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That's absolutely not what I was taught it meant, or learned, or came to discover.

It literally looks like anyone can change knowledge, override it, mutate it, destroy it, falsify it.

I don't know why most people get PhDs these days, you are correct. But I know what it used to mean, and I hope it means that one day again, soon.

In the real world you have to jump through hoops no matter what you do. Ignorance to them is stupid.

We live in society, that doesn't make everyone a sociologist. It just means everyone who lives in society should at least devote some portion of their thinking to the contemplation of society, including institutions of education. People in academia are not omnipotently protected from the forces of society. If society doesn't value these institutions, they go away.

The Ph in PhD is important. It really is, and it's idiotic to let that distinction be viewed as something that's just, obsessed with a pedantic, tiny niche of no real consequence.

I've considered myself an autodidact for much of my life. I've also had a great education (MSc, only worked on PhD for one year and left school due to health complications). Comparing these two worlds is hard, but teaching yourself when you can be taught by others is the hard, long, and painful way to learn stuff. And you never know what you know when you only have your own knowledge to trust, checking against everything else, with no real stable, structured, foundational, 'stand on the shoulders of giants' mechanic for the discovery, pursuit, and application of truth / knowledge.

You can have some idea that the individual mind independently can be related to the entire body of academia like it's some metaphor for their functioning as an organizational entity, a super colony of minds that function like one - tested against the rest of the world - but that's oversimplified. Our own puzzled face, staring back at us. We are all part of one big system, but some stuff, distinction really does matter. I don't talk to many people who have PhDs that I know of in real life, just one. He's the only person who seems to really understand the absolute delicate fragility of, and the consequential burden - that comes with the discovery, creation, pursuit, and retention of knowledge, at least that I know of, in real life.

How does that relate to having an extra understanding of sociology, or philosophy? I honestly think my point is built into the experience I am relating, or at least I have to hope I can still convey that much, correctly.

Philosophy should be important to society, and it's a shame when it's not.
I might have done some electronics in high school, but what is chip made for?

Is it a hybrid CPU/GPU chip?
I’d like to see the deposit required be calculated based in part on the length of the warranty. The longer the warranty, the smaller the recycling deposit.

If you want to sell a refrigerator with a 1 year warranty then it’s going to carry a $200 recycling deposit. Once you get to a 15 year, all parts (not just compressor), transferable warranty, the deposit can go to $0.

The sheer amount of cheap shit that’s built to simply self destruct in a year or two when it could — for 25% more cost — last 10x as long, that’s what drives me crazy.

It works out to be a regressive tax but appliances should last a lifetime not a couple years before breaking in a way where it’s cheaper to replace than repair. But since the durability is hidden information from the buyer, the market races to the bottom as long as durability is correlated with cost.
I wonder what the long term geopolitical consequences will be when we all stop looking at projected maps. That small peninsula to the west of Asia just got a little smaller. A certain island kingdom is now more clearly the size of Uganda. Maybe Google can also flip the globe "upside-down" for all users "below" the equator.
on my work computer, which is tunneled through san francisco, so i show as in USA, i can see the 3D map.

checking maps on mobile which is on Canadian ISP, in chrome and the google maps android app, i can only see the "flat" map.
Yes, if you can keep things simple. If you've fixed a ux bug and your binary depends on a certain new version of an image/icon etc - it may or may not be that easy.
I don't buy it. This is a financial company. They don't compete with their own funds for the opportunity to up-sell their customers.
Most biologists are either in academic or government employed and do not need to even think about money/making a profit.

People working in CS are mostly in industry and do not have 10+ year timeframes to leisurely discuss ideas.

And what CS inventions are as impactful as atomic bombs (as someone mentioned above?) I cannot think of any CS inventions that warrant such extended ethical discussion.

The only exception would be computer scientists working on weapons in the defense industry. They should absolutely be held back by ethical concerns like this.
Last time I was at a modern art museum I was leaning against something that was pushed up against the wall. Turns out it was one of the exhibits. The security guard saw me, smiled, shook his head and walked over. It happened daily, he said.

Another place had literal garbage as part of the exhibits in a room. Refuse scattered around small partial scenes of rooms, with no physical divider between you and it, and really no set path through some of it.
Germany: 45 second Walk down the stairs for separate Paper, Glass, plastic/foil and bio waste bins - Even in rural areas sometimes to this extend.
It seems to be back now.
Presumably, this is a case of "listen to your body." People's metabolisms work differently and what works for one person may not necessarily work for everyone.
I like raw potatoes too but I have noticed that eating too much is hard on the stomach. Eating a few pieces is fine though.
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I like how economists are always touting the economic benefits of immigration. "Sure, government is not coping with the influx of migrants by providing necessary infrastructure, but at least GDP is up 2.5%."
It reminds me of the ads you'd find in the back of a tabloid
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Maybe congress could pass a bill to allow small companies/individuals to use the NSA data store. Sort of like how SBA grants work.
It's almost like capitalism is extraordinarily inefficient at using resources due to perverse incentives caused by only taking local rewards and consequences into account instead of the entire closed planet system, and will simply run to the most lenient local conditions to inefficiently exploit those resources cheaply for profit rather than taking on the expense of becoming more efficient. Imagine that.
Just checked and m.facebook.com seems to be working for me.
I look forward to seeing something on Facebook's Twitter account (https://twitter.com/facebook).
For an organization that's supposed to be representative of such a scientific industry, it's amazing how bad/irresponsible the IEEE is with these statistics. There is so much error in attempting to measure the popularity of a language that they should know better than to declare some sort of ranking when the numbers are so close to each other. And not only do they rank them, but they spend several paragraphs trying to analyze why tiny percentage changes matter.
Question is, will it destroy my battery like satellite view does?
Generally I agree with your sentiments as stated, but it's becoming increasingly clear that any amount of alcohol consumption is carcinogenic due to the acetaldehyde it produces.

Basically drinking is joining smoking, and I don't think it's particularly smart to occasionally smoke a cigarette.

After reading this [1] I hugely cut down on my alcohol consumption. I'd prefer to never drink, but my current social circle doesn't seem to operate as a group without involving alcohol.

"I quickly discovered that way back in 1988, the World Health Organization declared alcohol a Group 1 carcinogen, meaning that it’s been proved to cause cancer. There is no known safe dosage in humans, according to the WHO. Alcohol causes at least seven types of cancer, but it kills more women from breast cancer than from any other. The International Agency for Research on Cancer estimates that for every drink consumed daily, the risk of breast cancer goes up 7 percent." - [1]

[1] https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/04/did-drinking-gi...
Actually no, McMurdo remains a white sport still :(
Okay...in this particular instance you can find and you can opt out of certain things but not a lot though. Something that rarely gets mentioned in the discourse is that Facebook is offering a product to 1billion+ people for free. At somepoint you have to think that there is a cost someone where. Very few people work for free...I fail to see how they don't realise that companies produces products at a cost and they must make the money somehow. In the case of Facebook it is from data. As an aside I wonder if people knew what goes on restaurant kitchens, processed supermarket foods, they'd still buy it. My guess is yes...:-)
Yes according to their faq they use PTFE and not PFOA, but not sure since when.

> Tefal/T-fal non-stick coating is a technical coating made from a polymer name polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE). It is PTFE which gives the cookware the non-stick properties. Public health authorities in Europe and in the USA demonstrated that PTFE is an inert substance which does not chemically react with food, water or domestic cleaning products. It is totally harmless in case of ingestion. These Public health authorities confirmed the harmlessness of PTFE non-stick coatings in cookware. In fact, PTFE is so safe that it is frequently used in the medical profession to coat pacemakers and the tiny tubes made to replace arteries. It is also used for surgical procedures for the benefit of patients with severe kidney disease, and some joint prostheses are also partly coated with PTFE.

> PFOA is the standard English abbreviation of perfluorooctanoic acid. PFOA is used in the manufacturing process of many products such as non-stick coatings, compatible microwave packaging, some textiles, stain resistant carpet, pizza boxes which do not absorb fat, etc. On its finished products, Tefal/T-fal's commitment is to guarantee the absence of PFOA, lead and cadmium and to guarantee that its products with Tefal/T-fal non-stick coating are harmless for the environment and the consumer.
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Thanks. I missed that note.
Only because they assume it's impossible.
Going to use a throwaway here as I'm afraid of professional repercussions, despite being from the "land of the free."

Reading the comments here are just so funny. Why is it whenever a Chinese person does something, or rather an "Asian person," it must be attributed to their culture?

Do Chinese people not have personal traits? Could this guy just not be greedy?

There are 1.4 billion Chinese people. The ones that come to the US are over achievers. It should not be surprising in a group of over achievers to have a high percentage of greedy and opportunistic people.

Recently Ron Rockwell Hansen was arrested for spying for China. I wonder what type of cultural norms caused him to do so?
I feel like that makes it readable. Even people who don't know PS very well can read cmdlets and pretty much know what's going on if you use the full verbose cmdlets.
That said.. seems reasonable to just avoid non-stick pans? Added health risk for low benefit.
I've emailed Michael a couple of times with specific questions about our company. I know how busy he is, and we are not YC alumnus (yet) but still, somehow he always replied within 48 hs.

Thank you so much Michael and all of those who truly want to help entrepreneurs.
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My wife read a book called Coyote America [1] a while back that was really interesting from what she told me of it. One thing that I thought was really interesting is that coyotes responded to population control / elimination efforts by just having a ton more babies, which sort of made the effort completely backfire.

I guess not all that related, but reading your post triggered the memory, so I thought I'd make a comment.

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26195972-coyote-america?...
That's not what I'm thinking of really - I should have been clearer - I was thinking more of something like the Mars Curiosity rover - autonomous drones, not necessarily aerial, probably solar powered, able to roam around on their own for months/years at a time looking for interesting stuff.
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> I immediately stripped and sanded my modern Lodge cast iron.

> I assume my cast iron is also putting less cancer in my body.

what were your abrasives bonded together with, and how much of it ended up stuck in the surface of the cast iron?
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The people of the world experienced a brief glimpse of the freedom they've sold off only for the empty joy of knowing their neighbors are on vacation with their perfect children.
Looks like microwave popcorn bags still contained high levels of PFOA as of 2006, though I wasn't able to find a more recent reliable source. "Consumption of just 10 bags of microwave popcorn a year could contribute about 20%
of the average blood PFOA levels, say the scientists interviewed anonymously for this article." PDF: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/es062599u
Instagram wasn't working at all 2 days ago. Anyone else?
How is natural philosophy different from moral philosophy?

I'm sure that comes across as a dumb question, but, modernity - technology.

The irony of mathematics being naturally built in, reinforced into all of us, over and over. Computer science.

From wikipedia:

> From the ancient world, starting with Aristotle, to the 19th century, the term "natural philosophy" was the common term used to describe the practice of studying nature. It was in the 19th century that the concept of "science" received its modern shape with new titles emerging such as "biology" and "biologist", "physics" and "physicist" among other technical fields and titles; institutions and communities were founded, and unprecedented applications to and interactions with other aspects of society and culture occurred.[1] Isaac Newton's book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), whose title translates to "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy", reflects the then-current use of the words "natural philosophy", akin to "systematic study of nature". Even in the 19th century, a treatise by Lord Kelvin and Peter Guthrie Tait, which helped define much of modern physics, was titled Treatise on Natural Philosophy (1867).

> "systematic study of nature"

And what do we do? What is nature to study? What is life to study?

Our own puzzled face, staring back at us.
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This is, at its heart, a question of ethics in engineering disciplines.

Software engineering is a combination of applied mathematics, data science, and significant engineering practices (do X with Y constraints).

In Engineering proper, we have ethics classes. They entail in how things can fail and cause item, structural, and/or injury up to death.

We have all read about the Therac-25. That was a software and hardware design choice that lead to the death of many.

Computer science seems to skirt the ethics discussions just by being too new of a field. We (royal) aren't looking at the failure modes of having social media. Nor are we considering the ramifications of the code we write.

Intelligence is the ability to write the code. Wisdom is the ability to understand its ramifications.
"fractal" doesn't occur on this page
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This is merely an example of many of living in a poorly regulated market where profits are constantly put ahead of people's lives and profits. If el chapo or Pablo Escobar sold nonstick pans or the chemicals to make them you think they would have continued this study and ruined their profits? No? Then why get mad at 3M? This is the system we as Americans have agreed to put in place. Most people would do the same thing in their position. Profit and ignore the negative consequences while lobbying to keep regulators away. After all, it's not their lives being put at risk...
For humanity in general? Sure. For those specific people? I don't think we know.
I like Cython, but I'm always surprised at how willing programmers seem to be to use the cython syntax. In so many cases I look at the optimized program and think to myself, "I would understand that better if was just written in C."
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There is something weird going on near the poles still, so I'd not be surprised if its technically expensive to make an "upside down" map.

Upside down and mirrored should be simple though.
As someone who bas taken a bunch of LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, and DMT, as well as listened to a bunch of Terrence McKenna...the stoned ape theory is total horse shit. It’s a slap in the face to evolutionary biology and just a completely nonsensical “theory”
It's really not too bad. To buy a 4WD all-terrain kit from somewhere like SuperDroid Robots costs around $1500-2000 without any kind of automated control system. That will get you four motors with encoders, batteries chassis, wheels, a good (Roboteq) motor controller and an RC kit.

The one we had at work could easily drive with a large adult (i.e. 80+ kg) sitting on it.

I mention SuperDroid because their chassis are high quality welded aluminium, chain driven wheels etc. They sell to hobbyists (robot wars) and industrial markets including law enforcement.

Most of the markup is on the frame. If you have acess to a welder and something to cut aluminium you could do it a lot more cheaply. And yes, high quality motors with encoders cost $150 each. As always, you can go cheap as a hobbyist and pay with your time.

If you want something semi autonomous you can buy a Clearpath Husky for about $20k.
Regulations are generally bad because they can be gamed. They produce a huge population of rent seeking parasites who work for the government to make regulation complex so only they can understand it, then move to private sector to help the business game the broken system they themselves created.

All you need to keep businesses honest is to let individuals/localities/states sue the hell out of the businesses if they are harmed by the business.

The only place regulations make sense is where harm is at a very large (country/planet) scale, where there is no coming back from, such as climate change.
This advice is akin to saying you can improve your car's fuel economy by turning off the air conditioning - technically true, but with an effect size so tiny as to make it pointless. On average, a human would need several trees to produce enough oxygen to sustain them indefinitely. That probably works out to hundreds of house plants.
I don't know but 100x worse than something safe doesn't mean it is unsafe.

It is like saying that fruit juice is 100x more dangerous than clean water. It may be true by some metric but it is completely meaningless.
There would be that nasty early withdraw penalty on that (probably). Not sure if it would be worth it in the long run. (IANA investor)
Yes.

We should let the body tell us what, and how to, eat. My body is allergic to a variety of food groups, so I'm eating only meat. Normally I eat two meals a day; but at times, depending on what my body wants, I may eat just one or three meals during the day.
Our cast iron frying pan never gets put away. There's no point, you'll just be hauling it out again next time you cook.
Heh, if knew what was going on I would be building some Tony Stark level gadgets already :-), but what I have been observing are the number of papers being produced around new observations or interpretations of the interaction between the electromagnetic forces and quantum effects.

I have also observed over the years that, like debugging complex problems, once experimental physicists can repeat an effect that is not well understood, the underlying physics is more likely to be revealed.

I wrote Dr. Shekhter and he said an updated paper would be available on Arxiv shortly.(arxiv:1705.05806) so I'm looking for that.

"High" temperature superconductors have been interesting for a while. My thought is that if there is a way to understand this current conductivity using quantum electrodynamics it could open a way to understanding how to create super conductors that operate at room temperature.
Plus they have CAD models of nearly all their products. It's saved me hundreds of hours over the years.
> The mistake he made was that he only alerted authorities. Which lead to atom bombs being developed in secret without any feedback from the public as to whether this was a direction that they supported.

The risk there is that if you dithered the enemy could get it first.

If Pandora's box exists, there is only so much you can do to stop someone from opening it.
I would be more interested in a map that shows difficulty of access in general, like a mix of distance to a high road or fast road, if that doesn't already exist. It sounds more relevant because you don't need a starting point.
We've already made huge strides in this. Here's [0] a gallery of shots of LA smog in the middle part of the last century. It's full of pictures of people crying because the air pollution is stinging their eyes. It's nearly unthinkable today, aside from the random winter day in Salt Lake where an inversion traps everything. But it was a daily occurrence back then!

[0] http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-air-pollution-0428-pictur...
They just buy off the regulators.
Not to mention that there are often different bins for different color glass (have seen them in public areas, not sure if this happens for residential as well). And iirc you may get yelled at for doing it wrong
The lowest fee broad index fund has always been the ideal investment for your long term savings.

A Random Walk Down Wall Street was published in 1973 and studied decades of data and funds. Jack Bogle started Vanguard in 1974. And 8 years ago, most every newspaper published a cycle of how the S&P 500 almost always beats active investing, especially after fees.

So, a small%, only if you like paying active funds money to not make you money.

tldr; Unless you're retiring in the next 10 years; the lowest fee broad index is your best investment with something resembling "diversity" and risk resembling slight "diversity"
Sometimes it helps to observe your parents' eating habits. At some point I realized I had very similar eating habits to my dad, and started skipping breakfast as he had been doing for years. Now I do that every day (for years) and feel great.
Okay...but presumably people can just opt out of their products. They make an amazing amount of margin on the devices. A lot people know that and are more than happy to buy their products :-)
The visualization is really cool but for daily use seems more practical being able to plot long trip routes without them disappearing on the back of the globe than being able to assess the true size of landmasses: https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Madrid/Sydney,+New+South+Wal...