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New comment by slingnow in "Most investments are bad. Here's why"

slingnow — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:30:05 +0000

The author starts with 8 paragraphs on gold, and the word gold is mentioned 33 times throughout the article, spread about evenly throughout. By no means did the author "move on" from talking about gold, let alone "quickly".

New comment by slingnow in "Three women contract HIV from dirty "vampire facials" at unlicensed spa"

slingnow — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 14:17:30 +0000

Really? HN has been a mini-Reddit for quite some time now. Frequently just a bunch of low quality, unfunny and recycled one-liners hoping to grab a few precious internet points.

New comment by slingnow in "The man who killed Google Search?"

slingnow — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:05:39 +0000

> But the author can't be serious about no one knowing who Prabhakar Raghavan is. He is, for instance, the co-author of the definitive text on randomized algorithms [Motwani and Raghavan]. He has also been a well-respected database researcher for many years.

Surely YOU can't be serious. The author was very clearly comparing this guy to much more famous and heavily derided figures like Musk, Zuckerberg, etc. I don't think co-authoring a text on randomized algorithms gets you the same notoriety as being the head of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter...

New comment by slingnow in "AMA: I'm Dave Greene, an accidental expert on Conway's Game of Life"

slingnow — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:45:23 +0000

Not sure that "being able to hit undo" and "no harm done!" is what makes blowing things up enjoyable, but to each his own.

New comment by slingnow in "Scale of the Universe"

slingnow — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 14:14:53 +0000

There are 8 billion people on earth. And Texas is 172 million acres. I don't think the math works out.

New comment by slingnow in "Obituary for a quiet life (2023)"

slingnow — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 17:27:10 +0000

And no philosophy worth anything would put any of the things you listed on the path to happiness. In fact, generally speaking, they are the opposite.

An infinite supply of anything to satisfy all of your desires does not lead to a fulfilling life -- just one with enough distractions to get you through the next day.

New comment by slingnow in "Ronda Rousey: "I never wanted to talk about concussion""

slingnow — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:40:04 +0000

Are you seriously telling me that a sport that allows elbow and knee strikes to the head has become more dangerous because they reduced the weight of the gloves? Have you thought about this for a second?

And the mention of your "untrained" friend being unable to enjoy a traditional Muay Thai fight the way _you_ can just reeks of some kind of odd elitism. My guess is you saw a topic about fighting on HN and couldn't wait to tell us all that you trained.

New comment by slingnow in "Bay Area workers charged for building secret apartments inside train stations"

slingnow — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:44:53 +0000

I generally take this word to mean "I'm a redditor and I want everyone to know it".

New comment by slingnow in "M 4.8 – 2024 Whitehouse Station, New Jersey Earthquake"

slingnow — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 15:35:08 +0000

Do you think that earthquakes transmit instantaneously? Why would they not have a propagation speed like everything else in the universe?

New comment by slingnow in "Microsoft, Google join study to see if AI will affect jobs"

slingnow — Fri, 05 Apr 2024 13:56:15 +0000

Thank god Microsoft and Google are on the case! I was thinking next, we should have Exxon Mobile study the effects of oil on the environment.

New comment by slingnow in "Blue Ball Machine"

slingnow — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 14:22:49 +0000

Very little?

Let me introduce you to: newspapers, radio, television, books.

New comment by slingnow in "Supervision: Reusable Computer Vision"

slingnow — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:07:58 +0000

It seems like your expectations must come from frontend development or something, where you can hot glue together a few packages to instantly get results. It is absolutely possible to do what you want, but it still would take a little knowledge / engineering to make it work.

New comment by slingnow in "Sexualized culture on livestreaming platforms: a content analysis of Twitch.tv"

slingnow — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:03:49 +0000

This take just seems disconnected from reality. The advertisers know at some level what's going on there, but until the general public changes its view of what Twitch is, they can advertise there with zero consequences. If and when some scandal emerges about the sexualization of the content of Twitch, they can all publicly do their pearl clutching performance and pull their ads.

And the idea that "most female streamers seem to basically use their streams as inspiration to work out" is really cute.

New comment by slingnow in "The Reddits"

slingnow — Thu, 21 Mar 2024 17:15:52 +0000

And it's very clear to me that HN is next to suffer this fate

New comment by slingnow in "If gravity isn't a force, then why does it "need" a boson?"

slingnow — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:31:07 +0000

> The top answer given here is highly reductionist to the point of misleading

This is my expectation for every single "expert" answer on Reddit. Confidence without substance.

New comment by slingnow in "If gravity isn't a force, then why does it "need" a boson?"

slingnow — Wed, 20 Mar 2024 15:29:46 +0000

You lead with saying you have no background in physics, proceed to give an incorrect explanation, and then asked if it was wrong. Someone simply told you it was in fact wrong -- which apparently didn't meet your expectations. If you wanted someone to explain it to you, why not ask for an explanation or for critique rather than to _expect_ a total stranger to correct all of your understanding out of the goodness of their heart?

Why not just come out and state "Someone please offer me their valuable time to explain physics exactly at my level and at my pace. Thanks!"

New comment by slingnow in "Java is becoming more like Rust, and I am here for it"

slingnow — Mon, 04 Mar 2024 18:20:33 +0000

Rust did not invent immutable by default. This appears to be some kind of blog spam. More than 50% of the "article" is just trivial code examples backing up a non-existent point. Perhaps the author is looking to get a job in Rust and is padding out their blog with "Praise Rust!" evangelizing.

New comment by slingnow in "You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what?"

slingnow — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:04:19 +0000

I don't understand what you're saying. Clearly both types of meetings (one-off vs recurring) would be helpful. The one-off may save you days/weeks of research, but it seems like you're not satisfied with that unless you can answer every single minor question you might have across the entire codebase.

New comment by slingnow in "US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in 'climate time bomb'"

slingnow — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:44:11 +0000

> In short, we have already used up all the landmass we responsibly should use for people

This sure sounds a lot like a pure opinion. Do you have anything to back up this claim?

New comment by slingnow in "US spends billions on roads rather than public transport in 'climate time bomb'"

slingnow — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 18:33:14 +0000

We are nowhere NEAR saturating our landmass with people. There are more and less desirable places to live in the country, but there's no shortage of raw space.

Not to mention, this isn't zero sum. Our roads and bridges can be in desperate need of repair (they are) and we can also need better public transportation and rail.