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by 1996 6y ago
It's funny and sad: the US govt thinks it can regulate a foreign exchange based in an independent country. And now the govt wants its pound of flesh for having been shown to be clowns, because (OMG!) foreign businesses may not respect
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by 1996 6y ago
Toto, we're not in Kansas anymore!
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by 1996 6y ago
> in the hope that my work can be useful to other people and make quantified self easier for them Careful, you risk making a mistake driven by "warm-fuzzy-feelings"! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26045256
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by 1996 6y ago
It depends on your workflow. I'd say your approach is interesting, but it's mostly driven by availability of the data ("searching under a streetlight") except for your sleep monitor (however, being an under pillow soluti
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by 1996 6y ago
> Much of it is ridiculous. All of it, including the article itself, is over the top I disagree. It gives an example of what you can achieve with large amounts of money, freedom and dedication. It also contain great advice possible on a
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by 1996 6y ago
> How: many shells support keeping timestamps along your commands in history. > E.g. "Remember all your bash history forever". It would be far more important to get $? to get the rate of error of the commands you type (ex: t
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by 1996 6y ago
> arbitrarily avoiding stuff which makes you happy is an irrational cognitive bias I do not generally avoid that - only when it comes to serious decisions. For a pandemic not seen for the last 100 years, I think this precaution is warran
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by 1996 6y ago
Many reasons - mostly that it makes you incorrectly discount the negatives, incorrectly assert some possibility, neglect some second or third order consequences etc. Check out what I think is called the depression correctness hypothesis (at
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by 1996 6y ago
> And of course there's the extra benefit that you would be helping the wider community, though I'm not sure how important that is to true Rationalists. Actually, that's a net negative for me: whatever benefits the communi
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by 1996 6y ago
I definitely prefer working with random cryto people than with random finance people - at least, they are not trying to pretend to be what they aren't.
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by 1996 6y ago
If you do, let me know!! Somedays it really looks like I'm gonna see here AARP ads any time soon! The community is aging and getting out of touch with the market without even realizing it
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by 1996 6y ago
If they are using Intel (AMT, vPro) or even AMD, or anything that can do DMA without GMU, they are no better than using Supermicro.
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by 1996 6y ago
Hopefully this crowd will realize regular finance is a rigged game rotten from the top down, and that crypto, for all of it problems and scams and whales manipulating the market is a paradise in comparison. Good luck to them on their DOGE b
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by 1996 6y ago
> It's also be cultural. Certainly there's additional perverse incentives with the current system, and not all of it is just simple profit-seeking. Totally. The problem is cultural first, as seen with the example of Japan educ
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by 1996 6y ago
> Additionally, I doubt owning long-term investment leads to this feeling of entrapment, more the opposite If it's investment, of course not. If it's an unlimited liability (like naked short sellers have recently learned!), not
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by 1996 6y ago
> Japan despite all its wealth and technological innovation, has experienced economic and social stagnation for decades, and I believe there's similar hopelessness among the youth in Taiwa [0]. Even parts of South Korea is seeing th
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by 1996 6y ago
It is not just in China. It is a valid term to describe whenever the system expectations and signaling/competition create a perverse setup that crush all hope for a change by dissipating away all the effort from the individual people w
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by 1996 6y ago
> Code is eternal. Especially win32 apps, thanks both to windows and wine > Even if the project is 'dead' it still runs, particularly on Windows. For software I want to run long term, I always get the win32 version.
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by 1996 6y ago
Given the price of commercial confocal microscopes (even second hand), it could be very handy. I wonder if it would be possible to use different wavelengths (DVD and blueray lasers) to superpose images: even if the resolutions are different
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by 1996 6y ago
> I recently bought an external 32GB SLC SSD (in the form factor of an USB pendrive). Its random read/write speeds are quite insane (130+ MB/s both) Which brand/spec?
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by 1996 6y ago
> Opium of the masses and the inevitable march of dialectical materialism, amirite? You have different values, good for you. Some of us prefer science and progress. You live in your country with your values, please do not export them on
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by 1996 6y ago
> the price for that is probably 5-10x what you are describing. Indeed the reason why I do what I do! I can have 10x of them for the cost of 1 of your Nucs. For example, my latest purchase was $15 per tablet with 8Gb of RAM, delivered. A
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by 1996 6y ago
People don't like that it's permanent, and transmitted. If you have money, you can make your kids AIDS (and Cholera, and Smallpox) resistant. They see that as "unfair", and conveniently forget money buy high education an
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by 1996 6y ago
> After his talk, He immediately drove back to Shenzhen, and his circle of trust began to disintegrate Sad to see how the West keep pushing it's agenda and values down the throat of other countries. Hopefully China will keep advanci
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by 1996 6y ago
Higher frequencies are more susceptible to interference, especially if you have long cables. A short 2 inches riser, surrounded by a grounded metal sheet, might work.
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by 1996 6y ago
To scale, I prefer tablets with a wwan port and a shattered screen: on ebay, for less than $100 each, I can fit 2x m2 NVMe (one 2242 in the wwan port), they are small, and each come with their own UPS (battery) and standardized power connec
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by 1996 6y ago
> It’s a weird phenomenon and a clear refutation of the invisible hand. Actually it's the opposite: more choice is brought by the invisible hand where people naturally go to, even if it puts businesses in direct competition and thus
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by 1996 6y ago
Peanuts. > Jan 1, 2021 In the past two years, President-elect Joe Biden's pick to be Treasury secretary, Janet Yellen, has raked in more than $7.2 million in speaking fees from Wall Street and large corporations... https:/&#x2
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by 1996 6y ago
> for most flash-based SSDs, there's no reason to set ashift to anything less than 12 (corresponding to 4kB blocks). matching the page size? > the underlying media page size is usually on the order of 16kB I'd say that'
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by 1996 6y ago
Can anyone at all become a citizen of the persian countries? No, because they care about preserving their political system and way of life- a bit like Japan We may disagree, but it's their country. And people who don't like it can

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