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New comment by hedvig in "What Happened to Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp?"

hedvig — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 22:00:49 +0000

Yeah but reading about it but also being able to communicate about it on the largest network (the one in question too) are 2 separate phenomena. No one can go on there right now and say I'm deleting my account, who's with me?

New comment by hedvig in "Ask HN: Is HN having problem keeping up today?"

hedvig — Mon, 04 Oct 2021 20:54:49 +0000

And the glyph rendering is offloaded to the gpu, which as any good development team should know, is much faster.

New comment by hedvig in "23andMe to share customer gene data with GlaxoSmithKline for $300M"

hedvig — Tue, 17 Dec 2019 18:34:03 +0000

And what percentage of your net-worth and/or your insurers bearance would you be willing to commit to the yearly treatment they'll come up with (not a cure)?

New comment by hedvig in "Black Tide in Brazil"

hedvig — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:47:04 +0000

Lift the sanctions.

New comment by hedvig in "Black Tide in Brazil"

hedvig — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:45:51 +0000

The Carwash Judge Moro who Bolsonaro appointed as anti-corruption czar turned out to have rigged the whole operation in colluding with other justices - https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/alleged-le...

Very similar to the US and elsewhere where the right act in bad-faith to take over democratic processes.

New comment by hedvig in "Nearly 1 in 5 Millennial Renters Expect to Rent Forever in Some Metros"

hedvig — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 19:34:36 +0000

If enough like-minded individuals disagree with you, we will force the change.

New comment by hedvig in "Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank"

hedvig — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 23:42:05 +0000

Terrible analogy.

New comment by hedvig in "The MLM Epidemic in 13 Maps"

hedvig — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 03:31:51 +0000

I don't get this common mindset here that people should just be left to the wolves. It's disgusting

New comment by hedvig in "PayPal stops payouts to models on Pornhub"

hedvig — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 03:19:53 +0000

>found to harbor ill gotten gains

Ah yeah like they were on the hook for laundering Mexican drug cartel money?

New comment by hedvig in "Neutrinos lead to unexpected discovery about eigenvectors and eigenvalues"

hedvig — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 05:22:39 +0000

If we didn't use mathematics in science, what else could we have used?

New comment by hedvig in "John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence"

hedvig — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 05:02:15 +0000

Fusion John, we need you in fusion research. It's only 10 years away

New comment by hedvig in "Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'"

hedvig — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 03:54:06 +0000

>operating with microseconds of latency.

What are the numbers if you know, of the speed or rate at which plasma can destabilize?

New comment by hedvig in "Nuclear fusion is 'a question of when, not if'"

hedvig — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 03:50:24 +0000

Any specific good material that I could read more on this?

New comment by hedvig in "Tech and Liberty"

hedvig — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:44:32 +0000

Or the Architect's speech in the Matrix correct? Where he reveals that the One is an accepted anomaly accounted for in the system.

New comment by hedvig in "When George Soros Broke the British Pound (2014)"

hedvig — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 22:38:28 +0000

What does velocity of money indicate?

New comment by hedvig in "Apple Commits $2.5B to Ease California Housing Crunch"

hedvig — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:41:03 +0000

> Supply and Demand is nice in theory, but really, pricing is more a game of "ask the maximum amount you can get away with".

Most relevant point, well said. Is there any academic term for this?

New comment by hedvig in "Voyager 2’s Discoveries from Interstellar Space"

hedvig — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 00:26:03 +0000

>assuming that a civilization is still on an increasing curve of propulsion system velocity

I think this is the error

New comment by hedvig in "Will Tesla and Google Kill the German Car?"

hedvig — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 22:03:38 +0000

Agile for car production?

New comment by hedvig in "U of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100k per year"

hedvig — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:50:33 +0000

Okay - can anyone actually cite me even a class, let alone a degree, that has the word wicker baskets in them? If not, stop using this straw-man term.

New comment by hedvig in "American business schools are reinventing the MBA"

hedvig — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 20:16:17 +0000

> de facto, restricted to graduates of the top-N (3 or 7 or whatever) MBA programs.

Isn't this a problem?