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811.
by akiselev 4y ago
Regular people with a diversified portfolio of $180 billion who lost 0.1% of their fund. That’s a small price to pay when interest rates are 3% to find out your fund managers need to be fired.
812.
by akiselev 4y ago
I can see it clearly now - the next crypto crash rolling around like clockwork. Except this time it’ll be a speed run through four centuries of debtors law in which the cryptobros realize that the reason for interest rates isn’t the transac
813.
by akiselev 4y ago
No one is rejoicing that normal people in Latin America or Africa lost their savings because they were trying to hedge against inflation. At least no one I have noticed posting on HN. That “canadian teachers pension fund,” however, is a $18
814.
by akiselev 4y ago
I am by all accounts a culinary elitist who has only been to Little Caesar’s once in their lifetime but even I think it’s several steps above the gas station special. The latter is mostly toilet paper and cardboard while the former ostensib
815.
by akiselev 4y ago
Wheat was first grown in Mesopotamia, literally in the middle of the Middle East! > The industry is growing at 25-30% YoY…. That’s gonna snowball fast. Pure fantasy. We’ve had vertical farming for thousands of years already - first bui
816.
by akiselev 4y ago
The UK parliament has been a farce since at least the indicative votes. Then the Tory party got purged to “get brexit done” This is a sign that the government is so dysfunctional that not even the military/intelligence industrial com
817.
by akiselev 4y ago
A million kg of the most calorie dense leafy green (parsnip or kale at 50-60 kcal/100 grams) would be equivalent to about 167,000 kg of wheat (~360 kcal/100 grams). A bushel of wheat is about 27kg and the US produces about 50 bus
818.
by akiselev 4y ago
I would settle for the second semester of kindergarten. To model ourselves after middle schoolers would be aspirational to a delusional degree.
819.
by akiselev 4y ago
No one is using vertical farms for the kind of calorie dense food that would replace meat, and certainly not at any kind of scale.
820.
by akiselev 4y ago
30-70% of their food - depending on the region and local industry - is distillers grains [1]. That’s the waste from ethanol production, including biofuels and alcohol. Of that last 14% of human edible food, the vast majority is used at the
821.
by akiselev 4y ago
They drove a car 160,000 miles without changing the oil?
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Old-world food was a hell of a lot more boring before the Columbian exchange. Turnips. It was mostly wheat, barley, and rice with a side of turnips. Not the modern turnip that’s been through 20th century breeding for some semblance o
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by akiselev 4y ago
If those 10 relaxed hours actually mattered there’d be a measurable productivity drop. If it’s not measurable or significant, then those 10 hours don’t matter and we should get them back for stuff that does.
824.
by akiselev 4y ago
If you’re actively heating the chamber to anneal the plastic why not just print in PETG or polycarbonate?
825.
by akiselev 4y ago
I don’t think it has anything to do with the number of lanes directly, it’s just a bunch of opportunistic assholes taking advantage of a bunch of lazy cops. I have little insight into LA because South Pasadena isn’t known for street races b
826.
by akiselev 4y ago
When the GP says “reasonable force,” that “reasonable” is doing all the heavy lifting. It’s whatever he considers reasonable. Let’s also ignore that “provable” is decided by the courts which these vigilantes are meant to bypass. Rules for t
827.
by akiselev 4y ago
One of the main selling points of the cloud is dynamic scaling which necessitates that Amazon have enough servers for some multiple of their customers’ base load. As long as internal Amazon resources are given a lower priority and booted in
828.
by akiselev 4y ago
Side rant: Worst fourth wall break in history. If they really wanted to do the K.E.V.I.N. storyline they should have made the show a grittier legal/detective thriller (a la Jessica Jones) with a season long conspiracy arc about K.E.V.I
829.
by akiselev 4y ago
Windows.
830.
by akiselev 4y ago
He felt threatened by all the attention FTX was getting. Elon: hold my beer.
831.
by akiselev 4y ago
You’re probably thinking of a crypto exchange as the money exits the “backdoor”.
832.
by akiselev 4y ago
> I’ve never met SBF, although he was a physics undergraduate at MIT while I taught CS there. > And a traditional investor who made billions on successful gambles, or arbitrage, or creating liquidity, then gave virtually all of it
833.
by akiselev 4y ago
Seconded. I worked with a professional MMA team while they appeared on The Ultimate Fighter and met a lot of fighters who came to their gym to train, even spent some time living in a communal house with some of them. All but one of them w
834.
by akiselev 4y ago
That’s the problem of unculturable species that pervades microbiology and anything related like agriculture. We have no idea what percentage of bacteria species can even survive long enough to be studied in the lab let alone industrialized.
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by akiselev 4y ago
It did work but the GP is only sort of correct. OJ didn’t move to Florida to avoid repaying the debt, he did it to avoid losing his house. In Florida plaintiffs can’t seize a defendant’s primary residence or force its sale to pay a judgemen
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by akiselev 4y ago
The irony! > In 1992, Bernard Madoff explained his purported strategy to The Wall Street Journal. He said his returns were really nothing special, given that the Standard & Poors 500-stock index generated an average annual return of
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by akiselev 4y ago
He just wanted to bring back the guillotine. He’s a big picture thinker.
838.
by akiselev 4y ago
> For a small scale industrial process, even a really hacked together setup can work surprisingly well, and while you have a chance of running into some show stopping problem, there's an equal chance of the hacked together setup co
839.
by akiselev 4y ago
That is some overt bipedalism there :) Many (most?) monkeys like chimpanzees have opposable thumbs on their “feet” so they’re more like a second pair of hands, which get exercised as such by gripping tree branches. Humans, on the other hand
840.
by akiselev 4y ago
For me it’s always been chlorine and other cleaning products. Salt water and sweat doesn’t help either. Forget to take the glasses off before you jump into the pool or readjust your glasses while cleaning the house and before you know it th

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