A couple of years ago my brother got some flat triangles from a guy on the side of the road. First thing I've seen in years that was like an M80. We put a flat soccer ball over one, and it went 50 feet in the air. Very fun.

I say this as somebody with a book on how to make them, but I've always been a bit too scared to try.

This is a fair trade off, because…

By your logic, there can be no argument against universal web tracking, let alone universal purchase tracking, etc.

Adding protein to foods, but somehow decreasing meat consumption. Seems odd.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48621276

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This is telling people to assume people are ignorant or at least pretend you think they are ignorant.

People who are open to listening are not pretending to be surprised in order to put somebody down. They are actually surprised and (perhaps) unintentionally hurting somebody. If that somebody is hurt, they need to ask themselves which hurts more, having somebody surprised you didn't know something (aka they think you are smart), or being unsurprised you are ignorant of something (aka they think you don't know stuff).

So “feign unsurprise.”

>The riffle shuffle has to follow a realistic but strict model where cards are randomly interleaved from the left or right pile one by one. (Each card gets dropped from either the left or the right pile with a probability that’s proportional to the number of cards remaining in that pile. This means that the cards don’t simply alternate between left and right, which would result in a predictable structure; instead, the order might go “left, right, right, left, right, left, left.”)

ETA from the first paragraph of the article: "The U.S. has held off... to avoid escalating tensions with Beijing."