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Re:NYC Rat Sightings (Daily) – Interactive Chart on Thursday April 11, 2024 @12:28PM (#40003977)
That explanation sounds real, but it isn’t. Really weird, why make something like this up?
Except not really, I wouldn’t be surprised if CTE is actually higher in non-athletes, nobody is checking the mass majority of these people. The insurance companies always make accident related CTE into another illness so it’s impossible to say, but look outside the US. A LOT more realistic stats.
Re:Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:09PM (#39974252)
There’s also active downvote bots that search for phrases like GOP and flag them immediately… watch.
Re:Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:08PM (#39974242)
You are doing that right now though because you want attention, don’t you see how ironic your comment is? You’re the noise.
Re:Hacker News (HN) – Part 1: analysis on Monday April 08, 2024 @06:06PM (#39974226)
Really I feel like HN is the worst for discussion. Look at all these long empty comments. There’s nothing of substance here.
Re:Jedi Knight (Plus, Notes on an Expanded Universe) on Friday April 05, 2024 @01:34PM (#39945014)
I think Lucas knows he’s screwed, he will be lambasted no matter what he does. Look at Game of Thrones, even the best written nerd series get torn apart by the nerd police. He understands that his business was always in nostalgia, it’s just his nostalgia for 50s serials, not actual Star Wars.
Re:Jedi Knight (Plus, Notes on an Expanded Universe) on Friday April 05, 2024 @01:29PM (#39944946)
The game wasn’t perfect, but it was extremely stable. I remember people spamming proximity mines, but even that became fun because it was so easy to get back in and play.
Developer hiding their lack of knowledge on projects and it being difficult to prove without letting the project fail.
Re:Ask HN: What's the fastest way to learn SQL? on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @12:00PM (#39907270)
OpenAI is a better SQL query writer than any developer I’ve worked with, and it’s not close.
Re:Tesla releases Q1 2024 deliveries: disastrous results on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @11:26AM (#39906836)
Ok we had our one hour of HN reality, now the post making national news off the page and the we are back in fansty land.
Re:Alexei Navalny has died – authorities on Friday February 16, 2024 @03:54PM (#39402824)
Huh? No. Somebody find this guy a bridge to get under.
I love how these raw mathematicians consider something proved when they can understand, meanwhile the computer can prove it easily just by counting a finite number of bits. What exactly would be considered proof in this case? Any explanation only mathematicians can understand?
Re:Undisclosed tinkering in Excel behind economics paper on Sunday February 11, 2024 @08:43AM (#39334931)
A lot of people are upset when their grant doesn’t get funded and it’s easy to suppose there’s some sort of sinister motive behind it. In truth it’s probably that the science is very difficult and only a tiny fraction of people get anywhere in social sciences.

Try marine biology, they are always looking for decent papers.