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by chewz 6y ago
4. No because the future is never just simple extrapolation of the past and there are multiple external risks that are not priced in.
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by chewz 6y ago
I am still missing Rdio..
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by chewz 6y ago
And the idea of integration of music and music videos is brilliant. I love listening to music with video on my TV in the morning. The implementation and mixing music videos with other video content in my Youtube account is horrible on the
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by chewz 6y ago
While Youtube Music is a bag of some great ideas and implementation that went horribly wrong I have started using it over Spotify recently. Youtube Music implementation of Chromecast is spotless while Spotify every so often interupts with &
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The Good News You Might Have Missed in 2020(bloomberg.com)
1 points by chewz 6y ago|0 comments
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by chewz 6y ago
> Facebook and other firms have warned that the more regulation could prompt the company to move away from Europe, which could cost jobs and block access to its site for EU users. Please, please make it happen...
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by chewz 6y ago
_“Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future!”_ - Niels Bohr
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by chewz 6y ago
DynDNS53 [1] + cron script every 5 minutes [1] - Run your own dynamic DNS service with Amazon Route 53 https://github.com/agorf/dyndns53
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by chewz 6y ago
$200 Pinebook Pro? https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/pinebook-pro-review-... My 10 year old Thinkpad x230 has most of that (retail price circa $100)...
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Carrington Event(en.wikipedia.org)
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The foreseeable, yet largely unforeseen, risks of a tech crash(ft.com)
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The sun is awakening with ‘solar storms’ that could affect Earth(washingtonpost.com)
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by chewz 6y ago
Solar flare - Solar Cycle 25 is here https://news.ucar.edu/132771/new-sunspot-cycle-could-be-one-... https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/solar-cycle-25-is-here-na... The sun is awakening with ‘sola
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by chewz 6y ago
> I stopped reading when I realized this was a hit piece against Robinhood when they brought up the leverage bug. It wasn't Robinhood's fault, it's not like they told the user to do it. It might sound terribly naive these
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by chewz 6y ago
> I think it's generally not worth paying attention to renowned experts opining about stuff outside their field. I disagree. It is actually sometimes quite illuminating listening to an expert using heuristics outside of his field of
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Apple and Google to Stop X-Mode from Collecting Location Data from Users’ Phones(9to5mac.com)
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by chewz 6y ago
Shoes not sandals... > further legislation forbid residents of Rome from wearing two items of clothing, tzangae and bracchae, which sounded as strange in Latin as they looked foreign on people strolling the city's streets of volcani
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by chewz 6y ago
Visiting a monastery in Italy I have seen the painting of Alaric burning Rome commissioned by Pope. The Goths were depicted more or less as barbarians in Hollywood movie. Historic Alaric the Goth was born in Dacia (former Roman province ab
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by chewz 6y ago
Money laundering would rather work different way. Someone who gets winning lottery ticket instead of claiming the prize himself sells it for a double to other guy who needs to legalize his income. In other variant the ticket is sold to some
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by chewz 6y ago
I do not want to squash your hopes but with dietary changes alone it is not possible to stop progression of gout. In a few years you will probably start having more frequent attacks. Lossing weight is little more effective. Keeping your uri
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by chewz 6y ago
>History is full of specific lessons that aren’t relevant to most people, and not fully applicable to future events because things rarely repeat exactly as they did in the past. An imperfect rule of thumb is that the more granular the le
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by chewz 6y ago
Exactly - Russia, China, Indonesia, Turkey and other countries have tons of beaucratic regulation but in real life they are rarely vigorously enforced when you are small and keep a low profile. Then, when you grow you can pay for rules not
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by chewz 6y ago
Try OpenTracks from F-Droid. And Mapy.cz is quite decent Maps replacement. Acctually better for outdoor activity like cycling and jogging.
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by chewz 6y ago
Thanks for your input. This is the reason I love HN ;)
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by chewz 6y ago
The anectodal example in my country is the old (pre-WW2) math problems book that was used then and after war at middle education level (lycee). Later on the problems from the book could be solved only by university students (engineering etc
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by chewz 6y ago
In most countries the schoolbooks had been changed to teaching about sets and stuff in the first grade. Generally more abstract or top-down approach. Old school approach was more bottom-up. In my country I have been still learning from old
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by chewz 6y ago
Unfortunately Bourbakism polluted teaching of Mathematics in Europe c.a. 1960s. With visible effects. Except for Eastern Europe were it was opposed by Arnold. > These discoveries of connections between heterogeneous mathematical objects
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by chewz 6y ago
Crossbow - armor-piercing weapon was the RPG of Middle Ages. There were constant attempts to ban crossbows. Second Lateran Council banned use of crossbow against Christians. > And Western knights did not like it. Their armor protected th
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A terrible, horrible, no-good year for quants(ft.com)
6 points by chewz 6y ago|1 comments
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by chewz 6y ago
> The problem with (too much) simplification is that it removes political steering capability. This is not a problem, this is a benefit. If you separate tax collection from tax policy you are still able making economic and social policy

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