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How is this useful?

I feel like we'll laugh at posts like this in 5 years. It's not inaccurate in any way, it just misses the wood for the trees. Any new technology is always worse in some ways. Smart phones still have much worse battery life and are harder to type on than Blackberries. But imagine not understanding why people are bullish about Smartphones.

It's 100x easier to see how LLM's change everything. It takes very little vision to see what an advancement they are. I don't understand how you can NOT be bullish about LLM's (whether you happen to like them or not is a different question).

My experience of having kids is very similar to yours. But I will say that I'm starting to see light at the end of the tunnel. My kids are now 8 and 4, no more diapers or waking up at night. My wife and I are getting better at managing parenting responsibilities and lifts. My life is getting more balanced again. And I'm feeling a shift closer to what the comment above yours describes, although I'm not entirely there yet. To be fair though we have 4 grandparents to help plus a nannie so not representative of most people.

When did you start noticing this? I'm 39 and dont feel this at all. I have less motivation and energy for lots of things. But that stems from a jadedness and pickiness. It's different to what you describe. I feel my mental faculties are as strong as ever, and my gut feel is that they're not declining anytime soon.

Can you spell out why is that fundamentally bad? I'm asking in good faith not to be oppositional, apologies if its a stupid question. But if you were buying shares in a company it would not matter if most the shares were held by the company (as long as there is enough liquidity to sell your shares in future). Why is it different with the currency? I get that its making the founders rich so perhaps they have greedy intentions, but why does this inherently undermine the validity of the currency?

Another alternative (not self-hosted or open source) is Fibery.io More powerful than Airtable, and has some Notion-like capabilities.

RSS being awesome is the one thing that everyone on HN seems to agree about. Every couple of years I give it a try but for some reason I'm struggling to get into it. Something prevents me from checking my Feedly feed. Seems uninteresting even though I populated with sources I like.

Can someone set out a "getting started" guide? Like does it help to have good categorisation? Are there some tricks that make a big difference (adding email newsletters perhaps?)? Is there a recommended App or workflow that brings out the best in RSS?

Easy for everyone to point out that its unhealthy to be money focused. But that's missing the point. The author is clearly aware of this problem. The question is how to get out of this cycle..

I just drank a Tab. Can still on my desk https://imgur.com/a/hFo0Gl7

I'm in South Africa.. I generally chose it over the other diet Cola drinks.

Yes, I want to know. Please enlighten and provide sources?

I'm looking into setting up an ISA fund in South Africa so I was researching the ISA market globally to help me build the business case.

I've made a MUCH more comprehensive list https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Wiuf6EXWJrtd9NWF9w7a...

In a way that makes the experiment more interesting. You're kind of forced to try make things work under very sub-optimal conditions rather than some artifical text-book version of what we think work-from-home should ideally look like. I reckon that after a few days of poor productivity, you and your colleagues will find ways to be productive despite of these circumstances, and in fact the difficult circumstances might even yield new and better processes and habits.

I dont think the proposed policies put forward by the climate movement are benign. Remember the yellow shirt protests in France arose because working class people resented the increased fuel tax which was raised as a way to fight climate change.

The article I quote earlier addresses this point quite well:

"In 1997, the late Maurice Strong, former under-secretary-general of the United Nations, said: “Frankly, we may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.”

In 1992, he proposed a single global government on environmental grounds: “It is simply not feasible for sovereignty to be exercised unilaterally by individual nation-states, however powerful. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the imperatives of global environmental co-operation.”

In 2009, he declared his opposition to democracy: “Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions.”

In 2015, Christina Figueres, former executive secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and now the head of a climate action lobby group, said: “This is probably the most difficult task we have ever given ourselves, which is to intentionally transform the economic development model, for the first time in human history.”

In 2016, Ottmar Edenhofer, former co-chair of the UN IPCC working group on Mitigation of Climate Change, said: “One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with the environmental policy anymore, with problems such as deforestation or the ozone hole. We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy.”

Just a week ago, Saikat Chakrabarti, the chief of staff of Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, the US politician famous for the Green New Deal that failed to pass Congress, was quoted in a glowing profile by the Washington Post saying: “The interesting thing about the Green New Deal is it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all. Do you guys think of it as a climate thing? Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.” "

I dont have a strong stance one way or another on the climate debate because I haven't familiarised myself well enough with both sides of the argument. But your points above speak right past the points in the article I quoted, and as such do nothing to discredit it. And I find the "conceit" label strange. I can understand if you label it "wrong" or "ignorant", but what renders it conceited?

There is money on both sides of the argument though.

The following is from https://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista/2019-07-24-the-d...

As climate scientist William Briggs observes: “Global warming alarmism is big business. On one side you have Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, The Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund, Environmental Defense Fund, The Climate Project and dozens upon dozens of other non-governmental organizations who solicit hundreds of millions from private donors and from government, and who in turn award lucrative grants to further their agenda.

“You also have the Environmental Protection Agency, the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Health, the Departments of Commerce and Agriculture, both Houses of Congress and many more government agencies, spraying global warming money at anything that moves and at staggering rates — billions of dollars.”

There are also innumerable “green technology” companies, from solar and wind energy manufacturers, to battery makers and electric car companies, to lithium miners and biofuel farmers, that benefit handsomely from climate alarmism, and donate freely to the groups that will advance their marketing shtick. There is arguably more money in green alarmism than there is in skepticism.

I think that those that believe in Bitcoin as a store of wealth, believe that its volatility is temporary. The assumption (or hope) is that its taking a volatile path upwards and will eventually, like gold, reach relative stability at a much higher price than what it is currently.

Couldn't it be argued that Bitcoin's volatility is a temporary

Brilliant

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Have you got experience or thoughts about the remote working equivalent of "cycling through" your team?

Cycling through implies (to my mind) casually being around your team, checking in, and helping where needed.

Working remotely its a bit trickier? My team and I dont use slack or other chat platform, so for me to check in would require calls, meetings, emails etc, which is a bit more formal and disruptive then "cycling through".

I've thought about this concept before and I would tackle it as so:

For every subject you need to list:

  - the pre-prequisites

  - the subsequent subjects one can learn on top of this one

You then have a map of learning.

That's phase 1. the next phase is for each subject to list

  - where to learn it (books, articles, online courses)

  - where to practice it so that once you've learned it you can get better at it and commit it to memory (applies more to some subjects than others. You cannot practice History, but you can practice literacy, numeracy, human languages and programming for example)

  - where to get tested on it so that you can objectively test your level and get certification

The internet has opened up learning of everything. The problem is knowing what to learn, where to start, and how to structure your learning. The above solution would fill the gaps in my opinion.

In fact there is one more layer you can add to all of the above, Gamification. Build a Strava for learning where you can get points for learning, practicing and getting certified in various subjects, and share your progress with friends and family who can motivate you to push on.

I can imagine the above framework being implemented from primary school to basically enable self-learning as a primary form of learning. Teachers would play a supporting role. Students would have much more freedom to align their learning with their interest and would be able to learn exponentially faster and more effectively.

I'm in South Africa, and I've thought of this as a solution to our public education system which is producing a generation of semi-literate unemployable. If someone believes in the model as I stated it and has the means and capacity to launch a startup in this vein I hope you will loop me in.

Do you mind sharing your age? Also, what programming language/s do you code in and what level have you reached? Finally, how did you actually start coding?

As a manager at a large corporate the process for incurring expenses drives me nuts. There is an annoying approval process, expenses have to be logged, I have to look up the expense policy, justify the expense, track it against budget etc etc. Often there is modest expense I want to incur and I know the business is generally in favour, but the expense process is just so cumbersome and confusing that I dont bother. There must be a better way. Even though I have a corporate credit card I still have to keep invoices and assign each credit card expense to the right spending code etc.. Arggg, its making my blood boil just writing about it, somebody fix this please.

I've just read his self help book "How I found freedom in an unfree world", interesting approach, hardcore libertarian. I think he would like the decentralised aspect of crytocurrency.

Really interesting article. How far does this logic apply?

Can I use very basic styling like bold, ordered lists and href links just to make the text more readable? Or do advocates of the plain email philosophy generally suggest 100% plain?

Oh wow, great to get such direct feedback, thanks! Interesting to hear that you use PHP. Although I'm not a developer I lurk on forums a lot and it seems PHP gets a bad rap so interesting to see a site that is well known in HN circles using it.

While I've got you on the line I have to give my 2 cents about your scores for Johannesburg. firstly, our weather is sublime, secondly I would say that freedom of speech, racial tolerance and female freindliness, is at least good if not great. Air quality I think is at least okay if not good.

But I'm a bit biased, and I guess its all subjective :)

Happy to provide any other Joburg info if you need.