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Surprisingly for many, Wittgenstein had a deathbed conversion to Catholicism.

This stopped being supported half a decade ago

If anything, the fact that George RR Martin and this vlogger obsess about fictional governance, while Tolkien was more interested in myth and language says a lot about the change in times and what media-makers feel they should contribute to.

Still valuable reading, if at least for historical knowledge!

Exactly this - most of the libraries in my area have little if no technical books. I know exactly why too - I've frequently come across libraries in the UK that are selling off their technical books, because they're not receiving much attention. I've had multiple occasions where I've managed to buy dozens of books for the value of just one of them.

It's not easy to even ask for a book. I've asked librarians for books before, and I even have a friend currently working in a fairly large library request a book for me (with evidence from me of interest in it), and the request was refused.

The real books worth reading are those that make you a greater expert than the majority of the population. Libraries don't benefit much from storing books that will only be read by one or two people.

Books.

I read about 30-100 work-related books a year and have seen salary double every few years.

I try to alternate books between different areas, more or less from these sections:

Technical(on currently used technology)

Technical(unused tech vaguely related and may be useful)

Management

Domain(scientific textbooks, best to search from related university course reading lists)

Biographies/accounts/events of typical and super users

That would not be noticeable to HN people apparently

"Scientists discover it is turtles all the way down" Bad: 0.9998 - Good: 0.0002

Although it turns out "covfefe"0 by itself would not have been a hit with the HN crowd. That is probably why it went on Twitter.

Turns out Trump was onto something:

"Planning sophisticated covfefe" Bad: 0.0002 - Good: 0.9998

Current top 10:

1. "Apple introduces 16-inch MacBook Pro, the world’s best pro notebook" Bad: 0.9964 - Good: 0.0038

2. "Developing open-source FPGA tools" Bad: 0.3381 - Good: 0.6652

3. "Show HN: Can a neural network predict if your HN post title will get up votes?" Bad: 0.0598 - Good: 0.9307

4. "How internet ads work" Bad: 1.0000 - Good: 0.0000

5. "More Intel speculative execution vulnerabilities" Bad: 0.7413 - Good: 0.2306

6. "OpenSwiftUI – An Open Source Re-Implementation of SwiftUI" Bad: 0.9994 - Good: 0.0005

7. "How VCs Make Money" Bad: 0.9997 - Good: 0.0003

8. "OpenBSD: Why and How (2016)" Bad: 0.9988 - Good: 0.0013

9. "The Perl Master Plan: How to Put Perl Back on Top" Bad: 0.9997 - Good: 0.0003

10. "Jerry (YC S17) Is Hiring Senior Software Developers (Toronto)" Bad: 0.3142 - Good: 0.6800

So all in all, only 3 of today's top 10 had good titles... Either the titles could have been better but the content was too interesting, or this tool has very low recall.

A great article and a lovely author - he helped me develop some ideas on my final year essay while I studied at the University of Sheffield, even though he wasn't lecturing me.

Wouldn't that be quite useful for police?

They may be able to pinpoint a location - the barber where all the DNA matches go to have a haircut, and a time - soon after all those with majority DNA in the pile of hair went to the Barber's. Then they can analyse who was in the area around the time and find a person involved.

It seems the whole thread is breaking the guidelines?

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