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American slavery (not just in the USA, slavery throughout the Americas) is a big deal, of which there are no parallels in history considering its scale and its racist character, didn't happen that long ago, and its echoes are still being felt very much today, so it should absolutely be viewed through "special lens".

Well, exactly: it's very hard to drag yourself out of poverty if you have little money.

They were not only "yes/no" answers, the bot used actual racial slurs, it seems.

I think it also speaks about about, as a programmer, being aware of how your program is going to behave in the real world. Of course you can't preview everything and things are going to slip through, but filtering some obvious racial slurs and touchy subjects (e.g. the holocaust) in this case should be well within the capability of foresight of the programmers.

> I once lived in London and the two were almost equal. Life was less comfortable then but I certainly didn't blame the rich bankers for pushing up my rent and bus fares.

I don't know your particular situation, but moving in a place you already know is expensive is an entirely different case than being priced out of a place you've already been living. (Plus it's hard to blame individual bankers or techies or whatever for it, it's more of a matter of public policy).

If this murder was ignored by HN then fine, but the point is that the community is commenting about this case and, by doing that, showing its values.

- madaxe_again said that "our extinction is coming", not that it would happen within 30 years - nobody is, I believe, saying that.

- The doomsday clock thing wasn't unfounded paranoia, there was real danger of nuclear war in the 1950's.

Of course it should - if it gets severe enought, even if humanity makes it, lots of people will die.

> There will always be human desires that cannot be satiated by machines

Not necessarily - and even so, the work left to be done by humans might only cover a small % of the population.

There were still plenty of jobs that could only be done by humans though. We might be reaching a point where there will be very few.

I will - I have to clean up some stuff first though!

Hah, it rained more than enough here this month, no video was needed.

I did try that, but weirdly shaped drops looked weird on the animation! I was meaning to add a couple of drops close to each other to mitigate that but had no time for experimenting anymore.

My phone understands my accented English pretty well - the problem is when I don't want to search in English.

No, people should be accountable for their opinions as well - you can't simply say that black people are stupid (in the John Derbyshire example) and expect that people won't get mad at you.

Hahah, clever.

I made an animated PNG glitching demo a while ago. http://codepen.io/lbebber/pen/EjVPao

The approach is simple: just mess with the base64 string.

For me it's always like, 32.

I kept going because the questions were entertaining.

Of course, it's not so simple - for messaging, you have to use apps that other people use.

Eh, saves lives inside, disregards lives outside. I know it's a complicated matter, but that reasoning can't be used to justify atrocities such as this one.

Man, Miley Cyrus just being present on this list already discredits it completely.

Hey, I made this thing.

Each rain drop takes an image, scales it down, rotates it 180º, positions it according to the drop's position and crops in a round shape. Then a small border is added according to the drop's size. The trick is getting all those values right.

Hahahhah this is great

Yeah probably. Though still can be done with good enough results without WebGL I believe.

Well that is impressive. However I don't know if there's a way to check for collisions that don't include the mouse pointer in CSS. (and I would like that if one drop falls over another they both merge)

If I can get to work on this again I will do that. I'm gonna have to use JS however.

Hahah, delicious?

Hahahah, very true.

While I agree that CSS does go too far at times, I don't think this is one of them.

I made a version that (should) work on most browsers now (though there's still optimization to be made regarding CPU usage and whatnot).