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Agree with this push a hundred percent. I’d love to see numbers for Canada too, my suspicion is that it’s even worse. Starting a business here feels a lot like trying to cross the border in the game Papers Please.

My buddy opened a small guitar pedal shop from his attic, and was promptly told by the city he was circumventing zoning regulations, and was eventually forced to find a spot in the “industrial” sector, even though he was a tiny operation.

If politicians want to actually support small businesses and entrepreneurship, IMO auditing current bylaws and processes is the way to go.

Edit: words

This makes me very, very sad. One of my favourite composers are artists, with an amazing knack for melody. And he was still cranking out new music!

I've had SOME great brainstorming sessions that provided great ideas for paths forward when starting new projects. I think that last part is important. Specifically, the "Discover" part of the double diamond design process.

In the cited article, sure the faster problem solvers will solve more individually. But

1) the proper grain to measure success is as the team level, and

2) it's easy to score a problem with a known answer, but it is significantly harder for a group to come to consensus as to what the best answer might be – you can't always just crunch the numbers to see who was right.

The advantages of the brainstorm at the team level can be profound: they can reach consensus as to what these better options are, as well as a shared understanding of the problem space and what the next steps are.

[1] https://www.thefountaininstitute.com/blog/what-is-the-double...

Joyeux Noël tout le monde!

Here's a link to the MacOS version layout for alt-codes, which I believe handles all your points except the last: https://i.stack.imgur.com/v1ZLm.png

A sprint cyclist Olympic hopeful would have been squatting for years at this point. Maybe rusty, but

> after finally graduating in 1994, Tom moved to Los Angeles to train alongside the U.S. Olympic team

I imagine if this was ever used, it would be mostly for correspondence games, which can last up to many years.

I’d say humans’ success rate at modifying ecosystems to eliminate parasites is… a failure at best.

Life, uh, finds a way.

So I wouldn’t advocate for that approach.

And its BSD fork, Libresnel

While beside the main thread, I wanted to single out the amazing photography in this article. What absolutely stunning pictures these are!

Thank you for letting me find my next read! Loved Egan's Diaspora years ago, looking forward to this one.

Yeah agreed, I wasn't being clear there.

TL;DR: An ecumenical and conservative religious journal has stopped hiring Ivy League graduates as they "[can] make inflammatory accusations at the drop of a hat".

I had never heard of this journal before, but I can't say that I'm quite surprised by this statement given the unprecedented left/right schism in the US. Not arguing for/against it, I just don't think it's newsworthy enough to make HN front page.

Neat! That link worked for me on the latest Chrome ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Can we add [2015] to the title?

They acquired LGTM (https://github.com/marketplace/lgtm) not too long ago, so expect this to happen.

The lambda's purpose here is only to turn it into a one-liner. It can be rewritten as

    def fizzbuzz(n):
        num_map = { 1: n, 6: "Fizz", 10: "Buzz", 0: "FizzBuzz" }
        return num_map[n**4%15]


    for i in range(100):
        print(fizzbuzz(i + 1))

The real skill would be to demonstrate that you know/remember/can apply Euler's totient theorem off-the-cuff in an interview!

To the author: this is amazing work, and I think you should monetize it. I would absolutely buy a print of this.

Please consider hooking this to a Shopify store with a print on-demand plug-in (Gooten comes to mind, but there are a dozen alternatives) and sell them!

Never tried it, but Wolfram has a Mathematica plug-in for Excel.

https://www.wolfram.com/products/applications/excel_link/

jplr9822, I just wanted to say thanks for this great reply, and that I would thoroughly enjoy reading an expanded version of this in long form. Cheers

>In terms of resources the moon itself only has water

It has vast amounts of Helium 3. This could potentially be very valuable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helium-3#Lunar_surface_2

> where algorithms can become accidentally quadratic or worse without being noticed ("it's just a loop so it must be linear"...)

This is a takeaway message for me. With some luck I’ll remember that sometime

That’s a great article! I have no background in either Haskell or CS but was captivated to read until the end. Great job!

Nit: I think this would read better if the author replaced “personal theory” with “hypothesis”.

Sure thing, although I would argue the increased evolutionary fitness would be very small. The fact that they roll in it vs just inhaling it to me also suggests this.

Maybe their use of the word "functional" is different than mine, and we're saying the same thing. But to me there's a big difference from saying e.g. "Our findings suggest that chimps using sticks to dislodge food is a functional behavior."

Maybe go watch a cat and report back =)

> Our findings suggest instead that rolling is rather a functional behavior.

People smoke weed all the time and it decreases violence. But that’s not why they do it.

Chances are just as good that the insect repellant is just a nice side effect of these cats getting high, not the other way around.

s/natural world/inorganic matter/

I wasn't really talking about cars.

I tried to fix my car with sound arguments and correct premises once.

It’s what you don’t know that you don’t know that matters.

I made that link too - it’s spurious at best though, of course.

Ever heard of Metcalf sniper attack, too, taking down a California power station a couple years back? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metcalf_sniper_attack

Crippling a country’s energy and telecom capabilities could align with the motives of another nation.