dilanj

Tautologically, indeed :)

You are absolutely correct. However as a individual decision maker your options are far limited. We should certainly think about economic incentives to address what you point out.

That is a really good question! Not sure if there's sufficient data. But what I'm certain of is that egg freezing can be so much cheaper.

For example, even today, it costs Facebook about 20k per employee per freezing cycle to offer this benefit, where's if you go direct, it can be 5k.

And this is without scale.

Probably true regardless of when they are born, and probably easier if you happen to be older and wealthier ;)

As I point out, your biological ability to have children doesn't diminish. So I don't see why you can't have your 2 or 3 children. There are of course options like surrogates, and other more cutting edge tech enabled options.

And as for energy, the point is to commit to your fitness so that you'll be a very healthy and energetic 50 year old :)

Thanks for your input!

I do want money and success, but more than anything, I want to realize as many of my own dreams as possible, and also more time and space to invest in personal growth.

On fitness - you are right about 'most people' and I my point entirely is that you should resolve to be fit a fit 70 year old and work towards it. This decision might help you in doing so.

According to the latest info, it doesn't look like the system was at fault at all. Seem like the likely homeless woman abruptly stepped into traffic. Every accident still of-course is terrible, but some maybe are unavoidable. https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/Exclusive-Tempe...

Loved this:

Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say: "How did he do it? He must be a genius!"

Congrats on finding a hair-on-fire problem, and totally rooting for you guys. Just 2 weeks back I ordered an aXbo (http://www.axbo.com/axbo/CMS/CMS.aspx?Language=E) for the same purpose, but this is a much more convenient implementation.

Thanks gord, we are working on a host of new features that we'll be pushing out soon. I'm sure you'll like them!

Real-time feature releases, nice work Dan!

Thanks! I'll make sure to check those out.

Mate, I agree with you, I'd do the same if I was writing kernel code. But do you really need to be that isolated while fixing some CSS or running admin tasks? If it's the case that all your work really is that interesting, you are in a very enviable position.

Thanks, right now I'm listening to Marshall Goldsmith and really liking it.

"The vast majority of us are, actually, poor. The combination of job loss and serious illness could wipe out almost anyone."

That is why 'you do not have health insurance'. The very fancy employer provided plan I had at one point was no use when I broke my arm after quitting that job to start a start-up.

The role of the government is to be the 'enabler'; what better way is there to enable than to assure you that tripping over a rock won't be the end of everything you dreamed of?

He lost. He failed to take action when it mattered, which could've been bulking up or learning social skills or whatever.

Then he won. Earned a great life, does great work; different day, different game. Should've moved on.

But then he lost again, by leaving the final laugh to any ex-bully who can google.

'Wolfram' is a terrible name for a search engine. Many languages around the world do not even use a letter akin to 'w', often using 'v' in place of both 'v' and 'w'. This is one reason for Yahoo's dominance in non-native English speaking countries.

'Wolfram' will be unpronounceable and unmemorable for a large percentage of world's population.

Going by the current trend, there will only be more real time services in the future. It pays to be early in the game :)

Um .. heavy boots will help to be more rooted to the ground (because of the additional momentum necessary to move them) and thus will help achieve a more natural walking experience, right? Am I missing something?

How did the author 'almost kill facebook' if Zuckerberg was 'unphased' by his argument in this single conversation they had?

A valid point undermined by the extravagant attempt to prove it.

Comparing rudimentary 19th century financial system to present is quite absurd and misleading. Back then it was a very self contained economy fueled by production and agriculture. There were no billions of foreign bonds, volatile currency affairs or even electronic debt transfer, which can practically run the country bankrupt in a few hours if unsupervised.

I don't think I've seen a more mundanely written and ill-supported essay on financial crisis at top of HN before.

On the contrary, studies have shown that V1.0s overwhelmingly tend to be the higher achievers.

Anybody has an idea of the percentage of developers out of that?

Good point, but what I meant was picking what you want to focus on, apologies if the literal meaning confused you.

You only remember about 20% of what you read at best. So the optimal approach would be to pick the 20% you want to read.

Skimming over dull parts and reading the start and end of paragraphs helps. I've also tried EyeQ and AceReader and felt the latter helped in learning to read chunks of words at a time.

Personally though, the biggest difference was made by starting to use a Sony Reader. It'll make a lot of your otherwise mundanely spent time usable for reading.

They talk like that because you want them to.

These people are defined by their success. Audiences want to hear about it, often looking for insights. For obvious reasons nobody knows exactly what they did right and thus end up sounding as if in doubt, not least because they don't want to sound pompous.

So when you listen to tech millionaire turned hacker Ben Bitdiddle, unless (A) you insist he talk about his surfboarding experiences or (B) Ben doesn't mind coming through to you as an egomaniac, the observation described here is very much expected.

48% of the class of '06 at MIT were female (up from like 2% back in the day) and most of them were serious hackers. Yet today almost all of the girls who didn’t go to grad school are working for either a large corporation or an investment bank.

With the whole goddamn responsibility of keeping humanity alive on top of them undoubtedly there’s a genetic disposition for women to be more risk averse. Math and programming are relatively precarious. That though probably is easily overcome, since women have clearly been extremely competent in pretty much every other field now for decades.

So the problem has to lie in social conditioning. Cultural expectation and etiquette has always been the most powerful destroyer of potential in both men and women. Tradition is THE enemy.

(Heard this joke? Why do baby boys wear blue and baby girls wear pink? Because they don’t have a fucking choice.)

PG should keep track of votes and see if there are statistically significant differences depending on the color of numbers. It'd be quite interesting if the same article gets more votes when it has a red number, as opposed to green.

That is sweet, also Boxee would be a great app for it.