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CharleFKane··on Acemoglu, Johnson and Robinson Win Nobel Prize
The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This prize was created in 1968.

It is not a Nobel Prize. It is wrong and misleading to call it a "Nobel Prize".

CharleFKane··on Welcome Malt Liquor Fans
This site has been hijacked and the link pops up aggressive “your phone has been hacked”, “download our VPN” pop-ups. Proceed with caution.
CharleFKane··on Relationship with your car radio will evolve in the future
I have no relationship with my car radio right now.

I don’t want a relationship with my car radio.

I can’t remember the last time I turned on my car radio.

I don’t expect this to change in the future.

CharleFKane··on The Smartest People in the Room Are All Listening to the Same Podcast
Oh, wow! Another “Classical Stuff…” fan! Excellent!
CharleFKane··on Is anyone else receiving daily political texts or spam messages?
Not so much the past few weeks, but I was getting a lot of them before the Texas primary. And I expect it to pick up again as we get closer to the US elections.

My tactic is similar to that of a poster below. I respond back with “ I don't vote for candidates who text spam me. Die in a fire.” and block the number.

CharleFKane··on Ask HN: Does the Huberman hit piece change how you feel about his content?
What is a Huberman and where is this alleged “hit piece”?

Seriously, I have no idea what y’all are talking about.

CharleFKane··on A. K. Dewdney has died
This one is linked from his Wikipedia page:

https://lfpress.remembering.ca/obituary/alexander-dewdney-10...

CharleFKane··on Pi Day
I generally do not need an excuse to eat pie.

Your mileage may vary.

CharleFKane··on Could a Rogue Billionaire Make a Nuclear Weapon?
Has anyone else ever read Joe Haldeman’s “To Howard Hughes: A Modest Proposal”?

I’d recommend trying to find a copy if you haven’t.

CharleFKane··on Ask HN: What are the best articles on managing people?
Douglas Southall Freeman, On Leadership, especially the lecture he called “Old Number One”.

I can’t find it online now, though the whole book is on archive.org. Here’s a good summary:

https://uncomn.com/leadership-part-1-lessons-from-douglas-so...

CharleFKane··on Ask HN: Where do you find community outside of work?
Church.
CharleFKane··on Ask HN: Books you read in 2023 and recommend for 2024?
Deadly Times: The 1910 Bombing of the Los Angeles Times and America's Forgotten Decade of Terror, Lew Irwin

River of the Gods: Genius, Courage, and Betrayal in the Search for the Source of the Nile, Candice Millard

The Fleet That Had To Die, Richard Hough

Trapped Under the Sea: One Engineering Marvel, Five Men, and a Disaster Ten Miles Into the Darkness, Neil Swidey

CharleFKane··on The sound of crunching chips is annoying. Doritos has made a silencer
Will it require a $200 tax stamp, a Form 4, and a nine-month wait?
CharleFKane··on Amazon Let Its Drivers' Urine Be Sold as an Energy Drink
It's got electrolytes.
CharleFKane··on Claudia Goldin wins the Nobel Prize in economics
The prize is the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.

It was not one of the prizes established by Nobel in his will. This prize was created in 1968.

It is not a Nobel Prize. It is wrong and misleading to call it a "Nobel Prize".

CharleFKane··on The Nobel Prizes Need a Makeover
Can we start by getting rid of the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel”, which is not a Nobel Prize, but is commonly and misleadingly referred to as one?
CharleFKane··on Ask HN: What's your favorite essay/blog post of all time?
One blog post, one essay:

“Fire And Motion” by Joel Spolsky.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/01/06/fire-and-motion/

“Leadership”, Douglas Southall Freeman.

https://www.usmcu.edu/Portals/218/LLI/MLD/Fidelity/Leadershi...

CharleFKane··on Microsoft pulls article recommending Ottawa Food Bank to tourists
Isn’t the Canadian Wildlife Service in Ottawa? Or have I been misled by “Hinterland Who’s Who”?
CharleFKane··on [dead]
If I go through the drive-thru, will they make me one, too?
CharleFKane··on If HN had a pizza party, what toppings would you want?
All meats. Real meats, none of that fake plant-based meat.

Some roasted garlic would be nice too.

CharleFKane··on California to New York burritto tunnel
This is a really fun, and atypical, science fiction story.
CharleFKane··on George R. R. Martin uses a 36-year-old DOS software to write his books
I believe Cormac McCarthy did as well, at least until his recent death.
CharleFKane··on Nearly 10k more babies born in nine months under Texas’ abortion law
Texas has had a “Safe Surrender” law since 1999, which allows people to surrender babies to first responders without penalty.

Texas also recently legalized “baby boxes” which allow for anonymous surrender: the law takes effect in September.

Source: https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/new-law-provides-safe-place-to...

CharleFKane··on If you're good at being an asshole, you'd be GREAT at improving the world
I’m reminded of that panel from “Spider-Man”:

“But I don’t WANT to cure cancer. I want to turn people into dinosaurs.”

CharleFKane··on Why are Thai farmers feeding cannabis to chickens?
To get to the other side?
CharleFKane··on Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes says she cannot afford to pay back victims
In other news, I hear that IBM is making excellent progress on quantum level violins.
CharleFKane··on Redditors, in defense of Reddit, destroy Reddit
“We had to destroy the village in order to save it.”
CharleFKane··on Clearing 500k feral cats from New York’s streets
“…we feed the rats to the cats, and the cats to the rats, and we get the skins for free!”
CharleFKane··on Is it bigamy to marry someone to whom you are already married?
Yes, it’s bigamy.

It’s big of you, too.

It’s big of all of us.

CharleFKane··on Deprecated Bloodstained Code in the Linux Kernel
“Some circumstantial evidence is very strong, as when you find a trout in the milk.” —-H.D. Thoreau
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