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This is great to see! After 80 years a key piece of shared culture is finally free. I hadn't realized this news.

It is kinda insane that it took until 2015, though. I still somehow doubt that people who get on a high horse about lyrics sites and IP waited until someone with deep pockets was able to fend off a lawsuit in 2015 to sing the song, though.

So it goes without saying that you're not one of those people who has committed the monstrous act of singing Happy Birthday without paying to license the performance rights?

Or have you perhaps also lead a less than pure life (as viewed by the RIAA)?

> "first, I can't use %w! to define an array, and secondly You can't call things like that."

The second part is a pretty fundamental language difference but you can use sigils to handle the first part. E.g., to generate word lists use ~w like so:

     ~w(bob tom harry)

If you don't want to use parens, you could use pointy brackets, braces, pipes or a few other delimiters instead.

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I didn't say anything about my wishes. I just welcomed a new(ish) user.

That solution doesn't scale to all HN users and all sites. If there's no way to access an article without paying, it's a pretty poor choice to share it here.

Welcome to HN.

As someone who's been here for over a decade (and had this account nearly that long), I can assure you this is normal behavior for the forum.

This has its roots in our evolutionary history. Missing something positive might have meant missing dinner. Missing something negative might have meant being dinner.

That guess is not just wrong but somewhat startling.

Why would everyone living in what is now China have spoken the same language 2000 years ago? The people living in what is now the US didn't. Neither did the people living in what's now the EU. Even small territories, such as just the islands of Okinawa had multiple language communities 2000 years ago.

National borders and the language communities within and across them fluctuate wildly over the course of a thousand years.

>" I note Cantonese and Mandarin "dialects" have a common (formal) written form."

They don't even have the same grammar. Cantonese includes characters that don't exist in Mandarin.

You might find this piece on Language Log interesting: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=548

"Just as Europeans who spoke various languages could communicate in Latin, so until recently all literate Chinese people could communicate in the somewhat artificial written standard. With the shift over the last century to a written language that is closer to the colloquial, the differences among dialects have increased."

I would have just updated my review with the relevant info that they gave you a free replacement and then followed up by asking you to remove your review.

If by "Chinese" you mean all of the languages in China today, such as Cantonese, Amoy, Hakkanese, etc... then you're talking about separate languages more distinct than modern French and Italian are from each other.

On data point to help pull apart the nature vs nurture question is that very similar trends with respect to risk-taking behaviors occur in wild chimpanzees (who share nearly all our genes but not our cultural influences):

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal....

This is amazing for small advertisers. Anyone's salary can be found online, for free, and it's easy to target high earners with ads or even direct sales teams.

It's not so great for the high earners, though...

This comes on the heels of banning beards: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-39460538

and banning "extreme" Muslim names: https://www.hongkongfp.com/2017/04/25/china-bans-extreme-mus...

China's approach to its Muslim population couldn't be more different than western Europe's.

It is a sure-fire way to get into keto if that's your goal. Also there are some significant advantages to intermittent fasting vs continuous calorie restriction: https://www.dietdoctor.com/intermittent-fasting-vs-caloric-r...

Every time I go to Okinawa, like anywhere in Japan, I see people eating either noodles or white rice with nearly every single meal. People often even have rice (and an egg) for breakfast.

It's not really. Most traditional religions have fasting practices and pretty much all our ancestors did it from time to time. A 7 day fast here and there is completely natural and not that hard after the first 30-50 hours.

>"A 12 ounce can of coke has 39 grams of sugar, or 7-10 times what the human body considers normal. It's a tremendous shock to the system"

Is it still a "tremendous shock" for someone in their 80's who's been drinking 5 per day for decades, like Warren Buffet?

I'd get a job and go the more conservative "sidehustle" bootstrapping route of making a site or YouTube channel and then selling something for money. Stay focused on your job and don't quit until a sidehustle has momentum.

If you have no idea what to sell then just teach everything you know (about one topic), try to make something useful for people and make it in public (e.g sharing your progress on your blog or YT channel). Worst case scenario, you'll have a job, be saving money and build a small audience / reservoir of credibility.

Also maybe start hanging out on Indie Hackers instead of here.

Edit: as the sibling commenter said, get your life in order. That's number one. Until you find a job and can cover your rent, don't even spend time on news aggregators. I wouldn't worry too much about timing to be a founder. Everyone feels like they're too late and they've missed all the opportunities but there's always a next big thing. Keep your spirits up!

If you're MS, there are no ramifications.

That's an extremely pedantic argument. This isn't a sports medicine journal and you can google to find many other sites focused on health and wellness that go with a more mainstream usage. This even includes the NIH for what it's worth but I'm done on this thread.

I think it really started when Google made its ill-spirited push to make everyone use Plus[1]. Before that point, Google was mostly beloved and most users were truly grateful for Google's free products. After that push, many lost YouTube accounts (including me), people who didn't even want to use Plus for chats were pushed to that page as the popular Google Talk app was killed (and then later forcibly moved from plus.google.* to hangouts.google.*).

In a fairly short period of time, people started seeing the same kind of "We're in charge and you're going to use _____ and like it!" attitude that Microsoft was once famous for. People wanted Plus about as much as they wanted Vista, but it got shoved on them anyway.

In more recent years—with AMP pages (and authors on Plus) getting an edge in search, google.com badgering users to install Chrome, a successful embrace->extend->extinguish strategy being executed against open source Android, etc—moves like this one don't look so innocent as they would have coming from the smaller, goofier and cheerier Google of 2005.

1: http://www.businessinsider.com/larry-page-just-tied-employee...

Running is generally considered a high intensity activity, but of course there are different degrees.

>"The definition of high intensity training is literally anything above that (lactate) threshold."

That's far from a universal definition. The phrase "high intensity training" often refers to a type of strength training popularized by the founder of Nautilus that involved lifting until muscle failure. What you're describing specifically is called anaerobic training.

>"Marathons aren't high intensity workouts."

It sounds like you've never run one. World class athletes can run an entire marathon at a sub 5m mile pace. While they could run a single mile race in 4:05 or so, it's not even remotely a low intensity effort to run a 5 minute mile, even for the fittest people on the entire planet.

Unless you've put real effort into training, 60+ year-old competitive marathoners have done a 20 minute tempo run faster than you ever have... and repeated it 7 consecutive times without rest.

Marathons are high intensity and extended efforts.

I know he works for a16z. They will ultimately be subject to judgement based on their investments, though the time horizon is long. And yes, it's clear that this is content marketing.

>"it is amazingly hard work to churn out quality content throughout the year."

One of the best examples I've seen of this was David Gardener's Rule Breaker portfolio in the 90s. He publicly wrote up analysis after analysis on technologies and companies, along with the occasional announcement he was buying or selling a stock. There were a few whiffs, but he got AOL in '94, Amazon in '97, and Amgen, eBay and Starbucks in '98. He was highly visible, forward predicting and right in a way that was quantifiable. I'm not a fan of the direction his business (fool.com) has gone in the past 10 years, but throughout the first dotcom boom, he made some great contrarian picks despite extreme push-back, particularly for Amazon.

The same can be said, on the whole, of the predictions of Ray Kurzweil. Even though he wasn't talking about individual companies, there were specific predictions and timelines that could be compared to predictions of his peer and what actually happened (e.g. a chess AI beating the top human player, the mapping of the human genome by 2000, etc) http://bigthink.com/endless-innovation/why-ray-kurzweils-pre...

This piece has a lot of assertions and predictions but nothing clearly quantified or falsifiable. Somehow, I doubt he's shorting Disney or any other major content company but if he were (even in a fake money portfolio) it would make for a much more interesting argument.

Standard. This is what bitcoin leaders do.

I'm skeptical of that interpretation given how Hong Kong, Taiwan and Singapore score near the top. All three are very hot and humid places.

>" I don't know anyone who went to an elite university without significant baseline intelligence"

Oh, I sure do. The strongest positive correlations I've noticed with elite schooling are conscientiousness, acquiescence to authority and then wealth, in that order. Intelligence is a relatively distant 4th place, thought it still correlates positively, IMO.

PG actually wrote a whole essay on this topic: http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html

"...what we've found is that the variation between schools is so much smaller than the variation between individuals that it's negligible by comparison. We can learn more about someone in the first minute of talking to them than by knowing where they went to school."

Relevant thread with comments from competitors and people who were there at the beginning: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14758364

This intensifies the problem.

Just imagine the US real estate bubble a decade ago if housing loans worked in such a fashion! The perverse incentives alone are enough to cause severe harm.