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New comment by doublesCs in "Why I stopped reading HN (2010)"

doublesCs — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 09:23:50 +0000

He's right. I'm done here. Good bye.

New comment by doublesCs in "Strapped startup declines acquihire, Apple poaches key engineers; NP, says court [pdf]"

doublesCs — Mon, 05 Oct 2020 09:51:30 +0000

> Perhaps the other 90% work for the government.

What a poisonous attitude.

New comment by doublesCs in "When we lose weight, where does it go?"

doublesCs — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 22:08:19 +0000

Typo. *in the realm of chemistry

New comment by doublesCs in "When we lose weight, where does it go?"

doublesCs — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 21:56:32 +0000

I guess when you said "conservation of matter" I interpreted that as meaning "conservation of mass", seeing as we're talking about weight loss.

New comment by doublesCs in "When we lose weight, where does it go?"

doublesCs — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:55:47 +0000

No, this isn't true. There's no conservation of matter anywhere. If you take 2 hydrogen atoms and weight them, then bond them together in a hydrogen molecule and weight that, the molecule weights less than twice one hydrogen atom.

New comment by doublesCs in "When we lose weight, where does it go?"

doublesCs — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 19:51:27 +0000

This is the correct answer.

There's no such thing as conservation of mass, mass and energy are convertible into each other. But in the real of chemistry that conversion happens on a ratio of at most 1e-7, so when it comes to the human body we might as well say that the weight that goes in must equal what comes out, and that's close enough.

New comment by doublesCs in "Proposed EU rule may mean you can finally delete some apps from your phone"

doublesCs — Sat, 03 Oct 2020 15:08:14 +0000

Can you spell how exactly this law makes it harder for a competitor to come up?

Because if you don't, you'll sound like you're just parroting the generic (and generically false) old "regulations are bad for business".

New comment by doublesCs in "Founders and Executives of Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange BitMEX Charged"

doublesCs — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 19:15:48 +0000

Would you like to discuss what makes a syncthetic good or bad?

New comment by doublesCs in "The survival of the airlines depends on frequent flyer programs"

doublesCs — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:47:58 +0000

> Airline standards are the direct consequences of vote with your wallet. No matter what some claim, 99.999% of people will buy the cheapest ticket possible.

For the airline industry, yes. This isn't true in all industries.

New comment by doublesCs in "The survival of the airlines depends on frequent flyer programs"

doublesCs — Thu, 01 Oct 2020 14:46:29 +0000

Just link the goddamn article

https://marker.medium.com/2509bd3f25d0

New comment by doublesCs in "Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators"

doublesCs — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:27:15 +0000

> because what's the point anyway?

Same point as soccer: some people like it.

New comment by doublesCs in "Cheerleading, Monopolies and Sexual Predators"

doublesCs — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 15:26:44 +0000

I'd never heard of this newsletter, but it's really really high quality. Thanks to OP.

New comment by doublesCs in "Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission"

doublesCs — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 10:51:32 +0000

I'll bet you $100 there won't.

New comment by doublesCs in "JPMorgan to pay nearly $1B for metals market manipulation"

doublesCs — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 17:15:35 +0000

Actually not a bad analogy, thank you.

New comment by doublesCs in "Google’s Search Preference Menu Eliminates DuckDuckGo"

doublesCs — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 08:07:20 +0000

> I'm generally very sympathetic to anti-trust measures, but this strikes me as a situation where DuckDuckGo needs to stand on its own two feet. If your position is that privacy is more valuable to consumers, then you should compete in the auction.

If you're very sympathetic to anti-trust measures, then this shouldn't be decided in an auction. Obviously the most profitable companies will win the auction. And those are the same companies that you should be taking measures against (not because they're profitable in itself, but because by being profitable they can kill competitors).

So saying: "search engines should compete on a lawless free market" vs "search engines have to compete on an auction for users" is more or less the same thing. Anti-trust measures try to make the outcome slightly less sensitive to profitability.

New comment by doublesCs in "Sum-of-Three-Cubes Problem Solved for ‘Stubborn’ Number 33 (2019)"

doublesCs — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 13:24:01 +0000

Often we don't know the "practical" benefits that will come out of some specific line of investigation. But some people find it interesting to think about. I guess better than spending time playing with facebook.

New comment by doublesCs in "It used to be simpler to teach Unix"

doublesCs — Mon, 28 Sep 2020 10:27:59 +0000

> e.g. what mounting a filesystem means

Funny. I've been using Linux for 10 (?) years and I still don't know what mounting means. I just know it's something that needs to happen in order for me to access the contents of a disk. I don't really care about it either, I only care about accessing the data. Why isn't it automatic anyway? Windows does it automatically whenever possible, why can't Linux?

New comment by doublesCs in "The missing harm of manual dispatch in Julia"

doublesCs — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 14:09:46 +0000

I think that person lives in a Qt bubble.

New comment by doublesCs in "The missing harm of manual dispatch in Julia"

doublesCs — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 10:29:38 +0000

Qt bindings are a "basic thing" for a language? Why?

New comment by doublesCs in "Why Rocket Internet has come down to earth"

doublesCs — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 08:38:12 +0000

Innovation doesn't matter. Making money matters. Innovation is a means to an end, not the end itself. If you can shortcut it, it's irrelevant.