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This obviously depends on the definition of talent.

If talent is taken from the dictionary definition:
"the natural endowments of a person" (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/talent)

then obviously hard work has nothing to do with it (by definition) and therefore it is just pure luck - no one chooses their genes.

I guess what you meant to argue is that innate talent doesn't exist ("for many of us") and therefore, talking about expertise and success ("talent") depends mostly on hard work, and not on some "luck of the genetic lottery".

However, if you read past the 4th paragraph in your linked article, you'll find the "innate talent doesn't exist" view is not supported at all:

"Ericsson and Pool gloss over or omit critical details of research they review that undermine the anti-talent argument"

"Ericsson and Pool also leave out a good deal of evidence that runs counter to the anti-talent argument. For example, they claim that professional baseball players have “no better eyesight than an average person,” but there is evidence to suggest otherwise."

"Another notable omission from Peak is a study of 18 prodigies by Joanne Ruthsatz and colleagues—to date, the largest study of the intellectual abilities of prodigies. (Given the rarity of prodigies, a sample size of 18 is very large in this area of research.) The researchers gave the prodigies a standardized IQ test, and found that all scored very high on working memory (most were above the 99th percentile, and the average score for the sample was in the top 1%). A major factor underlying the ability to acquire complex skills, working memory is substantially heritable."

"There is also no discussion of the landmark Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (...) Now in its forty-fifth year, this longitudinal study has revealed that, even in the top 1%, cognitive ability in childhood is a significant predictor of objective occupational achievements in adulthood, such as earning advanced degrees, publishing scientific articles, and patent awards."

"Based on our own evaluation of the evidence, we argue in a recent Psychological Bulletin article that training is necessary to become an expert, but that genetic factors may play an important role at all levels of expertise, from beginner to elite."
I was confused by some of the comments here before I realized that I was confusing "Android Go" (for low-ram devices) with "Android One" (stock android with guaranteed updates, usually for budget devices). For all the folks asking for a good cheap phone that gets Android updates, look at Android One devices.
It also needs resupply missions for food, air, and crew anyway. Reboost is almost a footnote.
In the Foreign Policy article you are quoting: "Although China’s official 2012 defense budget is $106 billion, ...the Pentagon places China’s total military spending at somewhere between $120 and $180 billion."

So we take the number in the middle ($150 billion) and assume it's always a 50% undercut (extremely inaccurate estimate), this will put China's 2016 budget to 1.92%*1.5=2.88%, still lower than Singapore's.
and if it were me it would be the absolute opposite.
If you're learning a programming language, your decision about which language to learn should not be driven by whether or not the language is preinstalled and you need to go to the trouble of installing one piece of software.

"I decided to become a Prolog programmer because it was the only thing installed on my machine."
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I made no argument.

I presented factual and new information about what data is collected and asked some questions.
Hasn't that always been the case? Powerful people always wanted more power, throughout history. Now nuclear essentially makes it impossible to go to war with powerful countries, so we're stuck with bullies doing whatever they want. If the bullies are smart enough, they won't attack other powerful (i.e. nuclear) countries.
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Yes I convert them to MP3s (well ogg) and sync them to my devices. Other than my bluray player, I don't have a working CD player in my house (my 3 disc changer separate died a few years ago).

In any event, DRM free MP3s are usually within about $1 of the album price, and many of the places that sell MP3s have some option to stream from their cloud storage. I go with the shiny plastic discs because a) I'm a Luddite and b) some genres of music have audible distortions in mp3 (mainly pre-echo!) that I find bothersome when listening with headphones.
How so? It seems your choice was a potentially corrupt (FBI email investigation announcement weeks before election) status-quo candidate or a populist outsider.
Australia has close to 25m
There are few alba I like fully. I also have varying listening habits, like to discover new stuff (great algorithms!), like to just hit play and like the convenience of all the music on all devices - with the state even synced among them very well.
Down side: I don't own the music. But apart from DLNA playback not being easily possible it's not really a pain point.

Maybe one day I'll even switch from the free plan to paying them.
Even disregarding pump vs direct heating and thermostat regulation: Heating from your ceiling is pretty inefficient since hot air tends to ho upwards and straight out the air vents.
Just as an addendum to this, I learned an expensive lesson about temperature changes in computers a few years ago.

I had a fancy Dell XPS gaming laptop and was at a LAN party with my friends, playing the latest and greatest. The computer was very hot to the touch. Well, it was time to pack up and leave, so I put my laptop in my flimsy backpack and took a 20min walk home in the freezing cold.

I get home and lo, the computer, ice cold to the touch, wouldn't boot. Took it to the shop and the tech said that a few of the components were cracked and i'd need to replace them or get a new laptop.

That's when it hit me; of course when you take something very hot and put it in something very cold, it's going to break. Should've waited like 5 minutes instead of rushing out...
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You're probably thinking of the System 7.1 leak. I've seen that -- it's interesting, but woefully incomplete.
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> I was looking at how many contraceptions and items my friends bought for their newborn

“Contraceptions” for a newborn seems a bit...premature.
> Upon choosing a career, you should consider the longevity of that career.

Isn't it lucky we humans are so very good at predicting the future!?

When I was taking computer vision courses little more than a decade ago, self driving cars were pure science fiction. Part of me hopes software development is the next job we automate away, just so everyone in forums like this who are so impressed with their own excellent life choices can see what it's like to be on the other end of this.
> what matters is whether China is following the rules it, and everyone else, agreed to

That's incorrect. China is failing, to an extraordinary degree, to comply with what it said that it would do in being allowed into the WTO. Namely, opening up their economy in terms of full and equal foreign access. At every step, they've refused to go forward with that. As it turns out, most likely, they were lying and buying time. Their goal is clearly to get large enough to not have to ever comply. They've been very obviously following Deng Xiaoping stated policy - 24 character strategy - of hiding their strength and biding their time.

North Korea used the same strategy to acquire its nuclear weapons. Lie, pretend you're going to do a thing, with no intention of doing the thing, buy time, get the nukes, then you no longer have to comply and or you've massively increased your bargaining position.
There were articles related to this on how shopping and branding is shifting:

(1) An article about an Independent Bike Vendor that shifted its business model to an Independent Bike Services. They make their money primarily from servicing bikes, making recommendations. Releasing pressure from having to make their most revenue from selling bikes allows them to make the best recommendation for the biker. Bikers who buy direct from manufacturers will still want an expert to service their bikes.

(2) An article about Nike and some of the major brands shifting to a different business model where in-store shops are no longer distribution channels but rather marketing channels. These shops provide an in-person experience. They are paid by the overall revenue for the brand rather than what gets sold through the store. This aligns the incentive structure to what consumers are now doing: trying them on in a local store and then buying them online.

Where do small business owners fall into this? I don't know. Bikers and commuters tend to have a lot of attachment and affection for their bikes, and are willing to pay for services. Clothing in a department store, perhaps, not so much. Books? Toys?
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To be fair the total annualized return of the S&P 500 over long periods is roughly 10%. You don't have to reliably beat the market to reach those numbers. It's interesting to play around with:

https://dqydj.com/sp-500-return-calculator/
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AIUI airplanes just sitting on the tarmac don't have AC (because they're not running their engines).
Yeah, there is a saying that “Politics is downstream from culture”, the Brazilian culture does not help.

I don't have much hope.
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Nowhere did I mention anything about human rights.

My point is that it's a reasonable stance for people who contribute to the upkeep of a neighborhood in the form of property taxes to have a greater claim to that neighborhood than people who decided that it would be a good place to park their car or camp for the night. Not sure if you live in a neighborhood where people regularly camp out and live out of their cars, but I do and there are tons of problems with it:

1. At a fundamental level, it is unfair. People who own or rent homes in the neighborhood spend lots of money (our property taxes are $600/month) in order to contribute to the the upkeep of the neighborhood. They also generally clean up after themselves and don't steal stuff.

2. People who own or rent are also tied to the neighborhood in a way that people who camp or live in cars are not. If the neighborhood goes to shit, it's easy to pull up camp or start your car and leave; you can be out in a few hours. If you rent, it's at least a few months to find a new place to live. For homeowners, you could be looking at years, plus many thousands of dollars in broker and moving costs.

3. It's not just that homeowners contribute to the well being of the neighborhood, it's that people who camp and live in cars actively do the opposite. After the city of Portland clears the regular camping spots in my neighborhood, a team of cleaners has to come in to dispose of waste. Many people, and thus, much taxpayer expense is involved. This happens every 6-8 weeks. Guess how many times the city has ever had to clean up in a similar way after homeowners... zero.

4. But it's more than just the clean up. Campers bring tons of crime with them. There is a tent at the campsite down the street from me that is actually a bicycle chop shop! And then there's the stolen cars that get stripped and abandoned in our neighborhood on a weekly basis when there is an active campsite. Oh, and there are tons of hypodermic needles all over the ground near the campsites.

So, yeah, I think it's pretty legitimate to not think it's fair for people who follow the rules, work hard, and contribute to society to have to watch their neighborhood get torn apart by people who are A) completely uninvested in the wellbeing of the neighborhood, and B) actively contributing to it's decline.
I got glasses there were focused at approximately the distance my monitor is from my face (~1 arm length), in addition to many of the other things mentioned (chair/desk adjustment, walks, etc)

I'm near sighted and the monitor starts getting blurry at just the right distance. I have glasses for nearsightedness that are focused very far out (the common case). Wearing them for constant work at arms length really tired my eyes out. So, I'd frequently work without my glasses, but hunch forward a little to make seeing things easier.

With glasses dedicated for computer work, I can read everything I need to, my body can stay in the position it should be, and my eyes don't get nearly as tired.

As a side benefit, the glasses help me focus in other areas of my life. I frequently wear them while cooking, and it helps me do one thing at time, as other stuff is blurry.
Thanks for the link, this is awesome!
Yes, some of the sorting is inconvenient. Do they even have info on the release year when a song is playing?

They could also expand the social features.
I don't think it has to be anything more than inertia. They're a massive company that has millions of lines code running in production for a whole chunk of languages. Making a change from python2 to python3 probably seems like more worth than it's worth. It is also a fairly googley problem to think that the way Google does things is automatically superior in all cases. So, since googlers use py2, why shouldn't it be good enough for everyone else?
There are many additional places to enter information.

Immediately below the banner at the top of the page are links to several other pages: "Other Income/Spending"; "Not Retired?", and so on.
If you're struggling with scrolling on a desktop, use the desktop link:

http://bookofhook.blogspot.pt/2013/03/smart-guy-productivity...
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> But since a million people are happy to sell their location data for movie tickets, it is a good startup idea. To say otherwise an excuse to restrict other users' freedom, a pretty bad behavior.

It is a different story if they are upfront with what MoviePass is using it's users' location data for.
Have you worked in Python 2 unicode?? Over half of the work and debugging the search engine service management team I was on was fixing unicode document injesting.

But I agree, making unicode part of the language is very dumb. I just wish they would give up as it has never been good.
You lose optionality when you commit your capital to an illiquid investment. That is, you no longer have the option to spend money on things which may have a higher ROI. Any type of commitment loses optionality.

Update: this is a great podcast episode on using optionality to your advantage (http://investorfieldguide.com/wolfe/)
I watched the original Nick Parlante videos that this material is based off 7 years ago, and recommend it to anybody that thinks they need to learn programming.

First Lecture. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKTZoB2Vjuk

I took a couple C classes in college that were geared for people who already knew how to program and hated it. Never wanted to think about it again.

Those videos helped abstract a lot of the low level muck away and build real stuff. Once I was able to understand some of these concepts and why you would actually use them I could go back and learn all the things that were too deep in the weeds to understand.

Its a bit dated now but still some of the best training videos I've seen.
> The other excuse was that "corruption is small compared to the GDP".

Well, we already know as a fact that at least in Brazil the excuse is wrong. There's a long time that I don't hear it, so I guess people can't even deny anymore.

The new excuse is "but look, the people that inherited the power do it too, and nothing is happening to them". So, back to good old whataboutism.
I remember the Treo from 2004 where my contacts and appointments opened immediately. Now we have these things where you wait a second for it to do a little dance before you can dial the number.

That, and considering the amount of information they're scraping, Google should be paying me to use their awful phones.
> There's some evidence that when women start to out-earn their husbands they divorce at higher rates. Whether biological or social (and probably a bit of both), there is an expectation that men contribute more financially than women do

Alternatively, women who aren't financially dependent on men don't put up with as much in terms of negative situations within marriage. If that's the reason, there's no pressure unless your intent is to keep a wife through material dependence.
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The "truth" is typically not exclusively found on clickbait blogspam. If what you say is factual then the stats should be easy to compute using primary sources; provide that or maybe rethink your views.
> When they disappeared, my feed had less punch-the-button outrage. Fewer mean screenshots of somebody saying precisely the wrong thing. Less repetition of big, big news. Fewer memes I’d already seen a hundred times.

I follow ~500 people, but I'm very selective by only following people who know better than to re/tweet wrong, irrelevant, or obvious stuff. This way, Twitter works great for me as first-hand news, rather than the usual spin cyclone.

(I also use Twitter for Mac, so no promoted tweets, random order, etc).
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I echo this as well. Would be very nice to have Crashlytics for web.
S&P 500 annualised returns over:

5 years - 15.79%

10 years - 8.49%

15 years - 9.92%

20 years - 7.19%

25 years - 9.69%
Looks useful!

I noticed you have quite a few reviews in the Shopify app store - is there any particular strategy you use there? Do you encourage reviews in-app or with email?
Glad to hear it on the app and thanks for sharing the frustrations as well. I'll share them internally.
And the US presidency isn't nearly as powerful as what will certainly become a Chinese autocracy.
They do very little that want previously covered by other, better sources. As a bonus, I don’t have to sift through a mess for that information. Sadly, Ars has mostly become a sort of digest for tech/science. So for me, they’re not worth the time, never mind the money.
For anyone who is interested, here is a nice app for productivity boost - https://www.rescuetime.com/
...or to break those agreements. I imagine the memory of Operation Barbarossa hasn't faded much in Russia. It's hard to imagine them trusting China to move their military into a buffer state without moving further.
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Conversely, almost everything written by unqualified hacks is probably false.
checked HN 25 times, checked email 20 times, watched 2 hours of Youtube videos unrelated to your field

That by itself is not the problem. It is a weight on your productivity, sure, but the real problem is if you watch 2 hours of YT videos and don't come off in a better mental state to do the work you slacked off on. I find that what helps me the most is finding the most "productive" ways to slack off, so you're not just avoiding thinking about work, but are actively recharging. So, pick your slack carefully and it should be less of a problem, maybe even a positive part of your work routine.
I have never encountered an American who thinks this, in person, or online.

I'm sure plenty of Americans that I have not encountered do think this, but they are in a negligible, near-non-existent minority.
I saw you mention you'd write this in your comment on "Is Loneliness a Health Epidemic?" the other day. Thanks for following up with this.

To what extent have you considered or tried peer support groups of people in similar situations to yourself? It sounds like you would benefit especially from meeting people who can empathise with your situation, and may be able to offer advice from personal experience.

Edit: Also out of curiosity, you mentioned you spent time in mainland Europe. Do you speak a foreign language or languages? If so, I'd say that's an ability, possibly a marketable one.
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I always find it interesting how employers pay you for your labor, yet they implicitly also have an option on any significant innovation you produce. In a truly competitive labor market, employers would have to compensate for this option value (ie. employees who are more likely to have breakthroughs, as separate from any incremental project work).
Just in case anyone is reading here first and because this could really hurt the business: The infoteam.ch people have stated above[1] that the provider was not Metanet.

(I do think, however, that it would be important to know.)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16529273
Did you read the article? The details of the bottle lines up with the ship captain's logs. It would have been quite elaborate hoax to correctly reference the logs, find a vintage bottle, paper and printing press and forge the handwriting... not saying it isn't possible but the museum staff seemed skeptical and were convinced by the evidence.
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I've personally never felt the need to mute words or people on Twitter or any other social network. I follow 540 accounts on Twitter right now and disagree with most of the political perspectives espoused therein. Yet I don't mind seeing any of this sort of thing on my social media timelines for a couple reasons.

For one, if I were to mute opinions that I disagreed with, I feel like I would be in effect turning a blind eye to the fact that people have these opinions. I don't see any value in this; people all over the world have all sorts of different opinions, and deluding myself into believing that people who disagree with me effectively don't exist seems... wrong, morally, at least to me. I specifically follow individuals (both public figures and not) whose opinions (political and otherwise) don't align with my own. I _want_ to see thoughts that aren't just identical to the ones already floating around in my head!

Also, I personally believe that associating emotions with words and phrases in the minds of the populace so strongly as to cause one to either react with outrage or reach for a digital mute/hide button, is one of the strongest weapons of social destruction today. This is a means of socially engineering people's reactions to specific ideas, conditioning them on a mass scale to be unable to use logic and reason as their emotions short-circuit any such thinking. Since mid-2016 I have gone to great lengths to refrain from becoming "outraged" by outrage-bait news and social media posts, and I've found that it's increased my personal happiness and outlook on life considerably, especially as the mass and social media ramp up their production of nigh-constant outrage fuel, and everyone seems to want to make _everything_ political.