How typical. Downvote anything it happens to challenge your beliefs or interests without providing _any_ proof of why they (your beliefs/interests) happen to fall into the right side of things.
One more time @HN admins: Please remove downvote capability. All it does is poisoning the conversations and putting HN community into a downward spiral of adolescent behaviors.
That comment broke the HN guidelines by adding flamebait and calling names rather than saying anything substantive. Your comment also breaks the guidelines, as you'll see if you read them all. They aren't long, so would you please do that and start following them?
Now we get downvoted for stating the obvious in HN. I wonder how much more down the drain this site will go before you consider removing the downvote feature. It's down to vindictive teenager schoolyard now and its getting lower still.
@admins
The commend says 'floating ice' the link you point at says 'ice on land'. The commender is 100% right but apparently the HN crowd has a lot of people that just love to downvote (which is why downvoting should be banned).
"First, as the oceans warm due to an increasing global temperature, seawater expands—taking up more space in the ocean basin and causing a rise in water level."
The ice melting is not the cause of seawater warming. Ice melt may indicate seawater warming, but the OP is correct that in itself it does not affect sea levels.
Actually, because sea ice has a different albedo than exposed sea water [0], sea ice melting is a significant cause of seawater warming (seawater warming is also, of course, a cause of sea ice melting; this is a classic positive feedback loop.)
Yes, the sea water absorbing more sunlight due to lack of reflecting ice could cause it to warm significantly. But this is indirectly caused by sea ice melting, and a more speculative connection between ice melt and water levels rising. Furthermore, I'd like to see hard numbers, since most of sea ice is under water and does not reflect sunlight.
Exactly. Online casinos are just the tip of the iceberg here. Unbelievably large sums of money and grief are lost and created respectively in real world lotteries and casinos which nowadays are almost entirely computerized - thus made up by developers working in tech companies.
I do think that online casinos may get a worse reputation when it comes to those in the US because online gambling is illegal so these companies that offer it are set up outside of the US jurisdiction. Who knows what they will pay out or if they ever do pay out. Casinos in the US are bound by the governing body of the state they are located in to have certain payouts when it comes to machines. Online gambling doesn't necessarily have that.
There is a huge amount of insight on this post and I could not upvote this story enough. It is exactly the onboarding process and all the BS/political powerplay and non-productive rhetorics that pass that exact message to a programmer. Multiply this by ten if you happen to be a non-native developer in a mostly ethnic company where your language skills are below native. So -even though it is never clearly said in the open- the message gets to be 'you are just a "foreign" code monkey'.
Because HN is dominated by 'free-trade' proponents to whom Paradise Papers seem like the natural way of doing business (i.e. taxation is akin to socialism).
I dunno... my experience has been nearly the opposite. Lately HN seems dominated by pro big-government / tax-and-spend types who want State involvement in, and regulation of, pretty much everything.
FWIW, when I had the audacity to say "Taxation is Theft" in one thread on that topic, my comment was quickly down-voted into oblivion. So don't think HN is some bastion of libertarianism. Maybe at some time in the past, but not now.
