[HN Gopher] 90% of Everything Is Crap
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90% of Everything Is Crap
Author : 0x008
Score : 39 points
Date : 2021-12-15 15:01 UTC (8 hours ago)
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| euroderf wrote:
| Keeping that 90% figure in mind in everyday life helps you avoid
| being distracted by that 90%.
| Buttons840 wrote:
| They tell I only use 10% of my brain, must be only the good
| part I'm using. ;)
| mrtweetyhack wrote:
| Thought you were talking about China
| seg_lol wrote:
| 1) Identifying the 10% is key
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| 2) moving the crap line from 90% to 89% is a 10% increase is the
| supply of non-crap.
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| 3) if you want more non-crap in your life, you need to increase
| your cross sectional area with your target universe and regress
| to the mean.
|
| 1/10 being non-crap is pretty good, go with it.
| 7373737373 wrote:
| Which is why content aggregators are so valuable
| wesammikhail wrote:
| Content aggregators are insufficient though. The problem we
| have is not one of curation which is what HN or Reddit does.
| The actual problem is the lack of strcture and
| searchability/discovery. Even on HN once something fades off of
| the front page, it is lost forever.
| ternaryoperator wrote:
| The Paretto principle, which the author views as being the same
| kind of statement, has nothing to do with Sturgeon's
| statement/law.
|
| The only thing in common is that they both use percentages in
| their articulation.
| France_is_bacon wrote:
| It's humorous, though...
| wesammikhail wrote:
| From what I gather, what the author is trying to say is that
| things are not distributed as ones intuition may first lead you
| to believe. Could be a charitable interpretation but that's how
| I read it.
| SubiculumCode wrote:
| Pointing out crap is how lowbrow critics and socialites gain
| status, either not being capable or interested in building
| something themselves.
| nonameiguess wrote:
| Is it? I'm looking around my house right now and virtually
| everything is shoddy craftsmanship from people who were either
| being underpaid or just didn't give a shit. The cabinetry isn't
| level with the floor, the doors don't quite fit the door frame,
| there are paint stains on the outside of the 4th-floor windows,
| some of my GFCI outlets were installed with the wires connected
| upside down and my electricity is blowing fuses all the time,
| LED bulbs that are supposed to last years last weeks instead,
| my roof had exposed nails that eventually rotted through and
| created leaks.
|
| Am I just supposed to build everything I own myself from
| scratch? I have a full-time job. I was also coming off three
| spine surgeries in the span of 16 months when I moved in and
| wasn't exactly in shape to build my own house.
| ErikVandeWater wrote:
| "Crap" is largely a function of consumer preference. Even
| with a Consumer Reports subscription, people will ignore red
| flags and buy a car that's fun or cheap.
|
| A good craftsman should be able to tell you how well a house
| is constructed before purchase. Not that I'm saying that
| would have been easy to fit into your schedule.
| czhu12 wrote:
| Maybe you'd appreciate the global supply chain that's been
| built out so workers can manufacture goods for a tenth of the
| price it would be domestically, so other people halfway
| around the world can complain about shoddy craftsmanship.
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| You have the option to purchase beautifully created hand
| crafted doors but then you'd probably complain about the
| prices being unreasonable. That's always been the trade off
| hasn't it.
| sombremesa wrote:
| It would seem that your home fell within the 90% of homes
| that are supposedly crap.
| gizmo686 wrote:
| There is no such thing as building something yourself. When you
| make something, you use tools, materials and methods made by
| other people.
|
| The most important part of building something that isn't crap
| is being able to recognize the crap in what you are considering
| for use. Then deciding if you can contain the crap, or find a
| less crappy alternative.
| francisofascii wrote:
| I think the point was, simply pointing out flaws is an
| activity that requires very little effort. A more laudable
| activity is to provide a better way or work toward making an
| improvement.
| u-rate wrote:
| Well you can actually build something yourself. Sure, someone
| else built e.g. the code editor you're using, but if you come
| up with an algorithm yourself, you did, by definition, build
| it yourself.
| gizmo686 wrote:
| If you create an algorithm, it is likely based on previous
| algorithms you learned, and millenia of mathametics.
|
| To implement it in a computer, you likely rely on an
| operating system to run on, layers of userspace libraries,
| layers of firmware, many independent hardware components.
| An electrical supply.
| thehappypm wrote:
| It worked for Ongo Gablogian!
| syntheweave wrote:
| How to not be crap: filter out 90% of yourself.
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