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eye-robot··on Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
Interesting (side note) as I read all the commentary here: As people (obviously) are reacting to the particular "group psychology", or personality or culture here within HN, many commentators are heavily apologizing for not having specific links or attributions available. And I understand why now: Too many neurotic or OCD (or selfishly angry) individuals who will downvote in a heartbeat if the comment isn't to their supreme liking. So, to prove that point, this comment will (most likely) get downvoted into oblivion. I like free commentary sections that don't show off "commentary powers". I once asked a simple innocent question and the downvotes simply drove me to stop trusting anyone here... really sad, since I am an intelligent person with feelings and with curiosity and VALID opinions. Sorry that this rubs the weird people the wrong way. Just sayin'
eye-robot··on Why Prince Changed His Name to an Symbol 30 Years Ago, and What Happened Next
So, I ask an honest question and get downvoted (or stripped). Seems like HN people ARE getting worse, and way more petty. smh.

Not all of us live in this zone and some of us do want to understand people's thinking without getting hated on. Guess I'll move on to a safer place.

eye-robot··on Why Prince Changed His Name to an Symbol 30 Years Ago, and What Happened Next
What happened to HN... A few years ago type of article wouldn't have even been acknowledged on this site. Forgive me if I am missing something here..
eye-robot··on How to forget what you read
To be honest, I would love to forget some books I read and re-live the thrill of being startled by the plot again.

To be perfectly honest, I'd love to be startled by the plot the first time round

eye-robot··on Yesterday, planet Earth took its first step over the 2.0 degrees Celsius barrier
really crappy graph...
eye-robot··on Show HN: YouTube banned adblockers so I built an extension to skip their ads
...and YT gets 30% of that. So it's still a fail.
eye-robot··on Changing its name tanked X's downloads in App Store and Play Store
Perfect... Just perfect!
eye-robot··on Bears Are Climbing Half Dome in Yosemite National Park
Not my bears... Not my zoo...
eye-robot··on Downloading a video should be “fair use” as recording a song from the radio
"should be"....
eye-robot··on Ask HN: What's the coolest physical thing you've made?
Built "Free Enterprise" (AKA 'Big Bird") with Dave Elliot. My boss was Tom Jewett. That plane along with the golden Q2 shown at Oshkosh 1981.

I'd be super impressed if anyone knew my name ;-) (Fred Jiran would know me) (plus, I was hired by Boeing in 1985 and worked in MR&D Composite Primary Structures)

P.S. G. Michael Huffman is a BFL (big fat liar). He came on after Dave and I completed the aircraft, INCLUDING the landing dolly. Actually, I give 95% credit to Dave there, he did most of the final work, since he was a registered A&P.

eye-robot··on The pull request hack is fucking magic
'scuse me?? Are you allowed to talk that way on the internet??
eye-robot··on Glorious glass – worth more than gold?
Sorry, but cooktops are definitely NOT glass....
eye-robot··on Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering
WestWorld: "Where nothing can possibly go worng"....
eye-robot··on The businessman and the fisherman (1963)
Wouldn't need one... He obviously eats a lot of fish.