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Calling a comment "ridiculous" is against the guidelines?

Okay. Hopefully it isn't against the guidelines to say I think that's a silly guideline. Apparently saying "ridiculous" in response to a comment is very selectively enforced, must be my lucky day.

Anyways, this is probably the reminder I needed to stop commenting to HN. Some of the moderator decisions you guys are making lately are just.. way off base to me. Either you've changed or I have. Probably me.

Time to randomize the password. Cheers.

The DSM-5 is from the "American Psychiatric Association".

Phillip Zimbardo, and the link you linked to, are the "American Psychological Association".

These are two different associations.

Theresa Miskimen is the president of the American Psychiatric Association, not Zimbardo.

Not synonymous with "spreading hate".

I'd rather look like a goof (nothing wrong with being goofy or weird sometimes) than help spread hatred.

No one in this thread is helping "spread hatred".

I'm pretty sure they are implying that it might be a bad policy to not ban nazis.

Relative size is what matters here.

This is where our disconnect is. Relative change in size means nothing to me. I care about the absolute size of the final thing I'm installing.

Adobe big, getting bigger. Sumatra small, staying small.

For the purposes of what this post is communicating, I don't think the exact sizes of adobe prior to 2000 or the exact size of sumatrapdf matters at all.

The linear graph instantly communicates:

    - sumatrapdf has barely changed size in the same time that adobe's size has grown exponentially

    - adobe's crazy growth spike started ~6 years ago

Being able to see that sumatras size remains relatively flat while adobes size growth is practically vertical is all the granularity I care about at a glance. If I want to know exact sizes, I'll dive in deeper.

For the purposes of this article, this graph is much more effective at making the point than the log scale one. I think it would have been a better choice to use a graph like this.

Thanks!

1) "De-googling" doesn't need to be a binary, all-in or all-out situation. Any reduction in reliance of Google (or any single point of failure) is good. Diversifying the big stuff (mail, storage, etc.) is a great start. About last on the list is worrying about the occasional allowance for gstatic.com or whatever.

2) While I occasionally need to allow some scripts from google, it's absolutely nowhere near 1/3rd of sites.

The research is great!

The reporting is typically... not as great. At the very least, the headlines are typically extremely over-stated.

Spam folder?

I feel like I see some strongly-worded headline about anti-aging of some sort here every two weeks.

It all depends on who was elected and who votes.

If I had to pick one thing I dislike the most about HOAs, it would be this. There is never a guarantee that your quiet HOA will remain that way in the future. Which, to me, seems like a crazy chance to take.

we have a shared park, community space, and where I live lots of irrigation.

This is where my confusion comes in. My local government handles this sort of stuff. But I understand that we (as countries) have different thoughts on governments and their responsibilities.

Things like maintaining a community’s cohesiveness [...] maintain/increase the community’s home values over time.

I've heard the arguments in favor of them before, I just don't find them convincing.

Sure, I guess I can kind of understand that. It's just not something I've experienced. I've never felt that there was a "gap" that needed to be filled. Especially not by a group that can also tell me that my paint has to be a certain color or whatever.

As a non-American, I've always been surprised with how common HOAs are, and how over-bearing they seem.

I know that I only hear about the crazy ones because blogs about normal/good HOAs aren't going viral, but I've seen enough horror stories that if I ever moved to the US I would do my best to avoid one like the plague.

I'm not defending unity, fuck 'em, I'm just saying that the pricing is right on the page that you said pricing isn't available on.

From the top of the linked page:

"$450.00/mo per seat"

"$4,950.00/yr per seat"

And under the question "What happens if I am distributing the runtime for commercial purposes?":

"Industry Customers requires explicit authorization from Unity and is subject to a fee ("Distribution License') which is generally equivalent to 4.0% of the revenue generated by the software product that incorporates the Unity runtime (discounts may apply)"

If you don't get pedophile vibes from that picture it's on you.

Wow, what an absolutely wild statement. I hate to break it to you, but I'm not the one sexualizing the cartoon picture.

Right, but, that's different. Penguins are serious and professional.

Edge does, as well. It drops a warning in the middle of the screen, displays the resource-hogging tab, and asks whether you want to force-close the tab or wait.

It's crazy (especially considering anime is more popular now than ever; netflix alone is making billions a year on anime) that people see a completely innocent little anime picture and immediately think "pervent-dwelling imageboard".

I'm really surprised you wrote this.

I agree with the rest of your comment, but this seems like a weird little jab to add on for no particular reason. Am I misinterpreting?

Luckily it isn't the only public DNS.

8.8.8.8, 9.9.9.9, and many others exist.

I've always figured that this type of thing is best used to stop you from getting addicted, not to stop an already-formed addiction. Or on the flip-side, when you've mostly overcome an addiction but need a helping hand to prevent relapse.

If they eventually start paying attention to licenses, maybe?

I still see some pretty staggering deals now and again, but maybe not to the extent you remember (I don't really remember that, but I was also primarily a WoW player back then, and didn't pay as much attention).

How much of that is to blame on steam vs. the publishers, though? I would imagine the publishers have much more control over (if not total control?) over pricing. So, unless I'm wrong, it seems misguided to put that at steam's feet.

back in the day when a steam sale was actually meaningful.

Curious what you mean by this?

Why does every post that mentions something other than Rust or Zig get a comment saying "Why not Rust or Zig"?

Seeing a lot of people shit on Paul

Hardly "a lot". There's like three negative comments and one of them is strictly criticizing the article itself and not paul. I thought it brought up some good points.

My kid sometimes says stuff like this when trying to impress people. It's a phase I'm excited for them to grow out of.

Oh, you've now edited your comment from calling yourself a "master" to something else entirely (while still not answering the question I asked).