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> Venturing outside your field is also part of what drives discovery itself, not a post-Nobel symptom This is precisely what I meant to say (and seemingly failed) and why I upvote …

The article lists an order some 10 of Nobel prize-winners later seen as "unsound" mostly in a field other than their main area of expertise. Making them 1 in 100. I won't be surpri…

I am convinced that a similar proportion of non-prize winner scientists across all fields of natural sciences share "scientifically unsound ideas" or "scientifically unsupported or…

It seems not to be the case. According to SEM (Staatssekretariat für Migration), a B1 oral level and A1 written level at least are required to be granted permanent residency and B1…

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Still one of the best, by far.

Surely a factor. As is the deregulation. I've been living in Germany for a very long time and the real decline started some ten years ago. At the beginning mostly because of poor m…

When I was young (70s-80s), we were all amazed by Deutsche Bahn's punctuality and quality of service (second only to the Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses). Now, French and Italian t…

This is NOT a genuine gambling site but a take on DB to remind them of the issue and take it seriously.

> knowledge is transferable I concur: Perl taught me to mentally parse and build (complex) regexes, a highly transferable skill. The Lisp course I was taught in the late 80s, certa…

A similar kind of observation made a profound impression on me some 30 years ago. A team of primatologists filmed Macaques in northern Japan. A female had two consecutive baby loss…

I was already horrified by what I heard in the Netflix documentary (some five years back, I guess). One frightening aspect was that some victims, despite having terribly suffered t…

You might be right about a Leetcode effect and the difficulty to find new interesting positions. But OP wasn't stressing that at all but the desire to architect and manage. I might…

I have always failed to understand the obsessive dream of many engineers to become managers. It seems not to have to do merely with an increase in revenue. Is it really to escape f…

Very much to the point. "Bots to remind one to check one's reminder" summarizes it all. Note that the tendency to feel overwhelmed is rather widespread, particularly among those wh…

J is, within the APL family of languages, the one I have always found the most useful. I reach for it as I used to reach for my HP calculator in the past, to quickly compute or num…

> Civic institutions—the rule of law, universities, and a free press—are the backbone of democratic life. I disagree. The backbone of democratic life are the rule of law and freedo…

Related argument (as to SKILL.md not being a big thing) in the following blog post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46644086

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The value of HN lies in its community, which you won't — most probably — be ever able to reproduce. After almost fifteen years of skimming once a day or two through the comments on…