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That is a funny example to use because the US Government has a service specifically designed to help you in that situation: https://www.bep.gov/services/mutilated-currency-redemption

Yes obviously if your money is completely burned then it's gone, but that is generally pretty unlikely to happen. Losing your digital key is many orders of magnitude more likely to happen in my opinion. And there is - by design - absolutely no way to get it back. That makes using blockchain for anything serious completely untenable in my opinion.

Try a float tank (sensory depravation tank). IMO it's like easy mode for meditating and I've thoroughly enjoyed it.

See also Gish gallop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

There are other good replies to you, but one other thing I'll add: for a lot of companies it is much much easier to pay a steady $xxx/month than it is to pay a large amount up front and budget for unknown variable costs down the road.

When you look at the direct benefit over the course of your lifetime I agree the benefit of things like Eagle Scout of Honor Society are minimal, but I think that's missing the indirect benefits.

Speaking personally, I firmly believe that being an Eagle Scout and HS Honor Society student helped me get into a good college.

I frequently discussed being an Eagle Scout (and scouting in general, which I was deeply involved) during engineering internship interviews and the interview for my first job out of college. I do believe this contributed to starting off my career strongly.

Now about a decade removed from college I don't bring these topics up, but I do still feel the positive contributions they had on my trajectory. Not even to mention the benefits they had on my soft skills.

Factorio has been talked about a lot on HN for it's parallels to programming. I think it would be an excellent learning tool for people looking to get into programming, and I think this also extends to spreadsheeting too.

As you say, to start out the ratios are simple enough, but to a beginner it'd be a good exercise to plop the Red and Green science ratios into a spreadsheet for practice. Once you upgrade your assembly machines there is a modifier bonus applied across the board, now you need to account for that in your ratios. Not only can you pump out more product from the same footprint, but you potentially need to rebalance your ratios to account for the modifier.

Once you get into speed/efficiency/productivity modules complexity can really ramp up. In addition to getting the ratios correct for the machines, belt speeds need to be factored in, production rates need to be considered...

Why must there be an expectation for every worker to strive to better themselves? Why is it not acceptable for a person to show up to work every day, complete their work, then go home?

Yeah I don't agree either.

If I'm getting some feedback from a peer and they tell me "Usually your code is extremely well documented and ready to go as is, but your most recent PR doesn't cut it because xyz" I am glad they have included the "but" in the sentence so I have more context for their comment. It accomplishes two things: It lets me know they are providing this feedback from a place where they are familiar with my work (context for the feedback), and it is a complement (which is always nice to receive).

True, the actual message is what comes after the "but," but(!) that doesn't make the first half of the sentence unimportant.

No the advice still holds true here:

That's a funny one, and I agree, and it's also the reason I use "and" instead of "but" for those kinds of sentences. It doesn't trigger people's alarms.

In this case the advice isn't all that profound, the "but" is just sectioning off the first part of the sentence like a parenthetical.

Your wingspan is roughly equal to your height.

To rapidly reveal the true character of a person you just met, move them onto an abysmally slow internet connection. Observe.

I like to think of myself as a levelheaded and rational person, but nothing gets me enraged more than barely working technology.

Along these lines, I've always liked the system Randall uses for What If: https://what-if.xkcd.com/

Have you considered the very low-tech solution of simple HTML anchors to link back and forth?

Accepting bushels of corn is also legal, but why would Wikipedia want to get into the business of accepting them?

I think this is one of the most compelling use cases I've seen, but even this doesn't seem like a good idea to me. The benefit of paying money, having to use companies and government agencies, and having lawyers involved in the process is it allows for flexibility (and accommodating the human element...).

If someone hacks your account and initiates the transfer, or you get scammed by someone, or you accidently transfer your title to the wrong account, or someone forces you at gunpoint to make the transfer... the courts can deal with and reverse these things. What your options are with a blockchain?

Yeah I find OP's comment strange.

Increasing internet bandwidth and speed for consumers induces demand, like more and higher quality streaming services.

You're absolutely right, however it's an issue because the people fighting for requiring ID are not also fighting to get IDs to everyone (or in some cases they actively fighting against that by closing DMV locations in certain areas... and are generally just making it harder).

This cannot be a case of Require IDs first, deal with the repercussions later. These steps MUST be taken together or not at all.

It also becomes partisan when you look at the IDs that are considered acceptable in some places.

- Hunting license: Allowed - College Student ID: Not Allowed

Hmm, I wonder if the demographics of those populations might have affected that decision somehow...

On my TikTok page I watch stand up comedians, cooking videos, comedy sketches, political commentary, engineering videos, goofy out of context clips, song mashups, video game footage, and yes very occasionally a dance video.

Belts also don't consume any power whereas you need to keep trains stocked with fuel, though late game this becomes a nonissue if you throw nuclear fuel into them.

I can tell you why it bothers me personally. As soon as I see "Hey" my attention has been captured by the sender. I now have to sit there and wait for them to type out everything else. Or they sit there and wait for me to respond before they send any follow up. After waiting awhile maybe I learn that what they are sending is not time urgent, but too late my attention has already been completely removed from what I was working on.

The root of the problem is some people see Slack as more synchronous than others. I personally see Slack as more async (more synchronous than an email, but less than a phone call). I screen messages as they come in and respond in a way that makes sense to me. Likewise if I send somebody a message I don't expect an immediate response. Somebody simply sending "Hey" forces the conversation to be synchronous.

I agree with the general concept that, at the individual level, news consumption is bad for your mental health and pretty much useless. At the societal level though... if everybody took this approach there would be no accountability for politicians or corporations.

How do we find a healthy middle ground?

What about shepherd's pie?

Is that like Norwegian Brunost? I love the stuff and it pairs remarkably well with sweet and savory food.

The version you like is still available... you can play the game and run a server in any version you want. Java has no monetization.

Rolling stops are illegal because they're dangerous.

If a computer malfunctions, runs a stop sign and t-bones me, I could very well be paralyzed given the multiple structural issues with my spine.

How are these two statements in any way related? A computer malfunction can cause an automated car to run a stop sign and t-bone you whether or not that car is programmed to slow down to 0mph or 5mph.

You're stuck thinking about the way that humans make mistakes, computers can still make mistakes, but they're of a completely different nature.

Consider a thought exercise - In your opinion which of these is a better way for an automated car to approach a stop sign?

1) Slow down to 5mph as it approaches the intersection and evaluate if it's safe to continue; if it is the car may continue without coming to a complete stop. The acceleration profile is designed so that the car has 15 seconds total to evaluate the situation before continuing through the intersection.

2) Slow down to a stop at the intersection and immediately continue if it's deemed to be safe. The acceleration profile is designed so that the car has 10 seconds total to evaluate the situation before continuing through the intersection.

If we were talking about a human there is certainly an argument that option 2 is safer since human are generally bad at multitasking and requiring a period of time dedicated to looking for hazards is a good idea. However, a computer does not have the same issue and option 1 could be considered safer due to the increased time spent observing for hazards.

Might as well wait for the inevitably shady/illegal things to take place so it can be banned with reason.

I was curious about this, so I decided to think about what Google's image search probably does and apply Occam's Razor...

It appears the image search is closely tied to the overall web search; the images returned are images from pages that match the search terms.

What would I expect a search for something like "white inventors" to return? Are there lots of websites cataloging inventors who are specially white, or discussing inventors specifically because they are white? Probably not, why would there be? But what about websites discussing non-white inventors, or talking about white vs non-white inventors? That seems much more likely to me since discussing and/or promoting a minority is more notable and common.

So it seems like the algorithm has decided to categorize "white inventor" and "black inventor" in very similar ways - both search terms are returning results relating to inventors of different races, whereby a non-white inventor is more interesting since it's the exception. I don't think it is surprising that these search results are as they are, and this seems much more likely to me than the whatever the alternative is that you are suggesting.

On a related topic, if you search for "black people" one of the image results is King Kong, and it comes from a website discussing comparing black people to monkeys. Another one of the images is (white) Mitch McConnell surrounded by other white people.

If you want an image search engine that is returning images whose content matches your search terms, there are tools that specifically focus on this.

For what it's worth, the aliens are a completely optional part of the game. I almost always play with them disabled now so I can focus on the more fun parts of the game.

Also some mods can counteract resource depletion if desired.

Are you trying to imply this was a lie or misinformation? Conditions continue to evolve, as do recommendations by experts. The President of the US is listening to experts.

When driving I follow the spirit of the law, not necessarily the letter. If I'm approaching a stop sign and I can see clearly there are no other vehicles, bikes, people, etc, I slow down to very near a stop, but not a full stop. Why bother? The spirit of the law is to make sure I'm correctly yielding to other vehicles.

Perhaps a better example is stop lines at intersections; sometimes stop lines are so poorly painted that you cannot see any oncoming traffic unless you pull forward another 5-6 feet. The letter of the law says you still must completely stop at the stop line, pull forward and completely stop again, then continue. Does anybody actually do that?