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There’s more to learning and the life of the mind than how much money it can make you. College shouldn’t entirely be a STEM trade school. Creativity and innovation require cross pollination and I bet if you look harder you find plenty of studio art majors and linguists and English majors doing just fine in the modern world. We can’t all be engineers but we can all learn to apply ourselves across disciplines and that works both ways. The problem seems to be that people believe that college is the only ticket they need and that they don’t need to apply themselves further or continue learning and adapting.

Out of migratory curiosity, what community?

Only if you're certain you're not Denethor

Meat is at least more complex/interesting in that it can also directly affect things like human health. I see where you're going with this and, yes, reductio ad absurdum it boils down to basic income and carbon taxes, but meat rationing would seem to have a behavior modification component as well that the other two producers you listed don't really have beyond a superficial level.

I have not yet formed an opinion for better or for worse, but thought it key to point out a potential argumentative difference.

I'll never understand the portion of the population that reads a relative ranking and then declares that its not true because x still exists there...

"amongst the least corrupt" != "free of corruption"

It's like saying X is among the best schools in the region and sends the most children to university and someone rebutting the statement with "yeah, but billy went there and didn't graduate and didn't go to university."

It's as if their brain is a computer program that's designed to purposely misinterpret information and then argue against the information for the sake of it.

Sorry for the rant. This type of nonsense has been building, or least becoming more obvious, lately in the public and political spheres and I needed to flag it for my sanity.

Point of order... iPhone June 2007, Bitcoin January 2009

I'm all for alternative entry level transportation... that can stand up by itself.

How about a nice e-Tricycle with a basket on the back?

I'd prefer not to go tumbling to to ground or into traffic if I make a mistake on my bike or someone else makes a mistake and I fall down for it.

That'd be truly entry-level.

Fascinating to watch Rybolovlev move money in the open like this with the help of the art market apparatus. What a time to be alive.

If you're not keeping track this was almost double the price expected for a da Vinci of questioned provenance sold by the fertilizer magnate who bought Donald Trump's Palm Beach mansion for double the estimated price and then never lived in it.

One part of this I've never seen discussed is that they reveal the salaries but they almost never reveal what the company believes it can afford to pay everyone involved and how the salaries influence the health of the company. It becomes employee vs employee vs company then instead of people seeing how it all fits together.

I often think its that the transparency is only halfway that causes many of these peer to peer problems. It also doesn't help that most white collar work these days isn't directly translatable to revenue. Its easier to tell a salesman what he's worth than a designer etc...

It's really actually quite difficult to be fiscally conservative and socially liberal.

You can be fiscally conservative and socially neutral maybe or socially laissez faire but not socially progressive or socially liberal.

If you want social liberalism, money has to be spent on programs that enable social progress or has to be spent on enforcement of socially liberal laws and regulations, (history has shown it won't happen otherwise). This is the opposite of what we know fiscal conservatism to be in America.

I know this sounds nitpickish, but the closest you can get is to say something like I want liberal policies as cheaply as possible and unfortunately for those who want to claim the middle with that, that's essentially the policy of liberalism and the left. That's what liberals want too...

What socially liberal, fiscally conservative generally means is I don't care what you do but I don't wanna pay for it and that's not the middle, that's libertarian.

Sorry for the rant but I'm generally tired of seeing a claim for the middle being used as a substitute for I want socially liberal policies but I don't want to feel bad about not fully supporting them because I don't wanna give up any money...

This probably isn't you of course, but it sure is a lot of people who claim to be "socially liberal, fiscally conservative"

I spent a decade of my life in the valley and I do believe it's relevant to remember that what used to be a homebrew mixing of nerds, hippies, academics, researchers, teachers, makers, marketers, tinkerers and capitalists is now in large part skewed to marketers and capitalists. This is not necessarily good, bad, or romanticized it just is. So here are some tips:

Don't hustle.

Don't crush anything.

Try not to have to give a stage presentation with a mic at the corner of your mouth.

Your creation is not completely superlative or world changing yet, speak of it realistically.

The internet is not a substitute or replacement for you having to deal with humanity.

Be nice.

Follow your curiosities and interests. Have curiosities and interests.

Don't claim false passions. You're not passionate about "revolutionizing HR" or "remaking the way people buy nail polish".

Learn how tech relates to the world and how you relate to it, don't make tech its own world.

Maybe get a hobby.

Be kind.

He might have a point on water, but...

Where are his statements on their practices regarding infant formula, the use of child slavery for chocolate, the use of general slavery in their seafood production in Thailand, and the intimidation of workers who wish to unionize in India?

It's also my understanding that the passengers they flew in were FEMA workers and 100 or so of the people they flew out were "nonrevs" with seats still open on the plane after that i.e. Most of the people who they flew out worked for airlines and no one was kept off the plane due to space

The thing for me is, I never watched it for the contact. Its always been a rooting interest type of sport and if I wanted contact I'd go watch boxing or MMA.

The thing they don't seem to get(The NFL) is that most people don't care about the hits and they could eliminate them. I'd watch highly skilled athletes from my university or city play FLAG FOOTBALL at the highest levels of skill and athleticism as often or more often than I watch them now.

We need to think a bit about why people watch team sport as a society and realize that if flag football was the highest level we'd ever known we probably wouldn't lose a viewer.

Skills are skills and team rivalries and rooting interests remain regardless of whether its hockey or football or whatever.

Something I've never understood is why skateboards and mopeds and vespas?

Why aren't we all moving around on something small but stable like an electric fourwheeler/quad/atv or whatver you want to call it?

I've never received a good answer why the more stable, easier to ride, less likely to topple quad hasn't been adapted to city use or even made street legal, when mopeds and vespas are everywhere.

You can still park many of them in the space of a car and many more people would be capable of driving them. To me the electric quad seems like no brainer city vehicle.

The fear is due to racism, scapegoating, and a general inability to cope with a changing population...

https://thinkprogress.org/poll-americans-anti-immigrant-atti...

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/136843021667730...

http://groups.psych.northwestern.edu/spcl/documents/Craig_Ri...

http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10516.html

Nomadism is lovely but I believe that natural comfortable state for humans is to be Migratory. Find several comfortable places that you belong in specific seasons and move amongst them. You can develop ties and a sense of ritual belonging while having most of a benefits of a nomadic life.

Snowbirds, Celebrities, Jet Set, Aristocrats, Fashion industry have all figured this out as the most comfortable form of human life at some point or another.

We do have a couple independent road systems when it comes down to it. Having built such an extensive paved road system allows for there to almost always be an alternate route to travel if something comes up. Electric grids don't work the same way obviously, but we did make the capital investment when it came to roads.

I got nailed in a lower comment for suggesting that Betteridge's law applies here (I know I know.. Betteridge's law isn't hard and fast and it's SO over/passe), but we live in an age where bullshit reigns and I'm willing to double down...

This is from the Telegraph, a paper who at this point basically reprints press releases on science and history with sensational titles (Not that they're the only guilty ones). Other major sources of this specific spin on the article are the Daily Mail and the New York Post (SfGate takes a slightly less sensational approach to the new evidence).

Clearly your crap detector should be tingling when you see these sources as the main sources and then bang! you find it: There's a new History Channel show premiering soon about this very escape - Alcatraz: Search for the Truth.

Gee I wonder why this is making the rounds? Will it end just like any other search for history show in the annals of television: "inconclusive evidence: the mystery is still out there and we'll keep searching we promise"

This is a different form of PG's Submarine PR hit http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html and frankly it makes me mad/sad that its so high up on a site like HN.

Feel free to continue downvoting me into oblivion and I'll continue shouting into the void.

If this were reddit, there'd be someone here in the comments explaining the other side of this investigation and the ways that it probably isn't true.

1.) No he hasn't: https://twitter.com/ianbetteridge 2.) You seem to be a moderator here(?) and in your comment history you often call out comments that don't advance the discourse on HN but then you go and make a comment like this. What gives?

How many of these stories get written this way? Treasure at Oak Island... The reporter's father killed The Black Dahlia... D.B. Cooper is alive etc... They're written mainly to sell papers. Until the men are uncovered, the answer is most probably: No.

Betteridge's Law of Headlines:

"Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headlines

Here's my hard-core career advice for a 13 year old. Be a kid. Be curious. Have experiences. Worry about a career later. Much later.

35,000 means this is likely a typo and that they probably meant Burlington. Bennington is maybe half that size.

For the record, these types of mattresses don't have to offgas. http://keetsa.com/ is the best mattress I've ever had and it didn't off gas of all because they don't use the normal chemicals.

Look deeply at yourself here.

How about this quote?

"I've got my family to feed" - Latrell Sprewell

I hate when people make it like its a feed my family choice like they live in a hut somewhere. Above a certain level of income the "feed my family" excuse is simply that. An excuse for otherwise inexcusable behavior.

Just be nice to people, its not that hard. The world especially the tech world isn't a zero sum game.

Monogomy in the modern age has always seemed like a sexual (and emotional) put option.

That said this rock that we're flying through space on becomes much less enjoyable if you stop believing entirely in the more romantic ideas of human entanglement (we are beings that need stories).

It's an app that doesn't work in the specific way that you wish, but I have found leechblock to be a wonderful addition to my internet life: http://www.proginosko.com/leechblock.html

You can eliminate large swaths of the internet from loading in your browser and control what sets of sites are blocked when.