Viewing profile — richardthered

"Intelligent individuals learn from every thing and every one; average people, from their experiences. The stupid already have all the answers." https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/78…

Nobody is proposing to remove the infrastructure itself. It's a question of who gets to decide who gets to _use_ the infrastructure. Imagine that you have a private company that ma…

"Chase closed my accounts and banned me and I don’t know why" https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=324148 "How to survive a Chase Shutdown" https://milestomemories.com/…

Anecdotes are data. Quite literally. Each is one data point. A data point is not a conclusion. To draw valid conclusions you need a large body of data. But each anecdote is, quite …

In general, I think that having knowledge of multiple different tech stacks is good. The IT industry is constantly changing and evolving, and learning to evolve and change is good.…

Login fatigue. Yes, I use a password manager (1password). But it means I need to stop going through the sign-up flow, jump over to the password manager, create a new login, change …

Most people don't want to manually update code and patch their speakers. They want to push a button, and get music. Not run a local IT department

Consider the security aspect, as well. Apple is generally considered much more secure than Android phone. For example, see this Ted talk that describes how this security gap is a c…

Firstly, I don't see how she has any legal obligation to pay for the medical care, at all. Your friend didn't get the medical care, her father did. Unless the father is a legal dep…

I think what you get out of a book is more about the person reading it, and what they are looking for, than it is about the story itself. Dr. Seuss's "Oh, the places you'll go" cou…

It's comedy. Most sci-fi and fantasy novels are serious, so having a comedic bent is unusual, which is interesting. Beyond that, though, comedy itself can be interesting because it…

Without some kind of efficacy standard, you could sell water as a cancer cure. That would be very bad for health outcomes. However, I do agree that it's a difficult topic, in gener…

There are food allergy tests that you can take, too. I've done the ALCAT test, and it was very helpful. It's a blood test, and provides a big list of red/yellow/green foods. e.g. R…

The problem with forcing someone to reveal a secret (e.g. a password), is that ultimately, there's no way to prove that someone actually knows the password. If I say that I forgot …

> The current drug regulation regime strikes me as backwards--it seems that the more appropriate assumption should be to not regulate a substance, until it can be shown to be harmf…

Two other places that do microbiome analysis: https://ubiome.com/ http://humanfoodproject.com/americangut/ UBiome is a Silicon-valley startup. American Gut Project is a university …

The two main pricing models, today, are: 1) fixed monthly fee for one providers' content (e.g. Netflix) 2) pay-by-the-drink (e.g. $3.99 for this episode) I spend a lot less on pay-…

Grade school. I learned that computers followed rules. And if you learned the rules, you could make it do interesting things. My classroom was the first class in the school to get …

In the US, the bus is generally seen as a "poor-person's" transport. Trains are considered middle-class transport.

Check out this TED talk : He says that android phones are inherently less secure, and also cheaper. So, poor people are more at risk of police scraping data off your phone. https:/…

Any suggestions for good treatment options? Taking acid pills with meals (Betain HCL) is one possibility. Any others?

As measured .. how? I understand liking your country. I'm an American, too. I like my country, a lot. But, I think that the phrase "we are the best in the world" gets thrown around…

As for 3), current market forces are clearly not sufficient to create good competition across most markets. It's extremely capital intensive to build a wired, to-the-home network. …

Human? I thought he was a "hyper-intelligent alien with a tangential interest in human affairs." :) https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV... Of course, he is…

Agree. Also, see the DW Nominate scores for congress. https://voteview.com/parties/all Liberals are at 0.38, and the most extreme they've ever been was 0.39. They have been somewha…