> I have this strong impression that US conservative Christians have come to believe that the so-called Invisible Hand of the market is actually God sending reward and punishment, which is why it's now ok and even praiseworthy to seek after and accumulate wealth.
"Prosperity theology is a religious belief among some Charismatic Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth. Material and especially financial success is seen as a sign of divine favor."
One of the many misleading things done by climate scientists is to splice together data derived via different measurement methods.
The CO2 curve 800000 years back is an excellent example.
CO2 in air bubbles in ice will diffuse into the ice during the many millenia the ice have been stored under pressure. You can therefore expect the ice core CO2 to be lower than hypothetical atmospheric measurements at the same time.
The diffusion is expected to progress fastest at the start, and then more slowly.
Still the artifact is absolutely obvious as the CO2 concentration peaks are lower
and lower the further back in time it goes.
Yet of course someone had to splice it all together and not even add error bars.
Not sure if you are trolling of really believe this to be true, but for anyone else assuming good faith: The diffusion aspect is (of course) well-modeled, see e.g. references under "past greenhouse gasses" at [0].
They have found some meltwater layers with unexpectedly large quantities of CO2 > 750ppm.
But they also show that there is unexpected heavy diffusion around the meltwater layers. And they argue very compellingly, that the ice core CO2 records have been smoothed through natural diffusion.
Why is this information not given when showing this graph?
Where is it well-modelled? Noble gasses will diffuse differently from CO2. And on-top of diffusion of course CO2 will make hydrogen bonds with water in the ice.
It is well-understood that many ice cores give the same relative shape of peaks of various gasses through time.
Going from there to claiming knowing the absolue concentrations without very large error bars, is just not science.
"Carbon dioxide measurements from older ice in Greenland is less reliable, as meltwater layers have elevated carbon dioxide (CO2 is highly soluble in water)."
"In the past decade, every branch of the U.S. military has begun to phase out sit-ups and crunches from their required testing and training regimens, or else they have made them optional, alongside more orthopedically sound maneuvers such as the plank. Spokespeople for the Army and the Marines confirmed to me that these decisions in their branches were made in part to avoid the high rates of lower-back injury found among troops training for speed sit-up and crunch tests."
>these decisions in their branches were made in part to avoid the high rates of lower-back injury found among troops training for speed sit-up and crunch tests."
And yet if you are in the USAF, the GP's will prescribe 500mg-1g of nicotinic acid and ibuprofen for lower back problems, to be taken when working out in the gym.
The nicotinic acid on an empty stomach spikes your growth hormone well above peaks seen during puberty, and believe it or not, can have you mobile and working doing hard exercise and lifting within 30mins, in fact you dont need the ibuprofen, just the nicotinic acid when the flush strikes.
The only downside with doing nicotinic acid long term is it will increase the chance of osteomalacia, aka putty bones, where you can push your finger into your bones and leave an indent in the bone, like pushing your finger into fresh putty around a window. Its not nice and it will deform your bones unless you take appropriate action namely changes to your diet to increase you vit k and omega 3 intake.
The pain killing effect of nicotinic acid comes from the release of calcium which binds to the body's own catecholamines because calcium binding to the catecholamines amplifies their effect. Its probably also explains those video's of people lifting weights when their bones snap and break, you dont feel osteomalacia until its too late.
Nicotinic acid can also harm the liver so appropriate dietary changes need to be made to compensate for taking it, even though it can be prescribed as a statin, and was the first drug used in the US for chemo purposes, decades ago.
An awful lot of military live on legal painkillers. They have to, since they can't just quit & rest when they get sore. The medics hand out Tylenol and Advil like candy.
Perhaps coincidentally, perhaps not: I also heard of kidney stones among vets. This is nothing like a scientific study; just anecdotal.
Something being political does not require it to be partisan. Joseph McCarthy worked hand in hand with then-FBI chief J. Edgar Hoover, and Wray was appointed by a president who also tried to ban TikTok.
that's such a success story hitting 1M users as a hobby project, let alone from a teenager. I've never done anything close to this, and not for lack of trying...
I've been in Bay Area high tech software for a long time now, and more recently I've been participating more in the indie hacker scene. It is fascinating to me that I do know many extremely talented engineers who either dream of setting out on their own and never do, or they try and repeatedly fail. Then random novices in circumstances far removed from tech teach themselves a little coding online and start making 5 figure MRR quickly.
There are somewhat obvious explanations. Coding is only one subset of the skills to launch a successful software business, and not even the most important one. There's also a huge element of randomness and luck, especially for a single given project and especially for any type of free b2c social app. Also, people outside Silicon Valley bubble have access to unique social circles that can serve as community "bootstrapping", which would be especially important for a social app
Even knowing all that, there's an element of surprise when you see it happen.
I do suspect another big factor is that experienced people overthink things a bit, much like a child seems to learn a language faster than an adult but may only be more willing to make silly mistakes. Many of the best startups and indie projects would never be started by many experienced engineers because they're perceived as too simple, the market is too saturated, or simply they feel they'd look foolish for trying and failing to do something simple instead of trying and failing something complex.
> I do suspect another big factor is that experienced people overthink things a bit, much like a child seems to learn a language faster than an adult but may only be more willing to make silly mistakes.
The term for "failed to implement any kind of authorization in the API" isn't "silly mistakes", it's "professional negligence".
It's unethical to learn 101-level stuff by playing around with a million people's personal information. These guys should turn Hive off and never, ever turn it back on.
I think it's more that people outside of tech often also have great ideas that could potentially make a great MRR quickly, but most never even try, then a lot simply fail and you never hear from them too, then there's the ones who actually do learn all the coding required and other skills to make a successful website and actually do become successful, but by then the people you hear of being successful are of course just a small subset of the people who actually had a great idea for a successful business that would make high MRR quickly. So, to me, the idea or the need being solved is the primary driver of what ultimately makes a business successful, even though of course so many skills are required, amongst other things too.
All those things could be the case, but I think the most likely is that its just random, and unlikely you'll ever succeed in the first place.
Case in point, why did you first learn programming? Probably because you wanted to build something, maybe because you thought it could be a success. Everybody starts as a non-tech person getting into it with a specific goal, really what makes you a programmer is the fact you failed, and unless you gave up you tried again and learnt and became better at your craft. Not to say that those that succeed the first time don't, but its not as much as natural process.
I started programming, as a lot of people do, because I wanted to make a game (and still do), and like a lot of people that first get into game dev, my first goal was to avoid doing that messy programming work myself and find someone that can do it for me. Again, like many, I tried this for a while, until someone reminded me that everyone who does this got into it for the same reason as me, and if they know what they're doing why would they drop their dream game for mine (unless I was paying).
In this case, I suspect the biggest factor is simply having the right product at the right time. Twitter goes to hell and you've got a Twitter alternative ready to go? That's the perfect timing for a successful product/service.
It's no surprise that things like Hive, Mastodon and Cohost have exploded in popularity recently.
Of course, whether these products will be the ones that do well in the long run is still an unanswered question. Hive's security issues and temporary shut down came at the exact wrong time, Cohost's invite system is probably crippling it and people are still not 100% sure how to use Mastodon in some cases, so only time will tell which if any takes off.
> that's such a success story hitting 1M users as a hobby project, let alone from a teenager. I've never done anything close to this, and not for lack of trying...
Sounds like a lot of it is just being in the right place at the right time. Apparently most of the growth consists of people trying to flee Twitter due to Musk. Though doing that sounds like jumping from a sinking ship into a toy paper boat.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosperity_theology
"Prosperity theology is a religious belief among some Charismatic Christians that financial blessing and physical well-being are always the will of God for them, and that faith, positive speech, and donations to religious causes will increase one's material wealth. Material and especially financial success is seen as a sign of divine favor."