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mericon Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo

If we really dig for an example - mountain climbing guides for Mount Everest, certain groups of people have evolutionary advantages that make them more suited for the job.

In an extreme environment where advantages of the tail end of population distributions are important then it's less likely the market will choose a diversified workforce.

mericon Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?

Trading cryptocurrency - in stock markets charting, Elliot wave don't really work as well (or not easy to use), you're trading against hyper experienced investors. In Bitcoin, ethereum, there is broad participation by less experienced investors and speculators, and there is much more emotions in the chart. It makes technical analysis very easy, because the patterns are obvious, easy to spot, much less likely to be manufactured. The transaction fees are also low allowing small positions. So when I see an opportunity I just put $500. Next thing you know I'm up $200 and I cash it out. One more thing is if I'm ever wrong, cryptocurrency is in a bull market, and the position would always get rescued as long as I am patient. Of course I do have discipline and do cut my losses. Transaction costs is cheap, and opportunities are frequent, so it's easy emotionally to do it. I have a few grand this year which is nice.

I do have a lot of money in stocks and with those I don't do nearly as well but clearly I learned enough to make a quid or two in crypto markets.

mericon Ask a Female Engineer: Thoughts on the Google Memo

For a genetic study of prevalence of a genetic condition in Chinese males, you'd want a homogenous group of Chinese males.

mericon Ask HN: How to stop competitiveness within the Dev world?

I think it can happen when a person identifies themselves with their ability to program. Emotionally then they won't be able to approve their colleagues (even if their mouths move that way), because it'd undermine their own confidence in their own existence. Many of us who program here think "I'm a programmer." And I think that's where the trouble starts.

mericon Gates Makes Largest Donation Since 2000 with $4.6B Pledge

I don't agree on large marginal taxes on labor, you'd be targeting high earning surgeons rather than rich families inheriting wealth. If we want to tax capital, tax capital, and put a wealth tax of low single digit percentage point paid yearly. If you want to exclude people's first home, then do that.

mericon The Next Moon Landing Is Near, Thanks to Pioneering Engineers

Are you talking about spaceshipone?

mericon YouTube AI deletes war crimes evidence as 'extremist material'

Do some of them have dual citizenship?

mericon A note on programmer salaries

virtue signaling is high, but actual virtue is punished

Hypocrisy?

mericon Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

Ok apparently I have been served unsafe drinking water.

"For Pakistan’s majority, the main source of drinking water is groundwater. The most common instrument for extracting groundwater in rural areas are the hand pump and the motor pump. Hand pumps and motor pumps together provide 61 percent of households with drinking water; in rural areas this percentage rises up to 70. "

http://nation.com.pk/blogs/13-Jun-2015/provision-of-safe-dri...

"In 2015, 91% of the population had access to an "improved" water supply.[15][16] This was 94% of the population in urban areas and 90% of the population in rural areas."

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

mericon Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

Oh well I stayed in Pakistan cities and villages and farms and there's clean water, housing and mobile broadband... Sorry to hear the state in India - I incorrectly assumed they were ahead due to higher GDP per capita.

mericon Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

I can't believe you like the idea of discovering alien life so you can use the discovery to troll religions. Surely there's other reasons why this is exciting?!

mericon Four Earth-sized planets detected orbiting the nearest sun-like star

Yes even most people in Pakistan/India have access to those, plus broadband internet. Yes I've been there.

mericon Eighth Circuit: Citizens do not have a right to film public officials in public

It's the people that demand the gun rights against the government whose state officials vote themselves "protection" from being filmed in public.

mericon Ask HN: How is coinbase allowed to have atrocious support?

CEX.io seems ok.

mericon Ask HN: Beside Bitcoin, what has offered a 1 000 000× ROI over 7 years?

Skills in cryptocurrency investment.

mericon DeepMind and Blizzard Open StarCraft II as an AI Research Environment

What about AI's fighting each other on Starcraft 2? Will that be interesting?

mericon Ask HN: You have $100/mo to invest in cryptocurrency, BTC, BTC Cash or Ether?

Cryptocurrency has low beta and offers great diversification benefits especially in low amounts specified by OP.

mericon Launch HN: Muzmatch (YC S17) – A place where 400M single Muslims can meet

Could be engaged..?

mericon How America Went Haywire

Many interesting points -

But I want to note - If 10-15 years ago a person said the government records all data going through the internet, that person would be labeled a conspiracy theorist. While technically correct to use this label for this person, I think the emotions associated with the term are not entirely warranted.

mericon Evidence that ancient farms had different origins than previously thought

If I didn't think the parent I was replying to was suggesting exactly that, then I wouldn't have made the reply I did.

mericon Can a Living Creature Be as Big as a Galaxy?

Or, you can write a science fiction short story and make it true in a fictional world you invent.

mericon Evidence that ancient farms had different origins than previously thought

I know in this practical universe, Newton's laws of physics and Einstein's views of quantum physics were both at one point "facts" but later shown to be mere approximations and both of them worth being doubted. There's no point to having science if all we are going to do is assume everything that comes out of the process as the gospel.

mericon Languages Which Almost Became CSS

Depends on the circle you're making the website for I guess.

mericon Monsanto leaks suggest it tried to ‘kill’ cancer research about weed killer

God is not in this world. This is the creation.

mericon Exa, a modern replacement for ls

    export pls=exa

mericon Ask HN: How did you go about estimating the “market” for your last product?

Talk to target customers?

mericon Monsanto leaks suggest it tried to ‘kill’ cancer research about weed killer

Christianity is belief in Christ and is close to an infallible thing as we have as humans. There is no problem with Christianity.

What is happening here is "corruption". The people using Christianity to further their own egos and desires are liars and it becomes a question of taking skeptical views towards authoritative figures and knowing who to trust.

Be careful about making Science™ a religion.

Nothing in this world is infallible.

mericon Monsanto leaks suggest it tried to ‘kill’ cancer research about weed killer

Well there's https://www.cornucopia.org/2017/01/glyphosate-harmful-rats-l... but I suppose fatty liver disease is not as serious as cancer...Wash your vegetables before eating.

EDIT: I think it's prudent to wash vegetables to clean off any herbicides and other chemicals even if they are "known" to be harmless.

mericon Bitcoin Cash Soars to $700, Coinbase Customers Threaten to Sue

In the AAPL example, it's not a stock split.

mericon Bitcoin Cash Soars to $700, Coinbase Customers Threaten to Sue

Both this and dividends are payments to shareholders but this is different because it's not funded by the company itself. It's a third party electing to pay every shareholder. Also, dividends are regular events, but getting a new asset that can be traded is not.