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I like Lisp, web novels and the Sermon on the Mount.
I was 16 when I graduated high school not even 10 years ago. And IIRC I had a classmate who was 15.
EDIT: Almost forgot: I did skip a year during elementary, not sure about her case.
It isn't. Go for it :)
I'm surprised at how positive the response to this has been.
Whenever I've tried to reason through why we change our clocks twice a year I've found that it makes sense to do so (at least in my case).
Also, I've quite enjoyed experiencing the switches throughout my life. They've provided for a mildly entertaining small talk topic, an opportunity to fix my circadian cycles and some measure of excitement when getting to sleep for an extra hour.
That said, I recognize (now that I've seen this HN thread) that a LOT of people disliked the status quo of having to switch.
I just hope that my country won't follow the US in this, but I'm afraid we will.
I've shared this before in a previous thread but I'll do so again: https://wall.org/~aron/blog/
This blog has had a huge impact in my life and I'll be forever grateful to Aron for uploading it to the internet and also grateful to Fede_V who shared the blog in this HN comment a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18176929
My life is much more fun and fulfilling thanks to its influence.
There are lots of other great blogs but none have had as great of an impact on my outlook.
About insider trading, I've enjoyed reading Matt Levine's Money Stuff column: https://lawsofinsidertrading.com/
Pretty fun.
13 days later, but better late than even later.
Something similar happened to the Red Delicious apple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Delicious#Selective_breedi...
U is Sunday and R is Thursday.
This is what I found: https://eventguide.com/topics/one_digit_day_abbreviations.ht...
Maybe it is because I was a teen then, but I heard about vsco a long long time ago (unless ~6/7 years is not long). I thought it was already on its death throes though, barely anyone I know uses it.
Thanks. (Is a simple thanks a valid HN comment?)
One would hope that after such a disaster, and given the pros of the underlying technology, more funding and research would be focused on safety, rather than abandoning it.
I wonder to which degree has nuclear power's association with nuclear weapons affected its public perception.
You are right, perception… Knowing that those years referred to those disasters, it feels a tad ridiculous to have asked for sources, but thanks :-)
I see. Thanks for the explanation. I had been thinking in terms of the technology rather than in its public perception (although sure… that perception influences funding for the technology).
Now I see that I would have been well served by looking up 'nuclear 2011' and 'nuclear 1986' since those disasters are very famous.
But thanks to all for telling me. :)
Why? Could you source your statement? Not that I'm doubting you, but I would like to learn more. :)
The way of presenting reminded me of this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o (7 Ways to Maximize Misery) and also reminded me of the 10 commandments.
The video, and the write-up (https://next-hack.com/index.php/2021/06/12/lets-port-doom-to...) seem to be unavailable.
It wasn't clear to me that any of the interpretations was, well… clear, and had to check the comments (I could have checked the repo too).
With regards to the pagan origins of Christmas I learned quite a bit by reading some of the linked articles here (such as the one about Yule or about the Christmas tree): https://historyforatheists.com/2020/12/pagan-christmas/
Some quotes from the one about Christmas trees:
People in the twenty-first century have this bizarre, instinctive notion that any custom we have today that we cannot rationally explain must be a survival of pre-Christian paganism. The idea of “pagan survivals” is so widespread that it has basically become the de facto explanation to any puzzling or peculiar tradition. People essentially just answer the question “Why do we decorate trees at Christmas?” with “I don’t know, so it must be paganism.”
Most of the customs, traditions, and ideas we associate with the modern, secular Christmas are products of the past two hundred years. If you want to blame something for “ruining” Christmas and “taking Christ out Christmas,” you would be closer to the mark blaming twentieth and twenty-first century American capitalism than seventh-century BC Canaanite paganism (or whatever other variety of paganism you happen to fancy).
Somewhat unrelated, but most (I didn't check the ones that required me to log in) links in your profile seem to be broken.
"Three FDA Advisers Resign over Agency’s Approval of Alzheimer’s Drug" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468756
I've been using mine for many years. The only big problems I've had is that sometimes the scale doesn't work perfectly and I have to reset the weighting and that after so long the blades have been getting a little blunt; but they can be sharpened.
This is such a great thread, I'm excited to begin reading quite a few of the linked blogs (such as this one: https://acoup.blog/).
These ones are some of my favorites: - www.wall.org/~aron/blog/ (physics, theology, history, philosophy)
- http://xahlee.info/ (math, emacs, keyboards, etc.)
- https://matt.might.net/articles/ (academy, compsci, etc.)
- https://www.joelonsoftware.com/ (programming, companies, etc.)
- https://danluu.com/ (technical topics)
- Mailing list in https://practicaltypography.com/
- https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/ (math, physics)
- https://www.gwern.net/index (interesting articles)
- https://slatestarcodex.com/ and https://astralcodexten.substack.com/ (science, psychiatry, philosophy, rationality, etc.)
- http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/ (programming)
- https://creativegood.com/blog/ (UX, and more)
- https://daringfireball.net/ (Apple)
- https://backreaction.blogspot.com/ (physics)
- https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/
- https://historyforatheists.com/ (historical myths)
- http://funcall.blogspot.com/ (programming, compsci)
- https://blog.fawny.org/ (accessibility, design)
- https://blog.jessfraz.com/ (technology)
- https://use-the-index-luke.com/blog (databases)
- https://weekendfisher.blogspot.com/ (God, love)
I can list some of my favorite articles from one of these blogs if anyone is interested.
What do you mean by other cosmologies?
"Belief in creation by God" is not mutually exclusive with believing that the Big Bang model correctly describes the structure and evolution of the universe. Belief in creation by God is not another option among an array of cosmological models, since it is not even a scientific model.
Anyway, I'm trying to understand what you mean my there not being a difference in leaps of faith required…
"Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. […] By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible."
Perhaps there are scientists that depend on a certain model not being proven incorrect for their own research to be viable, then, they might hope for something that they do not see. If (<- not biconditional ;p) that model stands on a solid basis they might even have confidence and some assurance about its truth. Is this somewhat what you mean?
In any case, I don't think that believing that a certain cosmological model is correct requires someone to be confident with regards to it. The currently predominant model might not be 100% right and that's perfectly fine. Thus, "belief in other cosmologies" might not require one to have faith while the verse quoted above states that it is through faith that someone understands that God is behind the creation.
(Unless you want to say that confidence in the scientific method is required for belief in a scientific model, but then, confidence in history (or God!) might be required on the other side as well, and so on).
Then, at least 1 more leap of faith is required, wouldn't you say? I'm not sure, tbh. :-)
But then, faith being involved in a process is not necessarily wrong (nor necessarily good).
I would recommend that blog as well; it is among my favorite places on the internet. Aron's writings have had a huge and very positive impact in my life.
As seen in this comment in another thread currently in the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27263606 (Although the person that used 'best' in that story is from the UK).
According to the Oxford Dictionary, the origin of hazard is as follows:
Middle English (in hazard (sense 3 of the noun)): from Old French hasard, from Spanish azar, from Arabic az-zahr ‘chance, luck’, from Persian zār or Turkish zar ‘dice’
It bears mentioning, as an interesting fact that I just found about, that azzahr comes from Andalusi Arabic, and that zahr (in Arabic) means 'flower', from which the Spanish word azahar (the white flower on some trees such as orange trees) comes.
Etymologies from the most official Spanish dictionary:
azar: Del árabe hispánico *azzahr, y este del árabe zahr 'dado'; literalmente 'flores'.
azahar: Del árabe hispánico azzahár, y este del árabe clásico zahr 'flores'.
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I looked up the last name: Siegenthaler
In Spanish it also means evil.
Example: No seas vencido por el mal, sino vence con el bien el mal.
Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.