome to your worldview and your feeling that if it wasn't you that did it that you can ignore the source of your wealth but such individual selfishness can add up to collective selfishness and that's the sort of thing that will sooner or later garner a collective response. And by then no amount of 'it wasn't me' will be of help because it was you, all along.

No, it wasn't me. For one, I was born in 1983 so it's literally impossible for it to have been me. I also don't have any wealth that I've benefited from. My family is broke as fuck and I'll inherit literally nothing of any value to anyone when my parents die. I have no living grandparents left.

You're going to have to do better than "your worldview is different from mine therefore it sucks" to convince me that I've oppressed anyone anywhere. Your worldview sucks though and I suggest you get a better one. I can't help you with that because I'm not willing to patronize you so willingly, so good luck.

Wow that sounds fun! I think I might try it next time I need to go somewhere.

You have no idea how long I've been sitting on public transit wishing that _I_ was the person controlling the bus in stop and go traffic and having to put my 100% undivided attention on the road in front of me. I stare at the bus driver, and I bet he can feel my daggers piercing his back, my disdain for him that I'm forced to sit here on my phone reading people's stupid opinions on HN and Reddit and pointlessly arguing with them. Trying to change the mind of an idiot who doesn't even want to change their mind.

I had no idea you could go out and buy those things people drive around everywhere. I thought you got them on your tax return if the government owes you > $20k, so thanks for the TIL.

> That leads me to think these problems are endemic, and you, yourself, are either really lucky, or just used to the discomfort after so much time. You should treat yourself to some perspective, go out and take an uber home, then ask yourself if it was better.

Your replies lead me to think that you, yourself, are either really sheltered, or just used to the privilege of not having to interact with people you feel like are "below" you. I suggest you go outside and touch some grass or get your hands a little dirty.

I have used Uber in all the places you mentioned as well as transit. I can tell you that I would rather spend $4 on a 1 hour transit ride than $25 on a 40 minute Uber literally everywhere. That will be the typical travel times in NYC, Toronto, LV, SF, Chicago, Tokyo, London etc. for both Uber and transit to go anywhere that's worth taking an Uber for.

Unless I'm wasted out of my mind at 3am or in an unfamiliar area or not in a state to take transit home or the Uber ride is exceptionally cheaper than normal Ubers or faster than transit I will choose the cheaper public transit every time.

Yep.

Send this article to someone trying to argue that cyclists never follow the law and should have licenses and be prepared to roll your eyes at the excuses they come up with...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/carltonreid/2019/05/10/cyclists...

People don't even consider cars speeding 10km/h over or rolling stop signs or right at red lights going 10km/h a crime, but if a cyclist rolls a stop sign going 5km/h it's goddamn anarchy that needed a solution yesterday.

> That also raises another point: as an example, we know that some drivers text while driving. Not all drivers do this; hopefully it's a minority.

I would be surprised if it was a minority. I am an extremely active pedestrian and cyclist in Toronto and if you pay attention to people in their cars stopped at red lights you'll find a majority will be glancing down at something. It could be a phone.. could be the radio.. could be something on their dash panel.. but when you start noticing how many people react to green lights based on hearing the car in front of them go rather than their sight (because their head is down) it doesn't make me optimistic that they're looking at anything other than their phone.

Sounds like Toronto. We have a streetcar tunnel people drive into constantly and it has a railway track and a million signs.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/queen-quay-streetcar-...

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

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1d/Queens_Q...

Ok not a million signs, but there's at least 10.

> Also, not sure if you've used public transportation recently, but man, it SUCKS. Far less time efficient than a car, often crowded during the times you want to use it, and ZERO enforcement of proper etiquette or rules or regulations as far as riders are concerned.

I've been using public transportation for 13 years and it's better than its ever been in terms of speed, reliability, and the crowds.

Where have you experienced public transportation that is worse off today than it was in the past?