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People are not really stupid, it is just that you know a lot more. Don’t let knowledge blind you. The points made in this piece are very good ones but it is not primarily an issue of intelligence - rather, it is mostly about one's point of reference. Early in my legal career, I worked at a firm that represented a group of Nob Hill condo owners who had had a series of problems with contractors and who had suffered a v…
Exactly. More simply put: people aren't stupid; they just don't think the way you do. Deal with it.
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Most people will do this for anything but computers, though, which is weird. I'm not so sure about that. A majority of people (no data, sorry) confronted by danger or an accident will panic or freeze. People can have extensive familiarity with physical tools but be blind or even reject nonstandard configurations or uses when first proposed. There are complex problems I can solve in my head and simple ones that make m…
Your analogy confuses me. It seems that Lisp, and it's tree structure, would fit better with "multiple overlapping layers", and assembly would fit better with "2d layout", since it is so important to visualize the memory model, like a map in your head.
I don't get it either. The only reason I can think of is maybe it's more interesting because it's less natural? She claims not to like geometry much either, which just baffles me.
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I would be a bit worried by anyone who has not heard of Einstein. But you make a great point, and I think the article missed it. It is not that we know more, we know more about our particular areas of expertise, just as others know more about their areas of expertise. My Dad knows a lot more about airplanes than I do, because he worked on them for a number of years.
Does Einstein really hold an important relevance to 'everyman USA'? To nearly every citizen - and, I would argue, even with those a basic (HS) level of physics - he's not so different than Heisenberg, Bohr, Bethe, Shrodinger, etc. Sure, they made great advances for the world of physics, but how relevant is that to an individual who does not interact with that theory at all? More specifically, relevant enough to cause…
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."[1]
Tech people, and especially the circle that is absorbed in the startup/techcrunch/combinator thing, have to be the most incredibly self absorbed, solipsistic bunch of twits in creation. Most people are busy earning a living or living their lives doing something that actually matters, and the subtle nuance of details that tech startup types endlessly masturbate over is trivial background noise to most of the normal wo…
Go fuck yourself.
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If you are changing your oil every three months then you are almost certainly wasting money. You should trust the integrity of the oil change shop about as much as you would trust an 'SEO expert.' There might be good ones, but most are looking to maximize profit at your expense.
This is just multiplying my inhibitions :) It's a '94 Mercedes 500SL, so...better safe than sorry?
3 months is quite unnecessary.
And if you switch to Mobil-1 oil you can bump that to 6000 miles, and yearly (but only starting from the second usage of it, i.e. the first time you use it stick with 3000 miles). The oil costs more, but you'll save money by doing less changes.
With newer cars you can go as much as 10,000 to 15,000 miles with regular oil.
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Read the owner's manual. Are you using the type and grade of oil and filter they recommend? If you're getting your oil changed at Jiffy Lube, I can assure you that you are almost certainly not.
I think you're doing a good job of proving the point. Advice from the 'guy who knows cars': Read the owner's manual. Are you using the type and grade of oil and filter they recommend? Listener response: I don't care. I just want the car to run. Advice from the 'guy who knows computers': Why are you still using IE7? Make sure you upgrade regularly. Listener response: I don't care. I just want to check my email and pla…
So I usually go with the opposit approach and believe most people can explain something to me rather than believing I could figure everything out what they know by myself ...