DoofusOfDeath

I hope to never meet someone who's violated an iceberg.

As someone who doesn't know much about Japanese culture, I find this really interesting.

Can you elaborate a bit on which details would provide that info?

Thank you! That was driving me crazy. And now I see why I got confused: it's another phonograph-related dangerous-element fact that I learned from reading Theodore Gray's book, The Elements [0] [1].

Now if I could only remember why I thought neutron beams were involved...

[0] https://theodoregray.com/PeriodicTable/Elements/084/index.s7...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B011IZNWZU

I recall reading about using neutron beams to alter the chemistry of phonograph needles. I think the idea was to make them into a radioactive isotope that continually ionized the needle, so that it repelled dust.

But maybe I'm remembering wrong. The closest article I can find is from Theodore Gray [0]. It talks about old phonograph needles made from osmium, which is very toxic in dust form.

[0] https://theodoregray.com/periodictable/Elements/076/index.s1...

> It's not bad leadership to hold down the costs of your key inputs.

I think your point misses a crucial distinction.

The issue isn't whether or not "holding down the costs of your key inputs" is good or bad, all other things being equal. Rather, the issue was that Jobs formed an illegal cartel to accomplish that goal.

If someone running on a treadmill sounds like whales humping, he probably needs to go on a diet :)

Right, but IIUC it's the difference between a "transient" [0] and a "tonal" [1], which AFAIK is an important distinction for sonar operators.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transient_(acoustics)

The joke's context is Genesis chapters 1-2, so it wouldn't make sense to include a lawyer. Satan only shows up in chapter 3.

Are you referring to the music that's (mostly?) Steve Allen's piano playing? Yeah, totally.

I also never knew that Steve Allen was so good at piano. Before watching that video, all I knew about him was that he'd had a popular TV show.

> Then you are working for nicer people than I was.

Maybe. I also rarely meet with actual customers, and I'm sure that helps too.

This doesn't surprise me.

In general, underwater sound attenuates more quickly as you increase its frequency. Foot-fall thumping has a pretty strong low-frequency component. It's also repetitious, which (I'm guessing but don't know for sure) probably makes it easier for a sonar operator to notice.

IIRC, "Principles of Underwater Sound" by Robert Urick [0] is considered pretty good.

A textbook that's helpful for actually implementing ocean acoustics models is "Computational Ocean Acoustics" by Jensen et al [1].

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Principles-Underwater-Sound-Robert-Ur...

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Computational-Acoustics-Modern-Signal...

> I think it would be nice if something held my head and neck straight so I could doze off.

Have you ever tried one of those inflatable around-your-neck pillows that are sold at airports? I've always wondered if they were worked.

It sounds like different people have different concerns then.

I only fly on business, and it's rarely a big deal if I have a several-hour delay because of a missed connection.

However, I'm tall, and have a bad back and knees. So legroom and elbow room are very important to me. I also had one important trip ruined because (I suspect) I picked up a bad cold during the flight.

My pleasure :)

But to my chagrin, I just realized that the reading cadence I had in mind wasn't Allen Ginsberg's, but instead Jack Kerouac's. [0]

[0] https://youtu.be/3LLpNKo09Xk?t=197

From reading other HN discussions, I get the impression that a person's home-office setup is a big factor. I.e., good home office --> probably same or better productivity; bad home office --> probably worse productivity.

> financialization propping up abstracted processes of how to lead massive organizations as big blocks on diagrams instead of highly fractal, constantly shifting networks of ideas and stories repeatedly coalescing around people, processes, and resources into focused discrete action in continguous and continuous OODA feedback loops absorbing and learning mistakes along the way.

I had trouble reading this without falling into the cadence of Howl! by Allen Ginsberg.

It's possible that he's both hypocritical and correct.

The study doesn't mention caffeine, but I'm curious if it's a factor.

Caffeinated drinks make me need to pee more often than non-caffeinated drinks. I'm curious if that reduces the amount of time that the bladder cells are exposed to oxidative stress from urine.

Tangent, but I'm sorry about your father.

My humor-detector is going wild, but I can't figure out the joke(s). I really hope I just need more coffee.

I think you're raising an interesting point regarding the CEO's focus vs. company performance.

Friendly advice from someone who's learned this the hard way: If you edit your comment so that it's tone is a bit more friendly, it's more likely to foster a real discussion.

> The real answer is: just fucking use email.

I know of at least one large company that forcibly deletes emails older than N months, as part of their legal retention policy. (I'm assuming it means non-retention to limit exposure to lawsuits.)

That would be problematic for persistent documentation.

> It’s a shame that people even contest the logic today when wholly uneducated people were fine with it hundreds of years ago.

I'm not familiar with that place's history. Are we really sure that (a) that people was uneducated, and (b) all of them were okay with that policy?

Good point. Still, I'm curious if that's been tested in court.

My impression is that some commercial practices can be widespread, and still fail under eventual court challenge. I'm thinking of the U.S. case regarding the advertised-vs-visible diagonal sizes of CRT monitors back in the day.

IANAL, so I'm curious: would this count as a breach of contract with its customers?

I.e., is an ISP implicitly contracted to route packets between its customers and the entire publicly visible Internet?

Meh. A real Evil Scrum Lord makes his victims enter the data by themselves into Jira.

The way the headline is written immediately reminds me of Betteridge's law of headlines [0].

I'm just guessing, but perhaps that led to the initial downvoting.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...

> Is the good you're doing via whatsapp enough to outweigh how you could leverage 19B?

That's a very good point. Still, with $19B on the line, I bet there's no shortage of people who would help me rationalize doing something else with that money once it was in my hands.

I tend to have a pretty pessimistic view of human nature, but maybe I'm unfairly projecting my own weaknesses onto the rest of humanity.

There's a saying that "Every man has his price."

For me personally, I hope that I'll never be offered enough money to betray those who trust me. But I fear that my selling price is far lower than $19B.