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"Kekulé had another dream, in which he saw atoms dance around, then form themselves into strings, moving about in a snake-like fashion."

https://web.chemdoodle.com/kekules-dream/

@Chris2048: "conscious[ness] is a disputed work, and things like "Have scientists discovered the secret of consciousness" etc all the time. Until the definition, and underlying semantic assumptions, are clear, don't build too many linguistic castles on top of it."

Modded into invisibility, looks like you violated one of the sacred tenets of Hacker News :)

@BeetleB: "I remember as a teenager eagerly anticipating reading Dune. And was totally disappointed. There's nothing SF about it."

To whomever modded down the above, care to offer a reason as to what you find objectionable in that statement. Personally I don't need other people to censor posts on this here forum. I am quite capable of making up my own mind as to the veracity of such statements.

edit: Censorship practised on Hacker News

I'm sick of the censorship practised here through the use of the modding system to render certain comments invisible. Yet another self confirming echo chamber on the Intertubes. So long and thanks for all the fish :)

> Not to take anything away from Microsoft's accomplishments, but the latest chrome canary has a speedometer score of 140 (70% faster than Edge).

I don't agree with that statement and can't refute it, but I'm going to mod it down into oblivion anyway ;)

> Murdering people is considered acceptable by Islamic extremists, as long as they are non-believers

Silence, I kill you !!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBvfiCdk-jc

Wife beating is considered acceptable in certain traditions, as long as you don't hit her in the face.

> TL;DR 6000 rambling words ..

I am in total agreement .. I couldn't help notice, but all these articles are written in a style so similar they could have been produced by the same author or group of authors. Nothing wrong with this kind of prose style in a long form novel, but it does take this reader time and energy to get to the point and doesn't belong in reportage.

@PhasmaFelis: "Probably the part about ICBMs being controlled by civilians, which is definitely not true."

You contradicted me so I am going to vote you down :(

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> Let's reductio ad absurdum: what if one of your friends was a literal nazi. Never gassed any Jews, but thought it was a good idea. Wouldbe okay with that?

Well put, I wonder would the signers be so vocal in support if he were a fundamentalist Christian that opposed abortion and gay marriage?

Pray tell what was objectionable about this comment that it got voted into invisibility?

@ritzw: "The possibility of preemptive nuclear strike is still looms. There is also the possibility that the person with their finger on the metaphorical button is not all there, and maybe shouldn't have that power. There is a movement to remove the ability for the president to call preemptive strikes. There is also a movement to remove ICBMs from the Triad. If enemies launch toward the US, an ICBM counter attack launch only allows a 6 minute window. (Assuming they targeted our ICBMs.) A side note: Military doesn't man the ICBMs. They are controlled by civilians. This is by design because the past administrations didn't trust the military to control ICBMs. The fear that they would use them without hesitation was too great. Nuclear attack subs would pick up the slack and don't require the 6 minute response window. This would greatly reduce the currently great risk of thermonuclear war we live under."

"Weeds Your Way" – Organic Farmers Share Secrets of Herbicide-Free Farming

http://www.ofrf.org/news/weeds-your-way-%E2%80%93-organic-fa...

Terence McKenna, he of the DMT induced Machine elves :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THa7kpuVwO4

@alphapapa: 'Honestly, more than 50% of the downvoted comments I see on HN do not deserve to be downvoted'..

They've even downvoted that comment :)

Do you figure computer security has been deliberately broken by the various security services to protect us from the terrorists or to more easily spy on their own citizens.

> When I observed my management "re-interpreting" their goals ..

Wow, you actually know what your management goals are, instead of having to find out by reading in the trade papers that the company is now totally X Y Z focused, X Y and Z being whatever the tech flavour of the month is :)

"In addition, there are people out there who are constant scaffolding to everyone else."

I assume the use of 'scaffolding' here, means an average programmer who through personal skills, raises the performance of the whole team.

'Someone is putting lots of work into hacking GitHub developers' only if they use Microsoft Windows as their development platform.

"the increasing number of developers considering a move from Mac OS because they find the MacBook Pro underpowered for their needs"

Why the need to insert anti Mac FUD into a technical article?

"via a pico driver with Microsoft’s clean room implementation of the Linux syscall interface."

Why clean room it, the kernel is GPL after all. This whole Linux-on-Windows strategy is nothing more than a ploy to slow down Linux adoption. Provide enough features to call it Linux without being actually being useful.

CIG, ACG, RCE .. I thought DEP and ASLR was supposed to have already cured RCE. Lets face it, when are they going to admit that the Windows memory model running on Intel hardware is defective. Lets see how long this comment stays up before modded into oblivion.

How exactly does Precision Landing Modes [PLM] make landing on an aircraft carrier easier?

Was mixing msOffice and iExplorer code, so the one couldn't be removed without breaking the other, one of the strategies discussed?

"The battle we are fighting is over who controls the next generation applications and system architecture, APIs and services" Shirish Nadkarni 1991

http://edge-op.org/iowa/www.iowaconsumercase.org/011607/0000...

> Why are there no chinese or russian leaks?

Because the ruskies aren't dumb enough to keep their secrets on a computer connected to the Internet.

Because the Chinese aren't dumb enough to keep their secrets on a computer in Baghdad that someone can walk in and burn the files to a writeable DVD.

Pardon my cynicism but is there any actual verifiable third party evidence for this.

If I were given to cynicism I would suspect it as being an attempt to favour Intel and wrong-foot AMD. It must be the fastest a processor has been rendered obsolete in the history of hardware.

What's the torque exerted on the rotor and does it scale and what head of water does it take to produce a useful amount of power?

The rules here do seem to be petty and arbitrary, modding people down and banning accounts because the management object to the opinions expressed therein.