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New comment by dgabriel in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

dgabriel — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:20:15 +0000

It's also a real world event that can be influenced by the existence of the bet.

New comment by dgabriel in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

dgabriel — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 20:12:59 +0000

It's the easiest possible way for large entities to jump on the AI bandwagon. They're definitely asking for it.

New comment by dgabriel in "Tell HN: Vim users, `:x` is like `:wq` but writes only when changes are made"

dgabriel — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 18:12:04 +0000

Same (but for a longer period of time). I'm kind of surprised people don't know this.

New comment by dgabriel in "The lost ways of programming: Commodore 64 BASIC (2020)"

dgabriel — Fri, 16 Sep 2022 14:52:13 +0000

This is exactly how I learned to program. My brothers only liked playing the games, but I preferred making my own (generally based on source code listings in the back of BYTE magazine).

New comment by dgabriel in "People with low BMI aren't more active, they are just less hungry, 'run hotter'"

dgabriel — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 16:53:04 +0000

My brother underwent this surgery, and not only did the weight come back, he developed a serious drinking problem (he's in recovery now). Apparently, this a known side effect. All it really did was make his life much harder in the long run. Hunger is more that the physical feeling of fullness.

source: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/alcohol-abuse-linked-to-...

New comment by dgabriel in "The Beer Game (1992)"

dgabriel — Mon, 09 May 2022 18:48:22 +0000

Forio has a digital version https://forio.com/app/showcase/near-beer-game/

I was on a team that wrote a beer game app for HBS, and the rules are really simple. It's not really worth playing more than once, though.

New comment by dgabriel in "Florida governor to investigate GoFundMe over Canada trucker donations"

dgabriel — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 18:55:00 +0000

GoFundMe tells a lot of people who they can or cannot send money to via their platform. First, there are laws around sending money to designated terrorist organizations, then there are restrictions around violence, pornography and sex work, and many more. The giant list can be found here: https://www.gofundme.com/c/terms

If you want to mail a check to these truckers, have at it, but GoFundMe is not obligated to collect money on their behalf. Here's another example, but not one Ron Desantis would ever care about - https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20200131-gofundme-shuts-us...

New comment by dgabriel in "The Medieval Queens Whose Daring, Murderous Reigns Were Quickly Forgotten"

dgabriel — Sun, 16 Jan 2022 16:50:56 +0000

This is whataboutism; you have no proof that people who care about one thing don't also care about other things. Also, calling people you disagree with "woke" and claiming they "virtue climb" (what does that even mean??) is intellectually lazy.

New comment by dgabriel in "A Beginner’s Guide to Chart.js"

dgabriel — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 19:40:08 +0000

I would personally recommend Highcharts for that. https://www.highcharts.com/gantt/demo

New comment by dgabriel in "Stack Overflow Inc. Fiasco: Timeline"

dgabriel — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 19:26:20 +0000

What? You can't say "call me they/them," rather you can only say "don't call me him/her/or any other pronoun besides they"? That's very silly.

Clarification of rules, even to the point where they may seem redundant, is completely fine and often important. This is such a weird hill for them to die on.

New comment by dgabriel in "Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017"

dgabriel — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:22:22 +0000

You can crunch fake, sort-of-made-up numbers all day. The average man doesn't exist. My point is that it's certainly possible to be living paycheck-to-paycheck in a city with what was once a decent salary, even if you aren't blowing all your money on frivolous stuff.

New comment by dgabriel in "Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017"

dgabriel — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 21:19:50 +0000

That's a good point I missed.

New comment by dgabriel in "Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017"

dgabriel — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:22:53 +0000

Add a car and student loans, a reasonable food and fitness budget, and that's all of it gone.

New comment by dgabriel in "Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017"

dgabriel — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 18:17:54 +0000

The US is a big place, and schools vary wildly.

New comment by dgabriel in "Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017"

dgabriel — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:43:46 +0000

Even that is only important a little bit. Excelling at a mid-tier university is completely FINE. It's so much harder to get into an Ivy League school now than when I was applying in the 90s; I'm not pushing my child to the brink for a tiny blink of undergrad prestige.

New comment by dgabriel in "Suicide Rates Among Adolescents and Young Adults in the United States, 2000-2017"

dgabriel — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 16:15:05 +0000

My son is a junior now in a very competitive high school, and they had to do away with valedictorian/salutatorian because the difference between that and, say, just top 5% would be a 99.6 vs a 99.4 in one class in the 10th grade. It was so stressful for these kids, like it even fucking matters long term.

New comment by dgabriel in "Berlin approves 5-year rent freeze"

dgabriel — Tue, 18 Jun 2019 20:23:41 +0000

That's sort of the opposite of my experience, where everyone couldn't wait to get out of the stultifying small town, where there was no work and no future.

New comment by dgabriel in "Dad, Are We Rich?"

dgabriel — Thu, 06 Jun 2019 15:54:54 +0000

I grew up with an engineer's family income, and 250k still seems pretty wealthy. That puts you in the top 5% of US earners.

New comment by dgabriel in "Ask HN: I need ideas to impress fifth graders with technology"

dgabriel — Mon, 03 Jun 2019 16:02:55 +0000

I volunteer for Black Girls Code, specifically the 9-11 year old age group, and the last thing I did that really blew their minds was build an Obby in Roblox. Almost all of them have watched youtubers go through them. Get one working, modify it, have a kid or two modify it on their own.

https://www.roblox.com/create

New comment by dgabriel in "Millennials and Gen Z Increasingly Pessimistic About Their Lives, Survey Finds"

dgabriel — Mon, 20 May 2019 19:39:40 +0000

In the last 6 years, my rent has gone up by about 800/mo. It's the same apartment.