I immediately stop reading the comment and downvote whenever I see that phrase.

Of course. The ones who didn't aren't able to comment here.

An xray is still a 2D projection, just with different wavelength light.

It's somewhat like having the alpha on everything turned down to varying levels - you can see through the skin, bones and metal implants are still at 100% alpha - but fundamentally no different than what looking at someone gives you: a 2D plane.

That figure of speech is known as Synecdoche, btw. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche

The 12 hours here refers to the delivery window on the delivery day, not the time to ship the package. Though the total delivery time is certainly much less than 4-6 weeks.

The 4-6 weeks is a 2 week delivery window! (No tracking numbers then, either.)

Technically, exported/unexported is different than public/private since its at the package level. You can access unexported fields of a struct from anywhere within the same package (not just from that struct's "methods"), which isn't true of a 'private' field.

IIRC, that is also true for protected members in Java (it has been a while, though, since I have written anything in Java).

If that is a concern, you can create a new package for your type.

You can use Messenger without a Facebook account (just your phone number I think).

This. Only need your phone number to use the Messenger app.

Ring species complicate that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_species

A can mate with B, B can mate with C, but A can't mate with C.

Considering their default rate is surely higher that 0.75% (1.5/200), how is that sustainable?

Couldn't a rate in between these 2 extremes work? Like a 70% APR?

That's breaking even at a ~5.83% default rate, which is still unrealistically low. If they have a default rate of 20%, they'd need at least 240% APR to break even (assuming 1 month loans).

That's 20% monthly default, but better to think about an annualized default rate, which at 20% would be much more manageable, right?

Someone has more trouble paying off $228 instead of $200?

Granted, it could be right at an invisible tipping point, but let's be honest.

> Someone has more trouble paying off $228 instead of $200?

Yes? That's like a month's food for some folks.

$28 is a month's food?

I lived on $50 of food in New York for a month, but it was a deeply unhealthy experience. Can't imagine $28, even with a CoL discount.

(it was rice, beans, and whole frozen chickens + volunteering at a homeless shelter which bought 1.5 meals a day)

slow.com redirects to fast.com. That would cause a redirect loop. :D

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11723650