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The oil and gas companies employ lobbyists as a means to effect policy changes (or inaction), so...well, despite your snippy attempt to clarify I'm still not sure exactly what your point here is? Yes, the oil and gas companies are the bad guys, I doubt anyone (myself or OP included) would disagree; the problem is that the tens of millions of dollars each year they spend lobbying is apparently a very effective weapon (that they probably shouldn't have) to prevent collective climate action.

And yes, the proper global action is to punish climate hogs like the US. And to be clear, once again, relatively speaking China's not a climate hog: it's inane to demand a country of 1.5 billion reduce its total coal usage to less than that of a country less than a quarter of the size before demanding the smaller country to do anything at all, and even more inane to try to punish countries who are aggressively working towards a solution (Europe, China), instead of those actively fighting against one (the US).

From some kind of top-down perspective, where you have total control over all aspects of policy in all countries, then yes, I suppose the focus should be on China. But that's not the way the global economy works; it's a game where no one country will be gladly willing to sacrifice its competitive advantage, and that's why per capita figures matter more than raw numbers.
>A good first step would be to get rid of Diane Feinstein.

Just for this, I am obligated to upvote.
Corals are sensitive.

From above comment:

> Simply touching corals to see what they feel like can cause death of an entire colony. Oils from your skin can disturb the delicate mucous membranes which protect the animals from disease.
What culture are you in? In direct cultures, saying “I don’t see how that makes sense” or even “that’s nonsense” can be appropriate things to say to your manager; in others one should phrase that as “that’s interesting” or “I’ll think about it”. In yet others, saying “yes”, but doing “no” can be appropriate.
Let's take a simple example, linear regression.
You can fit a linear model with w few button clicks in Excel and then look at R² to check if it's high enough and call it a day. Whereas in R you'd be able to easily check a bunch of other metrics to assess your model (ANOVA, plot the residuals, etc). When there's a lot at stake, you want to make the decision yourself and not just rely on the output of a black box.
Not sure how true, but I feel if they're denigrating to other people, it's also a red flag.
You are correct in that they are certainly not amateurs.

Where you err deeply is if you believe their skillset is about running the country.

It's not. It's about getting re-elected and trafficking influence.
Jokes aside, I'm not so sure the Peter principle applies equally to everybody -- I know a some who hold on to positions because they enjoy the position. Granted, in some fields it is essentially impossible to not be promoted as it were.
Does this work the other way around?

People tell me I'm an excellent teacher, but I'd consider myself a mediocre developer...
Please, keep it civil.
The establishment media certainly hates him.
Court-ordered things are legal.
And you have to consider all of the low paying years while they are in residency, getting fellowships, etc.
Because nuclear - with exception of neutron bombs - destroys buildings, resources and materiel as well as people; chemical and biological attacks mostly don't.
For small maps (compressed) radix trees (patricia, judy) are even faster than hash maps, esp. concurrent.
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> Just let students default.

It's not that easy. What's to stop everyone from defaulting?
> I count £20b in failed IT projects over the last decade alone.

It's hard to grasp the sheer scale of government. This article does a good job of juxtaposition in the case of the magnitude of engineering failures, but I want to add on that $20 billion is chump change when it comes to waste. The military sector alone plowed through $700 billion last year to accomplish the task of robo-killing brown people. The entire federal budget was $2 trillion. Stop and think about those numbers for a bit.

There are 2.8 million civil servants in the US, and 2 million military personnel. $2T divided by 4.7 million means every single government official is responsible for roughly $425,000 of your tax dollars. This includes postmen and every boot camp trainee.

Obviously only a fraction of these people are making decisions. So you can add zeroes to that number when you want to consider how much power the actual decision makers have. These decision makers are human, and humans are wont to see themselves as kings of their domain, and what is a king's job but to squander money squabbling over fiefdoms.

The sheer, mind-boggling scale of systems of government, all of them, from your homeowner's association to your neighborhood council to your city government to your state government to the national government to international governmental organizations like NATO and the UN, isn't even the most interesting aspect to consider here.

A more amazing thing to think about is how they manage to get anything done at all. But that's not even the biggest thing.

The biggest thing is that there is nothing new about this state of affairs. Civilization was built like this, thousands of years ago.

It's an admirable goal to want to get rid of waste in government. But that's an untamable firehose. You won't even get laughed at for a proposal to save $20b of tax money. They will look at you, decide whether you're going to look good on TV, maybe put you up in front of a camera if you're really really really really lucky, and everything you spent your whole life learning to finally try to do will get swept into a political capital generating exercise for a local politician. Thanks, try again next life.

Governmental cruelty knows no bounds.
In this case it was not a court order, as explained in the article.
The title is a play on the old saying "Those who can't do, teach".

Whether this is actually the case or not is debatable.
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The message is, anyone who advocates for different ideas or pushes for an alternative is blocked and censored. What free speech.
The reason advice from successful entrepreneurs is generally considered worthless is because for every successful person there are thousands or millions of unsuccessful people who did exactly the same thing, worked just as hard and weren't successful. There is probably an equation here where; the number of simultaneous unsuccessful identical attempts is proportional to the magnitude of the success multiplied by the fame or notoriety of the successful.

There is no magic recipe for success, and anyone trying to sell such a thing is trying to sell snake-oil, or trying to feel special. This depends of course on how you define success, as it applies to the above pseudo equation.
At any tachigui (standing-only) soba shop in Tokyo, you can get a bowl of noodles made to order and customized to your liking from around 200 yen ($2) and delivered in approx 30 seconds:

https://digjapan.travel/en/blog/id=11660

There are many opportunities for disruption in Japan; this does not seem like the easiest or most profitable one.
Being a good dev requires long term commitments and delivering.

Teaching is a serie of small sessions, each connected but still, they have their own close little finish line.

So if you are a procrastinator or have a hard time finishing, you may be a good teacher and yet a mediocre dev
With the important caveat that you must first be unsure whether to do each of those things.
Insofar as there are litmus test type questions for people, I try to avoid them. But one that always stuck with me is: look at how they treat servers, waiters, cleaners, etc; and; look at how they treat their closest family members. It will tell you something about how they feel about other people in general, and about how well they develop long-term relationships.

Granted, even this information gets tainted: narcissist parents, for example, might come across as their parents being nice, but them not being nice to their parents.
Execution is an HN startup meme. Correctly: most businesses execute very unluckily. You're hopelessly down the rabbit hole if you think skill has the most to do with it, it's total nonsense. VCs don't invest in skill, they invest in crapshoots. Skill is a prerequisite, luck is what makes people rich. Don't pretend otherwise or you'll make it more painful when you fail (99% of the time).
How to keep weight loss a significant and lasting lifestyle?
Hell yes, or no
Good question. EG Why doesn’t everyone default on a loan? This is asking “how do loans work”.

Typically, a loan with interest is a gamble. You want to get your money back with a return. If you loan money you want to ensure you will get your money back by qualifying the applicant. There is a risk though because they might not pay it back, thus you increase the interest rate according to how qualified the loan is. Good investors really focus on getting a qualified applicant (one that can pay it back). Sometimes they don't get their money back and they are forced to write it off - it is apart of the loan business.

Basically, I am not trying to be insulting but I will end up explaining how a loan works - so I will stop there.

With college loans ALL basic loan concepts are wrong. You cannot default on a college loan by law. It follows you through marriage, bankruptcy, or even service in Afghanistan. The people which made these poor loans know they made poor loans backed by the US government. Thus, they have lobbyists pushing congress to ensure student loans are 'unforgivable'. SO! Investing in a student loan is a damn good deal. You have 0 chance of someone defaulting because it is illegal to default. The loan has zero risk. This is why tuition has exploded and why we have a crisis.

So, if you want to major in 18th century French Dance at Yale for 190k - there isn't an investor willing to stop you.
Severance applies when the company lays you off. If you're fired for cause (say, not showing up), you're rarely entitled to anything.
I'm pretty sure there are still many species in the reefs that we haven't discovered yet.
> My renowned astrophysics professor taught us how the universe seemed to be expanding, but never bothered to explain what it was expanding into (still waiting for someone to demystify that one).

Wow... and this person went to Harvard??
I'm fairly well attuned to the sensibilities of Pythonistas and between this and the recent stepping down of the BDFL, it would definitely invite a fork, fuelled in no small part by the vacuum that exists in spearheading the Python project.
Sure, if they are compensated for their extra work in some way. Otherwise it is just free work, one could even say it is unprofessional.

Forcing someone to work overtime against their will is still a big no-no even in most hostile work environments.
I don't the the implication is that it applies to everyone. I think the general idea is that in a large enough organization, there's going to be a relevant amount of people whom it does apply to.
Sure, there are high volume, low cost, single dish restaurants out there. Obviously that's not our focus, even though if they can do it at $2 we can do it cheaper and closer to the consumer, in their language, with full support for personalization, 24x7x365. Traditional food retail suffers from the following limitations: relatively high startup cost (real estate location, rental, renovation, fit-out, licensing), relatively high recurring overheads (staff, management, inventory management) and internal processes unsuitable for specific requirements (religious, medical, lifestyle or other specialist diets, plus other forms of personalization), typically limited hours due to reliance on staff, limited languages of service staff, food safety issues due to human preparation. In short we have enough USPs in enough areas that we don't have to compete on cost - the industry is vast - and if a single location fails to grow adequately we can literally move it within an hour or two.
If any given thing is "too expensive", then an important fact is being conveyed: that thing takes too many resources to produce, relative to the value it is providing.

Trying to hide or subsidize the price only prevents people from acting on that fact. (and thereby acquiring that value in a more efficient manner, etc.)
If it is indeed true, then Feynman is probably the biggest exception to it.
I consider it foolhardy. Can you imagine our most important foreign and domestic policy being set by people who center their lives both moral and emotional around 'Keeping up with the Kardashians'? Or getting a bunch of antivaxxers in there?

There are plenty of decent Americans but we also have too many that are juvenile, superficial, ignorant and aggressively incurious.
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How is this surprising to be honest?

Sapiens is about known history and analysis of the human struggle so far.

Homo Deus moves onward into unseen territory. Talking about the future always implies speculation. Even if it is just 1 minute ahead.

And people who enjoyed Sapiens should definitely give Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" a try.
The secretary problem is quite a good read for what you bring up.
Florence Nightangle, maybe? Her data viz is really impressive, like her 'coxcomb' diagram on mortality in the army.:

https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2010/aug/13/floren...

> She was also a pioneer in the graphical presentation of data. At a time when research reports were only beginning to include tables, Nightingale was using bar and pie charts, which were colour coded to highlight key points (eg, high mortality rates under certain conditions). Nightingale was keen not only to get the science right but also to make it comprehensible to lay people, especially the politicians and senior civil servants who made and administered the laws.

https://ebn.bmj.com/content/4/3/68.full
Teaching like any learned skill requires significant commitment and practice. Those who "do" like Einstein aren't prepared to carve out 1000s of hours from their scientific research, where their passion lies, to learn and practice how to teach well. I'm quite sure that if Einstein loved teaching as much as research he would learn to be an outstanding teacher.
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Make of the numbers as you will.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2016/1/13/10763268/lottery-po...
It's not just you. I'm reminded of antisemitism in the conspiratorial way the descriptor is being used and how the Reality Distortion Field extends that that White Males/Jews are the cause of every problem.

The fact is that many media people are racists and these people and their fellow travelers don't like it being pointed out that they are being hypocrites. Some of them think being white males themselves is an exemption from criticism - except there are so many historical examples of self hating peoples who supported the people attacking them that it would make your head spin. I remember Scott Alexander, usually a level headed person as you could hope to find - unsettled by what he was reading about the Jewish refugees who ended up in England during WWII - many of whom were praising Adolf with full awareness of what was happening. There's not much to stop self hate going from signalling to malignant.

If you look around you won't notice many people speaking out against it, that's because it's mainstreamed, it is the we've always been at war with Eurasia. These people are very confident and very stupid.

The moderation mechanism on websites such as this feeds back into this echo chamber too, because I'm aware that every thing I say will be under exacting scrutiny but I'll regularly see violations of the rules I'd never get away with. Rule violations have to be extraordinary to reach a moderators's inbox if they are in the general spirit of the group believes.
Create a Tor v3 hidden service as a backup then.
It's currently working fine on my Virgin residential line and my Virgin mobile phone.

I guess the hotel opted-in (or never opted-out, which I had to) the government-mandated "pornwall" that all UK ISPs are supposed to "voluntarily" implement.
I also felt this way. There is a large amount of "one weird tip" self-promotional blogspam in the startup space.

Self-promotion isn't bad on it's own, we all have motivations at some level. But too often pulling back the curtain on the "how I bootstrapped into $30k MRR while living on a beach" stories reveals something far different than the simple tips prescribed.

For something at a larger scale, I recommend critiques of Jim Collins' "Good to Great".
Only seemingly unrelated:

https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/04/28/shorter-letter/

Blaise Pascal (and more people after him):

"I have made this longer than usual because I have not had time to make it shorter."
Why do you think that is?

I've always wondered why there's such a small list of decent IDEs for C anything.

I usually just stick to vim and a handful of plugins.
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> Most successful companies have to execute perfectly AND have an some of those extrinsic factors, such as family money, personal connections, good timing, or dumb luck.

Humans are imperfect so I'm generally wary of characterizations that talk about perfection, especially when used to explain historical phenomena like success.

One metaphor that I think is far more useful is to think of businesses as having a mistake budget. Only after you have exhausted your allowance of poor decision-making do you enter a life-threatening situation where your next business decision could spell the end, or a second-chance at seeing any kind of success.

Successful businesses are merely more judicious at spending out of their mistake budget, by course-correcting after critical mistakes, compared to their not-so-successful counterparts; rather than saying that successful companies executed perfectly, which is something that is impossible to do in practice.
That is not very much money. That's a modest new car or a down payment on a small home in a cheap zip code.

Sure, as long as people are making a livable, sustainable wage. I know quite a few people who did not manage to rise significantly above minimum wage work coming out of college, it would be interesting to see how that lines up with the amount of debt they came out with.

I think that's a reasonable price for something as unique and transformative as a college experience.

This points to what may be part of a more fundamental issue with the whole higher-education/college arrangement in the USA.

I think that most people are going to be having unique and transformative experiences that help them define who they are and how they see themselves in the world in their late teens through mid-twenties regardless of whether they're in college or not. I doubt that being at college contributes nothing to the experience of coming out of adolescence and into the world at large, but is it adding 5 digits of value? For a lot of folk who viewed college as a necessary stepping stone into adulthood I don't think it has been, regardless of the amount of debt they took on.

In some way, to me, talking about how it's both reasonable for people to take on dozens of thousands of dollars of debt, and how it's really not much of a problem for those with fewer dozens feels off. Especially when a large portion of these people feel like it's compulsory, won't see any benefit for years, and probably don't have much experience assessing investment risks. I certainly didn't have the life experience to evaluate a 20,000 dollar investment with a waiting period of multiple years before seeing any returns when I was 19.

Colleges (and debtors) get to point at people who don't default and attribute their well-being to having attended college, and blame the individual when their situation doesn't work out quite so well, or when it doesn't work out at all.

If the purpose of the institution, and hence the debt, is to create good functioning society members while educating them towards a field, maybe someone other than the student should share some responsibility for delivering good functioning society members. I wouldn't pay someone to build me a house they knew I'd love in 4 years time unless I was pretty confident they'd be able to deliver. If I told someone out of high school that if they didn't get someone like me to build them a future house they'd be homeless, I'd be exploiting naive youth. I'm offered warranties for lots of products, it'd be great if they were offered for college degrees.

If the purpose is to provide an arena for early adulthood fine, be that. Maybe we need it. I'd still argue that early adulthood is going to be it's own arena for everyone regardless of the institutions or customs in place.
So people who do everything right and delayed purchasing a house/etc to pay student loans just get screwed? If I can make my loan payments, they can too.

Student loan forgiveness is a solution that only helps a narrow slice of those affected by the student loan problem. It's not something that just affects those making payments, it affects literally everyone who ever had a loan.

Jubilees are only going to decrease repayment rates (why would I pay if it's going to be forgiven next year) and drive up costs further (the government is paying, so why not renovate the athletic center?).

The first step needs to be getting college costs under control, I'm not sure there needs to be another step. If you took out $100k in loans to pursue a degree in the arts, well, that's your problem.
I think the 0.5% of technical users willing to browse with Tor will also be able to use a VPN.
The notion that there's a "do <-> teach" continuum is just silly. OK, Einstein was great at "do" and lousy at "teach". How about Feynmann?
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Contra Betteridge's law of headlines.
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You could store it in a big hole in the ground, but then you'd have to elevate it to get it out. And it would be much more difficult to keep it dry. It would turn into beer before you could use it.
Lead bigger teams, or learn how to write and share what sounds like an impressive knowledge base with the world.
Oh come on. What is this? Kindergarten?
I want to know the answer too.

I always thought the universe is expanding to a larger universe. I never thought that it could be expanding to something else.
Really interesting article!

The Peter principle states that "every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence". The article cites an example from Sales teams. That it's the highest performing sales people that are promoted to sales team managers, and they don't perform well as managers (team performance drops).

They then talk about solutions, such are promoting people at random.

But it seems like at least part of the problem in endemic in our view of organisations. People often want management positions because they are paid more, are more secure, or have more power. Maybe if we shifted our view of management as "just being a different skill set" and not always being higher paid then we'd find people without the required skills wouldn't try and obtain those positions and would focus on what they are good at.
What’s the answer? Curious.
I doubt a renowned professor would use expanding instead of inflating. likely the student got stuck on the balloon metaphor.
Maybe it should be thought of more as a force, proportional to the organization size. But then I guess the comedy of it kinda dies out.
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> The problem would be solved in a week.

Solved in what way though? The end solution state might be one where loans are less available, further entrenching generational income inequality.