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If Dad has a lot of stories like this, you should check out this link. https://al-anon.org/

Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion.

For the record my father grew up as a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. He immigrated to the US in his late 20's and at the age of 30 he nearly lost his hand in a factory accident in Brooklyn. So he took college courses at night and eventually became a top DB admin at various institutions in NYC. He had something to prove so he just worked harder than all his peers. He was a man of his word of high integrity so he was given ever increasing responsibility.

Maybe he'd do poorly in a quantum physics class. But one does not need to score well on an IQ test in order to have integrity and ambition or to be a valued citizen.

[1]https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...

Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion.

For the record my father grew up as a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. At 35 he nearly lost his hand in a factory accident in Brooklyn. So he took college courses at night and eventually became a top DB admin at various institutions in NYC. He had something to prove so he just worked harder than all his peers. He was a man of his word of high integrity so he was given ever increasing responsibility.

Maybe he'd do poorly in a quantum physics class. But one does not need to score well on an IQ test in order to have integrity and ambition or to be a valued citizen.

[1]https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...

Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion.

For the record my father grew up as a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. At 35 he nearly lost his hand in a factory accident in Brooklyn. So he took college courses at night and eventually became a top DB admin at various institutions in NYC. He had something to prove so he just worked harder than all his peers. He was a man of his word of high integrity so he was given ever increasing responsibility.

Maybe he'd do poorly in a quantum physics class. But I'd prefer a citizens with integrity and ambition (this is within anyone's reach) over a one that scores well on a standardized test.

[1]https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...

Yes, I recall reading that Ben Franklin thought Germans were too stupid to make it in America[1]. So you have really good company with this opinion.

For the record my father grew up a shoeless jungle peasant in Nicaragua. At 35 he nearly lost his hand in a factory accident in Brooklyn. So he took college courses at night and eventually became a top DB admin at various institutions in NYC. He had something to prove so he just worked harder than all his peers. He was a man of his word of high integrity so he was given ever increasing responsibility.

Maybe he'd do poorly in a quantum physics class. But I'd prefer a citizens with integrity and ambition (this is within anyone's reach) over a one that scores well on a standardized test.

[1]https://qz.com/904933/a-history-of-american-anti-immigrant-b...

I often wonder what uplift the U.S. economy gets because consumers are lured by an initial low price that doesn't include service fees, taxes, gratuities, etc. It's like an accepted form of bait-and-switch, which is a proven tactic that increases sales.

A bit off topic but lets say you and your co-founder follow the canonical YC advice. You form a Deleware C-Corp, register your California foreign entity and grant yourselves ISOs with a 4 year vesting period and a 1-year cliff.

But then your company starts to do very well and in 6-months you both agree you won't need to raise VC and want to start paying yourselves more than the ~$100k mentioned in this article. What would be the best way to draw money from the company ? Increasing you payroll check seems unwise from a tax standpoint. Dividends might be a good way but you don't yet own a single share so you can't be paid through a dividend. You could pay yourselves bonus checks, but isn't that taxed at same rate as payroll ?

Side request, can anyone recommend a CPA in the East Bay (SF). Thanks.

Discussion regaring profile options: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4855004

For years I resorted to hacking /etc/hosts to block HN. Mentally, I just assumed that no website would have such settings so I never bothered to learn what noprocrast meant.

> not only tokens but anything else that can be bought or sold.

Ownership is a combination of possession, control, and enforcement. Blockchain solves the issue with tokens, maybe helps with digital assets, but anything ?

I own my house, for example, because the county records show I own it. But more importantly the county will enforce my ownership and also enforce any related contracts using an armed sheriff.

All that said, I often find myself thinking about this quixotic problem.

The city of Oakland has not only has a wildfire problem, but an arsonist problem. This summer a construction site with a 7-story structure (196 new apartments) was burned to the ground in just a few hours allegedly by one person. I didn't think that was possible in 2017.

Is the issue with fire-retardant wood/framing materials that it is too expensive, toxic, or doesn't help once a certain temperature is reached ?

The documentary "Under our Skin" details Alan MacDonald's breakthrough research on how Lyme disease causes Alzheimers. The 4 minute trailer is worth a watch[1], but basically Lyme disease is found in 7 or 10 brains of Alzheimers patients (small sample set). The Lyme disease spirochete literally drills countless pathways in the brain and that causes slow dementia. That spirochete also creates a biofilm which makes it challenging to detect in a living patient. His research is from a decade or two ago.

Also I wonder how a citizen scientist like Gates does a deep dive on this topic a like this. There are 10's of thousands of research papers on the subject[1] and countless books.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCLwauRh2gQ [2] http://archive.sciencewatch.com/ana/st/alz2/journals/

Fun fact: You can use a dry erase marker to erase the writing of a permanent marker. Assuming a smooth surface, scribble the dry erase marker over the permanent mark and erase.

>> People or characters from TV shows aimed at children below 12 are not allowed to do any product endorsements, in any context.

I wonder how this is handled when the ad context is implicit. Isn't Spiderman's image, for example, always an implied advertisement for Marvel, his movies, action figures, and whatever cereal box he is appearing on this month.

Your Acme example is similar to a Dutch Sandwich[1]. Dutch Sandwich, the Double Irish, a Bermuda Black hole... if my accountant started using such slang I'd start referring to him as my consigliere.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Sandwich

Forest M. Mims III was a master at using cartoons in his electrical engineering books. Just look at the happy and sad lightbulbs on page 1 of Getting Started in Electronics[1].

Using cartoons a great way to disarm the reader, especially children, into believing the subject matter will be understandable. I don't know if Mims used cartoons to make engineering appeal to children, but it certainly had that affect on me.

[1]http://www.flickriver.com/photos/mightyohm/tags/forrestmmims...

Does anyone have a link to the article on the lead detector ?

To comment on your question, my favorite past time as a child was walking the aisles of a hardware store or Radio Shack hoping to find a tool or device I had never seen before. If the store had a parts catalog, I would take it home and read every page. The girl in the article is doing the same only in a different format.

It is bizarre that an activity one child finds so fascinating and gratifying is seen as painfully dull and pointless by another child.

> Who said that just because you don't have a social life you must be miserable or depressed?

Well it depends on how one defines social life. But historically a lone human is a dead human. Depression does have an evolutionary advantage in that you are less likely to approach potentially violent strangers. The lowered energy levels make you sleep longer and reduces your visibility. The misery is probably just a motivating force so that you seek out your tribe.

Sorry, I was making a general comment and I didn't read the article because others warned it was too disturbing.

I find blaming oneself is always the best strategy in life especially in a close-call life-and-death situation. Agreed, it is self-deluding at times. And I would never apply such judgement on others especially the dead -- what would be the point.

I saw a PSA the other day reminding pedestrians that you do not have armor and that cars act like they own the road because they do. The best thing you can do as a pedestrian or cyclist is to assume your are invisible and to not escalate road rage situations. Telling yourself "but I had the right of way" won't speed your convalescence.

Jesus' full fish basket has a capacity of 0.1 cubic meters. Each fish in the basket has a volume of 0.0008 cubic meters and a packing density of 1.25. Jesus then distributes 33 fish. How many fish remain in Jesus' basket ?

Since the title of the post doesn't properly describe the article, this comment feels appropriate albeit insensitive.

> The petrochemical revolution guides the way we've

conducted foreign policy should have received top billing. Unless you were intentionally excluding items not in both sets.

The body provides many signals when you are stressed. But for those who are chronically stressed the signals are always present and therefore undetectable.

It wasn't until my mid-30's where I was able to have some downtime and learn what a healthy mind and body truly felt like. With a healthy baseline I can now quickly detect stress signals. This can be a subtle as feeling my face is wrinkled, a slight acid/burning feeling in my veins, absent mindedness, depression, quick/aggressive responses, flatulence, slight backache/tension, sleeping poorly, etc.

When I detect any of the stress signals I use one of the following techniques depending on the severity: I make "no" my default response to any new requests. I take deep breaths and softly smile. I switch to 100% selfish thinking; "what do I want ?", "what are my short and long term goals and what is my next step towards them ?". I plan. I make the gym and sleep a priority. I triage my todo list, cancel trips, and communicate with anyone who might get impacted. I avoid the news. I drink more water. I focus on anything beautiful immediately in front of me (usually the beauty of my meal since my mind tends to wander while eating).

Gold-bug has at times been used as a pejorative against people who criticized central banking and favored gold.

I wonder what pejorative will be coined for cryptocurrency enthusiasts. Banana-pants is just too broad. /s

The alternatives proposed in the article are also known as Proof of Luck and Proof of Time. Both require a trusted execution environment, which is what Intel's SGX enabled processors provide.

Perhaps Intel can find new blockchain applications for their technology, but it is unlikely to be adopted by a digital currency.

I definitely am not recommending holding in your sneeze. Exhale what air you can. When the sneeze comes, open your throat wide so to minimize the air velocity. It takes practice.

Unless I inhaled pepper that never happens. I've watched others learn this technique too even large men. It can take years of practice though, just like learning any good habit/manner.

This story was originally reported the same day Apple announced that it would no longer use Bing.[1]. Gates' sudden affection for Android feels like a transparent way to snub Apple in retaliation and nothing more.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2017/9/25/16361628/apple-siri-bing-...

PSA of the day: With practice you can learn to delay your sneeze by a second or two. That gives you time exhale all the air from your lungs so the sneeze has minimal power[1].

Tilt your head down too and with further practice you can learn to open your throat in order to minimize air velocity.

[1] Source: me, a former obnoxiously loud sneezer that always dismissed it as an unavoidable and comical physiological quirk because I am too big and manly to sneeze quietly. It isn't, it wasn't, and I'm not.

edit: added a step.

I had a nasty bout with an SEO marketer a few years ago. He had taken content from my website and other assets of mine without permission or advance request. I was willing to overlook it as an inevitable cost of doing business.

But when he started to steal my customer reviews word for word and posting them as fake reviews, I became irate. I guess I am OK with someone stealing from me but I felt the reviews were my customer's property, not mine. When I confronted him he started spamming my business and then wrote detailed fake blog posts about how I was criminal hacker that now works covertly for the FBI. My name and photoshopped images were posted on gay websites for bondage sex. I Googled very poorly for a while, especially my images. I lost many many nights of sleep over this and I probably lost a contract over it.

I eventually found where he lived and fortunately he owned his own home. I threatened to sue him and take his home. He removed all the libelous posts shortly after that.

After all had been settled, a few months later he wrote me asking if I wanted to partner with him on a project, demonstrating a pathological lack of awareness. Apparently tormenting me had just been another fun day at the office and not a memorable event. I ignored him and never heard back.

My personal experience does make me wonder if the subject in the parent article was motivated to kill his competitors just for profit. Or did he and his competitors have had a nasty on-going personal war that just kept escalating. Not that I would ever justify attempted murder. Just saying...

edits: grammar, clarity.

But you could use caloric restriction to get some of those years back. You're probably near rock-bottom grumpiness/misery anyway so the cost is minimal.