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by david927 4y ago
They didn't really have another choice and yet, "iceberg, meet titanic"
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by david927 4y ago
As someone with a 15-year-old account here, I can verify that Jacques is in a special, small group of members of this community with recognized user names -- based on a long and impeccable record of substantial knowledge and respected exper
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (May 2022)
17 points by david927 4y ago|13 comments
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by david927 4y ago
The article seems to be blaming the division of society on the Like button. I'm saying it was going to happen with or without that for the reasons I listed.
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by david927 4y ago
I think there are two intersecting issues. The first is the dwindling of easy resources. The second half of the 20th century was so easy it was wasteful, and we don't want to give that up -- that abundance of resources, readily avail
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by david927 4y ago
> If online works for you, awesome ... But I don’t think you are in the majority. I think there's a huge under-served group who are specifically not the majority. Smart kids are generally held back by being shoehorned in with oth
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by david927 5y ago
Lafayette and, much further out, Martinez are two places that have that, for example.
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by david927 5y ago
It's actually 0.12%
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by david927 5y ago
Correction: The entire board ex-Jack owns a little more than .1% of Twitter. (0.12%)
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by david927 5y ago
I think the threat is that he dumps his entire position and craters the stock price.
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by david927 5y ago
I try to keep a wide net in terms of what I listen to and I have a spreadsheet of the music that makes it past a certain threshold. At one point I graphed it and was shocked that the decades came out in this order: 1970's->90'
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by david927 5y ago
Most of these comments are hinting that it's an age issue. I disagree. Yes, the upside of what's possible has moved higher. No doubt. But the entry level has moved higher as well. Going from knowing nothing to creating an appl
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by david927 5y ago
People want to use trains and we want people to use trains -- which means whatever is left over is an irrelevant detail. We should subsidize it more and invest more. I lived in the south of France for a while and it always struck me that i
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by david927 5y ago
It's not just that the criteria they publish is incredibly ambiguous, but they will make decisions based on different, secret criteria. For example, while not stated anywhere, there seems to be an expiration date of five years for anyt
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by david927 5y ago
I'm not surprised -- and they'll keep searching. There's been little-to-no investment in long-term platform research and innovation.
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by david927 5y ago
It's a scam.
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by david927 5y ago
No, you can care passionately about more things if you don't let the world influence you. The philosopher Rene Girard talks about it better than I ever could. Basically, when we reach a certain age, we start to want to fit in with t
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by david927 5y ago
I'm saying, "[ignore] the feelings of the masses," -- "divorce the world."
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by david927 5y ago
I think you got it; I think the term is clear. It's not having any additional emotional response beyond what you find in an interaction with an acquaintance you see a few times a year. There's no additional emotion.
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by david927 5y ago
No, it's not "liking" being hated, it's that it doesn't deeply disturb you. Imagine you and a buddy have been arguing lately but you still go out hunting together. A bear appears out of nowhere and charges at your
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by david927 5y ago
It was just an example. Hopefully you can imagine your own, better example.
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by david927 5y ago
One of the big moments of enlightenment I've had was the importance of emotionally detaching from the world. What does that mean? If you see your ex on the street, emotionally detached is not running away from her and not running towa
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Ask HN: What Are You Up To? (April 2022)
29 points by david927 5y ago|27 comments
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by david927 5y ago
The SAT score played no role as far as I know.
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by david927 5y ago
Yeah, there's some truth to that because she applied to Oxford earlier this year, before she got the SAT results and she got to the interview having passed the academic requirements with mainly the five APs of 5. Still, I think the SA
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by david927 5y ago
Similar opinion and story. We live in Boise, Idaho and my daughter does a hybrid model of home school and high school. She knew she got top grades and 5's on all her APs but it didn't give her any idea of where she sat, national
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by david927 5y ago
Well that's the spot price ~ $1980/troy ounce.
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by david927 5y ago
translation Information on the purchase of gold by the Bank of Russia on the domestic market In order to balance supply and demand in the domestic precious metals market, the Bank of Russia will buy gold from credit institutions at a fixe
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The Russia Ruble is now gold-backed(cbr.ru)
29 points by david927 5y ago|14 comments
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by david927 5y ago
SA and Russia signed a military cooperation agreement last August. Since January 2020 the US has printed nearly 80% of all US dollars in existence. $4 trillion at the start of 2020, October 2021 $20 trillion. The petrodollar is dead. There

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