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by lbblack 6y ago
Highly recommend anyone to look into Oceanography! The ocean floors reveal a lot of ancient geological history and the Earth is much more dynamic than what meets the eye. Sea floor spreading, plate tectonics, and much more can be studied si
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by lbblack 6y ago
I believe ya!
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by lbblack 6y ago
Yup! Lazy work gets lazy solutions!
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by lbblack 6y ago
Woah, philosophy and art are two massive subjects. Historically, both have been treated as separate subjects for good reasons. However there is some overlap, such as something which is beautiful to the senses. But the distinction between th
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by lbblack 6y ago
I find it extremely alarming that law enforcement almost everywhere around the world is attempting to undermine almost a century-fold of legitimate mathematics and science with regards to encryption and cryptography. It's a tad embarra
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A Universal Theory for Everything(github.com)
3 points by lbblack 6y ago|1 comments
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by lbblack 6y ago
"Early-access" release of my paper I've been ruminating on for almost two months now. Potentially a solution for the age-old problem of baryon asymmetry. Any feedback from academics and or physicists is highly ideal. Thank yo
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by lbblack 6y ago
Symmetric and asymmetric behavior baffles me. Any progressive papers on the independent relationships between infinite limits, finite quantities, and asymmetric phenomenon would be much appreciated from the homestead. Also, what is the depe
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by lbblack 6y ago
Wholeheartedly agreed...
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by lbblack 6y ago
Really appreciate this post. Means a lot personally, thanks for putting in the time to write it out man!
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by lbblack 6y ago
Failures shouldn't necessarily need a quote "mandatory positive spin". But they don't necessarily need a quote "mandatory negative spin". Meeting somewhere in the middle for a team is how generally speaking, co
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by lbblack 6y ago
I think one of the most important things for a person in a leadership role to understand, is how to understand other people by confidently understanding yourself. If you can't offer me encouraging advice and honest critique - without
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by lbblack 6y ago
Personally, having a good attitude will be better over the long run than a bad attitude for mental health but lying to people won't solve anything. An over-excited spirit can be just as weakening as an under-excitied spirit. To each th
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by lbblack 6y ago
I think what most software developers will come to find out with Cloud outages, it isn't necessarily that the tech is working incorrectly - it's most likely that it was not configured in the way it was intended...
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MIT Guide to Lock Picking (1991) [pdf](lysator.liu.se)
2 points by lbblack 6y ago|1 comments
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by lbblack 6y ago
I think too many HNers here have an incomplete picture of what makes something complex. There is genius in simplicity. Complexity can be best understood (for me) as simultaneous interactions of many simple things under the same roof, which
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by lbblack 6y ago
A lot of people can believe in themselves. Fewer people can believe in the "right" things about themselves. And even fewer can execute well with those justified beliefs.
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Psychology of Intelligence Analysis (2007)(cia.gov)
82 points by lbblack 6y ago|17 comments
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by lbblack 6y ago
Ponzi schemes are different than Bitcoin, which is a cryptocurrency by very definition. From Wikipedia, "A Ponzi scheme can maintain the illusion of a sustainable business as long as new investors contribute new funds, and as long as m
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by lbblack 6y ago
Hard work is the essence of what produces so-called talent. It seems to my understanding that talent is more so the culmination of a chain of clever thinking which ultimately derives more understanding and natural association with XYZ, than
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by lbblack 6y ago
I'm not a professional physicist but it would seem unlikely that one discovery would permanently wipe generations of fruitful knowledge and imagination which has passed the eyes of some of the most brilliant minds that ever walked the
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by lbblack 6y ago
The marriage tax seems like a way for the government to get it's cut of joint filings if couples are maximizing their income relative to their inherently lower tax bracket. I'm just a kid so don't quote me but I'd be wil
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by lbblack 6y ago
Marriage is more of a social or cultural construct; regardless if people see a point in doing it, the US government provides a wealth of monetary support to couples and families who do it (e.g. married couples can have substantially lower t
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by lbblack 6y ago
"For those who don’t remember: Winamp was the MP3 player of choice around the turn of the century, but went through a rocky period during Aol ownership (our former parent company) and failed to counter the likes of iTunes and the onsla
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by lbblack 6y ago
Did you click on the article? Quoting from the top of the landing page, "It [privacy] concerns the very fabric of society." Writing about privacy as a concept isn't nearly the same thing as trying to draw legitimate concern t
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by lbblack 6y ago
Bitcoins main feature isn't being anonymous and also the wallet is more likely an exchange wallet than some random billionaire's. There's privacy coins that heavily lean towards achieving anonymity. But I mean if I had a bill
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by lbblack 6y ago
"The charge on a mole of electrons had been known for some time and is the constant called the Faraday. The best estimate of the value of a Faraday, according to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is 96,485.3383
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by lbblack 7y ago
Location: California Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: Lua, C, Python, JavaScript ES6, React, Flask, Node.js, Nginx, SQLite, Bash Web development, embedded systems and game development Résumé/CV: https://www.