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by djtango 4y ago
Yep, many countries can access the latest chapters for free from official distribution channels and yet Oda of One Piece is estimated to have net worth over 200M. One Piece has spawned 56 video games, 18 movies, had a themed section in Toky
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by djtango 4y ago
I remain unconvinced, there's a huge swathe of legacy industries that the pandemic showed up for being woefully stuck in the past - with "digitalisation" being a buzzwords thrown around during 2020-2021 for older industries t
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by djtango 4y ago
As a thought experiment, what would it be like to drive a car with: 10/50/100/200 ms of visual and input latency?
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In another life, I designed workflows that could be picked up by offshore teams to execute the actual work. My observation was that a lot of my colleagues had no appetite for reasoning about processes, much less thinking through various edg
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by djtango 4y ago
As someone who grew up paying £25-60 for a brand new game, I find it pretty insane that we've been trained to want games for free despite it costing millions to develop and run dedicated servers for millions of players. I tried out Ove
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by djtango 4y ago
You're absolutely right. "Normal" is just a relative concept. Japanese cuisine has a substantial part of it built around eating raw produce. Such that many sushi are deemed ok for expecting mothers to eat. Meanwhile balut is
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by djtango 4y ago
Yes it felt more reliable when it was on their own infra before they migrated to FB internal infra.
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Whatsapp is even more essential in most of APAC and South America
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Never witnessed it in person but I can see the appeal of hiring a team of people who hopefully have a degree of trust and cohesion over a fresh team of strangers. Downsides might be that the team has baggage or the team as a whole fails to
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My mental model is each edge is a diff and each node is the aggregate of all edges + the starting state
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The FOMO can get institutionalised. When you are incentivised to chase funding (as a GP) if you aren't doing the cypto thing, your LPs will go with another fund and/or you'll get redeemed. And if you have to go in on crypto
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Hmm an iPhone mini leaves a small enough impression in a pocket that it is acceptable to run with it in a shorts pocket An iPhone 14 plus barely fits 100% in some tighter pockets on jeans/trousers and gives significant restriction in m
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Fair enough. I agree that there is definitely more to just the economics of owning a piano. Times have changed but I do quite like the idea of passing down a piano too. I also can accept your reasoning and definitely agree re. time value of
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by djtango 4y ago
Hmm quick glance the Kronos is around 2600 GBP. A good monitor set up is maybe 1000 GBP. At 2% inflation, a series of 5 purchases (one every 10 years) totals to 27815 GBP On Yamaha today, that will get you a 6'1" C3X. I don't
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by djtango 4y ago
Just made this decision (as an experienced player). The other comments are pretty solid, ultimately a DP is great for dipping your toes in and a 1k digital is probably better than a 1k acoustic. That said as I heard someone say there is som
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by djtango 4y ago
Having recently just gone through the acoustic vs digital purchase decision, while you're right that an acoustic breaks down, so too can a digital. But IMO fixing an action or motherboard on a 10+ year digital is much scarier than fixi
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by djtango 4y ago
Not to mention that big money sports relies on spectatorship so you'll see adjustments to the rules to encourage exciting and offensive play. The English Premier League has adjusted rules over the years and ONE FC also attempts to enco
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Agree although if you can sift through the noise there are some gems about. For me, the golden era of games was SNES to PS2 as feels like the best mix of budget creativity and computing power. The industry was still figuring itself out back
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by djtango 4y ago
The thing that I find holds me most accountable is exercise. If I'm preparing for something (a race or a bout) then drinking undoes all the hard training and it's evident in my performance. The longest I went was about a year. I s
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One reason why you would opt to use options to hedge rather than sell your position (and be delta neutral) is due to materialising profits and incurring taxes just because you were being prudent about volatility
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Angstroms are like cm - we could express everything as 10x mm or even 1/100 m, when you are deep in the subject matter having intuitive units facilitates communication by abstracting the 100pm or 0.1 to an A is helpful as that is the o
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Not sure why you were downvoted, seems like a very valid concern. If we turned off oil and coal tomorrow the world would fall apart. The OddLots podcast has been covering this issue on various episodes but the world of energy is a super com
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Right but WhatsApp solved a very different problem in the beginning - how do I send a message to someone who isn't online right now (or has a flaky connection). THAT was what was needed for mobile devices. I remember trying to use MSN
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Hmmm I think if you observe children my personal conclusion is that in practice (over theory) thought and language are intractable and as we mature, expression becomes more acute and so language acquisition is faster because we no longer ne
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Hmmm as someone who treats their phone very badly and often drops it, this worries me... Sounds like that kind of moving part could be quite fragile no?
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From experience pre-chopped veg is usually less fresh and poorer quality
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When I was at Amazon I asked about this but in relation to the dotcom bust and if memory serves me right, they did a one-time top up for everyone who was massively down due to "x% salary SBC" as the x while variable, formed a dece
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Fair enough - not trying to condescend just establishing what your opinions may be based on. My own personal (and very anecdotal) observations are that people really go out of their way to avoid exposure to the outdoors. Depending on your l
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This is def a decent counterpoint - on a previous HN thread on this topic I recall studies being done on agricultural vs urban mainland chinese people and how a refinement to the observation so sunlight/outdoors might be a proxy for so
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Are you familiar with Singaporean norms? There is/was a very strong aversion to being outdoors, especially during peak sunlight hours (lunchtime). This compounds with both study culture and digital culture (videogames + tv + phones) an

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