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Right, high frequency con artistry.

> We attack both startups and inequality.

That would've been true if there was no non-profit startups.

Looks like she is wearing a hijab.

History... Germans have complexes with it.

If you want to hire only those with GitHub profiles, no wonder you see shortage of candidates.

> huge social cost of having your own minority language.

Scandinavians are some of the most successful societies, despite of small languages. Languages have cultural baggage to them; every time I hear English, I see high inequality, poor worker rights, obsession with money, yet excellence in science and higher education. No one wants to abandon their own and assume English identity.

Cool; all the pranksters of West Virginia and New Mexico please take note.

> (don't like volatility)

Antifragility is not liking volatility; it is dislike but acceptance of it.

This is what he said:

“(4) Build in redundancy and overcompensation

“Redundancy in systems is a key to antifragility. As Taleb suggests, nature loves to over-insure itself, whether in the case of providing each of us with two kidneys or excess capacity in our neural system or arterial apparatus. Overcompensation is a form of redundancy and it can help systems to opportunistically respond to unanticipated events. What seems like inefficiency or wasted resources like extra cash in the bank or stockpiles of food can actually prove to be enormously helpful, not just to survive unexpected stress, but to provide the resources required to address windows of opportunity that often arise in times of turmoil. This perspective helps to put into context the praise of inefficiency in Bill Janeway’s important new book, Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy."

Well, to build in redundancy you need market manipulation (FDIC for example), otherwise markets will tend to overfitness. If you are claiming that "antifragility" = laissez-faire you are completely wrong; who will enforce the redundancy?

Underlying markets _are never stable_. The main stabilizing force in the world are institutions of power and violence, such as army (especially American), police, jails etc. Markets already rely heavily on governments for their existence. You got Black Swan completely wrong, if you think that Taleb is advocating for laissez-faire, he is actually big fan of slow and dull, tightly controlled systems ("antifragile").

1. Somewhat higher quality. 2. Different legal status (police calls etc.). 3. Powered from a separate "battery", often will work even nothing else does.

Yeah, extreme volatility is the definition of instability.

Hardware involves certifications (unless you are small-time EBay vendor).

Chlorine, not chloride.

Markets cease to exist in unstable environment; "artificial" or not, stability is a precondition for existence of any social institution;I mean, come on, who wants to participate in unstable market?

You still need a bit of load if you run supply without the actual computer connected.

> I've been designing electronics and firmware professionally for my entire career.

That makes absolutely no difference. You can still be a bad engineer.

If you find Arduino bastardized C++ superior than AVR-GCC, you are a poor developer. Everything you can do with Arduino C++ wrapper you can do with normal C++. You'll save resources, end up with firmware, written in industrially standard language, will have better control over hardware.

> experience in the community means I can probably complete the entire project in less than a day of work.

If you after "designing electronics and firmware professionally for the entire career " still need assistance from the community for already well-documented 8-bit controller, it tells about you.

> pissed off at opening up your Good ol' boys club.

No, I am not - after all I am not an embedded developer; I am pissed that it is advertised as something it is not: not a good tool for making industrial automation, not a good tool to stay with if you decide to get involved with automation seriously. It gives a wrong idea to the student about how AVR works, it locks you in with the platform and at the same time dominates the sector.

I know someone bought 1988 Honda. Made a sharp turn - front wheel fell off.

Depends on the food eaten. Intestinal gases are poisonous.

So the annoying PCMatic ads were right???

But this is not Reddit either.

God thanks bicycles, horses and hot air balloons don't have wireless yet.

Not in Bay Area.

The difference is that Arduino interfaces the electronic world; you need to know your domain.

There was a link on HN recently about gentrification of the concept "hacker". It explains better than I can do.

The problem starts when someone unfamiliar with low level OS details writes a network service; you end up hacked. With arduino people get false sense of knowledge and when they put the things togethe for a real world application, it ends up bad.

> I'm motivated to learn top down in electronics.

Very dangerous and potentially deadly approach (electric shock, battery caught fire, floating inputs cooked the processor etc.) Electronics is not programming: errors have tanible consequences.

Arduino has its niche: it is artists; it actually started as a part of Processing. However, what bothers me is the culture around it: newspeak ("fritzing" etc.), lack of understanding that it is a toy and inferior thing, not suitable for real-world applications; abundance of bad hardware designs; overall drive toward abstraction, which is not ok when dealing with real world tasks.

No, wrong analogy. Web browsing should not be advertised as an introduction into TCP/IP.

Besides, last time I checked "open-source hardware" meant VHDL, Verilog and FPGA. The word has been hijacked I guess.

Arduino, as a piece of hardware btw is a nice development kit on its own.

> to who?

Everyone and especially the arduinists themselves.

> people than you might get interested in electronics as a hobby. wow.

People get interested in Arduino, not electronics; they get interested in the bling, not how it works. Instead of wasting time with Arduino, they can as well just read the datasheets.

> fewer people who learn the basics?

It stays constant, but the noise increases.