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Ask HN: What are your unpopular beliefs?
What things do you know to be true, that other people doubt?
What was your biggest counter-intuitive discovery?
What do you understand about your business / work that no-one else gets?
What are the biggest / most outlandish conspiracy theories that you actually think are true? (and why?)
What ideas do you find yourself really believing in but which put you at odds with your GROUP (GROUP := countrymen/women, local community, family, workplace)
Bonus points: What was your Galileo (or Eureka!) moment? How did you come to realize this knowledge outside the ken of common folk, or how have you been persecuted, burned at the stake, excommunicated, forced to recant or witch-dunked for it?
- ggm 6y agoGeographic internet addressing would work fine. It's not that we can't It's that we don't. In like sense, BGP is mostly a wank. Most routing is static and its 70,000 ASN not 800,000 prefixes which matter. Rebalance the IPs, easy to do. Nobody with addresses wants to, that's all. Incumbent advantage. Monopoly networks are fine. Its a public utility function. Look at Uruguay. Digital access is free to the unemployed and pretty ubiquitous urban FTTH was achieved in a small economy by ANTEL the former monopoly telco. Or look at reliance/jio I'm in addressing distribution and related.
- linkdd 6y agoThis reminds me of this Reddit thread[1]. My favorites are: - There is a 1 in roughly 5.2 to the 61st power chance that if you were to slap a table, all of the molecules in your hand and the table would miss each other and your hand would go through it. - Greenland extends east of, west of, south of and north of Iceland. - Switzerland has accidentally invaded Liechtenstein thrice in the last 50 years. - The last guillotine execution in France was in 1977 [1] - https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmdzww/what_is_a_true_fact_so_baffling_it_should_be_false/ https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/cmdzww/what_is_a...
- ObserverNeutral 6y ago1) The Internet will be the thing which causes our extinction due to self inflicted depression via comparison with others. Humans were never meant to live in a community of 10 billion individuals and have the constant reminder that there are so many people you are de-facto competing against. 2) Humanity doesn't progress at the rate it used to because there is a lack of arrogance and self confidence within humans themselves. Humans used to get an idea and immediately try it out, those people who'd succeed would then be socially elevated and their idea would be copied and quickly become common practice. Nowadays humans don't have the same arrogance, they now understand the concept of opportunity cost and thus want to be the person slightly improving something already existing opposed to try out the crazy idea they have. It becomes a tragedy of the commons where if everybody acts on their crazy idea then society would look like the Jetsons very quickly, but at the same time the temptation to play conservatively and let other people take the risks of doing so and enjoying the societal benefit is tempting. 3) The decline of violence is not a positive thing per se, engaging in a physical altercation is an indicator that there is some of that arrogance left within ourselves. If you are arrogant enough to engage in a bar brawl you won't have problems betting your money and time on a idea you came up with 4) The decline in consumption of cigarettes, cocaine and other stimulants is an indicator that risk taking is declining. 5) A reasonable amount of "toxic masculinity" is desirable, because women can't approach and thus if males don't try and get laid then no sex happens and thus no reproduction happens. Japan is a prime example. An interaction where a guy tries to kiss a woman after they have talked for 2 hours at the bar is acceptable, so is a rejection and he should accept that and move on to another target.