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I think one way to define math is “the collection of symbols we use to precisely explain natural phenomena”.

I can say “that rose is very pink” and that is accurate enough for most people. But if I want to know how much pink there is in the rose, I need a better descriptor than “very”.

So in that sense, Math is made up. It’s just the language we use to describe stuff when spoken/literary languages are imprecise.

But it also isn’t made up because there are objective justified truths behind its symbols. Aliens would probably have the same concepts, they’d just use different symbols.

Mailers can’t risk getting blocked. Misinformation often looks like spam and needs to spread quickly in order to work. The people behind this type of media don’t care if they get blocked after the messages go out, they’ve already done their damage and can move on to the next service.

>... combat sequences through procedurally generated towers and buildings, chained together by crafted plot events.

There's a fantastic game out right now called Hades from Supergiant Games (of Bastion fame, this one could comfortably be called "Bastion 2.0") which does this roguelite-action-rpg genre very well. Highly recommended, checkout the trailer from the recent update: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNrt43epkG0

The message this sends to girls is that if you’re pretty, this is the easiest way to make a lot of money. It damages the work of people who have spent decades trying to get women to be valued for things other than their bodies.

You don't understand how fickle technology is and how fickle users are. It's a browser plugin, it takes 2 seconds to uninstall. This entire company could disappear in a flash if something about the plugin ecosystem changes, or if e-commerce habits change to be more mobile oriented. They have absolutely 0 stickiness. Most of their users probably installed the plugin during their initial marketing push and have forgotten to turn it off.

Can confirm, hated homework. I understood things too quickly so I never had push myself to learn, thus homework felt like a chore or a petty punishment.

This burned me later in life because “remembering what the teacher said yesterday” and “using other test questions to answer the current question” only gets you so far.

What do you consider actual work?

I work for a bank, and internally, we refer to ourselves as the worst run software company possible. You could remove 80% of our staff and our clients would not notice at all - the remaining 20% are all that's needed to support the services and make quality updates.

I spend a lot of time keeping that 80% away from the 20% so that stuff actually gets done. I don't really do any work per se, but if I didn't do my job, nobody else would be able to do theirs. It's hard to quantify.

I call this method of team building the "island of mistfit toys", it is something I practice on my team since I was a misfit toy myself.

I disagree that training juniors keeps them loyal. When you bring someone the island of misfit toys and they get some experience and success, they no longer see themselves as a misfit toy. But when they come in to the office in the morning, they look all around them and see misfit toys. But I am not a misfit toy any more! I can leave the island now!

Misfit toys are hungry people! They want to prove that they can do it, since by all other metrics they should not be able to. And once they have proven they can do it, they leave to find better appreciation of their talents.

Essentially all this does make the property owner pay a protection fee to prevent their property from being bought by someone else.

It's a terrible system because a billionaire could come in and scoop up thousands of people's property for pennies (assuming they set their property price low because they can't afford tax when they set it higher).

"Stop eating so much red meat" - What the American Cancer Society should be urging.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/newsletter_article/red-meat-a...

You make a lot of grand statements there without backing anything up. If it was so convenient and cheap to cook this way, then everyone would be doing it.

I have tried and tried and tried to cook like you suggest. I end up wasting food as it goes bad before I can use it. I have a small apartment and ended up going to the grocery store every 2 days to restock. Some ingredients aren't sold in quantities appropriate for 1-2 people, so things go stale or expire before they get fully used. I wasted way more food attempting to change my food practices than I did maintaining the way I was raised.

I'm skeptical about farm shares, I don't think it scales. If it became more popular, you'd had everyone hopping in their cars every weekend and driving out to a farm. Much more efficient to load everything on 1 transport truck than to have a thousand cars on the road just for picking up produce. And in winter climates, you aren't growing anything in the ground, so this produce is being shipped in to the farm anyways, just ship it to the grocery stores. Or it's being grown indoors, which requires increased energy usage (might be less energy intensive to ship veggies in on a truck than to grow them indoors?).

Our modern food system, for all of its faults, is the only thing that works for everybody. Poor people? Disabled people? Car-less people? Dietary restrictions? All covered. Your diet and way of living works for wealthy, healthy people with time on their hands. It's not realistic at all.

It hurts to watch you child starve because they are being picky. I had a teacher tell me she didn't want to eat peas one night, so her father sent her to bed hungry. She woke up a few hours later, went downstairs to her cold plate of peas still on the table, and ate the whole thing.

I had a classmate in high school who ONLY ate pancakes and fries. He was from a wealthy family and his mother had various supplements she would put in the pancakes to keep him healthy. We went on a week long canoe trip where you obviously can't eat pancakes and fries 24/7. 3 days in, this guy is starving, and for the first time in his life had pasta, trailmix, and eggs.

Children don't have fully developed faculties for reasoning, you can't take a reasonable approach to solving pickiness. Things seem to taste better the hungrier you get, so I think the approach to pickiness is to starve them out.

Too small, completely useless.

I don't need a dishwasher to wash a couple of glasses and cutlery. Those take 2 seconds to do by hand.

I need a dishwasher because 20 people were just over and I don't want to be up all night washing. Or we just made an intense meal that needed lots of equipment and I don't want to wash 10 bowls, 3 knives, 4 spoons, a spatula, and a cutting board.

Divorce is a relatively new thing. You used to just work on your problems and stay together for the family. Family courts are the symptom not the problem.

I think western society causes (or promotes?) a bit of hyper-individualism which makes cohabitation really difficult. We also have much easier access to alcohol, drugs, and gambling - aka “family destroyers”.

What the heck are you storing that you've used 20-30TB? I don't really get it.

UHD Movies? Why would you save those in the age of streaming? Family pictures/videos? At 20TB, you must have hundreds of thousands of pictures. There's not enough time in your life to look at all those! The only thing I can think of is that you shoot photo/video professionally, or maybe do some kind of 3D/video rendering?

But I agree with you - when you have this much data, why the hell are you transferring it to the cloud? Buy a couple harddrives, load them up, and stick them in a safe.

I call this the "pace car" when driving. You can do anything the pace car does because he'll get caught first - he sets the pace.

Uber is the pace car and the police pulled him over, Lyft saw this and applied their brakes.

Looks like something I've written a hundred times. It's a common pattern, you could "steal" this just through organically writing a program.

The more I hear about this case, the more I realize it's just a bunch of lawyers trying to pad their bank accounts. No sane engineer would claim this is infringement.

This is taking interviewing and hiring in the wrong direction. At my company, we have a relatively short interview process, followed by a 3 month full salary probation period.

The interview is used to weed out "red flaggers" and identify high-level strengths and weaknesses. It is completely non-technical. We assume that the person applying for the job has the technical requirements. (We also make judicious use of references, something people seem to have forgotten about. Quick phone call to previous employers can save you tons of money!)

The 3 month probation period is the real "test" and the applicant will be put on a small project with another employee mentoring. If someone lacks technical ability, it will be evident in the first few days and we can move on to the next applicant. If the person doesn't like the work environment, they can walk away no questions asked (maybe the commute is too long or they don't like the office space, etc. etc.).

This is cheaper than having directors and executives try to plan around all sorts of interview stages. It is much less stressful, as the applicant, once into the probation period, is treated like a regular employee and has much more opportunity to "prove their worth". Stop adding more shit to the interview! Don't make it longer, do the opposite!