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OatsAndHoneyon Scott Forstall tells story about Steve Jobs, Microsoft, and a dead fish [video]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2018/08/06/who-ar...

Vegans at most account for 3% of the population. In a corporate entity that large, it doesn’t matter if you miss a hire or not. So if a vegan was offended, I’m sure no one cared and was happy to offer the job to someone else.

OatsAndHoneyon Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

Studying algorithms, math, and physics. That’s it.

OatsAndHoneyon Why is the stock market rallying when the economy is so bad?

Apple News, it's the cheapest way to get the WSJ, or subscribe to WSJ on their website.

OatsAndHoneyon A Lesson from the Spanish Flu: Don’t End Restrictions Too Soon

The title is just doublespeak. The article ends with the line: "At 12 weeks, he says, the benefits from a shutdown exceed the costs."

The economy is a human invention, there is nothing natural about it. You can't go on the safari and find a wild S&P500. These consistent demands in the media for a blood sacrifice is outrageous and dehumanizing to the people that have to suffer the consequences.

OatsAndHoneyon Ask HN: How do you manage self-study?

There's a lot of complicated answers here, I'll try to keep mine simple. Like you, I have a lot of interests. Like you, I was also overwhelmed by the amount of information and how to learn it all. The first thing I did was to ask myself what I wanted to know and why. Then I asked myself which topics are related. I followed this up by asking what were the "basics" that I needed to learn these topics?

Nobody likes the basics, they're boring, that's why they're _the_ "basics", but they're important, so I had to figure out how to motivate myself. So I just considered it eating my vegetables for more interesting topics.

I started small, 20 mins a day, on the basics. Before long the basics empowered me to learning other topics I was more interested in. So soon I could keep going with my basics while adding another 30 minutes a day to studying another topic of interest.

Now I'm up to four topics of interest and am spending a couple of hours a day studying concepts I find to be very interesting. Not everyone has that kind of time, and some days I don't want to spend all that time on it, so I take a break. I've found it's important to not let the break last longer than three days though (unless it's a vacation) otherwise I start to lose where I was at in my progress and have to spend some time refreshing everything.

That's it, it's like the old adage. How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. You would be surprised at how quickly 20 mins per day adds up. That's ~121 hours a year or ~3 weeks of working on a specific topic non-stop.

OatsAndHoneyon Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers

Are there any software projects on GitHub which need volunteers, that helps the researchers?

OatsAndHoneyon Covid-19 projects looking for volunteers

"The scientists found that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was detectable in aerosols for up to three hours..."

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200317150116.h...

That indicates airborne transmission is a vector.

OatsAndHoneyon What Coronavirus Does to the Body

According to the WHO the case fatality rate is 2.3%. However the CFR is not the real mortality rate of the disease and is a changing number. Here’s an excerpt from the latest Situation Report about the CFR and what it means.

“The confirmed case fatality ratio, or CFR, is the total number of deaths divided by the total number of confirmed cases at one point in time. Within China, the confirmed CFR, as reported by the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention,9 is 2.3%. This is based on 1023 deaths amongst 44 415 laboratory-confirmed cases as of 11 February. This CFR does not include the number of more mild infections that may be missed from current surveillance, which has largely focused on patients with pneumonia requiring hospitalization; nor does it account for the fact that recently confirmed cases may yet develop severe disease, and some may die. As the outbreak continues, the confirmed CFR may change. Outside of China, CFR estimates among confirmed cases reported is lower than reported from within China. However, it is too early to draw conclusions as to whether there are real differences in the CFR inside and outside of China, as final outcome data (that is, who will recover and who will die) for the majority of cases reported from outside China are not yet known.”

https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/coronaviruse/situati...

OatsAndHoneyon It costs $10k to ‘own’ a Chick-fil-A franchise

They closed immediately after they opened in the U.K.

https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/u-k-s-first-chick-fi...

OatsAndHoneyon Net worth of Americans aged 18 to 35 has dropped 34 percent since 1996: study

I fundamentally believe programs like MIT OCW and MOOCs are the way of the future. The problem with MOOCs is that they lack focus and quality control.

For example, School Yourself is the single best math program I've ever discovered on the internet: https://www.edx.org/course/introduction-algebra-schoolyourse...

Compare that to the Calc1 course from MIT on EdX as well. The algebra course engages you, helps you think through problems, and offers a customized learning path with a virtual tutor. The MIT course is just lecture and reading materials, it's not interactive, and it doesn't help you to discover the topics on your own in the same way that School Yourself does.

I desperately want to see a focused study program from an entity like EdX that takes a person from algebra to discrete mathematics using the model of School Yourself. I also want to see a similar course path for physics and chemistry.

Being a liberal arts major I wouldn't be where I am in technology today if it wasn't for friends, IRC, and places like EdX. I was willing to literally sift through hundreds of hours of content to get here though. Not everyone has that kind of time or interest, we need to make it easier for everyone to learn.

If we can just have a single platform that really focuses on bringing value to the individual and giving them a strong base to work from piece by piece, then we would have so many more mathematicians, physicists, engineers, programmers, etc.., all without crushing student debt. Imagine the innovation that we could realize!

OatsAndHoneyon US10144532B2 – Craft using an inertial mass reduction device

This is more than travel to other planets. This is travel to other times, maybe even other dimensions or universes.

OatsAndHoneyon I’m 14, and I quit social media after discovering what was posted about me

Have you tried iCloud / iPhone? That's what I switched over to once I quit Facebook and Android. The iPhone is great, it's private by default, I can share photos / albums only with the people that I want, and I create different groups based off of different interests, trips, etc. All together with iMessage and Notes I get pretty much everything I had with a newsfeed / blog, all without the implications of Facebook and giving up all of my privacy.