RickHull

Great article. Another nitpick:

> It’s important to dispel any illusion that these decisions were made with precence for the future the domain name would have.

I don't think precence is a word, and I'm not sure what would make sense as its replacement.

I'm just getting exposed to this line of thinking and find it fascinating. Another resource I found recently was https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/mental-models/

Disclaimer: I'm not sure if it's derivative blogspam or legitimately insightful / original

> doesn't make any sense because the if condition is false.

Why is it false that Rich Bob can outbid Poor Alice for a glass of water?

I'm reminded of Gerald Gaus' On The Difficult Virtue of Minding One's Own Business[0]

0. http://www.gaus.biz/scrooge.pdf

If that's a valid characterization of the internal debate, of what concern is that to the EU? So far, I don't see the UK screaming, huffing, or smashing doors with respect to the EU.

> The UK left screaming, huffing and smashing the door

Huh? This is your characterization of a referendum on membership?

Except Thiel arguably has "connection with the merits of the dispute". He feels that Gawker violated his privacy as well as Hogan's, and he wants Gawker to be punished and/or discouraged from further similar behavior. Just like the EFF or ACLU.

> Extending and extinguishing can and most certainly has taken place, whether a monetary incentive exists or not.

Um, sure, but EEE is important because it was a strategy and one that was executed repeatedly by Microsoft. On the other hand, just because some products have been "extinguished" (debatable) does not mean that was the strategy employed by GNU, nor does applying EEE here seem to serve any predictive function.

> I hope similar attention is paid to men's wardrobe choices next time a [...] article involving a male CEO is posted to HN.

You mean like Steve Jobs' wardrobe choices?

> so that you absolutely could not take them to court.

Did he miss an opportunity or an opportunity cost?

What do you mean by constructive platform? In the general sense, HN is absolutely meant to be a constructive platform.

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

> If it turns out that the auto-erase feature is on, and the Effaceable Storage gets erased, they can remove the chip, copy the original information back in, and replace it. If they plan to do this many times, they can attach a “test socket” to the circuit board that makes it easy and fast to do this kind of chip swapping.

> If the FBI doesn't have the equipment or expertise to do this, they can hire any one of dozens of data recovery firms that specialize in information extraction from digital devices.

Regarding hustle, I see:

> late 17th century (originally in the sense ‘shake, toss’): from Middle Dutch hutselen

So I think it splits into the dice and gambling sense, where deception becomes a valuable skill. And also the "hustle and bustle" sense, as in a football coach yelling at his player to hustle.

> I just do not understand people who cheat on games.

I think they have a fundamentally different personality type: sportsman vs. gamesman. Sportsmanship values honor and conduct; gamesmanship values winning.

It seems that the highest levels of competition reward gamesmanship over sportsmanship, perhaps unsurprisingly. There is a culture of gamesmanship, and gamesmen have better outcomes. Competitions where this seems to be the case include:

    * auto racing
    * football (world)
    * football (american)
    * cycling
    * fighting (MMA, boxing)

And I'm sure plenty of others. These mottos are prevalent:

    * If you're not cheating, you're not trying
    * It's not cheating if you don't get caught

Wow. I managed to skip Diff-e-q in my C.S. curriculum, and I always wondered if was the worse for it. Perhaps I was prescient.

> But, it's not the role of law enforcement to interpret the Constitution

You are correct that law enforcement does not provide the authoritative interpretation of the Constitution, but you seem to imply that they should operate under ignorance of the Constitution. This is wrong.

Law enforcement must have an understanding of the Constitution, and they must uphold it. For example, it's a dereliction of duty to always argue that any search is reasonable.

Same problem on chromium / linux

They do talk about this:

> When the system was built, one of the missing features from Kafka 0.7 was the ability of the Kafka Broker cluster to behave as a reliable persistent storage. This influenced a major design decision to not keep persistent state between the producer of data, Kafka Syslog Producer, and Hadoop. An event is considered reliably persisted only when it gets written to a file on HDFS.

Yep, it's a ridiculous assertion. No one would have ever heard of Uber if they weren't extremely good at helping people get rides in towns. That's what they do.

We have to close the hetero pay gap.

Yes, from what I can tell, Bialystok is explicitly violating the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mertonian_norms, particularly with "How much would I win by ..." and denial of Skepticism.

The bitterness seems real:

> The debate has clearly become acrimonious. Paap says that he has been ignored; Bialystok feels she is being personally attacked. Perhaps, wrote Eric-Jan Wagenmakers from the University of Amsterdam, the two sides could form an “adversarial collaboration.” That is, they would work together to test the bilingual advantage once and for all, through a large study, perhaps involving many labs. The teams would pre-register all their experimental plans and agree to publish the results no matter what, so there could be no accusation of questionable research practices or publication bias. Then let the chips fall where they may. This approach has already been used to some success in other areas of psychology.

> Paap is up for it; Bialystok is not. “That’s not how science works: You don’t sign a contract to not change anything in your protocol as the research evolves,” she says. “And they’ve set up so many toxins in this area that no good collaboration can result.” Bak feels similarly. “How much would I win by working with someone who doesn’t understand the area and is already biased?”

Note also that this is the root name for 'Jerome' and also the famous native American https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geronimo

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus

aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch and a contemporary of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albrecht_Dürer

> so many state governors doing things like ... enabling the Flint water crisis.

Beware of simplistic narratives. It now looks like Flint took on the very tough job of water treatment as a jobs / stimulus program[1] -- something they turned out to be completely incompetent at -- and also as a way to resolve a pricing spat with Detroit over water supply.

As well the Michigan DEQ shoulders a lot of the blame for covering up the issues.

1. http://reason.com/blog/2016/01/25/the-flint-water-crisis-is-...

> basically trying to combine sockets and pipes to create remote pipes

Sockets, or ssh? To get a remote shell, you're going to want ssh.

Is your Erlang CV online to view?

It seems like Oracle's reasoning could also be used to gauge how much revenue lithium-ion batteries generate for Google.

> What happens if ...

Make a decision, and then make the most of that decision. Sam is not saying it's bad to do other accelerators. However, for very natural reasons, graduates of other accelerators have more expected of them. Likewise, I doubt YC would accept their own graduates for another round.

> “I don’t care what you cover the seats with as long as you cover them with assholes.” Eddie Rickenbacker, Eastern Airlines.

Yep, it's _the_ Eddie Rickenbacker https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Rickenbacker