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I watched All the President's Men on a recent flight and even on an airplane seatback screen it had me rapt. No romance, no sex, no violence except a cop pointing a gun in the first 5 minutes, just a good story with two great leads.

Any discussion about film should probably include a disclaimer like "what we say here doesn't necessarily apply to Kubrick because he was Kubrick"

I think rather he's saying that Musk loudly declared he was slashing government waste and firing do-nothing bureaucrats, and the people who supported him never really bothered to see if that was the case or not.

> I often use bold & dramatic hand gestures while bent over slightly, face pressed against the glass enclosure of the sandwich-making zone. "STOP! RIGHT THERE!" I will yell, several times, if necessary.

God, Poe's law really gets me sometimes.


> For instance in India the goal is getting people off of motorcycles as that is a huge cause of driving deaths

"Your traffic laws or lack thereof are so insane that riding a motorcycle is basically a death sentence."

"Ok, we'll get people off motorcycles then!"

To abuse a meme, men will do literally anything to avoid obeying stop lights


I get it, but part of the reason they're on motorcycles is cars are too expensive for them. Would making it safer and costing $20-30k base like it does in America be more or less ethical?

I don't think there is a clear answer. Safer car means owners of the car survive more and more often: which is unequivocally great. Making it cheaper means there are more people in a safer vehicle than before which can reduce their likelihood of getting hurt/dying, but they're not as protected as they could be. This is, on the whole, also really good.

It just so happens car makers pick to make it cheaper. It's good for business and good for those who couldn't afford it before. It is bad for those who encounter the situations where additional protection would have saved them.


The amazing 1000 calorie apple

It's philosophy, not catechism, you're not expected to leave the class believing everything you read.

With modern two-random-word codenames we tended to just say things like "I'm working on Crystal Banana all next week"

(Crystal Banana was a local joke codename where I worked)


more like HTTP GET - LSB bit of response code + "please send the MIME type we like, not the MIME type we hate"

i d2t s1e t1e p5m...

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