I am happy to see some humor at the top of hn, the bar is high though.
That's how we like it in here. If you want to joke on HN, you have to put in some work :).
Sure thing :)
When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home
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Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home
#132Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interrupted sleep, and sleeping next to an EM radiation source. I don't care what they say, cell phones haven't been around long enough for us to know whether or not there are long term effects. Also I tend to charge my phone during the daytime so at night I just put it in airplane mode to conserve batteries and make sure it can pull itself through the night to be able to sound the alarm in the morning. The charging…
Because EM radiation follows the inverse square law, placing your phone 3-6 feet away from your bed should decrease the radiation enough to make such concerns moot. And if you place it on airplane mode and then turn on WiFi (assuming you have WiFi calling), then you both save battery and make radiation insignificant.
> Because EM radiation follows the inverse square law
Unfortunately sound follows the inverse square law as well, and alarms don't wake me up when they are 6 feet away.
Re: When You Win a Nobel and They Can't Reach You at Home
#133“Couldn’t you have waited until the morning?” “No! The committee is using a poorly designed auction system to disburse the awards and if we don’t both accept the award in the next 70 minutes it will go to Piketty!”
Jokes aside, why is it so important that they reach him at 2:15 AM and can't wait until the next morning?
Here's Doris Lessing being told she won the Nobel Prize for Literature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuBODHFBZ8k
The committee hadn't managed to contact her. I can't be sure, but I'd bet she would have preferred the call.
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What’s the value in making HFT not work? What harm is it causing?
Fairness maybe? People rent server racks right next to the exchange to get a leg up responding to market forces. Lots of others won't be able to compete with that foresight. Whether you think that's a good or bad thing though I guess can be up for debate.
> of others won't be able to compete with that foresight.
Those who can’t compete aren’t even going to try, nobody loses here.
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Publicity is different from prestige and reputation. The Peace prize has received publicity from controversies. Peace prize has been given people who don't deserve it. President Obama was nominated less than two weeks in office and received it after less than nine months in the office. The prize was seen more as criticism of Bush administration than awarding Obama.
Obama said he didn't deserve the prize, and everyone agrees. It's more fair to look at the long history of recipients (MLK, Mandela, Mother Teresa) than to judge the prize on one or two errors. Otherwise, almost all prizes are meaningless.
on one or two errors?
Kissinger, Moniz, Briand, Obama, Mother Theresa, Kim Dae-jung.
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>The Nobel price in economics has much more prestige than two of the 'real' prices (Peace price and Literature price) Prestige is of course somewhat subjective (as is definitely the very last part of your comment) but I would strongly disagree. Those two prizes are highly regarded and their announcements are widely reported. I can for example tell you both laureates of those prizes for this year from the top of my he…
Would peer evaluation suffice? There is one peace prize winner criticized by other peace prize peers for her role in genocide. Then there is the nomination of President Obama less than two weeks in office. He received it after less than nine months in the office. The prize was seen more as criticism of Bush administration than awarding Obama. I nominate Samatha Power (Special Assistant to the President and Senior Dir…
Maybe, chki and nabla9, you two had a different idea in mind when using the word prestige
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know why you're being downvoted, but I found this funny, just like the submission. There's sometimes an awful lot of po-faced folks on HN, even when the post is funny and heartwarming.
Some (quite misguided) people on Hacker News think the site shouldn't accept humor in any form.
That's why I wouldnt have a beer with 95% or so of this site. They wouldnt want it either, so it is fair, thank god.
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I don't. I considered it, but I decided that the remote risk of there being a real emergency outweighs the even more remote risk that I'll get an unimportant call in the middle of the night. (If I ever did get an unimportant call in the middle of the night, the person on the other end would get an earful.)
The iPhone has an option to let phone calls ring if called twice in a row. I've told everyone that might possibly be calling me in an emergency to do so if they really need to get through. You can alternatively create an emergency list of numbers and let them ring through on the 1st attempt. I assume Android has something similar.
Spammers have learned this and will call twice. This got REALLY annoying when I was in work meetings and my phone would start ringing to tell me about my car's extended warranty.
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> Berkeley gives you a parking space if you work there and win a Nobel. The rich get richer. I remember filling out school and early job applications. I was struck by how my list of awards and recognitions was kind of a sham—most of them were each a consequence of some earlier achievement, and so on. It felt like getting a check and being able to cash it more than once.
> I was struck by how my list of awards and recognitions was kind of a sham—most of them were each a consequence of some earlier achievement, and so on. Achievement and power are runaway positive feedback loops which means we need damping forces to have any reasonable level of fairness where "fair" means reward is proportional to the effort.
I don't see why reward should be proportional to effort... Rewards should be based on results and outcomes, regardless of the amount of effort involved.
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#140when you win "Not a Nobel Prize" ... https://www.nobelprize.org/nomination/economic-sciences/
Somebody always comes up with this thinking that nobody else knows it. The Nobel price in economics has much more prestige than two of the 'real' prices (Peace price and Literature price). Unlike committees for those prices, Riksbank pretty much always selects someone deserving the price.
I still think that CRISPR and Hep-C is even more prestigious. There’s just enough money in auction theory anyways that it wouldn’t get neglected however important it is, while CRISPR was basic research that wasn’t funded by drug companies until it was known how important it is for curing diseases.