I have been spending way too much time learning about nuclear propulsion of spaceships. Reading a lot about Project Orion, Dedalus, fission fragment rockets etc.
Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
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#412Github is the new Wikipedia for me. I recently ended up reading about https://github.com/maandree/ponypipe via the repo of some obscure window manager that I've already forgotten about etc.
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#413http://www.themastertheorem.com/ It's a puzzle solving website. It isn't updated very regularly nowadays, but all the old "Theorems" are still there.
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#414https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_eponymous_laws Which contains (apart from the obvious Murphy's law and Occam's razor) such pearls as the Peter Principle, the Dunning-Kruger effect, and Hofstadter's Law. 20+ tabs guaranteed!
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#415Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually it's worth reminding that it's the opposite that is true. Bureaucracy, paperwork, are the only known ways to reduce gaming and enforce equal access to justice. O boy I hate paperwork, but it's there for a reason, a good reason.
Maybe that's the intention, but like code, the more complex you make e.g. tax laws, the greater chance there are loopholes (bugs). And there certainly are loopholes, if corporations' low/zero tax rates are any evidence. It's not really equality when you raise the barriers to entry by giving larger companies an advantage when they can hire people who know how to game the rules, or who can hire lobbyists to write the r…
I've been a HN lurker for a long, long time. Just wanted to say I created an account specifically to upvote this. Thank you.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#416Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe that's the intention, but like code, the more complex you make e.g. tax laws, the greater chance there are loopholes (bugs). And there certainly are loopholes, if corporations' low/zero tax rates are any evidence. It's not really equality when you raise the barriers to entry by giving larger companies an advantage when they can hire people who know how to game the rules, or who can hire lobbyists to write the r…
I've been a HN lurker for a long, long time. Just wanted to say I created an account specifically to upvote this. Thank you.
It's okay and there is no need to be shy about making comments or voting for things. Now that finally, after all this time of being a bystander, your parent convinced you to take this step, please tell us about your story.
I just mean to say that person you thanked seemed quite emotional. And you made an account, and thanked them. But I cannot really see what's so special about money turning into more money. That's why you went to primary school. A few dollars made you able to read and write, and now you're using it to save dollars or make more dollars.
So please: expand on the emotion now you've taken the plunge.
Re: Ask HN: What is your favorite internet rabbit hole?
#417One of my golden nuggets from ~15 years ago:
60x 1.com
http://11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111...
You can click thru 60 times!
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#418Like many others, my productivity has suffered since Wikipedia became a thing. You may consider me a wiki-binger. I even made a simple webapp to curb my addiction: http://www.wikibinge.com/
Still haven't come out of the rabbit hole.
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#419http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes Discover new command line utilities or combinations of them to solve various things. Learned all kinds of useful stuff. Things like I know but always forget about: python -m SimpleHTTPServer To server the current directory on port :8000 Then there is silly stuff like: dd if=/dev/dsp | ssh -c arcfour -C username@host dd of=/dev/dsp To output your microphone to…
> note: you probably shouldn't be using arcfour in general for ssh, and it might be disabled on your site
Related tip: arcfour is a less secure but fast cipher. If you are mounting a virtual machine locally via sshfs, you'll get better performance by using arcfour (10-20% increase in throughput, IIRC)
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#420Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually it's worth reminding that it's the opposite that is true. Bureaucracy, paperwork, are the only known ways to reduce gaming and enforce equal access to justice. O boy I hate paperwork, but it's there for a reason, a good reason.
That is the initial purpose. Unfortunately bureaucrats tend to value other bureaucrats highly. It's a self perpetuating bureaucracy machine.
"The bureaucracy is expanding to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy."