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Wow. http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html


Are you suggesting I should use Lisp, or that I haven't beat the average, or...?


It's rather standard already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slowly_changing_dimension


The user you are talking to is "qwe123_troll"

qwe123[4] is a troll account name with a storied history: http://www.reddit.com/user/qwe1234


Churches are also non-profit. As is Scientology. Just being a non-profit isn't insurance against evil.


Surely this problem is trivial to fix by changing the linear scoring function "5 points per upvote" to a sublinear function, that decays as upvotes increase, or has hard max.


We are on Paul Graham's Hacker News, this is already in the canon:

http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html


Interesting, I thought of http://www.paulgraham.com/microsoft.html


https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

"In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind."


Only if we care about getting reliablly correct answers.


Pablum.

Kids are happy everywhere because they are carefree kids.


the ovals are far too deeply colored. If they were closer to invisible (especially the horizontal segments) it wouldn't be so bad.

and the linebreak between "defun" and "hello" is just wrong. "hello" should be colored, and "defun" should be desaturated.


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