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Studies show people who love learning and find many things of interest correlate with high intelligence.

That is because the OP is void of intellectual curiosity. The conversations are shallow because he is not asking interesting questions about their life, career, ambitions, and goals.

This is the opposite of intelligence. Intelligent people find a lot of things interesting and love learning.

An intelligent person will find any profession or hobby interesting, and thus everyone is interesting.

Saying everyone is a bore is a hallmark of a lack of intelligence. You are basically saying “I only have a very narrow set of topics I find interesting. I’m so void of intellectual curiosity, I’m not interesting in expanding my mind or knowledge into other topics.”

Solving the equation is not intelligence, it’s education. There’s a huge difference. You are not smart because you can solve the equation. Someone showed you how to solve it.

This needs to be the top comment.

The OP is ONLY interested in a subset of topics he feels is interesting. This is the opposite of intelligent. A hallmark of intelligent people is to find fascination with everything. I recently went to a party where I met a guy who worked in a chicken processing plant. I know nothing about processing chicken. I literally spent an hour talking to him about his job. (By the way, he works way harder and takes way more garbage than us white collar guys).

Yes but don’t you find that interesting? I find people who have no hobbies or passion so different from myself, in a way I enjoy talking to them.

Netflix is a publicly traded company. They have a fiduciary responsibility to the shareholder to increase shareholder value by always selecting the best interest of the shareholders. It is way beyond a corporate policy. It is stealing shareholder value.

That is crazy. I spent 20 minutes trying to cancel the WSJ. It is infuriating.

I use Privacy.com and generate virtual credit card numbers. I cancel the credit card at the time of canceling the service (or at least trying to cancel the service).

I just canceled the WSJ. It is not terrible. They will try and convince you to cancel but will eventually let you cancel. The worst is SirriusXM Radio.

Yup when COVID struck my gym required I cancel in person.

Too complicated. I would make a rule that any Bachelors program costing more than 15k is ineligible for student loans. Magically those $60k programs will fall to $15k.

The reason college is so expensive is because that is what people are willing to take loans to cover.

Why are we getting our science news from the liberal arts majors on the other side of campus? The problem is they really do not understand science. They believe everything is concrete and don’t understand the nuances.

My experience is the opposite. I get the “I don’t work in this dept. I’ll call someone”. Then I wait in plumbing for 10 minutes until someone shows up. When the person shows they start looking in the same place I have been searching for the last 1/2 hour.

I would disagree the cloud is more expensive. Yes you can purchase a server from Dell with a 5 year life expectancy for less than renting from AWS. But that is not the true cost.

Enterprises require high availability and disaster recovery. Start thinking multiple data centers to meet a RTO requirement after a regional failure with high speed network connectivity between the datacenters to meet your RPO requirements. Add off site backups and personnel at multiple locations and the cloud becomes very compelling.

And that is before you start optimizing your application for the cloud.

You forgot one. Amazon uses seller data to target which products they will produce under their own Amazon brand. So creative entrepreneurs eventually find they are completing against Amazon directly.

This is why Amazon will eventually be replaced by a company that can do things better, faster, and cheaper.

Can you recommend a good static site generator?

Yup. I tried buying Qualatex twisting balloons from Amazon. From the reviews I could clearly see some sellers were offering legit Qualatex and others were offering cheap knock-offs. Since the reviews are not matched to the seller, I could not tell which sellers were offering the real product. I ended up buying from eBay without issue.

We should do a secret Hacker News Santa.

Peter Zeihan has an interesting take on it:

https://zeihan.com/video-dispatch-chinas-demographic-decline...

Every time I hear of developer shortages the next sentence involves increasing the H-1B visa pool.

I’m now in upper management. I’m told I can hire as many Indian developers as I want (based in India) but must limit my US development team. Why? Cost of course. There is no real shortage, just an attempt to clamp down on real wages.

Out of curiosity, has the mining yet payed for the rig/card?

Why do you need to own Bitcoin for transactions?

Someone wants to buy a 50k car. They give you 50k worth of Bitcoin. You immediately sell the Bitcoin for 50k of dollars.

At no time did you need to own Bitcoin before the transaction.

Yea that is a nice to have. But why is going to the Moon so critical and time sensitive we need redundant transport systems? If the Moon lander breaks we wait a few years for the fix. Not a big deal.

Money is not free, there is another priority not getting funded. A better solution would be to buy one Moon lander system and take the money saved and fund other critical tech.

Space X is moving ahead with or without government funding using profits from Starlink and private sources. Blue Origin is sitting around with their hands out waiting for the government check. Boeing wants money to build a useless rocket. Who do you think will be the first to the moon?

Why do we need two landing systems?

Years ago I had "Fraud" detected on my Apple ID. Because of this, Apple locked my account and disabled all of my paid applications. I'm a pilot and this included an iPad program called ForeFlight which was critical for flying. I had to wipe my iPad, create a new Apple ID, and pay the $300 subscription for another copy of ForeFlight. About a week later my ID was reactivated with no explanation.

I'm assuming someone hacked into my Apple ID, but not sure. I was never told.

My well placed internal sources tell me it will be the best iPhone yet.

The curve was flattened, but the goalpost changed. We went from flattening the curve to eliminating the virus. With flattening the curve, the question should be "how full are the hospitals"?. Instead, the metric was infection rates.

Congrats on not using FB. Personally, I would pay NOT to have news on my FB feed. I want to see pictures of your kids and hear updates about your life ... not your thoughts on whatever political issues in in the news today.

So yea, it may actually make it better. FB considers "engagement" as all-important. But engagement occurs most frequently when someone sends out a controversial news article. It devalues the service and makes it a less enjoyable experience.