Hacker News: tamana

New comment by tamana in "Show HN: Wave function collapse algorithm"

tamana — Fri, 30 Sep 2016 18:25:42 +0000

1 physical dimension. Mathematically, each signal is a dimension.

New comment by tamana in "SVG has more potential"

tamana — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 21:39:49 +0000

That's exactly the same as regular HTML

New comment by tamana in "People who can’t afford Teslas are using car-sharing networks to pay for them"

tamana — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:36:27 +0000

At what point of sharing does something become unworthy of respect? Is a married couple's property unworthy? A family's? A group of roommates?

New comment by tamana in "People who can’t afford Teslas are using car-sharing networks to pay for them"

tamana — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:32:51 +0000

It's not. The stone age ended because we invented better tech, without raising stone prices. Oil costs will rise.

New comment by tamana in "People who can’t afford Teslas are using car-sharing networks to pay for them"

tamana — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:29:12 +0000

If you lease the car, the monthly price doubles.

New comment by tamana in "Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal [pdf]"

tamana — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:25:49 +0000

That sounds funny, but it's true under the common modern curving regime that is really just lowering the bar for raw score to letter grade conversion, not forcing a bell curve.

New comment by tamana in "Evidence That Computer Science Grades Are Not Bimodal [pdf]"

tamana — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 14:23:53 +0000

100 level classes werent substantiallly more often bimodal than the others though.

New comment by tamana in "The hippest internet cafe of 1995 [video]"

tamana — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:20:11 +0000

Microsoft, the inventor and trademark owner, use # on their website.

New comment by tamana in "The hippest internet cafe of 1995 [video]"

tamana — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:19:07 +0000

You were correct before ASCII and English keyboards and Microsoft C# gave the # an expanded role out of convenience

New comment by tamana in "The hippest internet cafe of 1995 [video]"

tamana — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 15:12:25 +0000

It's a hash, not a hashtag. The hashtag is the # plus a "tag" word. When someone says "hashtag foo", they went spelling it out # + foo, they are saying "this is a hashtag, not a regular word in my setencen; the tag is foo" and the # is silent.

#prescriptivism.

New comment by tamana in "Project Shield"

tamana — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:36:27 +0000

Jigsaw is run by a veteran of the US State Department

New comment by tamana in "Canvas Gauges"

tamana — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 14:29:49 +0000

TIL "bullet graph", which makes this whole HN submission worthwhile

New comment by tamana in "What if the aliens we are seeking are AI?"

tamana — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 03:08:43 +0000

They're made out of meat.

Don't butcher the title/refrain.

New comment by tamana in "Marc Andreessen suddenly deletes all his tweets, goes on Twitter break"

tamana — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 03:04:18 +0000

More likely because he might be involved in a company that would have a quiet period related to a potential sale

New comment by tamana in "Marc Andreessen suddenly deletes all his tweets, goes on Twitter break"

tamana — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 03:03:13 +0000

What's that? Sunlight is shutting down?!

New comment by tamana in "Bay Area wages soaring but still can’t keep up with housing prices"

tamana — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:20:45 +0000

In my experience foreign absentee landlords aren't even very bad, because they care mainly about parking their assets outside of China, more than maximizing or even collecting rent.

New comment by tamana in "Bay Area wages soaring but still can’t keep up with housing prices"

tamana — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:17:55 +0000

There is no gift tax burden (except a little paperwork) on the first $5 million of lifetime gifting. Plenty for a house down payment.

New comment by tamana in "Bay Area wages soaring but still can’t keep up with housing prices"

tamana — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:16:24 +0000

Indians buying from India, or Indian-Americans?

Usually when people mention foreigners in real estate, they are talking about nonresident investors (often Chinese citizens). Calling out mere ethnicity of homebuyers is weird.

New comment by tamana in "Bay Area wages soaring but still can’t keep up with housing prices"

tamana — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:10:43 +0000

Link for the lazy:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax

New comment by tamana in "Game Genie declassified: That summer I played 230 Game Boy games"

tamana — Sun, 25 Sep 2016 22:07:56 +0000

They were not breaking copyright law at all. Interoperability is not a copyright violation. They were not breaking trademark either, showing a picture of a trademark is not illegal, unless it causes confusion in the mind of the corner. but that would be avoided by adding a simple disclaimer when shipping a cartridge or loading a game.