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New comment by hnhg in "You weren't meant to have a boss (2008)"

hnhg — Sun, 31 May 2026 15:20:59 +0000

We weren't meant to have windows made of glass. Such items are entirely unnatural. According to pg, we must be wary of them.

New comment by hnhg in "Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows?"

hnhg — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:57:11 +0000

Another view is that theatre is local, low-infrastructure storytelling. It's been so important to us as a species, we don't want to forget it in preference of only following storytelling distributed by corporations.

New comment by hnhg in "Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows?"

hnhg — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:40:11 +0000

I guess I am talking about analysing the written works more than the final acted piece (e.g. a book of Sam Shepard plays vs their performance). That would be good enough, I think.

I totally get why you would want to avoid the rabbit hole but your work is super interesting and I hope that you do get the luxury of being able to dive into adjacent formats and comparing them.

New comment by hnhg in "Music has scales / raagas. What about storytelling in movies and prestige shows?"

hnhg — Tue, 12 May 2026 11:10:12 +0000

This is a very interesting concept. I see in your replies to other comments that you are looking at movies from different cultures, which would be a great test of your idea. Once you have sufficiently advanced, it would be great to look at theatre too. I have a hypothesis that movie-writing began to diverge from theatre-writing in the very late 20th century in terms of structure and writing with the rise of the blockbuster and the emphasis on spectacle, and we lost something after that.

New comment by hnhg in "Apple accelerates eco progress with highest-ever recycled materials"

hnhg — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 14:01:37 +0000

Was that ever an issue for you?

New comment by hnhg in "Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life"

hnhg — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:14:46 +0000

Minsky, the noted Epstein associate, accused of sex with minors according to court documents, didn’t really care for self examination? Yeah that tracks.

New comment by hnhg in "Computers that used to be human"

hnhg — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 21:54:43 +0000

A large part of accounting is intellectual work that rewards diligence and intelligence, but not creativity so much. A lot of QA/certification jobs are like this too. It's important stuff that involves a lot of "checking".

New comment by hnhg in "AI was not invented, it arrived"

hnhg — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 17:26:13 +0000

How is that different from "Compact Discs weren't invented, they arrived"?

New comment by hnhg in "Why Startups Die"

hnhg — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 10:34:31 +0000

There is obvious survivorship bias in the analysis throughout this article. You could reframe it as startups that succeed done have these problems - well, duh! Edit: actually the more i go through it, it sounds like chatgpt prose, especially by the end.

New comment by hnhg in "The Forgotten Roman Ruins of the ‘Pompeii of the Middle East’"

hnhg — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 22:03:36 +0000

Also noteworthy in Algeria: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timgad

(I think I read somewhere that Algeria has the most Roman ruins outside of Italy, although I could be mistaken)

New comment by hnhg in "Americans no longer see four-year college degrees as worth the cost"

hnhg — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 10:21:26 +0000

I've worked a lot with Oxbridge and Ivy League folks and there is nothing particularly special about them. An Oxbridge degrees bestows an out-of-the-box premium personal brand, as you've demonstrated, as well as the social network, but not superior ability, in my experience

New comment by hnhg in "Britney Spears' Guide to Semiconductor Physics (2000)"

hnhg — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 10:31:43 +0000

Has anyone made a ranked list of the most mentioned people or historical facts on HN. Hedy must be on there somewhere: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=hedy+lamarr

New comment by hnhg in "James Watson has died"

hnhg — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 16:04:00 +0000

I know very little about this but just an observer your reply did little to refute any of the points made. You should loosen up a bit and keep an open mind about those points raised because it feels like you’re dismissing them.

New comment by hnhg in "Why does Swiss cheese have holes?"

hnhg — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 09:44:33 +0000

You've proven their point for them.

New comment by hnhg in "Monumental rock art: humans thrived in Arab. Desert during Pleistocene-Holocene"

hnhg — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:32:58 +0000

You’re right, it’s not art until the artist has shown at a reputable gallery and sold their first piece to a collector.

New comment by hnhg in "Circular Financing: Does Nvidia's $110B Bet Echo the Telecom Bubble?"

hnhg — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 15:41:48 +0000

That makes some sense. Are they paid for this?

New comment by hnhg in "The Buchstabenmuseum Berlin is closing"

hnhg — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 13:52:56 +0000

The Museum Der Dinge is also worth a visit: https://museumderdinge.org/

New comment by hnhg in "Oxford loses top 3 university ranking in the UK"

hnhg — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 17:14:54 +0000

He also provided no numbers or evidence - did his children fail to get in or something?

New comment by hnhg in "Germany is not supporting ChatControl – blocking minority secured"

hnhg — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 10:22:33 +0000

And neuter the influence of deep-pocketed lobbying entities - US entities in particular seem to spend a lot of money on influencing EU politics: https://www.lobbyfacts.eu/

New comment by hnhg in "How can England possibly be running out of water?"

hnhg — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 06:55:50 +0000

Short answer is that the UK gave private companies to extract as much wealth as possible with minimal re-investment in infrastructure. The nation has since seen water rationing and raw sewage being pumped into rivers and beaches, but at least some shareholders have benefited, right?