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sethjr5rtfghon Ask HN: Who is using C++ as the main language for new project?

Wanna tell us more? :-) What does this system cover exactly?

sethjr5rtfghon Dark Matter Doesn't Exist

> The implications of this are nothing short of a revision of Einstein’s theory of gravitation. Why the scientific community is in denial about the falsification of the dark matter model (...)

This is easy to explain. For Einstein's theory of gravitation you have the experimental evidence of every experiment every done, and against you have one guy with a half-baked argument.

sethjr5rtfghon The strength of the strong force

This statement is only for the hypothetical quarks alone in the universe. In practice, they shield each other.

sethjr5rtfghon The strength of the strong force

No. Because the farther away hydrogen's quarks force is shielded because they are closer to their quarks than to the close up hydrogen's quarks.

sethjr5rtfghon How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years

So let me ask you. Is the only reason that you're at Shopify that you couldn't get an offer from Google or Amazon?

sethjr5rtfghon Ask HN: What's the next big thing that few people are talking about?

Some/most of those things aren't a reality because they don't make sense economically.

sethjr5rtfghon Official Firefox add-on bringing offline translation support to Firefox

> UI(not UX)

What exactly is the difference? I've always seen those used as synonyms (I thought?)

sethjr5rtfghon The “Recession” Affair

Can you please present evidence that a definition was changed?

This wikipedia infight on the recession page has nothing to do with redefining its meaning.

sethjr5rtfghon Lies Academics Believe

> Pedantry and insight are the same thing

Never met any academic who believed that pedantry and insight are the same thing.

sethjr5rtfghon Airflow's Problem

Could you clarify what "keep track of state of assets" means?

sethjr5rtfghon Japan, U.S. to launch R&D for 2-nm chip mass production

It's "quite known" if you already know it. I didn't.

sethjr5rtfghon A 105-mile-long city will snake through the Saudi desert. Is that a good idea?

> Not true. What's more economical: a train straight up a very steep mountain or a train winding around the mountain?

Most of the energy is lost by slowing down to pick up people, not by taking turns.

sethjr5rtfghon Wikipedia is currently in an edit war over the definition of recession

> Actually - "redefine" means to change the definition for political or arbitrary reasons. Language naturally evolves. All languages do and have. The fact that our language continues to evolve is unremarkable - that's not "redefining" anything.

Actually, "redefine" means to change the definition regardless of the motive.

sethjr5rtfghon I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

Do you know that or are you guessing?

Because my guess is it won't be that simple.

sethjr5rtfghon I won a suit against a party that sent me an unsolicited text message

I get those as well. Did you find out who's sending them?