Does HN give you the ability to downvote after some threshold? I still don't have it.
I think it's 500 karma - you've got 54...
Readit NewsCd00d commented on Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022 photomatt.tumblr.com/post... · Posted by u/firloop
Cd00d commented on California can't save every burned town latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/lxm
I am having a hard time with your victimblaming ordinary Americans for forest fires, while keeping American politicians off the hook for the war in Ukraine.
I actually didn't blame you for your situation.
I pointed out that I find it gross to prioritize federal spending for your vacation home over victims of war.
Also, ordinary Americans certainly don't have vacation homes.
Cd00d commented on California can't save every burned town latimes.com/california/st... · Posted by u/lxm
> Insurance isn't mentioned at all in the article.
Yep. I am paying about $2000 a year for fire insurance for my summer home in Sierra Nevada. They promise to pay $350k estimated as the price to rebuild. Three major fires were nearby this year, about a 100 homes burned in the county. But thousands of (presumably) insured homes, including mine, survived. The deal looks pretty good for the insurance company.
I am also paying California and federal taxes. This girl talks about federal money as coming from nowhere. But they are not from nowhere, they are from my pocket. If they are that scarce, I would rather spend them on rebuilding California towns, than say Ukrainian ones.
Honestly, I'm having a hard time digesting your attitude that federal taxes should be allocated to your vacation home in a fire-prone region, than supporting the victims of an unjust war.
Cd00d commented on Adversarial Collaboration edge.org/adversarial-coll... · Posted by u/michael_nielsen
One of the most disappointing things that I have learned is that most people hold opinions in order to be part of some group. If someone is a member of a group, it is almost not worth listening to their arguments, especially arguments in support of views held strongly by that group. They are arguing in order to maintain their group membership, not to find the truth. It appears this is true of academic and scientific disciplines as much as anywhere else.
The most important thing I learned from my graduate advisor: anyone can have a worthwhile idea.
I watched him for years coming into weekly colloquia and seeming to tune out reading papers. But, occasionally there would be a speaker that was less than credible, and you could feel the entire hall close off. But, my advisor would hear a tidbit of a good idea (even amongst loads of bunk), and look up from his journals and ask a genuinely curious clarifying question. This would often lead to new lines of research in our labs.
In the end, many of these speakers were on the wrong overall track, but they definitely had insights that were incredibly valuable. Those who dismissed them entirely missed out, while my advisor had a knack for finding the signal in the noise and moving forward with that without missing it due to judgement.
I won't address "performance capacity" directly since it's too broad and vague, but it is plausible that there is diminished learning as we age. Think about learning new spoken languages. There's evidence to back the idea up in that context [0]. At the same time a 40 year old will likely have a higher proficiency at their language(s) than a 20 year old. This analogy exaggerates the idea (the trade-off) but I don't see why it wouldn't apply to programming languages as well. And this isn't ageism.
[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/at-what-age-does-....
You're ignoring that most "new" language problems have significant overlap with things already experienced, and there's only a minor translation issue, rather than a learning new things from scratch issue.
Once at an hackaton a computer science phd student ended up in my team.
He was unable to execute a .py file.
Why didn't you help your teammate?
A PhD doesn't mean that a person knows everything. It means they made progress in understanding in a narrow area. Might not have included Python.
Cd00d commented on At 4.4 miles, Wyoming team sets new rifle shot world record cowboystatedaily.com/2022... · Posted by u/bkohlmann
For those curious, the specific scope is this one:
https://vortexoptics.com/razor-hd-gen-iii-6-36x56.html
What is that they have mounted on the front of the scope?
Cd00d commented on Aleksandr Sorokin smashes 24-hour world record with 198.6 mile run irunfar.com/aleksandr-sor... · Posted by u/thm
My conditioning is also very uneven. Running would be trivial (I ran a half marathon at 7:55 min/mile a couple of days ago), I could also manage sit-ups just fine, would fail on push-ups (but not by much) but can't even do a single pull-up.
I'm the same - it's very easy for me to ramp up miles and pace in endurance sports, but I've never been able to do a pull up.
I do notice I weigh 25-30 pounds less than my friends that are same height and waist size. I'm 6'3" and when fit hover a little under 170 lbs, while everyone else is 190-200. I think it's a distinct lack of muscle.
By number, maybe. By dollars, no.
Madoff's core operation was based on scamming rich Jews in New York City, Palm Beach, Florida, and Hollywood. In each location, he had a prominent Jewish leader steering investors to his fund. Ezra Merkin handled New York, Stanley Chais handled Hollywood, and Madoff himself worked the Palm Beach Country Club. This was very much an in-person scam. A long list of celebrities lost big.
That's why the recovery operation was so long, so extensive and so successful. The major victims were well connected, could afford expensive lawyers, and collectively, they had a lot of clout.
The crypto world tends to have less well connected suckers.
Your point would not be weakened if you left ethnicity out of it, but risks coming across as un-credible and conspiracy driven with the addition. I'd recommend an edit.