custos's comments

Decompile the resulting library and start refactoring and adding comments?

The article explains why. In Albanaia, where he was going, there have been issues with people pulling money out of the bank and then being robbed shortly after.

Sounds like an organized crime problem, where bank tellers are tipping off criminals about good targets.

His solution was to take it out here, where it's safe...or so he thought.

Are there any decent plausible solutions to the problem of regulatory capture?

Are there any laws restricting companies from "lobbying" regulators or engaging in quid pro quo?

I think this has more to do with how our brain processes words written in a phonetic alphabet.

When reading words we are familiar with, our brain treats the word as a single symbol linked to meaning (or pronunciation).

When we encounter words that we aren't familiar with, the brain has to revert back to "manual mode", sounding it out to see if there is a link to any known meaning.

If you use one of the spellings you currently consider bad regularly, it will eventually be recognized as a symbol and treated as such.

For instance, reading "knife" shouldn't provoke a negative reaction unless you're not familiar with the word; despite it having a silent K which is just silly.

I know I have horrible auditory memory, and really good visual memory; which at first gives some credibility to learning styles being a thing.

But then I read this: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/03/140312-audi...

According to that article, the brain remembers visual/tactile memories equally well and better than auditory memory.

So in order to prove learning styles exist, we'd need to find people who provably have better auditory memories than visual memories.

I've not seen any studies or data for this, so I'd hesitate to call it a myth until I did, since on the surface the idea seems plausible. Wish the paper referenced in that article wasn't paywalled. Be curious if it's been shown that all (or a large majority) of people tested show the same result (visual/tactile > auditory).

It varies by state: http://www.vocativ.com/412398/juvenile-criminal-records-myth...

There was a study done on creepiness awhile back. Pretty interesting read: https://sci-hub.tw/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.newideapsych.20...

If it worked like normal insurance, people with chronic illnesses would still go bankrupt.

Car insurance is not comparable to health insurance. It's apples to oranges. Car insurance reduces risk, by exchanging the cost of an unpredictable potentially costly event (an accident) for a regular much reduced cost event (monthly payment). The benefit is predictable expenses and budget.

Health insurance only works this way for the healthy. For the chronically ill, it's flat out cost reduction to have it and a profit loss for the insurer.

My insurance pays out more than I pay into it every year. I had one year it paid out ~$250k.

Unless we stop mandating care for the sick unable to pay for it, healthcare is socialized; it's just a matter of how efficiently socialized it is.

Insurance companies overcharge the healthy to make up for their losses with the chronically ill, and hospitals overcharge those who can pay to make up for their losses with those who can't.

Really just need to cut out the middle men.

I think you overestimate the capabilities of a software engineer. I'm a backend developer. I can design and implement the backend of enterprise level systems (APIs, Service Bus, Scheduled Jobs, Automation of operations, etc).

But you still need a front end designer, a front end developer to write the clients users actually interact with and a domain expert who understands the needs of the people the software is being made for.

Sure, some people can probably do all of those things. But I haven't yet met someone who could do them all as well as a specialist.

Only opportunity I've had to work in startups, is when I'm working with a domain expert and a front end developer who happens to know enough about design to be the UX designer as well.

Best case scenario, that person is also a domain expert, or I am. Either way that still involves me finding someone else with the drive, passion, time and energy to pursue a startup.

Oh and that's ignoring all the legal crap you have to deal with in a startup.

Freelance = Let them deal with all the bullshit and take their money to solve a problem you can solve well.

Startup = You have a team of people with a common vision. Or one person with the capital to hire them all... which has been my most common experience (they usually are domain expert too). Maybe you get rich, maybe you lose all your invested time/money, maybe you get screwed due to not understanding the legal documents you signed.

Startups are hard. Hell I had a group of guys that each had complementary skillsets and we considered starting a company that consulted for startups (helping them understand what to do, and guiding them through the process). Unfortunately two of them passed away :(

Without proving them "right" by "targeting them" for psychotropic drugs (anti-psychotics)... nothing really.

Unfortunately, thought disorders are pretty hard to for the patient to understand they need treatment for.

I don't know, but I remember when hating Nazi's was as American as apple pie or baseball.

Call of Duty, Wolfenstein, Battlefield 1942 if I recall correctly; were all anti-Nazi and it was basically it's own genre of first person shooters.

Then everything moved towards terrorism related themes (Counterstrike starting that I'm guessing)... then political correctness just referred to it as "Opposing Force (OpFor)".

Weird times we live in.

While what you're saying is true, I think the dunning kruger effect has an inverse bell curve based on level of confidence vs knowledge.

High confidence low knowledge. Moderate confidance moderate knowledge High confidence high knowledge.

Of course that only applies to the things the expert knows like the back of his hand. There are things I am 100% confident I know, because I've done it thousands of times. Then there are some advanced things I still question if I truly understand because I've only successfully done it a few times.

Of course when I was younger, the things I'm 100% confident now I went through the phase of "oh I can do this super easy" to "holy crap this is harder than I thought" to "I've done this 1000's of times, I got this"

Best company I've been hired at did a sample project.

They had the project all setup and ready to go. All I had to do was fill in some of the more complicated bits (hooking up to the database using LINQ to SQL, and implement some queries to search by name/album and two or three other fields).

Then display them in a certain order.

I was given an hour to do it. Apparently, after I was hired, I was told I was the only one they interviewed that could do it. Ironic part was I'd never used LINQ to SQL before and had studied it the night prior. (It was on the job posting)

Because removing an A makes it a completely different framework from Cocoa Framework...

While I was an admin for hackthissite.org I created some basic encryption algorithms for people to break.

One person gave me a step by step guide to how he broke it. It was amazing, and incredibly enlightening how hard encryption truly is.

Mathematical analysis of the encrypted data poor encryption easy to break.

The Global Assembly Cache for .NET was supposed to be a shared library storage with support for multiple versions of the same library + signed assembly/hash matching.

It just never really took off for some reason. It's where all the BCL assemblies existed.

Instead we have NuGet and the libraries exist wherever the application is installed. GAC be damned :(

I have a cheap phone, and due to this I can only have like 6 apps installed at a time.

I'm constantly removing Facebook/Messenger for situations like when I had to download Ticketmaster app for a concert ticket.

And with all these apps disallowing you from moving them to SD card, I can't even really use my 32GB SD card for them.

So when I pay for gigabit internet, and netflix pays their "streaming priority" charge, I get netflix content at gigabit speed.

But when I pay for gigabit internet, and some random startup doesn't pay the ISPs "streaming priority" charge, I get them at some rate limited amount less than what I pay for (gigabit).

That is the problem. The consumer gets screwed, startups get screwed, and the ISPs profit from both consumer and businesses.

In priority shipping, only one side pays the fee. If the post office or UPS said "oh you want it there faster, pay X" to both sender and receiver, and both were required to pay for it to be faster, then it would be the same.