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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…

I believe ya!

Yup! Lazy work gets lazy solutions!

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 whic…

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 reg…

"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 academic…

Symmetric and asymmetric behavior baffles me. Any progressive papers on the independent relationships between infinite limits, finite quantities, and asymmetric phenomenon would be…

People ban programming functions? That is against the law for anyone respected and honest in the open source and scientific communities! THAT IS AGAINST THE 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHTS fo…

Wholeheartedly agreed...

Really appreciate this post. Means a lot personally, thanks for putting in the time to write it out man!

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…

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 offe…

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 ju…

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 configu…

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 in…

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.

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 …

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 deriv…

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…