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Tangential: on a mobile, you can not zoom the images in. When you click on an image, it is elevated into a lightbox that is roughly the same size as the original and can not be rescaled either. I still have no idea what the before-after image is supposed to show.

A "uxdesign" website should do better.

I just finished a MoO2 on Impossible this week :D (Democracy + Charismatic).

It always fascinates me how Steve Barcia managed to balance so many different game mechanics, traits and science paths into a single game.

It is surprising how bad YouTube is at discovering new content. No advanced search, no categories, no labels, nothing. Title and a thumbnail are your only two guides.

Also, long series are hard to keep track of. Like if you want to watch WW2 week by week, you have to manually find and choose the next video in the series.

> Should we go back to Waterfall?

In many areas we are already doing waterfall, except it is a sin to call it that way and we must pretend we are doing agile.

Let me give you two examples: - Contractual requirements. If you have a contract with a customer to build X, no matter how much agile lingo you use, you are basically doing a waterfall. - Legal requirements. Same as above. For instance, there is very little flexibility in being GDPR compliant.

Best design of a documentation page I have seen in ages.

Large font, clear hierarchy, great use of color and font weight.

A library of person-to-person communication snippets for those of us on the spectrum like this tool https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31224996 but curated by well intentioned community.

A single policy update can reverse all of this.

Not true, the bits live in a super complex hardware, the don't create any complexity on their own.

It always fascinated me how basically two quarks, one electron and some bosons can create so much chemical complexity.

It feels like trowing just 6 types of lego bricks into a huge bag and after a lot of random mixing obtaining whole universe of diversity.

In my case not at all. While it is true that I may do laundry between meetings, even have a power nap, in the end I have more energy for the demanding marathon of work.

One more important thing: I thrive in the environment were important things are written down. In my world it eliminates the power of "popular" people and cliques who work via "charming" and "politics".

Definitely gross. But illegal? I think that is where the controversy lies.

I don't understand why the fear of being sued is not preventing Google (and other big players) from misusing their position like this. Is it impossible to sue Google?

Spotify does this as well. I hate it. No, I do not speak the local language, stop!

I am one of them. Started with ActionScript 2 and ended up with TypeScript.

Also, Flash IDE is one of the best vector graphics editors.

Speaking of which, do you use Scratch or similar to teach your kids programming?

I know this is a controversial topic, but the very same is happening when IT companies deliberately hire and promote women to increase diversity. Like race, gender is an immutable characteristic and if you target it to positively discriminate one individual you negatively discriminate the other individual.

HR departments have measures and targets to report on and they will find a way to make their bosses happy.

I recommend to combine it with Threads (1984) for a maximum effect. https://archive.org/details/threads_201712

Yep, that is my question :)

I always wanted to build a "periscope windows".

Have a large light-gathering lens on the outside, then focus the rays into a much thiner "sun tunnel", bring them underground (in the same shaft as the water and heating pipes), then expand the rays into a fake window. If this was possible it would completely change the way we build homes, we could have many underground floors with "periscope windows" and a towers of light gathering lenses on the roof.

Unfortunately this is not physically possible, not just a real picture but not even the light can be made parallel this way. (Maybe some quantum tech will make this possible one day.)

Not Kuhn's fault, but this book started a different kind of revolution:

> Postmodernists interpreted Thomas Kuhn's ideas about scientific paradigms to mean that scientific theories are social constructs, and philosophers like Paul Feyerabend argued that other, non-realist forms of knowledge production were better suited to serve people's personal and spiritual needs.

> Kuhn described the development of scientific knowledge not as a linear increase in truth and understanding, but as a series of periodic revolutions which overturned the old scientific order and replaced it with new orders (what he called "paradigms"). Kuhn attributed much of this process to the interactions and strategies of the human participants in science rather than its own innate logical structure.

> Some interpreted Kuhn's ideas to mean that scientific theories were, either wholly or in part, social constructs, which many interpreted as diminishing the claim of science to representing objective reality

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science_wars]

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson tells the story of many important scientific discoveries.

I have always been fascinated by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergence

So this sent me down the wikipedia rabbit hole :D

One thing I never realised is how dramatically the viscosity of water changes with temperature. This is probably why you can recognise hot water from a cold water in a video.

Temperature (C) / Viscosity (mPa*s)

0.01 1.7911

10 1.3059

20 1.0016

25 0.89002

30 0.79722

40 0.65273

50 0.54652

60 0.46603

70 0.40355

80 0.35405

90 0.31417

99.606 0.28275

> That's more true of Saudi Arabia, than UAE

It was in UEA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Gali

Dictatorships are not holiday destinations or places for business - and this applies tenfold to UAE and Saudi Arabia. There has been plenty of warning over the years, enter these countries at your own risk.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Sampson_(author)#Arres...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alicia_Gali

> Then Pontzer asks a set of questions designed to boost a student’s stress levels: What’s her dream job, and what exactly is she going to do after graduation?

or

> launches into a time-honored method to boost her blood pressure: He gives her an oral math test.

Anybody else noticed this gem? I would like to see a list of topics like this - for just to be a better conversationalist.

(It reminds me of how people who don't have children (or don't understand children) when meeting a child they don't know often ask it the only thing they vaguely know about every's child life - how is school?)

Different countries certainly have different biases, but that does not mean that rational analysis of the problem is not possible. Would Japan surrender on August 15 if the bombs were not dropped? Could the US drop the first bomb on the Tokyo Bay instead? etc.

PS: I am European.

I use this example when discussing the context of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombing. While any bombing is tragic, the atomic bombs are not worse than other. This single air raid killed more people than Little Boy or Fat Man, and while hundreds of thousands of people died in the March-June strategic bombing of all major Japanese cities (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_raids_on_Japan#Firebombing..., the military dictators of Japan did not plan to surrender.

I am not the only one who believes that in the long term the atomic bombs saved millions of Japanese lives.

What the OP meant was a reaction to the original title here on HN that read: "Software flaw lead to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK legal history."

I am glad the title was de-clickbaited :)

Software flaw lead to incorrect numbers being displayed on a monitor. It was something very different that lead to the most widespread miscarriage of justice in UK legal history.

That's brilliantly said!

The argumentation of typical crypto fan is like the motte and bailey fallacy mounted on a helicopter rotor, constantly oscillating between some noble goals (decentralisation, freedom, privacy, anti-inflation, anti-fractional banking) and the "have fun staying poor" snark.