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After doing intermittant fasting for half a year I think you shouldn't generalize too much from your own experience. Yes, it gets easier but it stays painful and requires a lot of willpower ime.

> We have the potential to do it.

I absolutely agree! Humankind is innovative and can move mountains when working together. It seems to take some time to make everyone aware but ultimately a lot of resources will flow into solving the climate crisis.

> Also in feudal times people lived 30 years on average and had horrible quality of life, spending most of the time with back breaking work

I don't think so.. Look for example at indigenous tribes, they don't work back-breaking 14-hour days, as far as I know. And if you consider that back in the day half of the children died before the age of 5, that leaves a comfortable live expectation of 60 years for anyone surviving childhood!

Real thorough math right there (quotations from your article):

> "[IQ] ends up selecting for exam-takers, paper shufflers, obedient IYIs (intellectuals yet idiots), ill adapted for “real life”."

> "It is at the bottom an immoral measure"

> "If you want to detect how someone fares at a task, say loan sharking, tennis playing, or random matrix theory, make him/her do that task; we don’t need theoretical exams for a real world function by probability-challenged psychologists"

> "Only suckers don’t have that instinct."

This is just a trash article by a bitter science denier. IQ-deniers are for me not much different from anti-vaxxers. Yes, you are free to criticize aspects of the test but there is no denying that people have different thinking speeds, as "immoral" as that fact might be.

Current production shouldn't matter and the sea is huge - if the algae are uncomplicated to grow I don't see any reason why there should be a limit to future production.

I get why this frustrates you but as you can not change other people you could try to clarify by adding a "This might exist in other countries as well" or similar.

In Germany a few big car companies start with an interesting middle ground, a "car as a service" where you pay monthly, can always switch to a different one or give it back for some time, they also handle repairs, tire changes and everything else that might pop up.

It's quite affordable starting at ~$350/mo, so I am curious to see how people will accept it.

Speaking for Thailand, the ride hailing apps are usually 1.5x - 2x the price of the meter.

This transparency is just admirable, with investments down to the exact real estate properties that is invested in. Just beautiful.

I am not GP but I found Medellin had a really dangerous vibe and a hideous city center. Bogota felt much safer for me and the center is really beautiful with lots to see and do.

I know that Medellin is said to be popular with nomads but I honestly have no idea why.

I am sure bamboozled meant it as a lower boundary.

In my opinion it works with food for almost all people and with fluids for many. I also drink more than enough just be drinking when I am thirsty. Some friends and also commenters here mention that their thirst doesn't work as well. So key is to know whether you can rely on your thirst.

For me at least it doesn't. Even just typing into the search field lags sometimes so that I have to stop a second to let the characters appear. Searching for a restaurant, clicking on it, reading the information can take whole 10 seconds and be so frustrating.

I use Google Maps many years already but it just became so slow in the last year or so. Maybe they just don't support non-high end phones anymore.

Yes, in my experience there are people that are natural runners and there are those who are not. I myself am running for 18 years already, around 2 times per week and even in my best form never reached 8 miles in one hour. A friend of mine picked up running and surpassed me after a few months. People are different, and GP forgot that!

>> Moreover, all the music is licensed through a single IP rights licensing system.

> No, it's not, it's just that public performance licensing has a small number of agencies that most artists are affiliated with, and offer blanket licenses

At least in Germany we have a single agency (GEMA) that acts on behalf of virtually all artists worldwide. They are responsible for a range of licenses, be it for bands that want to cover a song on their new album, a bar that wants to play music or a music streaming service that wants to get started.

In my experience it is a tremendous help to have a single entity for licensing that even has ready-made rates for most things.

I don't see a reason why this could not exist for movies as well. Cost-intensive productions can easily be reflected by tiered pricing so that it costs more to stream/show Jurassic Park than some independent movie.

Looks neat! Questions:

- Do updates show immediately (for both directions)?

- What are the limits of read/write queries?

- What are the limits of rows?

- Can I use formulas in the sheet?

- How is the type handling? Does everything get treated as text or are there date and number types?

- Do formatting options for columns (e.g. for number of decimals) survive when I alter things with the API?

> Isn't 'success' a form of comparison? How do you quantify success?

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language gives the two meanings

- The achievement of something desired, planned, or attempted.

- The gaining of fame or prosperity.

of which the first one is entirely void of comparison. Your biggest desire is to live in a nice house in the country side with a wife and two kids? If you achieved that, congratulations, you are successful!

Just curious, how come Glassdoor shows just $82k for Chicago [1]? Are these reported values far too low or is there something else at play? As your market is $135k and you implied Chicago has higher salaries.

I am not from the US and just try to understand if all the high salaries that get mentioned here on HN are reality.

[1] https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/chicago-software-develope...

Okay, thank you, I didn't know that.

> Apple Watch has been a game changer in some respects. I don't think anybody expected it to be as successful as it has been.

It has disappointed, actually, according to the very article we are commenting on: "The company sold about 10 million units in the first year, a quarter of what Apple forecast"

> "No one who can rise before dawn three hundred sixty days a year fails to make his family rich"

That almost sounds like sarcasm to me. I currently live in South East Asia and you know who gets up early every morning grinding 12 hour shifts with little to no vacation? The million of poor people who don't earn much more than "survive" money.

Okay, probably it's about context so if you are in a first world country you just work hard and the wealth will come pouring in? Still sounds like sarcasm tbh.

Of the top of my head the five most well-off people I personally know didn't work harder than the average and I am sure wouldn't say so about themselves, either.

But how many people are those? 1,000 worldwide? 10,000? I am sure it is a tiny fraction of the entire audience of maybe a fifty million people who hear about it. So they should do it in a separate event or direct market it to those studios, but the news didn't fit the audience.

> but the bigger problem is that the audience that most “enjoys” and retweets this stuff honestly doesn’t care that it is false. [...] The point is, they believe what they want to believe, and no amount of proof to the contrary will change their mind

All people are like that, just everyone for different topics. I heard so many people say "There are not enough resources on earth so that everyone can have a mobile phone" or the like, which obviously is false. Don't get me started on all the beliefs of lefts and rights in the refugee crisis in Germany. Or take "the free market solves it all" from many liberals, "capitalism is evil" from young contrarians and whatever conservative thoughts from older folks.

My point is, the problem of blind belief is not specific to the audience of those tweets, it seems human nature.

I'm not OP but at work we have a actually not-so-complex website that takes a full second to render a new page when switching, on my MacBook. On production and without loading anything via the network.

I blame it on create-react-app, which feels very very bloated to me. Whenever I write React from scratch it feels super performant, even with Redux and much more complex layouts than the page I mentioned.

It doesn't sound like a good thing until you have tried it!

More detailed instructions in case you want to try it: https://www.thailandclimbing.com/chiang-mai/how-to-use-a-squ...

Yes, you are scrubbing with your (usually left) hand. It may sound disgusting but actually feels really, really clean.

> how do you prevent the bidet from becoming a fecal squirtgun?

I have the same concern about the bidets installed inside toilets. Using "bum guns" which hang next to the toilet solves that problem though!

> If you paid a contractor to spend a week setting up a statically compiled site with a CMS, you may get competitive SEO

Sorry, but that's just not how it works. The technical part is easy and certainly once piece of the puzzle, but without a certain website age and tons of good backlinks you will never be able to compete with medium.

It is not about politics, it is about nobody doing anything. Just look on the streets, millions of cars all burning away litres of gas every day, releasing even more CO2 into the atmosphere. Everyone knows it and noone does anything about it. It is not "the elite" who is ignoring the issue, it is literally 99% of the people who don't care enough to even take the bus or bycycle.

I am not saying I am better, but is not anonymous "others" or our "GDP-based system", it is 7 billion people who don't care much.

Well they are living on government money already, so a UBI wouldn't change much for them or for how they burden society.

You will always have freeloaders. But it will work if it is only very few of them. It will be much more important to provide somewhat fulfilling jobs to people to encourage working. Because working in a coal mine sucks but having a passion-driven career is actually fun and rewarding.

> McDonald's has everything to gain by infusing this kind of DNA into their operations.

That seems logical but how much will it infuse Machine Learning into McD's DNA if the acquired startup sits in Israel? It seems to me the employees will not even interact much with each other, how can there be much of incorporating thinking, methods or practices?

Obviously it is unnecessary but I doubt it affects the perceived speed of the average desktop application in any way.

I use preact in some of my projects and its router ("preact-router") actually does what it should:

- has an easy <Router onChange={...}> callback

- instead of <Link to> you can just use <a href> and it works for internal and external links

- routes are per default "exact", so "/profile" doesn't match "/profile/settings"

So much better, highly recommended. You probably need to alias "preact" to "react" in your webpack settings though.