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167,153 | null | null | A good way to extract original images in Firefox is ctrl+i -> the Media tab. There you should be able to download. Although some particularly hostile/fancy with their code sites have a way of breaking even that. Good thing we still have screenshots in modern computing. | null | stereolambda | null | 1,609,856,690 | "2021-01-05T14:24:50Z" | comment | 25,645,772 | 25,643,337 | null | null | null |
167,154 | null | null | > If Paypal freeze your account then any money in it is simply lost (and your loss is Paypal's gain!).<p>While this is completely tangential to the current discussion, I feel compelled to inform you that that's not how it works. When Paypal freeze your account, your account is not deleted, you just can't do anything with it. The money on it obviously remains yours. You just have to convince them that your account should be unfrozen or wait the maximum duration you agreed to in Paypal ToS - 180 days - after which they have to hand it back to you. | null | brmgb | null | 1,609,856,706 | "2021-01-05T14:25:06Z" | comment | 25,645,773 | 25,645,079 | null | null | null |
167,155 | null | null | Too little, too late. Hope all those bribes I mean lobbying gifts were worth ruining the phone system. | null | bediger4000 | null | 1,659,714,042 | "2022-08-05T15:40:42Z" | comment | 32,357,735 | 32,357,641 | null | null | null |
167,156 | null | null | It should work if you put it in landscape mode, but it's something we'll look into. Sorry about that! | null | terabytest | null | 1,356,958,208 | "2012-12-31T12:50:08Z" | comment | 4,989,174 | 4,989,167 | null | null | null |
167,157 | null | null | Anything from Israel that people might want to subscribe to? I was thinking maybe wine. | null | creativeone | null | 1,312,776,626 | "2011-08-08T04:10:26Z" | comment | 2,858,732 | 2,857,383 | null | null | null |
167,158 | null | null | <p><pre><code> That said, I would never invest in Groupon,
simply because I don't use the product ever.
</code></pre>
Indeed. I tend not to invest in things I don't understand. I've never understood the appeal of most of the deals on Groupon and have never bought a Groupon. So, I'll be staying away from their stock, as well. | null | wooster | null | 1,307,150,619 | "2011-06-04T01:23:39Z" | comment | 2,618,614 | 2,618,558 | null | null | null |
167,159 | null | null | If you search for "Dead internet theory" and it appeals to you, it'll free you from even considering sources that you don't actually know IRL. | null | TimedToasts | null | 1,646,147,533 | "2022-03-01T15:12:13Z" | comment | 30,515,094 | 30,513,108 | null | null | null |
167,160 | null | null | Exactly. I have the non-retina + DVD-RW drive. | null | jetti | null | 1,531,745,242 | "2018-07-16T12:47:22Z" | comment | 17,540,850 | 17,538,856 | null | null | null |
167,161 | null | null | If I remember correctly you once hinted you had more to say about the benefits of having a decent supply of capital, but the generally hostile attitude people had to talk of success made you reluctant to share. I'm sure plenty of news.YCer's who'd like to know a bit more about life post liquidity event.<p>Is it hard to be motivated when you know that low risk investments could keep you comfortable? Though I'm sure the pleasure of a fancy car wears off, what about a beautiful home or travel etc? Is there life long satisfaction from the achievement (ie not the money but the job well done)? | null | greendestiny | null | 1,185,635,763 | "2007-07-28T15:16:03Z" | comment | 37,292 | 37,266 | null | null | null |
167,162 | null | null | ahh. You're right then. Though I'm not sure how recent regulations have changed things. | null | ivankirigin | null | 1,185,636,169 | "2007-07-28T15:22:49Z" | comment | 37,293 | 37,170 | null | null | null |
167,163 | null | null | try <a href="http://zyb.com" rel="nofollow">http://zyb.com</a> - easy sync for any phone
| null | ragni | null | 1,185,635,562 | "2007-07-28T15:12:42Z" | comment | 37,290 | 36,637 | null | null | null |
167,164 | null | null | "If you can compile fortran" - if this is requirement to understand a model I already don't believe it.<p>I bet I can create a model for you that shows global emissions in developed nations have reduced because of the increased popularity of Goldendoodle. | null | frockington | null | 1,531,745,249 | "2018-07-16T12:47:29Z" | comment | 17,540,851 | 17,523,052 | null | null | null |
167,165 | null | null | The details are a little foggy at this point, but ISTR that I tried Ubuntu 18.04, tried installing the GUI drivers both from packages ("apt install") and from scripts ("tar xf; ./install.sh" or whatever), both for ATI and NVidia boards. I could always get to the point where the drivers were working under the normal test programs, but Resolve would never find them. Godspeed. | null | linsomniac | null | 1,604,884,423 | "2020-11-09T01:13:43Z" | comment | 25,030,536 | 25,030,115 | null | null | null |
167,166 | null | null | <a href="http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/" rel="nofollow">http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/</a>
| null | tt | null | 1,185,639,062 | "2007-07-28T16:11:02Z" | comment | 37,298 | 37,246 | null | null | null |
167,167 | null | null | If they can achieve 100 suborbital flights without an accident, would you go then? | null | amichail | null | 1,185,640,477 | "2007-07-28T16:34:37Z" | comment | 37,299 | 37,285 | null | null | null |
167,168 | null | null | There is indeed compelling evidence that nose breathing has many health benefits compared to mouth breathing. Including but not limited to better sleep, and immume function.<p><a href="https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/health-benefits-of-breathing-through-your-nose" rel="nofollow">https://www.mindbodygreen.com/articles/health-benefits-of-br...</a> | null | loveistheanswer | null | 1,613,335,797 | "2021-02-14T20:49:57Z" | comment | 26,136,136 | 26,133,915 | null | null | null |
167,169 | null | null | It's far more acceptable to lump whites and males together than the other groups mentioned. And, sure enough, they do. "Be wary" | true | wilsocr88 | null | 1,613,335,807 | "2021-02-14T20:50:07Z" | comment | 26,136,137 | 26,135,227 | null | null | null |
167,170 | null | null | This idea of which way the wind is blowing is accurate for me as well. I used to read the FT and Economist for a similar reason which was 'this is what people who make business decisions use as their level of understanding.'<p>What changed is that the views in them no longer had any durable meaning or predictive power. The necessary ingredient in news has always been conflict, this is what makes a story a story, but when you can fabricate infinite conflict by applying a hyperbolic (ideological) lens to some second hand facts, it (cheaply) produces an approximation of news, but without any importance or value because the conflict is manufactured. So-called "fake news," was less about fabricated events so much as it was about fake conflict.<p>Net-net, dropping mainstream news some years ago has improved my overall quality of life tremendously. | null | motohagiography | null | 1,613,335,769 | "2021-02-14T20:49:29Z" | comment | 26,136,134 | 26,133,371 | null | null | null |
167,171 | null | null | Not trying to break the protection, just play the file. No copying, converting etc...... | null | russw | null | 1,216,791,811 | "2008-07-23T05:43:31Z" | comment | 254,103 | 254,052 | null | null | null |
167,172 | null | null | So they say. But every architecture known to man already has a Forth implementation. So why bother make another when you can get busy doing <i>useful</i> stuff? I would say it's just for the fun of programming a Forth. | null | progre | null | 1,613,335,765 | "2021-02-14T20:49:25Z" | comment | 26,136,132 | 26,135,102 | null | null | null |
167,173 | null | null | Really curious on <i>where</i> those services (RethinkDNS, NextDNS, ...) are actually run. AWS ? Azure ? GCP ? In-house ? | null | ldng | null | 1,613,335,765 | "2021-02-14T20:49:25Z" | comment | 26,136,133 | 26,133,661 | null | null | null |
167,174 | null | null | Because instead of helping, people just complain on the internet. | null | tokamak-teapot | null | 1,613,335,758 | "2021-02-14T20:49:18Z" | comment | 26,136,130 | 26,135,964 | null | null | null |
167,175 | null | null | Can you recommend a book on negotiating? | null | number6 | null | 1,613,335,763 | "2021-02-14T20:49:23Z" | comment | 26,136,131 | 26,132,842 | null | null | null |
167,176 | null | null | "Please don't do things to make titles stand out, like using uppercase or exclamation points, or <i>adding a parenthetical remark</i> saying how great an article is. It's implicit in submitting something that you think it's important."<p><a href="http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a> | null | tsetse-fly | null | 1,216,792,179 | "2008-07-23T05:49:39Z" | comment | 254,108 | 253,984 | null | null | null |
167,177 | null | null | They store each complete version instead of just diffs? Bravo! Brilliant. | null | henning | null | 1,216,792,189 | "2008-07-23T05:49:49Z" | comment | 254,109 | 254,095 | null | null | null |
167,178 | null | null | Living in a re-purposed warehouse, subsisting on ramen and not knowing whether you'll be able to pay for food tomorrow seems like a very high price to pay just to be physically close to something that mostly lives just as an idea in these young people's minds. If anything, it strikes me as a terribly dismal existence for not a whole lot of reward and enjoyment. The most ironic thing is that the people who reap the most benefits of living in the Valley are the ones working for big established companies.<p>I think it is more probable that many people who decide to do this do it for the lifestyle and for the image they associate with the "startup" life, the same way some people decide to live in hippie communes. It's just a lifestyle choice. | null | VexXtreme | null | 1,398,401,739 | "2014-04-25T04:55:39Z" | comment | 7,644,848 | 7,643,902 | null | null | null |
167,179 | null | null | That's just bad design. The point is that :hover works on mobile. | null | tiborsaas | null | 1,646,147,532 | "2022-03-01T15:12:12Z" | comment | 30,515,093 | 30,515,022 | null | null | null |
167,180 | null | null | No, they literally turned off my internet, putting me into their walled garden. Any outbound connection attempt was redirected to their captive portal telling me to install the new gear and activate my new service. | null | DebtDeflation | null | 1,613,335,832 | "2021-02-14T20:50:32Z" | comment | 26,136,138 | 26,116,988 | null | null | null |
167,181 | null | null | What you're describing is welfare, not UBI. The core principle of UBI is that it's distributed regardless of income. | null | deelowe | null | 1,613,335,834 | "2021-02-14T20:50:34Z" | comment | 26,136,139 | 26,118,901 | null | null | null |
167,182 | null | null | The search for truth should not be dependent on vague "indicators." If it's fabricated, prove it, then sue the NY Post and Murdoch for libel. | null | ceilingcorner | null | 1,603,118,833 | "2020-10-19T14:47:13Z" | comment | 24,826,851 | 24,826,796 | null | null | null |
167,183 | null | null | I am a big Tyler Cowen fan and like his choices for guest but it is almost on listenable to me. He prepares his exact questions beforehand and tends to stick to them instead of having a conversation. It makes his delivery wooden and the interview boring. | null | apsanz | null | 1,603,118,832 | "2020-10-19T14:47:12Z" | comment | 24,826,850 | 24,826,470 | null | null | null |
167,184 | null | null | I hope one day soon we can use a SpaceX Starship super heavy to accelerate a probe at much higher velocities. The only thing is, unlike rockets, there is little incentive for private companies to invest in producing better, cheaper space probes. | null | hliyan | null | 1,603,118,856 | "2020-10-19T14:47:36Z" | comment | 24,826,855 | 24,826,155 | null | null | null |
167,185 | null | null | I hate AMP as well.<p>They’re less maintained, feature less pages (see reddit), and they have obnoxious script that prevents hold-tap from allowing “open in new window” from working. | null | plasma | null | 1,531,745,274 | "2018-07-16T12:47:54Z" | comment | 17,540,856 | 17,540,288 | null | null | null |
167,186 | null | null | If you define a "program" as "a series of instructions to perform a task, where the instruction set is Turing Complete", then your statement is tautologically correct based on your definition. A much more general definition is simply "a series of instructions to perform a task". Do you feel that the former definition of the word "program" is the only one worth using?<p>As an example: if you use a Game Maker application to construct a video game where your inputs are the graphics, the level design, and some basic scripting to connect them up, is the resulting output "not a program" because the input scheme that you used in order to define its behavior was not Turing Complete? You could make an argument that, in the context of Quines, this isn't relevant because the Program is not outputting its own source code but only the top-most layer of its definition, but then again that's true at some level for any Quine not written in machine code (and even then it'd probably be missing much of the OS / display drivers / etc.).<p><i>Edit: removed an example about "programmable TV remotes" because it wasn't a very good example, and added a note about Quines.</i> | null | chias | null | 1,603,118,869 | "2020-10-19T14:47:49Z" | comment | 24,826,857 | 24,826,697 | null | null | null |
167,187 | null | null | How well would this scale in areas where most of our intensive agriculture is now, e.g. Kansas, Nebraska? We have a ton of farming like this guy is doing around where I live but we have lots of rain and pretty good soil to beging with. | null | zwieback | null | 1,603,118,864 | "2020-10-19T14:47:44Z" | comment | 24,826,856 | 24,825,567 | null | null | null |
167,188 | null | null | Don't forget to factor ethanol production in as well. In many places it is providing huge incentives for massive corn yields and production. | null | mikey_p | null | 1,603,118,872 | "2020-10-19T14:47:52Z" | comment | 24,826,859 | 24,826,753 | null | null | null |
167,189 | null | null | One simple fact destroys the whole "Russia disinfo" nonsense: Hunter Biden's lawyer requested the laptop/disk drives back. If it weren't Biden's, why would he do that? | null | cpr | null | 1,603,118,869 | "2020-10-19T14:47:49Z" | comment | 24,826,858 | 24,825,629 | null | null | null |
167,190 | null | null | Kate is definitely my favorite text editor on Windows (on Linux I use it occasionally, along with featherpad, bluefish and vscodium).<p>I tend to only use it for relatively simple stuff (editing config files and keeping notes), but with what I consider one of its coolest features, Language Server Protocol support, you could just use it as a full IDE.<p>Hint for Windows users dissatisfied with its lackluster tooling: The KDE community provides Windows builds for lots of KDE apps.<p>Here's the entry point: <a href="https://community.kde.org/Windows" rel="nofollow">https://community.kde.org/Windows</a><p>Here's the CI page: <a href="https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/" rel="nofollow">https://binary-factory.kde.org/view/Windows%2064-bit/</a> | null | solarkraft | null | 1,604,884,398 | "2020-11-09T01:13:18Z" | comment | 25,030,533 | 25,030,096 | null | null | null |
167,191 | null | null | In some sense, business is war, according to pre-determined rules; all kinds of saber rattling is acceptable. | null | YuriNiyazov | null | 1,239,983,364 | "2009-04-17T15:49:24Z" | comment | 567,132 | 567,103 | null | null | null |
167,192 | null | null | > If it were up to the recording companies, would they refund me my money if I didn't like a CD I legally bought? Currently, the answer is no.<p>Is it? I have previously returned music to a store within my stautory rights period.<p>Besides even if you do make a fair point lets reverse the situation: is it right to nick a CD from the store if you go back later to either put it on the shelf if you dont like it or pay for it if you do?<p>Anyway; Im not so much talking music you dont like actually (sorry, my fault). My point was focused on music you find acceptable and still would listen to occasionally but dont think is worth £9.99 or however much an album purchase is near you. I know several people with HUGE illegal music collections that would cost them thousands of pounds to purchase - how do they choose what to pay for, what to keep and what they should delete. Answer (for all of them) is they pay nothing and delete nothing.... | null | ErrantX | null | 1,239,983,365 | "2009-04-17T15:49:25Z" | comment | 567,133 | 567,065 | null | null | null |
167,193 | null | null | But it seems to me like an unkind ("dickish") way of getting the money back.<p>Other people have made suggestions for alternatives: tptacek (small claims court), tjic (scary lawyer letter), boredguy8 (a social engineering approach). | null | maryrosecook | null | 1,239,983,315 | "2009-04-17T15:48:35Z" | comment | 567,130 | 567,112 | null | null | null |
167,194 | null | null | <a href="http://comentariobovino.com/" rel="nofollow">http://comentariobovino.com/</a> | null | braz2 | null | 1,239,983,333 | "2009-04-17T15:48:53Z" | comment | 567,131 | 566,565 | null | null | null |
167,195 | null | null | I was in the DePaul M.S.C.S. program for a while. I found it reasonably good overall but decided, after taking all the core courses and a couple electives, that I could learn whatever I needed on my own. With any accredited distance degree program there is often a requirement to have a proctored exams (midterms, finals) taken in person somewhere (I did mine through the UC Berkeley Extension School), so be aware of that as that will be something you will need to schedule time for.<p>You might also look into the Stanford Center for Professional Development <a href="http://scpd.stanford.edu/" rel="nofollow">http://scpd.stanford.edu/</a> .<p>Good Luck! | null | gcheong | null | 1,239,983,501 | "2009-04-17T15:51:41Z" | comment | 567,136 | 566,966 | null | null | null |
167,196 | null | null | nice. and one search away: <a href="http://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/25/remote-kill-and-install-on-google-android/" rel="nofollow">http://jon.oberheide.org/blog/2010/06/25/remote-kill-and-ins...</a> | null | gcb | null | 1,312,776,809 | "2011-08-08T04:13:29Z" | comment | 2,858,738 | 2,850,727 | null | null | null |
167,197 | null | null | I am not disputing the efficacy of debt collection agencies at recovering money, in the same way as I would not dispute the destructive power of a bomb. | null | maryrosecook | null | 1,239,983,454 | "2009-04-17T15:50:54Z" | comment | 567,134 | 567,125 | null | null | null |
167,198 | null | null | What gives you the idea he is missing aesthetic taste? You do realize that Linus (or any of the kernel devs) are not in any way responsible for the decisions groups like Gnome or KDE may make, right? | null | apetresc | null | 1,312,776,815 | "2011-08-08T04:13:35Z" | comment | 2,858,739 | 2,855,940 | null | null | null |
167,199 | null | null | So this is possible. I fly on JAL all the time for work (internationally). They are pretty much always right on time for all schedule flights. They do things very differently then the US airlines I fly on. They make announcements about boarding time, status etc. more often. They announcements include things like walking time to the gate. There are way more people at the gate organizing the boarding queue and handling the ticket and passport checking then I have seen at other airlines. They have clear signage about which line is for what and walk around with the signs to make sure everyone understands. When you board the aircraft the crew is actively involved in making sure you are able to get in your seat and get your bags put away. If you have a connecting flight with a tight window there are personal at the plane exit waiting for you to help you make the next flight. I have always been impressed by their level of service and detail. I recently had a flight through Tokyo back to the US. As I walk off the plane that just landed and look out the window I can see my bag already off the plane and being put on a cart for transfer. I had a 40 minute window on an international connecting flight through Narita. I would never ever try to schedule that on another airline. I made it with 20 minutes to spare and my bag showed up at my destination just fine. Oh the other amazing thing is that priority tag on your bag for their frequent flyers for making your bag come out first really works, even when landing in SFO or LAX.<p>I really feel this is a matter of organizational skill and planning. The US airlines just do not care to put in the effort.<p><a href="https://www.jal.co.jp/en/info/flightstats.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.jal.co.jp/en/info/flightstats.html</a> | null | myrandomcomment | null | 1,554,828,463 | "2019-04-09T16:47:43Z" | comment | 19,616,565 | 19,613,501 | null | null | null |
167,200 | null | null | It isn't... though of course a desktop won't fit in your hands (unless you have extremely, extremely large hands)...<p>The Maxtor 80GB drive was introduced in mid-2000 :<p><a href="http://www.pcworld.com/article/1766/maxtor_rolls_out_80gb_hard_drive.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.pcworld.com/article/1766/maxtor_rolls_out_80gb_ha...</a><p>The best CPU in mid-2000 (x86 architecture) you could get was a PIII at about 1Ghz ... or else the Athlon at a similar clock speed, with higher memory bandwidth.<p><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_microprocessors</a><p>19" CRT monitors were widely available for under $500, with resolutions of at least 1280x1024 and some going to 1600x1200 ...<p><a href="http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WUB/is_1999_May_17/ai_54665206/" rel="nofollow">http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0WUB/is_1999_May_17/a...</a><p>ATI had already introduced 128bit GPUs (limited by today's standards of course) with 32MB to 64MB DDR RAM, capable of 32-bit color at 1600x1200:<p><a href="http://www.itnetcentral.com/tech/atis-latest-graphics-engine-ati-radeon-309.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.itnetcentral.com/tech/atis-latest-graphics-engine...</a> | null | patrickgzill | null | 1,293,860,623 | "2011-01-01T05:43:43Z" | comment | 2,057,289 | 2,057,208 | null | null | null |
167,201 | null | null | In 2011, I will revolutionize the textbook publishing industry. | null | ZackOfAllTrades | null | 1,293,860,394 | "2011-01-01T05:39:54Z" | comment | 2,057,288 | 2,055,842 | null | null | null |
167,202 | null | null | How many years of training does it take to aquire this skill? | null | andi999 | null | 1,600,787,198 | "2020-09-22T15:06:38Z" | comment | 24,555,309 | 24,554,384 | null | null | null |
167,203 | null | null | Voted you up because I like the sentiment behind your comment and love printed books, but I still am eco-friendly enough to think it's better to not cut down the trees if we don't have to. | null | wyclif | null | 1,293,860,030 | "2011-01-01T05:33:50Z" | comment | 2,057,283 | 2,056,213 | null | null | null |
167,204 | null | null | I laughed.<p>But, there's another way - use a damn scripted gif or png</obvious><p>...or for monochrome pages, is an xbm smaller?<p>update:
oh yeah, i forgot, xbm files are C, though I suppose you could meta script them with more C.<p>people who really dont want their text stolen are going to see the massive bandwidth we have now and start just using images. protects it from anything but ocr. | null | aj700 | null | 1,293,859,773 | "2011-01-01T05:29:33Z" | comment | 2,057,280 | 2,055,908 | null | null | null |
167,205 | null | null | "Rejection Therapy" is the inaccurate, possibly dangerous meme version of a real therapy - in vivo desensitization.<p>Conquering fear is done by facing your fears not by intentionally going out with the expectation that things will go bad. Pessimism is just another defence mechanism from the true vulnerability of ambiguity.<p>This meme is just psychologically wrong in so many ways.<p>- Seeking rejection creates a self-fulfilling prophecy where you will be more likely to be rejected.<p>- When you are rejected in this way, instead of processing it maturely, you're going to say "Oh it was part of my rejection therapy. I didn't really even want or expect to be accepted. Add one point to the scoreboard!." This is an attempt to dodge the reality of what happened - rejection is a negative thing. It's not the end of the world, but it also is probably not cause for celebration. You aren't fooling anyone (including yourself) by telling yourself it is positive. Anytime you are rejected from something you care about you are going to have sad feelings at the least. The way to handle these is to face them, own them, feel them, realize they will go away, and try again another day. But inflicting this on yourself on purpose is masochism and unhealthy.<p>- For most people, experiencing a lot of rejection will not make them less fearful of rejection, it will make them more fearful. They will come to expect rejection more and then avoid behaviours that they believe will lead to it.<p>- The effective, scientifically proven way to face your fears is to do it piece by piece, in small bites, and to recognize that if you are not allowing yourself to be truly emotionally vulnerable, you are not really facing your fear of rejection. The fear of rejection is about asking for something you want and then feeling the uncomfortable vulnerable feelings of ambiguity. It's about making yourself emotionally vulnerable - you genuinely want something and will be happy to receive it and sad to be denied it. This is true vulnerability. You cannot avoid the pain of rejection, you can only learn to process it when it happens, and to have the courage to risk that pain because you know it's all for a greater good. But inflicting this pain on yourself needlessly is masochistic and will likely lead to more phobias and anxiety, not less.<p>Those who are having trouble with fear - look up systematic desensitization and in vivo desensitization. Also, remember that true courage means allowing yourself to be vulnerable. And vulnerability means allowing for the instance where you feel bad. A coward is someone who finds ways to avoid any chance of feeling bad. A courageous person is one who is willing to risk losing something he desires because he knows that it is a smart risk. | null | forensic | null | 1,293,860,307 | "2011-01-01T05:38:27Z" | comment | 2,057,287 | 2,056,341 | null | null | null |
167,206 | null | null | You code should read != 0 to have the desired effect.<p>And even then, this can bypass it:<p><pre><code> var temp = String.prototype.search;
String.prototype.search = function() { return 0};
if (location.host.search(/crockford.com$/i) != 0) {
throw "Stop hotlinking me!";
}
String.prototype.search = temp;
</code></pre>
Though that may cause other problems. | null | simonsarris | null | 1,293,860,216 | "2011-01-01T05:36:56Z" | comment | 2,057,285 | 2,056,032 | null | null | null |
167,207 | null | null | Am I the first person to go "Woah! That's cool!" then look at the code and instantly go "<i>WTF?!</i>"?<p><pre><code> - Browser sniffing using `document.all` to test for IE
- Browser sniffing at all!
- Aborting `trace` rather than just removing it
- In `init`, repeatedly calling `document.getElementById` with the same `id`
instead of storing them in variables
- Calling `document.getElementById` every time `parallax`, the `mousemove` event
handler, is triggered rather than `init` storing them *once* in variables that
`parallax` has access to</code></pre> | null | laughinghan | null | 1,293,860,040 | "2011-01-01T05:34:00Z" | comment | 2,057,284 | 2,056,629 | null | null | null |
167,208 | null | null | Is there anything that users can do to help with this? Donating money or hosting, or running a Tor node?<p>There wasn't any info on the blog about what regular users can do to help with this, if anything. | null | click170 | null | 1,419,030,267 | "2014-12-19T23:04:27Z" | comment | 8,775,071 | 8,774,833 | null | null | null |
167,209 | null | null | Or, you know, evidence-backed science showing something is dangerous, and empathy-based policy trying to get people to reduce that danger to each other.<p>Tell me: who is trying to "control" people with this, and how do those people personally benefit by others putting a piece of cloth over their mouths in public? | null | IceMetalPunk | null | 1,659,714,029 | "2022-08-05T15:40:29Z" | comment | 32,357,731 | 32,346,578 | null | null | null |
167,210 | null | null | I am keen to have your comments, take questions and feedback | null | praful1113 | null | 1,428,838,074 | "2015-04-12T11:27:54Z" | comment | 9,362,979 | 9,362,976 | null | null | null |
167,211 | null | null | Here. I clicked through. <a href="http://3dmol.csb.pitt.edu/doc/index.html#toc2" rel="nofollow">http://3dmol.csb.pitt.edu/doc/index.html#toc2</a> | null | grizzles | null | 1,428,838,060 | "2015-04-12T11:27:40Z" | comment | 9,362,978 | 9,362,872 | null | null | null |
167,212 | null | null | I get his point, but can't get away from the idea that he's describing the web... and php. New distribution system, larger audience, same idea. | null | ojbyrne | null | 1,234,330,567 | "2009-02-11T05:36:07Z" | comment | 476,591 | 476,536 | null | null | null |
167,213 | null | null | An experienced and mature manager might appreciate the frankness. | null | rapind | null | 1,428,837,973 | "2015-04-12T11:26:13Z" | comment | 9,362,973 | 9,362,918 | null | null | null |
167,214 | null | null | It's just a literal question. Say you don't respect someone very much. What harm does that do to them? Say you respect someone a great deal, what good does that do them? | null | maxerickson | null | 1,428,837,931 | "2015-04-12T11:25:31Z" | comment | 9,362,972 | 9,362,042 | null | null | null |
167,215 | null | null | It seems like the music app received some half-baked changes across the board. For example, you can no longer shuffle all music in a particular genre through the app. They added (or maybe always had) an option to shuffle through Siri ("Play some blues"), but there are some frustrating edge cases:<p>"Play some video game music."
"I'm sorry, I can't help you with videos."<p>I've had to resort to creating smart playlists for most of my genres, which is highly inefficient.<p>I find the new interface for shuffling to be confusing as well. It's now the word "Shuffle" with a white background, which changes to "Shuffle All" with a slight pink tinge when you tap it. If tapping "Shuffle" turns shuffle on, then why would tapping "Shuffle All" turn it off? It just seems like a confusing experience.<p>Overall, I'm fairly happy with iOS 7. But outside of radio, the music app feels like a regression. | null | kyleashipley | null | 1,380,289,632 | "2013-09-27T13:47:12Z" | comment | 6,456,953 | 6,456,264 | null | null | null |
167,216 | null | null | To see what this means for the cosmological parameters, the best place to look is Figure 15 of the journal article [1]. The effect of the distance bias pushes for a higher value of Omega_M (the fraction of the energy density of the universe in matter) and a lower value of w (a term which characterizes the equation of state of dark energy). The currently accepted values for these two parameters are roughly Omega_M = 0.3 and w = -1. If w = -1, it means that dark energy is consistent with a cosmological constant, which is more-or-less the simplest form of dark energy (not that we really know what it is). Going to w < -1 is interesting because it means that the acceleration of the expansion of the universe will itself also increase, resulting in a Big Rip. If these findings are correct, it would mean the universe is more exotic than previously thought.<p>Also, here is a nice discussion of the equation of state of dark energy:
<a href="http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March04/Carroll/Carroll4.html" rel="nofollow">http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/March04/Carroll/Carroll4....</a><p>1 - <a href="http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1706v1.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://arxiv.org/pdf/1408.1706v1.pdf</a> | null | brittonsmith | null | 1,428,837,888 | "2015-04-12T11:24:48Z" | comment | 9,362,970 | 9,362,419 | null | null | null |
167,217 | null | null | Does this distro offer transactional updates with rollbacks or is it still depending on update ideas from the stone age?<p>Archlinux is a very good distro, but I do not understand why they are forcing users to read update instructions (boooring!) and replicate these instructions manually - seems bizarro to me: to update a computing system, something that was invented to replace tedious manual workflows in the first place, every single user is forced to replicate manual instructions (sometimes).<p>It's the same with thousands of technical blog writers out there, writing long articles about how to configure your system or "how to install x, y, z on a, b, c" - in all seriousness they want you to copy and paste computing instructions manually into your machine - this looks like an interesting steam punk counter-culture phenomenon in the age of the rising devops revolution...<p>Is it a psychological mechanism, lying deeply in our genes, that helps our species not to develop to fast? Is there some "evolution retardant" in our substances that forces us to not adopt new things too fast, as they might be wrong? Many people are still programming in C and we are having the same problems like 30 years ago in computing, what seems to be enough of evidence for the existence of such an invisible evolutionary regulator.<p>Can't we have a linux distro that sends out updates via punchcards, sent to you with a monthly magazin that contains lots of manual input instructions for your modern device (and a lot of comics)? Let's call it NeanderOS or Mammutix. Any VC interested? Let's make this the next big thing!<p>Have a nice sunday! | null | UserRights | null | 1,428,838,021 | "2015-04-12T11:27:01Z" | comment | 9,362,975 | 9,361,892 | null | null | null |
167,218 | null | null | Vi is particularly effective <i>because</i> you don't have to use a mouse, even if you have one. | null | wz1000 | null | 1,428,837,993 | "2015-04-12T11:26:33Z" | comment | 9,362,974 | 9,362,897 | null | null | null |
167,219 | null | null | > * For x86, the package availability is almost unparalleled *<p>No it is not. Please don't spread that nonsense.<p>Tons of packages don't work. Many are not maintained. Debugging packages are a huge pain.<p>I've never had so much problems on any distro related to packages as on nixos.<p>Which is expected! Nixos is novel and a niche, few develop for it and tons of stuff break because assumptions that work on all other distros don't.<p>But please don't try to give people the idea that nixos package situation is great or even good. It is only hurting the cause. | null | tjoff | null | 1,659,714,029 | "2022-08-05T15:40:29Z" | comment | 32,357,732 | 32,356,338 | null | null | null |
167,220 | null | null | This is the thing that strikes me as immediately weird about this result: as you point out, we <i>can</i> resolve stars in other galaxies. We've been able to for a long time.<p>So why hasn't anyone ever noticed this extra-galactic population? They'd show up as anomalous field stars, probably with odd proper motions.<p>If you think of it in terms of the Local Group, every galaxy should have a "halo" of these free stars around it in a radius comparable to half the distance between galaxies. Admittedly that's pretty low density, but is it really low enough that no one has ever seen one of these objects?<p>Or are they only present at very high redshift (and if so, what happened to them?) | null | tjradcliffe | null | 1,416,451,049 | "2014-11-20T02:37:29Z" | comment | 8,634,119 | 8,633,801 | null | null | null |
167,221 | null | null | Really? Do you have any solid basis for this hypothesis? Are you really calling me a supporter of totalitarian absolutism because I'm sympathetic with the expressed outrage against Musk?<p>To start, what does Marxism have to do with any of this?<p>Aren't there any number of closer equivalences you could have used, without the specter of government-run mass murder? What about RINO - <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republican_In_Name_Only</a> , or the other way, an appeal to the 'big tent'? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_tent" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_tent</a> ?<p>(The latter links to 'Multi-tendency', described as 'Multi-tendency political organisations, especially left-wing groups, accommodate members who are affiliated or identify with different political ideologies, agendas, interests or perspectives.' Odd, isn't it, that it highlights how left-wing groups are more accomodationist?)<p>Isn't it a pretty normal behavior to expect a higher standard from those one thinks are friends or allies?<p>Might it be that Musk's claims of being a socialist actually <i>are</i> based in a poor understanding of socialism, and that he makes a show of being left-leaning while his actions stay firmly in the middle of the Overton window?<p>It seems that any of those are a more likely interpretation than what you propose. | null | eesmith | null | 1,531,719,454 | "2018-07-16T05:37:34Z" | comment | 17,538,998 | 17,538,781 | null | null | null |
167,222 | null | null | I was thinking the same. On Gomera the "fog forest" is providing a major part of water for the island. Planting trees is probably much cheaper than setting up the nets. | null | jsilence | null | 1,531,719,478 | "2018-07-16T05:37:58Z" | comment | 17,538,999 | 17,537,787 | null | null | null |
167,223 | null | null | That seems to be a poor analogy to relate in this case. I’m not going to claim that the parent article is factual or even useful but at first glance it seems interesting.<p>In general the difference between a tinkerer and an engineer or scientist is that the latter uses appropriate mathematical models to garner deeper insight into problems than available to general tinkerers and "smart thinkers". If the linked article succeeds in linking any of the concepts of thermodynamics — which is one of the core building blocks of modern physics and relevant to almost every field of practical engineering — to DL models then that’d be huge boon. There are a lot of well honed techniques and tools available in the thermodynamics and statistical physics toolboxes which could vastly improve the ability of DL to be tuned for useful tasks in a scientific manner. Most application of DL appears to be "dark arts" or alchemy phase where only intuition is used to direct what problems can and should be tackeled using DL. It seems every other paper published in DL is just happenstance.<p>Joel Spolsky‘s comment really fits more with smart "tinkerers" but not serious attempts at modeling of the energy minimization aspects of restricted Boltzmann machines (ahem DL) which really do borrow a lot from thermodynamics [0]. I’m glad "smart thinkers" like Geoffrey Hintonmidday know when to stop [1], and kept generalizing and tweaking Boltzmann machines. Heck even the idea of applying energy minimization techniques from the phase changes of spin glasses is one of those applications of abstract high level models that really don’t mean anything. Except when evenetually they provide entirely new insights and, well fields of study. Of course there’s a difference between serious attempts and hard work of establishing mathematical and conceptual correspondents between fields and just quackery or pseudo-sophistication. Given the amount of formula development in the linked paper I’ll take it as a good faith attempt to seriously link fields.<p>0: <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_machine#History" rel="nofollow">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boltzmann_machine#History</a> —- especially the first paper on spin glasses
1: <a href="https://medium.com/@andreykurenkov/a-brief-history-of-neural-nets-and-deep-learning-part-4-61be90639182" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@andreykurenkov/a-brief-history-of-neural...</a> | null | elcritch | null | 1,531,719,398 | "2018-07-16T05:36:38Z" | comment | 17,538,996 | 17,537,117 | null | null | null |
167,224 | null | null | Portable console via USB-A KVM switch. I often do find myself balancing a laptop next to a rack of servers. | null | garmaine | null | 1,531,719,415 | "2018-07-16T05:36:55Z" | comment | 17,538,997 | 17,537,982 | null | null | null |
167,225 | null | null | I cannot believe that Elon Musk has accused Vern Unsworth, one of the British rescue divers, of being a pedophile on Twitter, all because his idea of using a mini-submarine to rescue the boys was rejected[1].<p>It's absolutely disgusting behaviour on his part and completely uncalled for. It's one thing to professionally disagree with the best method for rescue (although Elon is not a cave rescue expert by any measure), but it's another to libel a man and accuse him of being a pedophile.<p>He's lost any goodwill he gained from offering to help. In my mind, he's lost all good will. You can't just go around accusing people of being pedophiles because they live in Thailand. He's as bad as Donald Trump accusing Joe Scarborough of murdering his constituent-services director.<p>[1] <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/15/elon-musk-tweets-hell-bet-ya-a-signed-dollar-that-thai-cave-rescuer-is-a-pedo/" rel="nofollow">https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/15/elon-musk-tweets-hell-bet-...</a> | null | toomanybeersies | null | 1,531,719,394 | "2018-07-16T05:36:34Z" | comment | 17,538,995 | 17,538,780 | null | null | null |
167,226 | null | null | > Cyclists tend to be more patient than drivers<p>As someone who walks to work, I've had an order of magnitude more issues with cyclists than cars. My favorite, which happens frequently, is the cyclists who cross against the light then complain with one finger about pedestrians, with the light, in a cross walk.<p>I've been hit in intersections several times. Always by cyclists, always when I (pedestrian) clearly have right of way. | null | Godel_unicode | null | 1,531,719,363 | "2018-07-16T05:36:03Z" | comment | 17,538,992 | 17,537,336 | null | null | null |
167,227 | null | null | I've used this<p><a href="https://images3.campingworld.com/CampingWorld/images/products/multiimages/1000x1000/68323n5-update_shower.jpg" rel="nofollow">https://images3.campingworld.com/CampingWorld/images/product...</a><p>Works like a charm. Even when you have enough pressure, it helps reducing water consumption. | null | hycaria | null | 1,531,719,388 | "2018-07-16T05:36:28Z" | comment | 17,538,993 | 17,538,769 | null | null | null |
167,228 | null | null | It says "Only $3.95 a month" on the site, so I imagine that's the plan. | null | cschmidt | null | 1,354,719,912 | "2012-12-05T15:05:12Z" | comment | 4,876,509 | 4,876,194 | null | null | null |
167,229 | null | null | Android ought to fall under Linux (Other), but he should still add it. He should also separate GNU/Linux (other) and BSD/Linux categories; see how many people are using BSD userlands like obase and magenta. So,<p><pre><code> GNU/Linux (other)
BSD/Linux
Android
Linux (other userland)</code></pre> | null | atondwal | null | 1,376,436,129 | "2013-08-13T23:22:09Z" | comment | 6,208,968 | 6,208,536 | null | null | null |
167,230 | null | null | "OLED burn-in: should you be worried about it? And how can you prevent it?" (2021): <a href="https://www.whathifi.com/advice/oled-burn-in-should-you-be-worried-about-it-and-how-can-you-prevent-it" rel="nofollow">https://www.whathifi.com/advice/oled-burn-in-should-you-be-w...</a><p>"...while technological improvements mean OLED burn in (often called image retention by manufacturers because that sounds less scary) is less likely to hit an OLED TV than it used to be, the actions of the manufacturers themselves prove that the issue hasn’t completely gone away..."<p>"...It’s pretty obvious from both the messaging of OLED TV manufacturers about screen burn and the extreme lengths they go to to combat it that nobody who buys an OLED TV can yet afford to completely ignore the issue. That said, all the latest evidence suggests that – for most ‘regular’ TV users, at least – the issue is now much less likely to appear than it used to be..." | null | belter | null | 1,659,714,033 | "2022-08-05T15:40:33Z" | comment | 32,357,733 | 32,356,776 | null | null | null |
167,231 | null | null | We agree that offline methods are very important to the co-founder search too. In addition to an online matching platform at CoFoundersLab.com, CoFoundersLab holds quarterly Matchups events in many cities (via Meetup) to facilitate some of the "in-person dating" for founders: <a href="http://www.cofounderslab.com/entrepreneurs-meetup-networking" rel="nofollow">http://www.cofounderslab.com/entrepreneurs-meetup-networking</a> | null | mhhughes8 | null | 1,406,563,710 | "2014-07-28T16:08:30Z" | comment | 8,097,594 | 8,096,714 | null | null | null |
167,232 | null | null | How could a cracker own my Android? I bought an unsubsidised Moto E. It has no carrier bloatware, and prompts me when there is a new version of firmware available. If it's not rooted, and I only install apps from Google Play, what are the known attack vectors? | null | rahimnathwani | null | 1,406,158,796 | "2014-07-23T23:39:56Z" | comment | 8,077,561 | 8,077,480 | null | null | null |
167,233 | null | null | 1. Your hypothetical isn't a possibility. The numbers do not reflect that possibility, not even close.<p>2. Even if it were a possibility, it's that vs. shutting down peoples lives for a very long time. "Is your life worth my liberty?" - that's something we fundamentally disagree on. | null | sergiotapia | null | 1,586,912,122 | "2020-04-15T00:55:22Z" | comment | 22,873,278 | 22,873,198 | null | null | null |
167,234 | null | null | The <i>very next sentence</i> says 'Watchlisting an individual for engaging solely in constitutionally protected activities is prohibited.' The paragraph goes on to talk about the critical importance of considering information in its proper context, something you might want to work on yourself. | null | anigbrowl | null | 1,406,158,947 | "2014-07-23T23:42:27Z" | comment | 8,077,567 | 8,077,462 | null | null | null |
167,235 | null | null | Having cybersex on Skype is a thing, but you people just don't say Skype is used for cybersex. | null | lotso | null | 1,386,804,100 | "2013-12-11T23:21:40Z" | comment | 6,891,635 | 6,891,324 | null | null | null |
167,236 | null | null | I had read it somewhere before: it's known that genius is in the hard discipline, but it's not known where the genius takes such a great motivation to involve in that kind of discipline. | null | hhm | null | 1,194,097,166 | "2007-11-03T13:39:26Z" | comment | 75,772 | 75,769 | null | null | null |
167,237 | null | null | One thing that's missing from the article is that there isn't just one kind of hard work. Some people work very hard and very inefficiently. They never analyse how they do things and how they could do them better. | null | fauigerzigerk | null | 1,194,096,940 | "2007-11-03T13:35:40Z" | comment | 75,771 | 75,761 | null | null | null |
167,238 | null | null | Good article. I'm also in the process of getting control of my tablet, by building a custom ROM for it. However, it's not possible to unlock the bootloader as described in the article as Lenovo has decided that it should not be that easy, so I need to take care of that first.<p>It would have been fantastic if the tablet in the article had a locked bootloader, because I really want to learn how to unlock these bootloaders from scratch. I'm just not comfortable by downloading random binaries from questionable filelockers and loading them on my tablet, I want to know how they are produced so I can do it myself.<p>I'm reading everything I can find, but the information on this subject is very limited and consists most of "flash these files" and absolutely no informtion how they were created.<p>Does anyone have good resources on the process of unlocking bootloaders from scratch? | null | ahYeex | null | 1,478,531,460 | "2016-11-07T15:11:00Z" | comment | 12,891,618 | 12,887,211 | null | null | null |
167,239 | null | null | Definitely on my "listen to later" list now, thanks. | null | mikestew | null | 1,516,219,570 | "2018-01-17T20:06:10Z" | comment | 16,171,290 | 16,170,619 | null | null | null |
167,240 | null | null | Most logical naming of processors I’ve ever seen. E.g:
Q80-33 - 80 Cores 3.3 Ghz
Q32-17 - 32 Cores 1.7 Ghz | null | shadykiller | null | 1,593,532,334 | "2020-06-30T15:52:14Z" | comment | 23,691,299 | 23,689,419 | null | null | null |
167,241 | null | null | Followup article: <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/06/30/update-on-florida-mystery-unmanned-spy-craft/" rel="nofollow">https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidhambling/2020/06/30/update...</a><p>TLDR; it appears to be monitoring for illicit shipping activity as the sensor package was identified as one that logs radio traffic. | null | yellow_postit | null | 1,593,532,315 | "2020-06-30T15:51:55Z" | comment | 23,691,294 | 23,690,670 | null | null | null |
167,242 | null | null | Sort of. What people are upset about is that there is no longer a real "Pro" option. If it had become the "Macbook Air Pro," that would complaint would still be valid. The arguments would be framed differently ("why did Apple kill the Pro line" instead of "this Macbook isn't really a Pro"), but the underlying issue would still be there. | true | tomtheelder | null | 1,478,531,441 | "2016-11-07T15:10:41Z" | comment | 12,891,613 | 12,891,108 | null | null | null |
167,243 | null | null | “Hate” has no definition? That’s a new one. Maybe consider consulting a dictionary. | null | lowtolerance | null | 1,593,532,332 | "2020-06-30T15:52:12Z" | comment | 23,691,296 | 23,686,583 | null | null | null |
167,244 | null | null | Ah! Yeah, that's different, and as far as I know your way is the current right way to do it, but I'm not an expert on the subject. | null | steveklabnik | null | 1,478,531,456 | "2016-11-07T15:10:56Z" | comment | 12,891,616 | 12,891,325 | null | null | null |
167,245 | null | null | Prevention is the wrong approach in the first place. The only thing US can do is maintain a technological lead.<p>Without technological lead, the US is much like Brazil, which is a middling nation with lots of natural resources. | null | nine_zeros | null | 1,593,532,309 | "2020-06-30T15:51:49Z" | comment | 23,691,291 | 23,691,237 | null | null | null |
167,246 | null | null | Where is "down here"? | null | exikyut | null | 1,593,532,312 | "2020-06-30T15:51:52Z" | comment | 23,691,292 | 23,691,000 | null | null | null |
167,247 | null | null | The thing is, I wasn’t saying Airpods owners (priorities) were wrong. All I was saying is that there is actually a glutton of devices that perform the same way as airpods do when a former poster suggest airpods were unique in the market. It’s a factually accurate post and it’s not critical of airpod owners. So getting downvoted for that kind of comment is weird and there’s literally no reason anyone would do this if it wasn’t for brand loyalty. I bet if this was a Bose, Sony or any other household electrical brand thread which wasn’t Apple, my posts would have been upvoted because that’s literally how those posts are received in any other topic on HN.<p>I’m sure if you look through other Apple threads you see a similar pattern of comments that aren’t negative nor factually inaccurate but still get downvoted too. I see it happen a lot on HN these days and frankly I’m sick of people abusing their voting privileges. | null | pushpop | null | 1,577,563,172 | "2019-12-28T19:59:32Z" | comment | 21,901,340 | 21,896,438 | null | null | null |
167,248 | null | null | This is just ... sad. | null | arpa | null | 1,577,563,192 | "2019-12-28T19:59:52Z" | comment | 21,901,341 | 21,900,920 | null | null | null |
167,249 | null | null | Is a link to an earlier comment okay? | null | Tomte | null | 1,577,563,193 | "2019-12-28T19:59:53Z" | comment | 21,901,342 | 21,901,264 | null | null | null |
167,250 | null | null | This is why I believe that the user-agent header was a bad idea. | null | ravenstine | null | 1,577,563,195 | "2019-12-28T19:59:55Z" | comment | 21,901,343 | 21,899,121 | null | null | null |
167,251 | null | null | > but what happens if iot LTE connections get cheap enough that the choice is removed altogether<p>It’s worse then you think. Read dredmorbius’ comment in its entirety.<p>> Which means that peel-and-stick computing is well within reach, if not a present reality.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873388" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21873388</a> | null | wallflower | null | 1,577,563,217 | "2019-12-28T20:00:17Z" | comment | 21,901,345 | 21,900,246 | null | null | null |
167,252 | null | null | Why does your personal conviction supersede that of those who do not agree with the non-binary classification of gender? Is it not valid to be offended over being forced to conform to minority views which are deeply rooted in politics and justified with a potentially exaggerated narrative of victimhood?<p>These modern ideas are <i>far</i> from confirmed scientific fact. Yes, there some sort of a spectrum, but just as the entire concept of "gender" is a social construct, the real argument is over the definition of the construct, and one could argue that truly "non-binary" or transgender individuals form a tiny cluster of outliers near the plane separating conventional male and female grouping. If that is the case, I personally find it offensive to afford such a tiny minority such a disproportionate amount of power by allowing it to shape thought through language policing.<p>The idea of intersectionality is mathematically equivalent to reducing an extremely high dimensional space, that of human physiology and behavior, to a simplified subset with fuzzy clusters separated by an arbitrary number of hyperplanes (gay, black, trans, etc). The particular modern formulation is one of an infinite number of possibilities, and it isn't fair to pick a handful of tiny minority clusters from this particular basis by those with vested interests, claim that those in particular are oppressed, and then afford them what are actually special priveledges under the guise of equality. Particularly when this mindset bleeds into politics and industry, it just comes off as a blatant powergrab for people who have defined their own social construct in a manner that benefits themselves.<p>This is why identity politics drives populations apart. The space of human nature is sufficiently high dimensional that it is impossible to divide it into priveledged clusters without picking what amount to arbitrary favorites. | null | allovernow | null | 1,577,563,225 | "2019-12-28T20:00:25Z" | comment | 21,901,346 | 21,901,025 | null | null | null |