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The author starts with 8 paragraphs on gold, and the word gold is mentioned 33 times throughout the article, spread about evenly throughout. By no means did the author "move on" from talking about gold, let alone "quickly".

Really? HN has been a mini-Reddit for quite some time now. Frequently just a bunch of low quality, unfunny and recycled one-liners hoping to grab a few precious internet points.

> But the author can't be serious about no one knowing who Prabhakar Raghavan is. He is, for instance, the co-author of the definitive text on randomized algorithms [Motwani and Raghavan]. He has also been a well-respected database researcher for many years.

Surely YOU can't be serious. The author was very clearly comparing this guy to much more famous and heavily derided figures like Musk, Zuckerberg, etc. I don't think co-authoring a text on randomized algorithms gets you the same notoriety as being the head of Tesla, SpaceX, and Twitter...

Not sure that "being able to hit undo" and "no harm done!" is what makes blowing things up enjoyable, but to each his own.

There are 8 billion people on earth. And Texas is 172 million acres. I don't think the math works out.

And no philosophy worth anything would put any of the things you listed on the path to happiness. In fact, generally speaking, they are the opposite.

An infinite supply of anything to satisfy all of your desires does not lead to a fulfilling life -- just one with enough distractions to get you through the next day.

Are you seriously telling me that a sport that allows elbow and knee strikes to the head has become more dangerous because they reduced the weight of the gloves? Have you thought about this for a second?

And the mention of your "untrained" friend being unable to enjoy a traditional Muay Thai fight the way _you_ can just reeks of some kind of odd elitism. My guess is you saw a topic about fighting on HN and couldn't wait to tell us all that you trained.

I generally take this word to mean "I'm a redditor and I want everyone to know it".

Do you think that earthquakes transmit instantaneously? Why would they not have a propagation speed like everything else in the universe?

Thank god Microsoft and Google are on the case! I was thinking next, we should have Exxon Mobile study the effects of oil on the environment.

Very little?

Let me introduce you to: newspapers, radio, television, books.

It seems like your expectations must come from frontend development or something, where you can hot glue together a few packages to instantly get results. It is absolutely possible to do what you want, but it still would take a little knowledge / engineering to make it work.

This take just seems disconnected from reality. The advertisers know at some level what's going on there, but until the general public changes its view of what Twitch is, they can advertise there with zero consequences. If and when some scandal emerges about the sexualization of the content of Twitch, they can all publicly do their pearl clutching performance and pull their ads.

And the idea that "most female streamers seem to basically use their streams as inspiration to work out" is really cute.

And it's very clear to me that HN is next to suffer this fate

> The top answer given here is highly reductionist to the point of misleading

This is my expectation for every single "expert" answer on Reddit. Confidence without substance.