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nether··on Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality
Just live in the lame ass suburbs like everyone else. What the fuck is wrong with you people? Are you going to be on your deathbed wishing you had more squid ink pasta and museums in your life? No, you'll wish you spent more time your loved ones, which you can do anywhere.
nether··on Young men dropping out of the job market to spend time in an alternate reality
You can't deny that the morepigs young are opting for are highly degenerate.
nether··on Humans of Simulated New York: an exploratory comprehensive model of city life
*ok
nether··on Humans of Simulated New York: an exploratory comprehensive model of city life
Only one of the authors is a woman.
nether··on Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013)
Dating fits a common dyad in which a power imbalance exists. Women vs. men (in heterosexual dating), men vs. women (in many male-dominated careers), police vs. civilians, whites vs. non-whites, and so on. In such cases, these points of view are expressed:

More Power:

- Cooperate in order to reach a successful outcome

- Lay out your intents explicitly, attempt nothing verging on deception

- Be yourself, we just want to help you

- Work hard to better yourself, we haven't done anything wrong. In the vast majority of cases, you have.

(Overall assertion is that of equality, and denial of a power/privilege imbalance, and that you should take responsibility for yourself.)

Less Power:

- Compete with the other party to reach an outcome desirable to you

- Strategically reveal information in order to effect the above

- Be yourself, but realize that the other party may not have your best interests in mind. They prioritize their best interests.

- Work hard to better yourself, but understand that the other side makes mistakes, misjudgments and may just as well be as error prone as you.

In any relationship where an imbalance exists we should be aware that both sides will have sharply differing views. But dating in particular, the concept of female privilege is a huge minefield. OP article's ideas have been tacitly admitted to me in person by women, but the large audience online suppresses women from admitting anything that might not reflect well upon themselves. I think she's speaking for a large amount of women who deny their privilege via silence. The general idea might be that privileged deny their privilege, whether it's through physical attributes, wealth, legislated authority, etc.

nether··on Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013)
OkC was around ten years ago. I'm 31.
nether··on Why Online Dating Sucks for Men (2013)
But shirtless selfies work, if you have muscles. And copy-pasting messages also garner responses that lead to successful exchanges, that's why OkCupid chose not to ban them.

How tall are you and what is your race? Those two metrics are greatest determinants of how many messages you receive as a man.

nether··on South Korean President Impeached
The 4chan summary is the best I've read: http://i.imgur.com/86Z3ea6l.jpg
nether··on South Korean President Impeached
My cousin is a historian of Korea, and well, Korean herself. She says this president is like Korea's GWB. Shamelessly very right wing, a lot of gaffes related to speech and behavior. There are going to be a lot of happy people tonight.
nether··on A Review of Modern Sail Theory (1981) [pdf]
Similar errors are in airplane pilot flight manuals, and believed whole heartedly by pilots.
nether··on Ask HN: What is your commute like?
I lived twenty minutes south of downtown Los Angeles in the South Bay, i.e. Redondo Beach/Torrance. I drove 15 minutes to work in Torrance from South Redondo Beach. A couple of the younger guys rode their bikes.
nether··on Ask HN: If the bots take your job, what would you do?
I become a carpenter, probably living in a van down by the river.
nether··on Tool for tracking upcoming powder days at ski resorts and last-second flights
The ranking's a bit disingenuous since precipitation totals are notoriously hard to predict. There should be a huge sigma for each value, making it impossible to guarantee that the 28" forecast at a location will exceed the 27" forecast elsewhere. Accumulations will also vary after the clouds have gone, as wind transport can shift the distribution significantly, leading to that one side of the mountain that seems to be permanently scraped off or wind crusted.
nether··on A plane so good it's still in production after 60 years
I worked on six aircraft by my mid-20s, if you count internships. I'm 31 now. Rich was more referring to sprawling military programs with legislative delays. You can change programs within a company, or change companies.

Also, you're kidding yourself if you think any a/c from the '50s is flying with all original parts. Like any machine, it can run indefinitely as long as you replace components. At my first company out of college, we were updating aircraft put into service in the '60s. We did new engineering to redesign parts, for example replacing an assembly of three primary components with a single CNC machined piece of aluminum. It just was not possible to fabricate the geometry with tools of that era. The new assy was simpler and stronger. Advances and upkeep like these are what keep old machines flying.

nether··on A plane so good it's still in production after 60 years
> Today we could create more optimized designs in almost every metric, including safety, but no company can afford to do so.

Really? The Cirrus SR20, SR22 don't count? Haven't they been outselling the 172 for several years now?

nether··on Berlin Living Rooms
I stopped watching TV on a TV twenty years ago, but I watch enough Netflix/YouTube and read enough frivolous social news (including some HN stories) to more than make up for it.
nether··on White House proposes steep budget cut to NOAA
I started using windytv.com after seeing it mentioned here. It uses the European ECMWF weather model, which is well known in the meteorological community to be more accurate than the NOAA GFS: http://cliffmass.blogspot.com/2016/06/us-numerical-weather-p.... With this budget cut, it looks like that will continue.

In particular, as a non-hydrostatic model, the ECMWF gives much better forecasts in mountainous regions like the Eastern Sierra (where I live).

nether··on You May Want to Marry My Husband
Or dudes like my former manager, who would regularly take work with him on vacation, unpaid, not in a crunch or anything.
nether··on The Myth and Magic of California Style
I imagine every article about style/fashion/clothes sounds that way to HN readers. Consider pg's article on "submarines,” which to me was just a blithe lack of understanding of cyclical fashion, and his noble defense of wearing sneakers in professional settings. A fashion editor trying to write about trends in software frameworks would probably fare no better.
nether··on Why Some Cars Have Gas Tank Fillers on the Left or the Right
I actually enjoyed the research bits, and the partial justifications from various manufacturers. Their rationale was interesting even if inconsistent.

I'm also against these sort of "click saving" summaries. What's next? Two star-crossed lovers commit suicide, someone climbs mountain and makes it down ok ... Sometimes the journey or narrative is interesting even if the outcome is not extraordinary.

nether··on Ask HN: Who is switching away from MacBooks this year?
Not me. Still on a mid-2011 13-inch MacBook Air. I'll probably switch to whatever new MacBook is release this summer.
nether··on Mini Museum: Spinosaurus, Steve Jobs Turtleneck, SR-71, 14th Cent. Samurai Sword
Looks like a slick way of preserving cultural artifacts that would have otherwise been discarded.
nether··on What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
On my thru-hike, I ran out of candy (I always carried a bag with an assortment of gummies, hard candies) and just started eating sugar (intended for my tea) by the spoonful. I've never felt such an intense craving for simple sugars as I did on the PCT. It seemed to revitalize me, both physically and emotionally. So I can totally understand this mint "cake."
nether··on What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
18 miles can be quite an effort if there's over 7,000' of elevation gain. We're not told the grade of the trail but I imagine it's not flat.
nether··on What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
On the PCT I ate PopTarts every fucking day. Never again...
nether··on What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
Shoes for hiking should be sized to be roomy around the toe. All of mine are 1-2 sizes larger than my Brannock size. Toe bang is prevented this way.
nether··on What Happens to Your Body on a Thru-Hike
Meetup.com is great for just getting into hiking, just search "[your city or metro area] hiking." Equipment couldn't be easier, wear comfortable walking shoes (sneakers are fine) and bring sunblock, snacks, and water. If you start hiking a lot, you may want to invest in dedicated hiking shoes, a hydration pack, trekking poles etc. But you don't need any of that to get started in easy hikes.
nether··on The threat from within
https://youtu.be/iKcWu0tsiZM
nether··on Development content accidentally shipped on a DOS CD-ROM game from 1993
At the time, these files were worth six billion dollars.
nether··on Ask HN: What're the best-designed things you've ever used?
Meta: /r/buyitforlife has a lot content in this vein.
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