helsinkiandrew

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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
In London I find that very hard to believe unless you were associating with some exceptionally rich people. The average flat prices was over £500K (most expensive is being sold for £175 million: https://onehidepark.uk/ ) an
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
> What about the public transport? And the museums, theatres, cinemas, galleries, pubs, clubs, restaurants, markets, festivals, parks etc. But if you don't use any of those then London is just a noisy, dirty, expensive hell - you mi
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
Yes, his job was literally to spend his time "thinking and recording his ideas" which he did probably 6 days a week. I imagine the day he "gather likeminded colleagues to read papers and discuss ideas" was the 'fun
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
The search warrants are relating to “information and records about military installations and their operation”. Taking photos and flying drones at classified military locations is probably what hit the nerve of the feds.
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
I thought this was a fact of all famous and suitably large bridges like the Sydney harbour and Forth bridges. Because painting doesn’t effect the running of the bridge much they just hire enough painters that gets the bridge painted in tim
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
> That means the FTC has negotiated a settlement where the distress caused by harassing the same person 100 times in a row, day after day over the period of a few months, merits the measly penalty of $1.25. Honest question: why can’t the
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
To me a lot of economists and forecasters this year have looked very much like technical analyst stock pickers, buying or selling a stock based on the shape of the price curve. Except that the amount of economic data is far to low to make s
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150-Year Wait for Indian Immigrants with Advanced Degrees – Cato at Liberty Blog(cato.org)
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
Then spend a grand or two on a decent fridge from a reputable manufacturer that will last and has the features/gadgets you probably do want (auto defrost, quick freeze, chilled water etc).
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
https://archive.ph/owgQb
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
Works fine on Chrome/Mac - it is however a very strange article structure. It was obviously very well researched with a lot of interesting information but I found it very hard to read - Q/A style, hardly any paragraphs with more
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
https://archive.ph/shtt4
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US, Europe Are Growing Alarmed by China’s Rush into Legacy Chips(bloomberg.com)
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
https://archive.ph/s1Cg9
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This Phoenix Development Wants Residents to Ditch Their Cars.(bloomberg.com)
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
70 years ago a fridge would cost $250-$400 - about a months salary, that's about $4k in todays money. If you pay $4k for a fridge instead of $400 today you can get one with a fair amount of gadgets too.
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
A 70 metre antenna with enough control to point in the right direction. As voyagers batteries are meant to die in a couple of years, there’s probably more interesting things to do with your money. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov&#x
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
https://archive.ph/Jn3KM
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FTC Regulation could disrupt the booming “kidfluencer” business(economist.com)
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
https://archive.ph/DGZm4
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The high-tech race to improve weather forecasting(economist.com)
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
https://archive.ph/8BPNX
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Tesla Owners Have Soured on Elon Musk, but Still Love Their Model 3s(bloomberg.com)
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
https://archive.ph/3uDSL
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Tesla Cars Barred from World University Games in Sichuan Ahead of Xi Visit(bloomberg.com)
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
> I see the logic here, but I’m highly skeptical about how valid such a tool would be. I see the problem as although you can create lots of examples that are correct/follow real world opinions, you can never prove that a particular
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
https://archive.ph/UqANH
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How Deutsche Bank’s 13-year attempt to kill off an IT system finally worked(ft.com)
3 points by helsinkiandrew 3y ago|1 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
> Unfortunately personal cars are a drop in the ocean (ignore any pun please) compared to other systems like the..... Not disagreeing with you, but everything by itself is a drop in the ocean compared with the total - the "coordina
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Meta, Microsoft, hundreds more own trademarks to new Twitter name(reuters.com)
2 points by helsinkiandrew 3y ago|0 comments

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