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Re:Ask HN: What should I do when I'm bored with my career?
on Thursday December 27, 2018 @10:55AM (#18770170)
I don’t think OP wants to be an instagram star. They want a change in career and have only a nebulous sense of what exactly they want. “Suck it up” is not only a mean spirited response, it is beside the point.
Re:Whitehouse.gov petitions are blocked from search results
on Thursday October 12, 2017 @11:26AM (#15458660)
You don't think it would be good for people googling an issue to be able to find out that there's a relevant petition?
Re:How Small Arms Work (WWII Training Film)
on Thursday June 01, 2017 @09:23PM (#14466714)
I posted this both because it is a fascinating subject, and because this is a remarkable model for pedagogical video. It's hard to believe the resources and ingenuity that went into every aspect of the American war effort, including something as small (and also, obviously vitally important) as teaching soldiers how guns work.
How Small Arms Work (WWII Training Film)
Re:Stop the inner struggle over whether your thoughts and feelings are...
on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @12:34AM (#12349693)
Oh you read that article too? There are ways of thinking about happiness that still allow for striving. Also, unhappiness is not only caused by entitlement.
Re:Are women exiting engineering because men get the challenging assig...
on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:45PM (#11924215)
Yes, specific suggestion about qualitative changes to college curricula, based on qualitative results of a study. That seems reasonable to me. Once these changes are enacted, of course, they can be subject to quantitative study.
Re:Are women exiting engineering because men get the challenging assig...
on Friday June 17, 2016 @01:00PM (#11923791)
You're maybe non familiar with qualitative research methods? A study like this can be used to discover the kinds of challenges that women face in engineering work environments. It would be a mistake to try to make quantitative claims about these results, but no one is doing that here.
Re:All the lonely people
on Sunday June 12, 2016 @09:07AM (#11887923)
You present "I chose not to eat" as if you made the moral choice. But there is no shame in asking for help if you need it. I don't have illusions about what most people asking for money are going to spend it on. Honestly, they have to deal with loneliness and destitution somehow. That is why I specifically say regardless of whether I think they deserve it.
Re:All the lonely people
on Sunday June 12, 2016 @07:55AM (#11887686)
I always give a dollar to the first person who asks for it in any given day, regardless of whether I think they deserve. If they're asking for money, they probably need it. I don't think telling people they need it for bus fare is a scam, it's just another strategy.
Re:All the lonely people
on Sunday June 12, 2016 @07:52AM (#11887680)
If nothing else, in many NYC neighborhoods it would be simply impossible to greet every person you see.
Still, there are plenty of residential neighborhoods where no one acknowledges each other on the street, and there is no sense of neighborliness. Paradoxically, given this article, I find that the more wealthy a neighborhood, the less likely you are to be greeted by a stranger. The poorer the neighborhood (I would imagine down to a lower bound – I seldom go to the truly poor neighborhoods simply because they are so far from the city center in New York) the more likely that greeting is, especially in a black neighborhood like Bed Stuy or (when I first moved here) Harlem.
Re:Unnecessariat
on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:20AM (#11767636)
We just don't need that many people to do all the stuff.
Yes we do. There is so much work to be done. The problem is the poverty of the public sphere, brought on by specific, ideologically motivated decisions.
Re:How Technology Hijacks People’s Minds
on Friday May 20, 2016 @12:14PM (#11739037)
Sure we do. Cap and trade. Boom.
Re:Ask dang: How many HN comments per day do you read?
on Tuesday May 10, 2016 @04:10PM (#11670250)
Is it good faith? It comes off as either pedantic or trolling to my eyes.
Re:How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
on Tuesday April 12, 2016 @08:53PM (#11484876)
Because being a startup hub has been so good for SF? Not everywhere needs to be a startup hub, for goodness sake.
Re:The Greatest Violin No One’s Ever Heard
on Monday April 11, 2016 @10:35PM (#11476829)
In case it wasn't clear, I was referring to the price difference as ludicrous. I have an Iizuka viola and it's worth every penny.
Re:The Greatest Violin No One’s Ever Heard
on Monday April 11, 2016 @09:08AM (#11471181)
The classical world is more diverse than people seem to think. Most string players I know play on modern instruments, made within the last hundred years. Likewise actual musicians don't idolize young prodigies – both of these things are marketing phenomena that the actual artists generally oppose.
That said, the idea that there's no difference between a great old instrument and a modern one is just as fallacious. Perhaps as a not great violinist you never got to the point where you got to find out, but there are qualities of an instrument that have nothing to do with sound. The fact that a Strad costs $5 million and an Iizuka costs $27,000 is ludicrous, yes. But the great old instruments are still around for a reason.
Apple Is Said to Be Working on an iPhone Even It Can’t Hack
Re:Father.io: first real life massive multiplayer FPS
on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @03:51PM (#11162221)
Honestly, it does look like fun. But also like a lawsuit waiting to happen? Like a future source of broken noses and arms and what-have-you when people trip or run into walls. Which, that's fine, if that's a risk you choose to take. But I think "what could go wrong?" is justified.
Re:Father.io: first real life massive multiplayer FPS
on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @03:43PM (#11162159)
Hey, it's like laser tag, but you have to look through a tiny screen while you run and jump and try to evade and attack! What could go wrong?
Re:Who Goes Nazi? (1941)
on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:02AM (#11156694)
It is deeply conservative, possibly even royalist. Do you think propaganda has to be unsubtle? This is just appealing to a different audience than Rosie the Riveter.
Re:How I doubled the battery life on my Mac by closing one tab in Chrome
on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @11:13AM (#11118814)
All right you made your complaint. Now flag the article if you must and let it go, please.
Re:Missing Malaysia Jet MH370 Weeks Away from Keeping Secrets Forever
on Wednesday February 17, 2016 @09:33AM (#11118032)
Yes, that's true, one definition of literature can be anything that is written. I'm not trying to have a semantic argument with you though. Use whatever words you want, but if you think of this long form journalism as a form of... let's call it art writing, then maybe it would make more sense. If you want to say that having magenta pull quotes makes it not art then I can't help you.
Re:Missing Malaysia Jet MH370 Weeks Away from Keeping Secrets Forever
on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @11:09PM (#11115215)
In the Strand, the section you're talking about is called "Literary Fiction." Since we're talking about sets:
literature ⊃ literary fiction
Re:Missing Malaysia Jet MH370 Weeks Away from Keeping Secrets Forever
on Tuesday February 16, 2016 @08:20PM (#11114463)
Would it help if you think of it as a form of literature, rather than a means of devouring information by the most efficient means possible? It may still not be for you, and this may not be a good example of it, but it is a genre with purposes other than what you are assuming.
Re:Denmark confirms US sent rendition flight for Snowden
on Friday February 05, 2016 @09:44AM (#11041663)
Your comments about US states may have been true prior to the civil war, but certainly have been true since then.
Re:We're the Only Animals with Chins
on Sunday January 31, 2016 @02:45PM (#11007698)
It doesn't say it's unlikely to aid in speech, just that it's unlikely to be reinforcement for the stresses caused by the tongue while speaking.
Re:We're the Only Animals with Chins
on Sunday January 31, 2016 @02:42PM (#11007677)
What an excellent idea. My first thought was that it must have something to do with speech or expression – maybe having a protruding bone bobbing up and down somehow makes speech more comprehensible? The idea of it contributing to facial expressions seem more likely though. Hopefully someone here will take up this line of inquiry.
Re:New York’s Subway Frequency Guidelines Are the Wrong Approach
on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @11:02AM (#10980741)
Sorry, "socialist utopia" in this case is reclaimed from the Republican insanity of the last 8 years, where any government program is "socialism" and ergo synonymous with evil. I'm not suggesting the majority of New Yorkers want a dictatorship of the proletariat, I just mean most of us want to have the public infrastructure necessary to live in the city, and would probably be ok with better social programs. And would you deny that the city is more "liberal" than Upstate?
Re:New York’s Subway Frequency Guidelines Are the Wrong Approach
on Wednesday January 27, 2016 @10:53AM (#10980670)
I'll admit to ignorance here. A poster above suggested NYC does not own the Rondout reservoir, another one said they do own two other reservoirs. If the city owns all of them, great. If there are some needed for the water supply, then they would have to be purchased.
Of course, all of this is on the level of fantasy, because it's not going to happen.