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I'd say this is more a problem with human nature, that social media is just exposing at a whole new level. It's basic biology to want to be the best, in order to attract the best mate etc. Social media has blown open a world where not only is there always someone better, more attractive, more fun, more social-able etc than you but also that the levels these people reach will always be unobtainable for you.
Your message is accurate, but I think you're missing the forest for the trees.

It's like looking for telegraphy systems when everyone else are using radio waves.
Dude, cmon. I know this is hn and I’m supposed to put effort into crafting useful responses. But, how have those links convinced you that it must be the mic?

From the evidence in those videos, I’d rather be considering whether fb is part of a future AI continuum monitoring and influencing the past (from the future in which the AI exists) by messing with people testing this feature. Yep, cat is alive on Facebook/IG, days later. Microphones and big data/AI are but two slits through which photons can pass, in the experiment known as fb.
They dissipate it into the environment as heat iirc.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Load_bank

So instead of a resistor use old CPUs and GPU and mine.
Why did you pick the the middle ages? Couldn't you go back to any period in recorded human history and find that your idea true? When has there not been the idea of 'my idea better, you all believe now or die now'. Why tie it to some modern construct of progress?
Messenger is at least as good as a decent IRC server, with your friends all agreeing to use an IRC client app, instead.

Super weird to see that we're coming full circle; it used to be that you had to install a special app to chat with your friends, same as it ever was today ..
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He did achieved financial independence years before he was blogging. This what I think is important and his advice note worthy.

I don't really care what he did after this point. The fact that he multiplied his net worth many times thanks to blogging doesn't mean he is financial independent thanks to it.
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Just like with the NSA wiretapping, if you’re not a US citizen you don’t count for much (not that it protected US citizens very much).

Your data has probably been sold a hundred time over already by US companies.
Did this trend start with social media? We are doing lots of stuff to teenagers these days that we didnt do before. They are beholden to expectations far narrower than we were.

We treat them as adults in school (by making them responsible for their own performance through grading and measuring) from a very young age, yet we don't really cut the umbelical cord (grant them autonomy) until they're in their twenties.

Socially they're expected to act in their long term interest, at the expense of social and emotional self-realization (i.e. "maturing") for a long time, and the only alternative is failure (now on prominent display on social media heh...)
> You can view saving as zero-risk investment

I wish I had bought index funds instead of keeping most of my savings in GBP before the Brexit referendum...
I'd take pay in bitcoin as payment for work anytime over last 5 years because of stupidly high cost of international money transfers. Unfortunately nobody wanted to pay me like that because apparently it was harder for accounting.
I wonder how this compares to the Python ecosystem, whose standard library is also quite large. (Anyone remembers their famous "batteries-included" mantra?)

Python 2 didn't have a stdlib namespace, or "package" in Python speak. But when they created their clean-slate approach with Python 3, they also decided not to introduce a stdlib package. External Python packages just avoid the stdlib package names, and everything seems fine.

So, is there something in the Python language that makes the missing?

Or is it just the Python community which doesn't care about (or plays down) this issue?
I have the same hobby; I play with Coq, Idris, Agda, F* and pen and paper. I do not have time to do it for work most of the code, however all critical parts I do. One of my dreams is to do this full time.
GP did not talk about total freedom, but rather used the term literal freedom.

Your comment in that context is attacking a straw man of what GP wrote.
The frontend code is really lean, so adding an authentication prompt should be fairly easy.
That one is really meant for small things.

Alas, for massive sites with lots of content, Netlify's other services plays nicely with other tools. E.g. his AT&T dev proposes GatsbyJS, Contentful, and Netlify in combination [0].

[0]: https://hackernoon.com/contentful-and-netlify-the-dynamic-du...
Would you have spent it?
Well, that was a depressingly realistic read.
Penny stocks are also scarce, durable and transferable...
I am not suggesting that the right data structure is not important, just that is not where the difficulty lies. I can solve problems that my far more CS knowledgable employees can't because I have a better understanding of the domain. My solutions are not always the most elegant, but they work (most of the time).
Is there such a thing as a non-creative person? I.e a person who actually thinks/knows/conscientiously decides they are not creative?
Pure functional only takes you so far. If you’re using transient servers to process http queries that has no local state, then the frp abstractions are probably a good fit.

When you’re dealing with an app or a single page web app, you’re spending the whole user session mutating one big state (represented on the UI). Every events are going to apply some diff over that big state, and so what you have in practice is a stream of effects.
> Meanwhile school homework gets more and more ridiculous

Parents need to adjust their expectations, or the kids are caught between a rock and a hard place. The school won't show mercy.
that is a fairly kickass way to describe the problem.
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But it does not work very well. Often it does not connect at all, is very slow, and it blocks many things like TeamSpeak and torrents, for example.
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The ACA was based on a 1989 Republican-backed proposal and on Massachusetts' Republican-backed health care law ("Romneycare"), designed to be a more corporate-friendly version of a single-payer plan that accomplishes many of the same goals. Obama adopted it in order to get bipartisan support, not because he had any impression the individual mandate was good for individuals.

Any narrative that the Democrats have health insurers as their patrons and Republicans do not needs to account for facts of history like this one:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Equity_and_Access_Ref...

(The argument that both parties would have loved
the individual mandate, and merely fought over it for political points as a show for voters, is at least consistent with objective history.)
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yeah not exactly an impartial source
It's similar to React Native - meaning it's very hard to write once on two platforms. You could get somewhere with writing two UI's for two platforms and keep shared business logic.

So, this is nowhere near Flutter.
Of course it is, but then if it wasn't for that, social media would've never gotten so successful in the first place. What matters is the effect it has on the society, esp. on the immature minds that are taking shape. If you break it early, it may never unlock its full potential or be happy.
"The sad truth is that most politicians aren't going to win elections without corporate money."

True. But is anyone else surprised how cheap a congressman is? 30k and you can have private phone calls, dinners, etc. You don't need a large international corporation to shell out 30k - hell, some of the congressmen are cheaper than 5k.
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Do you really think mutilating people’s genitalia is a reasonable intervention to lower STD rates?

It’s my opinion that circumcision acceptance is based on a cultural/ideological blind spot.
But do we need those big systems? My laptop and phone are powerful enough to generate valuable info from my data sets alone

This always on nonsense is not economical

Have large data sets? BOINC

The only reason the cloud is cool is because corporate says so. ISPs have blocked home services, pay corporate for hosting!

Surely we don’t need databases running 24/7 crunching every persons data to find valuable applications in medicine for example?

Why can’t our computing look more personalized: I collect my data offline via whatever special gadgets I need ( blood sugar monitor for example) or professional help (doctors, etc) and share as it needed.

We don’t need Google Photos operating 24/7 when laptops and phones and a small dedicated backup device can do the same

It doesn’t seem all that efficient to have huge data centers around the globe on all day when lower power, less complicated infra could do the work only as needed
What will be interesting to see is whether this actually stays good advice. Massive amounts of money (trillions) has been flowing into these passive ETFs and index funds -- I would assume this creates some distortions in the financial system.
Penny stocks are generally not scarce (You can buy a lot of them) not durable (Companies tend to go bankrupt). Gold would be a better analogy.
I think they mean 'agentless' rather than 'clientless'. You don't need to install anything special on the remote machines, just enable standard remote access protocol (ssh, rdp, vnc, etc)
> Get a math degree, and a computer science degree

Been there, done that. Also - I am open to positive cases being put forward, dismissive of angry rants and straw men arguments.
This is how I feel about all the people on HN who are vastly smarter than me.
bitcoin is nice because, unlike paypal, you don't get locked out have have to verify your phone and email and shit like that. as long as you have the private keys, you can spend anywhere
In web development, almost zero relevance. They are looking for the keys under the lampost [1].

Some of those algorithms are already implemented by library functions. Others are really not relevant. However:

1. I needed some non trivial algorithm maybe once or twice in the last 5 years. Knowing you can do that in o(n) or o( log n) is handy. Knowing the solution is better :-)

2. Binary search is important. I saw a program looping through potentially 4000+ API calls to look for an element when a binary search could have nailed it down in a few hits (the server didn't have a search API for what the program had to do.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetlight_effect
Because all their wealth are already put into society. Where do you think all the factories comes from? Who do you think employs all the people? Who creates products and services that people want and which improves people's lives? Billionaires do not sleep on the bag of cash - their wealth is already tied up to the things they are already doing. And as for non profit activities probably all of them do it for the causes they believe in. Universities, libraries, research, art, charities etc. I never understood this demonstration of the rich people, like they are some kind of evil aliens who want to hurt "us good people". This communistic nonsense should just go.
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"Training employees."

There was a time, many moons ago, when secretaries with zero IT knowledge learnt Wordstar key sequences and got very productive using the software; now keyboard usage is considered a highly technical skill among IT workers and rocket science among casual users.

It's just a market driven untraining; everyone can learn to understand and use FOSS, but it needs strong motivation.
How does a private coin work with blockchain tech? If you can't know who the sender and receiver are how can you verify transactions?
Can you expand on this? I don't really understand how x lead to y as i don't have much idea about social media addiction at all or its effects.
It might not be trendy like Markdown or YAML (both of which I like, and have their uses), but to markup text with higher-level semantics (i.e. not relating to formatting) the best option is XML.
Also unlike PayPal a transaction takes a few hours instead of a few seconds. Wait, that's not a good thing...
There have been quite a few elections recently where politicians won with people's support and money. And they often won because they rejected corporate money. See Ro Khanna, who I think has a real shot of becoming the U.S. president in the next 8-12 years.

If Alison Hartson can also win against the military industry complex and intelligence community-backed Dianne Feinstein in the upcoming Senate election in California, I think it will show a real reversal from politicians winning with corporate money alone and a trend that people and sick and tired of this type of politicians.

But if you really want to solve this corporate money problem, you can. Just ban all corporate donations and limit individual donations to less than $500 per politician per year. Donations above $1,000 still seem to incentivize politicians to hold "fundraisers" with rich people and cocktail parties, instead of actually appealing to the masses.

The "money vote" needs to be "equal and universal" just like the actual vote. Right now it's way skewed in favor of rich people and companies.

The FBI would also need to launch automatic investigations against any politicians that are found to have >$10,000 donated (in total) to her or him that isn't coming from such <$500 individual donations. For instance, the fact that the latest Supreme Court Justice was backed by $25 million "dark money" is a spit in the face of democracy. He should have been investigated immediately over that by the FBI/an anti-corruption agency.

You can't excuse this type of behavior with "well, they need the money to win!" anymore. It's destroying whatever is left of US' democracy, and it's regular people that will have to suffer the consequences for that. Winning isn't important anymore when the winners are also the "baddies."
We had the art teacher teaching us how to fill a form on a Thomson MO5. He screamed when I entered some random data instead of the ones he told us to write because it could brick the computer. :(
Group think is pretty good if you select your group well.
if you have 9k dollars and you don't need to spend it on something, and you want to save, what are your options, keep it cash, will only loose its value (maybe less in US but in other countries yes with 7% inflation), you would pay bank fees, and the money would do nothing, buy gold, is complicated, you need to make a contract, again pay fees to hold it for you, buy real estate, is to little money, buy stocks, is complicated, which stock, 90% of countries don't even have a stock market, invest it in a business, again.. you don't have time, is complicated, which business etc., art/wine/collectives, to little money, you need to store it, research, etc,

So tell me which is a better investment/store of value 9k money, at this moment?, without needing weeks of research and paperwork and fees, etc.
What if said creativity is garbage?
Article seems pretty bad. It already starts of horrendously when they call the journal "ScienceDirect.com". That's just Elsevier's site. The journal is called "Personality and Individual Differences."

Furthermore, this is how the study assessed creativity:

> creativity was assessed with 10 items (e.g., “I have a vivid imagination”) from the International Personality Item Pool [...]. Participants rated the accuracy of the items as they applied to themselves on a 5-point scale (1 = Very inaccurate, 5 = Very accurate).

Meaning that they self-assessed how creative they currently feel. It was not measured how creative they actually are (though I wouldn't know how you could do that)

And these are the findings:

> shyness was related positively to both types of aggression, anxiety sensitivity, and social anhedonia, and was related negatively to creativity. Avoidance was related positively to both types of aggression and social anhedonia, and was related negatively to creativity. Of note, unsociability was related negatively to both types of aggression, and was related positively to creativity.

This directly contradicts the article's claims of "the character traits of 'shyness, avoidance, [and] unsociability' [...] are positively associated with creativity."

And, as others pointed out happiness != creative output as implied in the article: "Furthermore, intelligent people are happier when they have less social interaction, even with their friends"

So it seems like it's not as clear cut as they make it out to be.
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> with your friends all agreeing to use an IRC client app

I can’t imagine what world you live in where this is a realistic options. I couldn’t even persuade my tech friends to do this, let alone my wider friend group who work in different fields.
A friend used walk (Windows-only, as other comment says) for a commercial project. AFAIK it worked okay.

There is also shiny, an experimental one from the Go team; not checked it, and may not be production-ready yet.

https://github.com/golang/exp/tree/master/shiny
(Also, someone seems to be coming through and downvoting both our posts days after this dropped off the front page. I've upvoted yours, but just be aware it is happening)
Coffee is not supposed to be sweet or iced for that matter. The only proper way to drink coffee is either black or with a little milk. :)
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Perfect/absolute pitch fascinates me. I have fairly solid relative pitch and knowledge of music theory, so I can pretty quickly work out most popular western music by ear and play along on the piano or guitar, but only in rare circumstances can I hear a pitch and recognize it as being the same absolute pitch as some other known pitch that I haven’t heard recently. When it happens, it’s usually when I hear the beginning of a song and immediately recognize that it’s in the same key as some other song that I have heard many times. The recognition seems to be stronger if both pitches are played with the same timbre (i.e. the same instrument with similar tone and effects).

This leads me to believe that absolute pitch is probably nothing more than excellent pitch memory, which further leads me to believe that it is probably learnable and not genetic (beyond any genetic predisposition for general musical skill). That said, I suspect it Is vastly easier to learn at a young age, just as are human languages.
And yet Warren Buffett consistently beats the market.
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I was also decidedly bullish initially (on the exact same grounds that you're describing), but I'm increasingly aware that this can be flipped the other way too.

For example: let's say the BTC futures price is lower than the exchange price, and let's say you hold BTC; pursuing an arbitrage, you buy cheaper futures, sell BTC to make arbitrage profit; multiply this across many self-serving market agents, and you have market forces working to eliminate the arb opportunity: there's our transmission mechanism, regardless of how the futures are settled.
It is instantaneous depending on which platform you are using. Maybe you should bother looking into it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AecPrwqjbGw

For me, buying BTC is buying out of fiat. Being able to have autonomous control of the currency I have the private keys to. I've been thinking lately: the rich invest their fiat into stores of value, while paying the poor in fiat which is soon to be worthless. This reinforces the current inequality

Just plucking some thoughts from the aether of my mind. I'm currently holding because I can't spend, but technologies are going to be emerging which enable Steam et al to efficiently accept BTC, & I don't feel BTC is something to be sold-- only spent

The growth rate will stabilize once the market settles on what the true value of this currency is. Then it'll just be a non deflating store of value which is also liquid
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> Good creative collaboration is never democratic or equal (counterexamples?). Great projects must have a lead architect.

Funny, I think it's precisely the opposite. I don't think most creative people can thrive under a strict hierarchy (some famous creative people had even trouble to keep a normal job).

It's true that groups of creative people sometimes cooperate, but almost always like equals. One of the famous counterexamples I can give you is the Monty Python collaboration, which was strictly democratic. There are also plenty examples of creative collaborations between two people.

In open source software, where there is a hierarchy, it is rather informal. Linus is not a single "lead architect" of Linux; would he enforce a bad decision that most developers would disagree with, he would be forked away. He has no choice than to respect meritocratic wishes of other developers, if he wants to stay "in charge".

There were open source projects that tried a more heavy handed way of architectural management, and they failed - such as GCC or XFree86.
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This again...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15425374

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15410969

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15352268
I'd counter that. Coffee makes me sit down and intently focus unmoved; time speeds by.
He gets the minimum standard hate that all financial gurus get. I wouldn't say that makes him divisive, at least not any more divisive than the others (Dave Ramsey, Suze Orman, Jim Cramer, etc).

He's actually probably the least divisive, unless we're including people nobody's ever heard of.

Also not sure what difference it makes whether he fits anybody's definition of "retired" or not. I don't think anybody actually cares if he's still saving money by doing his own yard work, or earning passive income from his blog. The point is that he attained the option of retiring at 30, which is true.

Whether you consider how he chose to live his life after that point "retirement" is kind of subjective and irrelevant.
I don't think you necessarily need a large market share. You just need your alternative to be viable for individuals to choose to use. Then if it's better, you'll gain users.

Firefox itself needs large market share, as a bulkhead against sites that work only in {IE6|Chrome}.

Mobile OSes need large enough market share because you have to persuade the proprietors of important services to make their services available on the OS — if those services aren't available, your OS won't have enough utility for most users.

But it is possible to get a large number of services working on an unpopular mobile OS — if there's a common standard that unpopular platforms can make use of, which is good enough for most users — such as web apps.

(For example, DuckDuckGo can succeed or fail on merit, because it's a viable alternative. In the Linux bubble, most apps don't specifically target unpopular distros, but they can make use of the same source code or the same packaging formats.)

So if we want better mobile OSes, we should support interoperability of apps.
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