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The 'scam' seems to be insofar as wealthy and powerful entities can exploit the functional inability of those less wealthy and powerful to meet them on even terms in the legal system. I think we could all agree that in an ideal world if someone is at fault, their insurance should pay out to those they damaged. The reality is that may only happen if you have an entity of similar magnitude to go to bat for you.

That doesn't mean it's a good idea to not get comprehensive insurance, but police reports should probably carry some weight without requiring a suit.

You just told the other contestant the strategy, making it an us. He has no need to know in advance since you just informed him.

Uncertain if that's true. Prohibition of substances hasn't worked for alcohol or illicit drugs in general. Unlikely to work for tobacco specifically, especially given how easy it is to grow.

Evidently that attitude is what lead to greater likelihood of 'repercussions' that average.

Can I ask where the capital came from? Did you all pool together to fund it? It's a lot of dedication for something that sadly didn't ship.

That information is under pretty tight lock and key in the UK, perhaps for specifically this reason. I'd say the risk is pretty minimal.

This seems like an interesting pendulum swing where the few companies not reliant on AWS could capture significant enough revenue by maintaining uptime during a potential busy season outage.

The rise of Islam was even more tremendous, beginning in Muhammad's 40th year when the archangel Gabriel first began communicating the Quran to him, and becoming the largest religion in Arabia by the time of Muhammad's death 22 years later.

There's no such thing as 'innate' intelligence in the sense of not changing over time. Trivially, your IQ is benchmarked against a norm of people your own age, with the absolute value of correct results changing considerably with age (typically rising steadily until ~25 before declining). There are also techniques like the dual n-back that show at least short term changes to IQ tests.

So it can be avoided by compiling the code yourself?

Almost all evidence suggests that decriminalization or even full legalization is the path for substance legislation. Anyone believing criminalization to be an efficacious way to reducing drug addiction or related damages has either buried their head in the sand to almost every study and real world example, or has ulterior motives.

Comments like this are why the Hacker News downvote button is restricted.

Perhaps try to build your own and run that instead? To be honest I think you'd learn more about how to buy a business than how to run one if you bought one instead.

To be frank I don't know if there's any serious 'workflow' involving ebooks that doesn't involve using calibre or equivalent software to ensure they're DRM free and in the format you want.

That seems so different to my own experiences. I think I can visualize fairly easily and it's very much a 'mental' thing, distinct from 'seeing'. If I had to describe the location it would probably be a few inches behind the eyes with a sensation not dissimilar to mulling over a problem.

It's decisively ahead of Unity for 2d for me at this point, and catching up with 3d. The few times I've had issues I've been able to start a PR and it's generally merged pretty quickly. Way better than depending on Unity to fix it at some indefinite point in the future.

It's arguably impossible to eat what we would have eaten as cavemen given how essentially every food has been subject to thousands of years of domestication and cultivation, rendering it relatively distinct from its distant wild ancestor.

The gas beans give you is likely due to an inappropriately low amount of gut bacteria required for their digestion. It would be a better idea to try to re-cultivate this bacteria than to exclude beans, however.

Arguably this is too 1-dimensional a description to be able to say. Having learned Python before Java, spending time with the latter has only helped me understand Python's simplicity. That said, if it was the other way around this same might not apply, since Java will force a certain level of boilerplate, but Python can't force you to not over-complicate things.

Learning the fundamentals of interpreters, compilers, etc. can also give understanding transferable between almost all languages.

The change is gradual however. You don't wake up one day at 25 having drastically changed neuroplasticity overnight. Being healthy and in shape also seems to be important, as well as continuing to learn new skills and engage in novel activities.

I'm relatively young and for me Emacs isn't a fossil just because there isn't a better alternative I've found for taking notes than Org mode. This is especially true if you want to embed LaTeX or code into your notes (and even execute it).

As I've gotten into learning Lisp and using Magit occasionally I can't think of a an editor that's more versatile in its extensibility or offers a Git interface on Magit's level (although I still mostly use command line).

I did rebind a lot of stuff to more common shortcuts, with the exception of C-c just because it was too much work.

This may be more of an argument for Emacs as a general editor than IDE specifically however.

Arguably articles should be taken more on their ability to provide a relevant place for a particular discussion on HN, rather than the quality of article itself. This was a topic I was interested in and wanted to see what the HN demographic thought about it, so for that reason alone it's a 'good' post if enough people share that perspective.

I had this happen to me at a company recently. They were initially impressed with my linux knowledge and how I could port many of the processes they were previously confined to windows with. However, they had an unusual server setup, and when I asked a few very basic questions about it they totally reversed their opinion of me.

When my ability to actually implement functionality was incommensurate with their perception of my level of understanding, they would still privilege their perception as colored by me asking very basic questions (which despite appearances can often yield surprisingly useful/surprising information).

Despite being aware of what was 'going on', and generally having high confidence, this still impacts my self perception on some level. I find when I optimize for being perceived as intelligent instead of actually trying to understand things effectively I get much better reviews. It's difficult to know which is appropriate if you want to advance your career.

Thanks for this, this looks really interesting as well.

This is perfect for me, I recently made the project OS for Nand to Tetris and have been learning systems programming with Rust. I wish there was a way to find resources like this more easily than scouring HN or trying to sort through google searches.

The problem is privileging technologies that have defence capabilities. There are likely countless ideas that could have similar success to DARPA projects if they had similar access to capital and state support.

However, unless it can show off some military capability its funding can't be justified using the current model, leaving a gigantic subsections of technologies that could have similar innovative impact underserved by this level of support.

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I do think someone European geniuses like Heisenberg were destroyed by WWII instead of enlivened by it, working on the German nuclear project they didn't want nor think they could succeed in, and surrounded by comparatively few other geniuses.

It's interesting that Hungarian is one of the few Uralic languages in modern Europe, alongside Finnish and Estonian as the other 2 major representatives. Finland and Estonian could be argued to have enjoyed outsized success in STEM fields as well. I wonder if there could be value in learning languages with divergent roots. Most Europeans learn multiple languages, but typically they have similar roots (Indo-European) and a fair amount of crossover.

There is some evidence for the weak form of linguistic relativity, the idea that language can have significant impact on cognition. Perhaps taken to the extreme, with learning many varied and highly divergent languages at a young age, it can explain some of e.g. von Neumann's brilliance.

The criteria was that is was the best job available in the world's wealthiest country, not that it was palatable to a someone living in a very poor country plagued with issues much lower on Maslow's hierarchy

NHS doctors will typically have a significant part of their rota made up of 'long days'. The 'solution' is never 24/7, or less hyperbolic but still overly long hours, because there is a median decrease in cognitive function that renders additional benefit from fewer handovers moot.

But as regards 'overworking', while that is certainly true for many US residents in particular, I think the majority of people would be overworked on a surgeon's schedule. Yet reducing it significantly would probably be much worse for patients and decried by surgeons. My viewpoint is mostly informed by the British neurosurgeon Henry Marsh's opinion on working hours.