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The style is very formulaic in my opinion. Find something outrageous someone said or did or contradicting themself, then say "that would be like if..." And make an extreme analogy usually with crude or sexual humor.

Personally, it's tiring and the information density is too low. And sometimes the logic of the analogy doesn't work, and they pretend the analogy proves something even though analogies never do, they can only be used to illustrate.

Oliver, Bee, all thr political comedy shows do the same thing. I can't figure out if I think Jon Stewart's show was better or if I was just younger and not tired of that style yet.
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All of the strategies he outlines are so good that it’d be hard to summarize in a HN comment, but I think it comes down to having an effective dialogue. You need to understand your counterpart and what it is that really motivates them, and you need to create trust between yourself and them. The guy used to be an FBI hostage negotiator, so he’d typically be aiming to get everything in exchange for nothing. I can’t do it justice really, but it’s a book I’d recommend to anybody.
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It's definitely an out there design. In fact, I found it hard to fix (read: it's SVG) the font even from a desktop browser. And the audio attached at the top is a little too cringe for me. Images seem to be the only thing looking great on this page.
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My worst financial decision was to choose to be an academic as my “first” career. The pay wasn’t terrible in my case, but it wasn’t anywhere near my potential.

The other side of that coin, however, is that it was probably one of my best life decisions — I am a much better and happier person because of it.

Answering a slightly different question: I can definitely say that I know several people for whom getting married and later divorced was extremely expensive for them on many levels. I imagine that some folks will be reluctant to state that for themselves in a public forum, but it definitely happens. It can be a very tricky topic in terms of what constitutes a reasonable division of assets.
Jargon File entries are not really high quality definitions and some of them are simply wrong or deprecated since at least 20 years.

I.e. 'cracker' is used for people that 'crack' software protections (games or applications). I've never heard about "warez d00dz", and none of my friends from the "warez scene" did. Also the Jargon files describe crackers in a very pejorative meaning, while in reality the cracker's social circle contain lots of very skilled individuals, as well as is pretty well filtered-out from anyone that doesn't dedicate themselves to the cracker community. Maybe this is the reason why Eric Raymond didn't have much info about this topic.

So I wouldn't put much faith in Jargon file entries in the same way I wouldn't trust any other urban dictionary. Maybe it's good to get a general grasp at some subject but taking definitions from it is pretty misleading.
Correct me if I am wrong but with the switch off (i.e. in position for driving) the lubrication does not occur same as if the modification had not been added. So wouldn't it still be an improvement as functionality is just as good as before and 50% of the failure modes are eliminated? Obviously you want to find a solution for that other 50% but at least you've made an improvement without any regressions.
The article doesn't really mention that most of these expansions will be ready 20-40 years into the future (if not delayed).

If you buy a house in an LA suburb hoping that you will soon get subway nearby, you might get it once the mortgage is paid out and the kids have left for college.

What will the technology be like in 20-40 years? Everybody surely have cheap electric scooters and bikes or other electric devices and airbag helmets. Few, if any, combustion engine cars are left on the streets. Truly self driving cars are likely too. Drones that fly you across town? Boring tunnels in multiple levels? Shuttles to Mars?

I am not saying the subways shouldn't be built or that planning decades ahead is bad. I love subways. But in the area of transportation we will see huge changes in the coming decades.
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> His whole approach designed to cut through bullshit and seek the truth.

The ad hominem attacks (particularly the "losers in Birkenstocks" remark) in this essay are the exact opposite of that.
> You need all three.

Actually, you don't. It may help to be gifted on all three, but work ethics makes up for any deficit in intellectual potential. For example, MENSA membership does not correlate with intellectual elites in any research field, but you'd be hard pressed to find a leading researcher who doesn't have a strong work ethic.
IQ is one of those topics which is, unfortunately, inescapably political. If important psychometric traits, like intelligence and personality, are highly heritable, then one of the implicit assumptions of left-leaning points of view is undermined: that everyone is inherently equal, that anyone can achieve anything given the right education, environment and resources.

Add to this the fact that we know that other heritable traits may be ethnically distributed, and we have a particularly difficult thesis.

The solution to this for some, is that IQ cannot be allowed to be meaningful, as the idea is simply too dangerous. The article above and much of this discussion are the result.

Simply put, this is a battle of ideology masquerading as a debate over a matter of fact. This is not the kind of discourse you would get if people were discussing the precise atomic weight of hydrogen.
National population density in the US is misleading. Population density drops off sharply between the Rockies and somewhere around Iowa. East Coast states that we think of as mostly rural, like Virginia and Pennsylvania, have population densities that are squarely within the European range: 110 people/sq km in Pennyslvania vs. 106 in Hungary; 81 in Virginia vs. 82 in Romania. On the other hand, Utah (14) is less dense than Saudi Arabia (16) - both places are mostly desert.

Arkansas has a population density of 22 people/sq km, close to Sweden - but Arkansas is probably much less urbanized.
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No I pulled that one out of my ass but surprisingly wasn’t that far off.
Tell me, you really think alacombe wants these things? 90% of the population would agree with you. That those things are to be avoided. Myself included.

Unfortunately you've been brainwashed into thinking the government is the only entity equipped to fix these problems. When in fact they're the ones ensuring the problems continue. And idiots like you continue to support these false choices given to you by the government. And you probably continue to pay for it with ridiculous taxes. Thinking 'yea, they'll fix it'.

Get over yourself. And your virtue signals. Realize 90% of the population wants the same things as you.
Probably. However you have to consider fields that are outside of the scope of commercial companies. Nuclear energy (both fission and fusion) is a good example. If you are referring to NPL than it is definitely true.
Exactly this. It just works on the symptoms and children tolerate fevers fine as long as it is not too high (above 103F). But you have to endure a lot of crap from everyone breathing down your neck about how you are ignoring the child and are a cruel parent.
Not starting to invest sooner. I should have started at 18 but I didn't know. What I would give to have those extra years of time in the market.
Also, take a guess of what the IQ is, of people working in Google.
Even if so, please don't break the site guidelines by calling names here.

On HN the idea is: if you have a substantive point to make, make it thoughtfully; if you don't, please don't comment until you do.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Edit: you've unfortunately been breaking the guidelines so often that we've banned your account. If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future.
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They were all positive, and each reduced by 4 points. Currently the lowest sits at -1.
How about beating Europe or Asia?
That's what I meant. ;-)
When I listen to my friends that ride buses and BART the major complaint is people doing utterly foul things like pissing or shitting. Or being harassed. Being harrased depends a lot on sex age etc. My GF's who looks like she lives in Walnut Creek gets harassed. Me who looks like an old skinny biker does not.

Got to remember BART carries around 400,000 riders a day, 365 days a year.
True, but children are not that fragile. High (above 103/104) should be brought down, febrile seizures are bad but lots of parents hit ibuprofen/paracetamol when the kid is showing 99F.
Hahaha.

I lived in Brooklyn, I lived on Long Island, spent a summer in Seattle, and I live in San Jose now.

One can't speak for the entirety of the either coast, but no city in CA comes close to what NYC offers in terms of public transportation.

And what NYC offers is a true car-free lifestyle which carries you to work, leisure, and back home via public transport.

E-scooters aren't a reliable way to get anywhere yet, and who knows if they'll ever be, not to mention that they are not for everyone. My grandmother is not going to ride one -- nor my wife, for that matter, nor should the kids. But the Subway is a common denominator.

This reflects in the daily ridership. MTA carries an order of magnitude more passengers than, say, BART. The same can be said about overall transit ridership[1].

East Coast vs. West Coast is a silly comparison when NYC Metro alone has more ridership than nearly all other major metro areas combined (including both Coasts, the Midwest, and the South).

So it's really NYC vs. Anywhere Else, and Anywhere Else still sucks when it comes to public transport because, in practical terms, most people aren't commuting by public transport in Anywhere Else, but they do in NYC.

You can't slap a Lime scooter on a suburban development and call that "public transport". And a self-driving car is still a car, a glorified jitney cab if and when it arrives. And it's not going to solve the problems of the car-centric (sub)urbanism[2] anyhow.

The mistake the article makes here is a classic one: percentage growth vs. absolute value. Doubling from, say, 500K in a metro area with 7M population is going to be a bit easier than doubling the 14M ridership in a 20M metro.

As for the problems - people on HN of all places should be the ones who understand scale and that some problems simply don't exist when the scale is insignificant.

I want every city to be a public transit success story, but as it currently stands - the rest of the country will be playing catch-up for a long time.

[1]http://www.vitalsigns.mtc.ca.gov/transit-ridership

[2]https://www.technologyreview.com/the-download/611557/self-dr...

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TL;DR: NYC mass transit carries more people than systems in all other major metros combined[1]. Any comparison - including this article - is silly.
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> Yes, you can try to sue for anything.

Point taken.

> the lawyer will try to show it was not "good faith" but a failure of software

AFAIK, the phone calls are being placed by Facebook employees, not software. Presumably, these employees have to look at the actual post content to even be able to make a coherent phone call. You would have to argue either that the employee was incompetent, or that the employee was coerced into making an inappropriate call.
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You're getting down voted, but you make a good point.

I'm not sure what 80% full is either?
Is it satiated rather than full?
Of course there will be changes. But the subways and light rails will still be required for a certain level of throughput. The New York City subway, for example, carries 60K people per hour per direction on a pair of tracks, while a car lane carries somewhere in the range of 2K per hour per direction. Self driving cars may improve lane utilization, but not by up to 30x. Shoving people into cattle cars hurtling down a track is just more space-efficient than dedicating an engine and seats for at most four people at a time.

Scooters and bikes have an effective range, particularly in places like LA that can have quite long commute distances.

Motive power source doesn't really change much.

Intra-urban flight would increase required energy for transport a lot and also move the crapshoot that is today's roads and traffic above our heads, ready to hurtle down at us.

Boring tunnels being cheaper has yet to be proven, since the main issues with tunneling are that tunnels have to be tailored to ground conditions.

Shuttles to Mars doesn't change how I get to and from work across town, the same way that airplanes did not.
It is in the culture of chinese to unify everything under its culture. It is a culture empire by nature. Before accepting the reality, Taiwan claim the whole china and in fact sort of still do they sort of still do to southern china sea.

There is nothing in chinese culture allow difference. Harmony is all under one rule only. No federalism. International approach to culture ... we will not see but one day if it is it will try to take on all culture barbarians. There is nothing but to keep all non-barbarian within the Great Wall. Even if it is e-Great Wall.

Globally one might say we should consider a model for one extra powerful (strong or big country as chinese woukdvput it) group. One may say just like America, Eu, Russia, Arabs ... that might be just worry of japan, Taiwan, Korea, Vietnam, ... past culture colony of china should be worry.

but given its one belt one road and the china of china taken of Africa, I am afraid it is much worst.

We are not talking about a country that respect humanity basic rights. Check out the 7 we do not talk about you know what is in store for the world or at least within.

Good luck to us. Hope it all fail. But prepare for the worst.

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Not sure how strong support of us on Taiwan (and HONG kong) even though both has an American act to sort of protect their different level of independence. Good luck.
No it’s not, this has nothing to do with the political message of the content, they could’ve shown anything they wanted heck they could’ve shown a 30min footage of someone calling TM a cunt and that would not have been censored.
I agree. I don't know why it isn't more popular given it is the only usable open source parametric modelling program.
Trying to read this on the desktop. Even worse. Bummer, because it seemed like an interesting story. Had to give up after two paragraphs.
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Also, the pain sometimes keep activity low which may help with healing. If I give my kid something pain relieving he'll be up and bouncing around and could hurt himself more.
This claim didn’t reduce access to media, this isn’t censorship as they couldn’t care less about the actual message or tried to block it on political grounds.

This is HBO likely not being familiar with obscure British legislation as some others have pointed out they had to use dogs instead of actual
SCTOUS footage as there is a US law that forbids footage of the Supreme Court from being used.

The fact that you even consider this censorship only proves you likely never experienced what true censorship means.
> However, IQ fails as an indicator of higher intelligence because it fails to correctly identify who is more gifted among their peers.

Regardless of whether this is true, it still fairly reliably predicts the fact that they are gifted. Conversely, IQ tests aren't precise enough to predict who is less gifted among a set of peers on the lower end either (for small enough score differences).
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Well, I personally like it to just satisfy my curiosity about what are some of my friends and coworkers up to. Generally, I am quite curious about what is my friend/coworker/ex-coworker/... doing, and I am genuinely happy when someone I know gets promoted, or gets a new job.
I 100% agree with your assessment, but I would definitely add SolveSpace. It's an open source parametric modeller but unlike FreeCAD it is actually usable. Not as fully featured as Solidworks etc. but it has all the basic stuff working quite nicely.

Somewhat unconventional interface but it works ok. If you must use open source it is definitely the one to use. As I recall it only has basic assembly support though.
They should link these videos on their website somewhere. The first time I started FreeCAD I was completely lost(well, I'm not really a CAD expert), but some videos on YouTube explain the basics really well.

Now I find the sketching pretty intuitive, albeit a bit clunky and slow. The number one feature I'm missing is the program telling me WHAT degrees of freedom are still unconstrained in a sketch.
> The original tweetstorm and this post aim to show something very specific, namely that IQ misses the mark as a measure of intelligence the further away from IQ 70 one ventures. In other words, stupid is stupid, but smart seems to come in many flavors.

Not true. As far as we can tell smarter is better at all levels.

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> The assertion that ability differences no longer matter beyond a certain threshold is inaccurate. Among young adolescents in the top 1% of quantitative reasoning ability, individual differences in general cognitive ability level and in specific cognitive ability pattern (that is, the relationships among an individual’s math, verbal, and spatial abilities) lead to differences in educational, occupational, and creative outcomes decades later. Whereas ability level predicts the level of achievement, ability pattern predicts the realm of achievement. Adding information on vocational interests refines prediction of educational and career choices. Finally, lifestyle preferences relevant to career choice, performance, and persistence often change between ages 25 and 35. This change results in sex differences in preferences, which likely have relevance for understanding the underrepresentation of women in careers that demand more than full-time (40 hours per week) commitment.

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Business friendly often means giving big businesses tax breaks, which means that the government is seeing less of these big investements. May, instead, the lobbying power that big businesses can afford, have something to do with their power? I'll give you the employment argument, though.
I don't think the vitriol is warranted or constructive at all, but regardless...

What I thought would happen: the general public would be made aware of a serious vulnerability in products they believe to be safe (they were -- millions of people were made aware of it and I spent years dealing with the press for exactly that reason), and that the companies involved would be forced to act (the big ones were, small ones weren't). With the benefits of hindsight, I 100% stand by the decisions I made and feel confident that I did the right thing, despite that I knew that some folks would use this for crime (and now know that they definitely have).

You can say that everyone knows that they're not secure, but that's ... Frankly dumb and naive. The vast majority of people have no idea, and they don't care about the abstract notion of them being insecure. They do care when I say "I can open any of 10 million locks in a second with no special skills."
While I don’t disagree with the notion that this is stupid. I disagree with the equivalence to censorship it’s a stupid old law, not means to silence political opinion they could’ve called each MP a cunt for 30 min and aired it just fine.

HBO just didn’t realized it when making this programme, they have had to avoid other similar limitations by using dogs instead of supreme justices due to similar restrictions in the US.
With desktop support, I will definitely try Flutter. I just wish desktop support was a committed effort, not an "exploratory effort".
I would have figured the opposite. That data has made most all car-makers build cars that fit the same customer's needs; lower TCO, less maintenance, lasts much longer. Japanese cars being reliable has been a known thing since the 70s. I feel like today it's fairly well known that most any car is reasonably safe, will last awhile, and have reasonable repair costs (excluding luxury cars).
Ha, I can't count the number of times I've said to my kids some version of, "Don't push buttons if you don't know what they do!" I've mostly drilled it out of them by 6 and 4, but it was a process.

Of course the new manifestation of childhood curiosity was my six year old daughter testing out the piece of sandpaper that came with a craft set she got for Christmas... on our kitchen table. (Fortunately it was already a bit "rustic".)

Can't blame them though—I clearly remember at that age putting the garden hose into the dryer vent, with no clue what would happen. Dryer was in the basement too. I recall being mostly bemused by my parents' reactions. (It was on for quite a while too—I think it flooded more than one room.)
Definitely don't go back to college to get a CS degree. At this point in your career the only thing employers want to know about is your previous job experience. I have a bachelors degree in computer science and have never once been asked about it in a job interview.

> Recruiters contact me a lot about FT jobs but any interviews I get through them never turn into offers.

You mention this almost as a side note but I think its pretty clear thats your problem and not the "job-hopping". If job-hopping was the problem then you wouldn't even be getting interviews because they can already see that from your CV when you apply.

Whats going wrong in the interviews? Do you ever get feedback from the companies that reject you? Are there questions they ask you that you stumble on? This is what you need to be focusing on. A CS degree won't help you one bit with that problem.

It sounds like you have been working on fairly run-of-mill CRUD based applications that don't require that much thought. Can you be more picky about what jobs you take? Try getting jobs which will build up your experience rather than simply pay the bills. That way when you go to an interview you might sound more enthusiastic about your past experience - this will come across well to an employer.

Also try and pick a field and specialise in it. You mention LAMP, Ruby on Rails, React - all of those are good platforms to work in with good employment opportunities but maybe you should specialise in frontend or backend. Also I would ditch the wordpress & magento stuff.
The issue isn't postmodern architecture, it's unsubstantive HN comments. We're looking for thoughtful discussion here, not shallow swipes. Just hurling pejoratives ("dehumanizing", "cancer") doesn't count.
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> 20-40 years into the future (if not delayed)

For comparison, the first intercontinental railroad was built by hand and muscle in 6 years. Including the bridges, cuts, and grading. Including through a mountain range.