Hokusai

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by Hokusai 6y ago
Also many scientist flying Europe during and post WWII brought the best world technology to the USA. And not less important is the fact that factories and other means of production where unaffected meanwhile Europe was bombarded flat. Givin
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by Hokusai 6y ago
Except the part where losing your house ruins your life, meanwhile your team losing just ruins your evening. That is the key difference. I agree that for easy to replace items, insurance and sports betting is the same, thou. (If you bet aga
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Instead of stimulating the real economy, it led to asset bubbles and widening income inequality. Yes. I guess that I was not clear enough. “ Wages in California have grown fastest for earners at the top of the income distribution. Wage
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> loosening of monetary policy The federal funds rate is zero. So, direct injection of money seems the only way forward. Direct injection failed massively in the last recession where money was given to the markets but failed to reach the
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Michigan Integrated Data Automated System, or MiDAS They should have listened to King Midas cautionary tale. This kind of system will work better if it worked both ways. A system that notifies you when you are eligible for unemployment
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by Hokusai 6y ago
“ It’s so commonly said that Leonardo was “ahead of his time” but that’s only because he didn’t let the world catch up to his mind. Leonardo never built the future, but we still exaggerate as if he did. Sure, his ideas had significant influ
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Someone once told me that pointers are dangerous, and I frankly don’t understand that. Lack of ownership is one of the dangerous things. As, I see on the article itself “Not only that each weak_ptr.lock() was very expensive, it was als
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by Hokusai 6y ago
Games used to be coded in C++, in Visual Studio or other IDE, as can be ported to all platforms and Java was used for a thin Android specific layer. If your game breaks in Android then you need to use Android Studio for debugging. It works
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by Hokusai 6y ago
Bold flashy predictions usually fail. The main threat to your job is today the same that it was last year. China is growing its influence and technical capacity. TikTok could have been an American (or European, ...) company with American em
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> The increase in news avoidance follows a Brexit-related increase in avoidance the UK that we reported last year. Disengaged citizens is bad news for democracy. We need to keep engaged and informed. My strategy is to read well establish
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by Hokusai 6y ago
Is this good news for Taiwan finances as can replace Hong Kong? Or is it just the begging of the end as Taiwan is next in China’s list?
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by Hokusai 6y ago
They should have drink Corona. The conspiracy level of the ‘Corona pact’ would have been off the charts.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> to the considerable irritation of those who had kept it under wraps for decades On one side, so much secrecy worries me. On the other side kudos for keeping the secret pact secret for so long.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> the probability to find moderately gifted individuals at the top levels of success is greater than that of finding there very talented ones, because moderately gifted people are much more numerous That is exactly what Bayes' theor
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> above having agendas? Having an agenda is normal and is good. Everybody that plans for the future has an agenda. What is wrong is to have a "hidden agenda". A "hidden agenda" is wrong because is a form of manipulati
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> What kind of harm do you propose is the kind that should have pushback? "Some 700,000 members of the Rohingya community had recently fled the country amid a military crackdown and ethnic violence. In March, a United Nations inves
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> I haven't seen any evidence that someone specifically predicted the chain of events which would unfold on those flights, and clearly communicated the issue, then had executive(s) respond that it was 'worth the money'. Pe
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by Hokusai 6y ago
Boeing 737 MAX killed 346 people. So, it seems that death is not a deterrent. The mails from the case are good to understand the internal discussions: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/jan/10/737-
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> enacts new standards to address harassment and promote inclusivity across projects Well done. I like how Wikimedia works with many languages and helps to share human knowledge. It is a great institution and a good example on how humans
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Anyway, loyalty in the sense that as long we're in a contractual relationship my employer can expect me to do good work, professionalism, confidentiality (a huge thing in finance), that I don't fib expense claims and that I d
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> My ethical compass would feel it's wrong to squeeze additional benefits from an arrangement I have seen others thinking like that, and then become very sore when they are fired in an economic downturn. They feel that "it is n
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by Hokusai 6y ago
At least the physics look better. Much of the current CGI looks weightless and frictionless, like walking in ice. I guess that it looks more real than CGI because is real and real forces act over the robots.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Software is critical to the function of society. And society can't afford to keep up with the rate of emerging technological trends, it's just not possible. You expressed it better than myself. :)
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> You're suggesting bureaucratic "software" works better? It works for building regulations, for electric regulations, for food safety regulations, for all the rest of industries actually. If anything we see people dying b
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> Basically, only Apple (and, more recently, Samsung) use the HEIC format — most other websites and platforms don’t support it. Even popular Silicon Valley-based services, such as Slack, don’t treat HEICs the same way as standard JPEGs.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> It could be just a trend, or it could be we are becoming more human, more childlike because we're tired of being grownups. This conclusion completely misses the point. What has changed is what "growing up" means. I see t
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by Hokusai 6y ago
My guess: WebAssembly and the birth of the polyglot web. C#, Rust or C will life and interact with HTML and JavaScript.
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> I think the fallacy is to confuse cause and effect. The characteristics necessary to achieve greatness are very likely to also make you an asshole. I would rephrase to: "The characteristics necessary to be noticed above your team
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by Hokusai 6y ago
My guess is that is an step to discontinue the product. Defold has never been a big project inside the company. Candy Crush uses Fiction Factory, and the last time I heard about internal development, Unity was a growing technology. (If you
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by Hokusai 6y ago
> that is not gambling or anything like buying lottery tickets That is literally gambling. That is what gambling experts do to get money. A very good example: https://thehustle.co/the-man-who-won-the-lottery-14-times Gam

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