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Divination is the world's oldest and most alluring scam. What makes this different?

The proposition of changing that dynamic is not alluring to most people, but I still hope there will be some who try.

They should be using their resources making phones that are better and more alluring than one another.

If there are any owners here on HN, I'm really curious what about the phone was alluring in any way.

It was exotic and alluring and exciting. During this era, a huge swath of us all were experiencing this at the same time.

"Microsoft makes an endless quantity of software that is alluring to big businesses, like Office, SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, etc&;&." Let me offer some perspective on this.

As this post shows, the temptation to resell your information, particularly by small players, is alluring. Frankly I'm more inclined to trust the Googles of the world than I am some guy who writes an extension.

I don't have a facebook account, and I find the idea of using it for keeping in touch with past acquaintances not very alluring and frankly a diatribe. You're not supposed to focus so much on other people's lives.

If I'm supporting its creation, and speculating at that, I need a more alluring price and/or a story that makes me forget about all price concerns. If I were the creator, I'd seriously consider pay-what-you-want.

The potential is hugely alluring -- a single OS to rule both the tablet and the desktop -- and with each subsequent version we keep hoping this will be the one that ties it all together. Sadly, as of the Consumer Preview, we're still seeing a lot of loose threads.

What made The Information's value proposition so alluring? It seems like an opportunity for another publication to step up and eat their lunch, whatever it was.

I have to say, having been both a bike messenger and programmer for several years each, that there are some very alluring aspects to the bike messenger lifestyle. It's serene and meditative, you work outdoors, it's really energizing.

It's probably an associate producer manning the desk straight out of J-school, and that big "Publish" button is pretty God damned alluring. Something about blogs, even under the CNN umbrella, seems to make facts a second-class citizen."

I've never hacked Ada; it seems to have been totally eclipsed by languages like OCaml that give you a rich type system and a good degree of speed, but when I was learning about programming and languages it seemed insane that people didn't go for Ada. Was being able to be sloppy really that alluring? Did people just love segfaults?

Those kinds of things tend to get debated to death, because bikeshedding is so alluring. More often than not, the person who offered the suggestion in the first place will get offended when their suggestion gets tossed out summarily, without realizing that they're far from first to come up with that idea.

When I see a video called "Hot XXX girl" with an alluring thumbnail on Youtube, the first thing that comes to my mind isn't "this is porn", it's "this is a cheap way to get views to an uninteresting video". And I routinely get "You must be 18 or older to see this" warnings for videos/photos with as little as a hint of a naked breast.

There's definitely something alluring about the static typing, but I'm less sold on the manual memory management. Maybe there is a way that the language could help you generate less garbage, without actually requiring you to manually control the lifetime of each object?

Math is the language of reality, it's applicable to anything so I don't know why getting involved with these sorts of projects over just about anything else is so alluring from a technical standpoint.

] it was a designed to create a competitive market for 3D hardware"and how it ultimately failed, with Direct3D becoming like OpenGL, more confusing, and paving way for the alluring simplicity of developing for a single hardware specimenthe Xbox.

In this analogy, single-payer health insurance plays the role of Linux: a perfectly workable, well-tested alternative that performs better and with fewer bugs, even if it doesn't hold the same alluring promise of eventual simplicity and possible eventual superiority. The US is like the hacker that sacrifices his career in order to stick exclusively with the Hurd.

PHP is very popular, so an end run around technical merits may be alluring to those that don't know how to argue the merits, can't find enough merits to argue, or are just looking for a quick way to draw in the large audience of PHP users that are looking for validation in their choices.