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Fun, I deleted my 9 year old account last night. It's wasn't out of some high-minded thing about how they're turning more into Facebook or privacy or anything. That site just hits my dopamine so effectively I had to quit and block it in my /etc/hosts.

I am spending more time on HN though...

It seems every intro to networking goes into the headers of each layer's most common protocol.

I can't get past the sub headline: > Twins' DNA 'shockingly similar'

Identical twins are supposed to have identical DNA, right? Or did I really misunderstand a lot of school.

> 100% of the people who believe...have never heard of the scientific method

Ludicrous. Smart and educated people fall for scams and join cults.

> many older people find critical thinking to be taboo

What?

> They tend to be wrong when they think independently

You realize everything in our world was built by the generations before us, right? Shoulders of giants and all that?

To be pedantic, that's till harvesting your data, it's just not selling it.

Does that make it malicious and stupid?

Have you read Voltaire's Bastards? https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6584.Voltaire_s_Bastards

It is an in depth criticism of the overly rational. A lot of it went over my head or didn't make sense because I don't have a strong background on some historical/philosophical touchpoints, but I thought it was a great read.

As a whole, I doubt a book like this would be of much use to a non-programmer. There are some high level tricks that might be fun to learn, and could be loosely applied to day-to-day thinking (should this be solved in a brute force way, or is there some shortcut). Overall the book (I assume, I haven't read it) is technical and precise solutions to technical problems.

Algorithms are just ways of solving technical problems in the most efficient way possible (for various definitions of efficiency). They are deep programming which even most programmers don't use frequently.

I scan my own items at the checkout because it's faster, not because of how fun it is for a machine to boop at me.

(that said if I have a lot of produce the human cashier is faster)

Likewise. They should send a notification to all e-mails on record for compromised accounts.

Absolutely, and we should have a lot of skepticism to conclusions from those branches of research as well.

I think they're referring to the problem of measuring programmer output (and thus, measuring programmer efficiency). And how the output of that work (lines of code) can actually be reduced, but still considered productive.

I'm not putting this very well.

> Practice makes perfect...

"Hmm, sounds too cliche"

> The well-known 10,000-hour principle, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell, illustrates an important lesson..

"Much better, I've used more words"

I think it's an interesting look at the spread of bad information. When the concept of "everyone is 10,000 hours from being an expert" first surfaced, it was spread far and wide. As time went on and more evidence came out that this wasn't accurate, the NOT of the concept wasn't as interesting, so it wasn't spread nearly as much.

Basically, I don't blame people for still thinking it's true or a good rule of thumb. It's usually just used to say "if you want to be good at something, you have to practice", which is true.

Re: your second point, I experienced that too. It's an interesting thing to deal with.

Anyone else find this bit kinda creepy?

> The Dubovoys used the same brokerage accounts repeatedly, and they owned some of them directly or through immediate family members with shared surnames. Their association could also be easily confirmed through the fact that they were part of the same church community.

Is there a database out there where you can search "SELECT * FROM PEOPLE WHERE communities INCLUDES (SELECT communities WHERE lastName = "Dubovoys");" If you know what I mean.

The liability issues might make it pretty difficult, I don't know what they ship on the Mississippi, but Lake Charles has a ton of LNG tankers with tight traffic restrictions.

Kind of how like many ports have pilots that have specialized local knowledge and handle the finesse piloting into berth? Example: Lake Charles in Louisiana - http://www.lakecharlespilots.com/

Both statements are saying the same thing - KPIs should be highly accessible and visible.

The article is about the dangers of large companies tracking users to such a high degree that it's dangerous for us, profitable for them. Facebook is an example. Google is also an example. Personally I'm more worried about Google because they have all my e-mails and everything my phone does. I don't have Facebook anymore.

It's not about hating Google, it's about recognizing the power and ubiquity they have, and how for many in HN, it dwarfs Facebook in terms of potential personal impact.

Summary of Rich Dad, Poor Dad:

Assets are things that give you money. Liabilities are things that cost you money. Therefore your house is a liability until it is sold, at which point it MIGHT be a net asset. Try to maximize your assets and minimize your liabilities.

It sounds simple, and it is, but that's the primary lesson in the book IMO. It's eye-opening the first time you see things that way.

I'm guessing the downvotes are coming because you are defending a policy which is objectively cruel. To say "this is official policy" doesn't stop the reality of the cruelty.

Generally people don't support this. Therefore, downvotes.

That's the part that I can never understand with blockchain applications. Blockchain technology is excellent at maintaining a ledger or variables of information within the blockchain - these processes are completely trustless due to the properties of the blockchain. The problem is getting that information INTO the blockchain. This part DOES require trust and all those nasty things people say blockchain solves. I think it's called the oracle problem?

> Rare Species Protection

I can't think of a part of meatspace more removed from the special properties of a blockchain. That's honestly dumber than blockchain iced tea or KodakCoin.

> UPDATE posts SET public = true;

584,203,510,091,521 records updated

If people choose to judge them by a different time scale than you, their conclusions seem pretty justified.

Powerlines are far from lossless, so there is still an advantage to being close to the power source. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#Lo...

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Science and Philosophy - Alfred North Whitehead

The Genome - Sergei Lukyyaneko

Mind: A Unified Theory of Life and Intelligence - Frank T. Vertosick Jr.

On Shaky Ground - John J. Nance

Atomic Accidents - Jim Mahaffey

Martian Summer - Andrew Kessler

The Goldilock's Enigma - Paul Davies

Water: The Fate of our Most Precious Resource - Marq de Villiers

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In the beginning... - Issac Asimov

Absolute Zero and the Conquest of Cold - Tom Shachtman

How to Cool the Planet - Jeff Goodell

Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science - Christoph Irmscher

No Turning Back - Richard Ellis

The Edge of Physics - Anil Ananthaswamy

The Boy Who Played with Fusion - Tom Clynes

X-15 Diary - Richard Tregaskis

Essays in Science - Albert Einstein

A Devil's Chaplan - Richard Dawkins

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The Canon - Natalie Angier

Earth: An Alien Enterprise - Timothy Good

The Sphinx at Dawn - Madeleine L'Engle

Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman - James Gleick

Unnatural Selection - Mark Roeder

Chaos: Making a New Science - James Gleick

Dinosaurs Without Bones - Anthony J. Martin

Strange Angel - George Pendle

Farewell to Reality - Jim Baggott

Moon Shot - Jay Barbree, Alan Shepard, Deke Slayton

Seven Elements That Changed the World - John Browne

Time Travel in Einstein's Universe - J. Richard Gott

> PS: One side note. A senior coding position might feel age discriminatory because senior is for talented ~28 year olds to mediocre ~40 year olds. A 50 year old should be architect/manager or not switch jobs.

In other words, it might feel like there's age discrimination because of the age discrimination?

This sounds awfully close to the "why would I care about surveillance, I'm not doing anything wrong" argument. The reason it's important for Facebook to be legally required to protect user data is because you have no choice in being part of that data. You, as an individual, can do quite a bit, but you can't prevent people from sharing their contact books, pictures, and location. With the ubiquity of Facebook, everyone has some sort of footprint on the site.

If the data is valuable and worthy of protection, and you have no ability to provide that protection, then it is reasonable for protection to be required from the layer that is removing the individual's agency.

Although you are correct that money I don't spend remains in my possession, I disagree that there is any morale obligation to spend as much as possible. Overconsumption is not a viable solution to many problems.