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by djhn 11y ago
This almost makes it an entirely different kind of investment vehicle, one where the underlying value is more similar to bitcoin or gold - commodities commonly traded and used as a store of money - with the difference that investors do reta
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by djhn 11y ago
Are you implying Sublime Text is somehow on its way "out"? Is there a reliable way to compare text editor usage beyond popularity from Google Trends?
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And slo-mo starts actually getting useful/interesting for sports at 240p+ or even into 960...
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Sure they do. They sell lots of crosswords and puzzle books - clearly complementary goods.
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George is also fairly "antique" as far as macroeconomists go. It's not too much of an exaggeration that anything from before the ~1950's is consider little more than curiosities that illustrate progress of economics tho
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> More importantly, they would want features that I don't care about. I empathize with and often share this way of thinking, even if it's called out as stubbornness or poor business sense. Doing what you want to do and getting
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by djhn 11y ago
Applies to human behaviour as well - we overestimate how much we will achieve or change in the short run, and underestimate the same in the long run.
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> As wealth accumulates at the upper end of the income spectrum, it has a self-reinforcing and accelerating feedback effect: greater wealth purchases greater political and social influence, which enables even greater wealth production, o
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by djhn 11y ago
Oh, I see! The text layout confused me. I thought you meant the layouts are stacked so that identical apartments aren't exactly on top of one another, but shifted.
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Wealth and social standing do allow you to bend the rules quite a bit. What are the best ways to get and leverage so much credit intelligently, without having such initial wealth and status? Are there institutions that offer credit based on
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That's somewhat hard core. Ideally you should be in prison for political reasons, because most other crimes may be detrimental to improving social status in the future. And countries that put you in prison for political reasons have no
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I wouldn't worry about that just yet, even the Google spreadsheets dedicated app is a slow nightmare to use on the newest iOS and Android devices. And to comment on the project, incredibly interesting. In my experience non-quantitative
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Except if your sleep-awake cycle don't align. This goes horribly wrong if you are entertaining guests while your neighbours are trying to sleep, or the family upstairs is having children's saturday playtime while the doctor downst
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Except that it isn't. It would take a lot of obviously sitting-related deaths for it to warrant comparison to smaking. Stress may be the new smoking, but sitting is definitely not.
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Along the same lines (speculatory evolutionary biology?) is the observation that in training for endurance sports such as running, cycling, skiing and rowing we best respond to either long, slow distance training at very low intensities (li
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by djhn 11y ago
Well at least cycling and treadmill running are very well suited to multitasking. With enough motivation it is possible to squeeze in 4+ hours per day of cycling that you would be spending stationary while on your job or at home doing email
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by djhn 11y ago
Get up, walk around, stretch, think. Talk to other people, unless it's interrupting them.
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> Even a CEO is commonly able to be monitored by HR. What do you consider "being monitored" in this context? The CEO answers to the board. Would I be naive in assuming the CEO is so far above HR and IT that monitoring him would
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by djhn 11y ago
Oh yes, I should have qualified that! I was talking Nordics, GermanySwitzerland/Austria, Benelux countries, UK and Ireland.. Maybe France as well. Definitely not the whole Europe, but a significant chunk of the tech scene.
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3k€ per month + holiday extra or bonuses sounds pretty standard for most office work after any university degree (so by default MSc in Europe), I'd say 3.5 to 4 is reasonable with engineering, business, finance, etc. 4-5 in law, 5-7 in
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by djhn 11y ago
If it looks overvalued to you, you should short it and test your intuition. Any amount that fits your risk profile.
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by djhn 11y ago
Lactate is used as a fuel - by everyone. It's all actually really interesting: TCA cycle (a.k.a Krebs cycle) in the muscle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citric_acid_cycle and kind of also Cory cycle (which involve
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by djhn 11y ago
You are implying that startups value experience, and more so when gained early in one's career - so they would be discounting knowledge based on how late in one's life it's gained. I reckon this comes form the American/B
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> This is a common strategy to gaining skill in- well, anything- but especially in games. Great analogy, because in games this seems obvious. Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes (predominantly) from bad judgement.
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You convict them by having proof. Not by fishing for something you can construct into proof.
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by djhn 11y ago
This is a much better question than I initially thought. I started out listing things, but I'm not sure any of the cases actually include AI as opposed to general IT/Robotics/Globalization.
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I think what the article implies is a growth in numbers and in penetration of "finance" circles. Angel investors, seed funds and accelerators are one thing - they are an element of the start-up eco-system. Until quite recently th
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Evernote had a developer conference. They wanted an ecosystem, and kind of had a platform. They bought sucessful apps. Past tense! Much better/realistic parallel, than Facebook F8.
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Sounds like what I have been doing with Evernote. I described the system in a previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10301205 What you say about review resonates with me. Several years ago I got excited a
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by djhn 11y ago
AucTeX is what you're looking for. More ideas: http://kieranhealy.org/resources/emacs-starter-kit/

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