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> One big problem is that a lot of the popular books written about physics (especially those by famous physicists) are incredibly speculative and tend to present an unrealistic view of what the study of physics is all about.

This is irritatingly common in economics also though with economics it's less often speculation and more often simplification to the point that it becomes misleading.

e.g. "black holes suck in matter around them". Many pop science physics books will make black holes sound unique in the way they are able to attract matter which misleads readers as it is just gravity being applied to a massive object.

If you're interested in the modern risks of coronal mass injections, there's a report called "Solar Storm Risk to The North American Electrical Grid" [0] (2008) that summarizes the topic well. From page 4: "The total U.S. population at risk of extended power outage from a Carrington-level storm is between 20-40 million, with durations of 16 days to 1-2 years."

[0] http://www.lloyds.com/~/media/lloyds/reports/emerging%20risk...

Ironically this webpage's certificate is verified by "COMODO CA Limited". I suppose it takes time to inform browsers that "SECTIGO" certificates are safe.

Then the dislikes were probably registered as bots by YouTube and removed for being fake even if they were actually legitimate. Botting dislikes on your competitors game announcements is probably common as a way to increase your own sales.

There's also the possibility Blizzard paid off YouTube.

They can take down the video and reupload it resetting the views, likes etc.

> Video games weren’t simply an alternate form of media, but the most bankable form of entertainment. 20 years later, and video game sales surpassing movie box office profits is no longer news.

Yet playing old video games is significantly harder than watching old movies. Nintendo sells copies for a few years but then resigns their products to memory. Imagine if The Shawshank Redemption had been abandoned by 2006 as Ocarina of Time had.

HN isn't the place for self-reflection but if someone else or an article raises a topic that you have a discussion provoking opinion of, feel free to comment.

Soft skills matter in more than just the workplace as everything we do requires communication. In short, people love talking. The more you talk, the less they talk and so the less they like you.

Avoiding personal pronouns is good practice as, even when discussing yourself, it creates conversation rather than a lecture. People also appreciate it when you forgo unnecessary adverbs that extend the time you speak without conveying more information.

Essentially, "I think you did a really great job!" vs "You did a great job!"

The EFF improved on Reinhold's original Diceware wordlist which included unmemorable and short words such as "wq", "ll" and "zf" by replacing them with longer, actual words. The same technique still applies.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/07/new-wordlists-random-p...

I fully understand that a single experience doesn't equate to a full study, but I've been using melatonin (as an adult) for 4 years without issue. What is an issue is when I forget and am still awake at 1am.

Privacy is the right to chose who knows what about you, or in the modern world, who has your data and what they use it for.

When large companies say they support user privacy, they're referring to preventing data breaches not preventing themselves and the third parties/governments they share your data with from using your data in a way you probably wouldn't consent to. As far as I'm concerned, that's not privacy.

The series 1, 4, 6, 8, ? might be better applicable to general jobs as an assessment of a persons mathematical knowledge.

Does the issue not stem from the human obsession to measure, record and categorize things? We aim to preserve the species that already exist because we can observe them, so when a species faces extinction we care more about that one observable event than we do the possibility for new species to evolve and fill the gap in the ecosystem.

Brooks' Law: "nine women can't make a baby in one month."

Partially inspired by FairPhone (mentioned in the article), Luke Leighton designed the EOMA68 standard to create modular open-source computers. The project was fully funded on crowd supply [1] a couple years back and is currently testing a batch of 100 before producing enough to cover everyone's orders [2].

Luke wrote a whitepaper on the importance of ecocomputing in 2015 [3] and it's well worth a read if you're interested in modular computing/reducing electronic waste.

[1] https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop

[2] https://www.crowdsupply.com/eoma68/micro-desktop/updates/tes...

[3] http://rhombus-tech.net/whitepapers/ecocomputing_07sep2015/

The author understates the issue by quoting a 2.5% average annual increase in rent since 1980. Far more relevant is the 10.9% average annual increase in property price [1] over the last six years.

[1]

> Median house price September 2012: $735k

> Median house price September 2018: $1.37M

> (1.37/0.735)^(1/6) = 1.109

https://www.zillow.com/san-francisco-ca/home-values/

Yes.

My instinct is that it was a result of running Linux as it is likely the majority of spam requests come from Linux servers whereas the majority of legitimate requests come from Windows computers. It makes sense that anti-spam systems would take this into account. To fix this I changed my browser fingerprint to tell websites I was running Windows. I have no data to prove it, but I feel as though this has reduced the number of CAPTCHAs I've had to complete.

Also, it is possible websites are increasing their anti-spam measures as a result of the alleged Russian interference in the politics of western countries using bot/spam accounts.

My final theory is that someone is paying them a lot of money for the data they collect for use in training their self-driving vehicle AI. In this case they would want to show you CAPTCHAs more frequently to collect more data to sell for more profit.

It would be possible to handle the quantity of ad campaigns, but not without false positives or missed fraudulent ads.

If you paid a person or a team of people to remove adverts promoting fake websites, the person reviewing the advert would have to understand the product being sold, the company selling the product and the companies real website. For Chrome this may be easy, but for more obscure projects such as a cryptocurrency wallet or email client it'd be hard for a person to distinguish between real and fake continually over the course of an 8 hour work day.

People who are searching for a product already understand that context and so will be able to make a less erroneous judgement on whether a promoted link is real or fake.

I've looked into purchasing a face mask to filter pollution whilst commuting to and from work but I feel as though it's not social acceptable to obscure your face in public. Has anyone else had similar concerns?

> Say a couple has $10 million in the bank. With $10,000,000, they consistently make $400,000 a year from investments managed by an investment banker. They pay 15% taxes on those gains. So they bring home $340,000 a year, without working a minute. That’s a big chunk of money.

Yes it is, but not in the context.

Inflation is currently 2.3%. To keep the value of a $10,000,000 lump sum, you need to earn $230,000 a year from your investments. If you bring home $340,000 after tax and give your child $28,000 a year, that's $82,000 left over for you to live on if you don't want your fortune to dwindle in real terms.

$82,000 would disappear relatively quick if you're a couple adjusted to the millionaire lifestyle.

Nothing in the article links energy drinks to PTSD.

> High energy drink use, which was classified as consuming two or more drinks per day, was significantly associated with those survey respondents who reported mental health problems, anger-related behaviors and fatigue, the authors found.

The above passage is about as close as the article gets to its title, and it's left vague by combining mental health problems, anger-related behaviors and fatigue into the same statement.

Bing makes it clear when a site is promoted by prepending "ad" to the search result. Other search engines such as DuckDuckGo and Google do the same.

It is near impossible for Bing to manually review every advert so perhaps it would be beneficial for search engines to provide a way for users to report rouge promoted links, similar to how YouTube allows you to report its sidebar ads.