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Comment · 6 years ago
If you have a VR setup and you haven't tried either IL-2 Sturmovik (for WW2) or DCS World (for modern jets and helicopters), you're missing out. You can even try out DCS World for free, with two planes.
Comment · 6 years ago
For a high-traffic train, you need to have someone manually open and close the doors. You can't use automatic doors like on an elevator because someone will invariably keep them from shutting, either on purpose or by accident.
Comment · 6 years ago
* Cryptocurrency

* Fiat currency

* Economics is not a real science

* I understand what the author is trying to say, but I don't like how he says it

* I didn't read the piece, but website that published it is problematic

* The title is clickbait, and I'm unaware of the concept of newspaper headlines

Comment · 6 years ago
Here's the paragraph that's making everyone mad:

>Like the student and other forms of personal debt that prepare undergraduates to say two words—“Yes, boss”—the ideal of the entrepreneurial self serves a fundamentally disciplinary function: reinforcing the precarious nature of work in today’s digitalized, low-wage, precariously employed, and increasingly automated capitalism, one in which you are casually expendable and which places a premium on everlasting metamorphosis: upgrade your skills, your profile, your resume. But don’t worry, complain, or God help you, call a union: losing your job or seeing your skill set rendered obsolescent is an opportunity for “growth,” creativity, empowerment. When your own exploitation can be recast as a project rather than a problem—a source of fulfillment rather than an instance of injustice—then solidarity with others can be vilified as conformism, the herd instinct of normies, the last refuge of losers and mediocrities.

Comment · 6 years ago
>the article would be inaccessible to many due to being steeped in elitism.

Inaccessible to who exactly?

Comment · 6 years ago
If you don't understand what the speaker is trying to say, then there's no need for you waste our time with a comment letting us all know that.
Comment · 6 years ago
In every HN comment section, there's always, 100% of the time, at least one person who only reads the title of the piece (in this case, a song lyric from The Verve) and still has the nerve to post a comment.
Comment · 6 years ago
No way in hell I'm clicking that link.
Comment · 6 years ago
Ultimately, that's what made them stop: somebody (or most likely, three somebodies) was going to get killed.
Comment · 6 years ago
Every HN submission from a real news source (newspaper, CNN, whatever) will always have at least one commenter complaining about the link title being click-baity, as if they've never before seen or heard of what is known as a "headline."

It's getting tiresome.

Comment · 6 years ago
A good rule of thumb is to never believe it when a company or industry says they have razor-thin margins.
Comment · 7 years ago
If you hover your mouse cursor over the underlined words in the article (these are called 'hyperlinks' or, more informally, 'links') and then hit the left mouse button, your World Wide Web browser will display other documents which ProPublica used for their reporting.
Comment · 7 years ago
Luckily, none of it is true. Or at least a gross exaggeration. As one example, yes, many untouchables didn't support him (there were 300 million people living in India then), but many more did.
Comment · 7 years ago
>He was against giving his wife penicillin to safe her life for religious reasons and she died.

This is one of those debunked smears that instantly disqualifies whatever else the speaker says. We're talking Elders-of-Zion level smear.

(This is where somebody will post as a source the Commentary article from 1983, where the author hears this from somebody at a cocktail party who heard it from someone else.)

Comment · 7 years ago
Putting a link to the "Lykov Family" Wikipedia page in the middle of this article is just plain evil; I'm trying to get some work done here!

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