ishtanbul

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by ishtanbul 7y ago
its like she wanted to get caught
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by ishtanbul 7y ago
the cost of a weekly housekeeper distributed among a group of 4 or more would probably still be pretty economic
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by ishtanbul 7y ago
i feel claustrophobic watching that. islands are great for commerce but space is inherently rare. Japan, hong kong, manhattan, san francisco (peninsula), singapore. all business centers with shocking rents
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by ishtanbul 7y ago
one important aspect in this is that forests have lower albedo than grassland. This means they absorb more solar radiation. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00122-z
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by ishtanbul 7y ago
Tidal power is very challenging. Tidal stream devices like this have a very high LCOE (levelized cost of energy) because the stresses on them are massive so they are built like tanks but capture little of the energy flowing past them. Tida
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by ishtanbul 9y ago
nice autoplay video that plays over the embedded youtube video creating 2 live audio tracks which actually didn't sound wrong together...
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by ishtanbul 9y ago
Renewable energy development and investment banking. I would say I'm a tech enthusiast. I rarely read the meaty programming articles, but there are a lot of other interesting things posted here. I actually considered doing a boot camp
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by ishtanbul 9y ago
I'm not a developer and I read HN multiple times per day. I think there a lot of finance people here, trying to stay on the cutting edge.
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by ishtanbul 9y ago
Good to see this happening. I wonder how Steve Ballmer's USA Facts [1] initiative will fit in to a world where this exists. USA Facts covers state and local governments which Treasury obviously does not. I think just exposing the lack
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U.S. Treasury upgrades website to better track federal spending data(beta.usaspending.gov)
2 points by ishtanbul 9y ago|1 comments
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by ishtanbul 9y ago
some digging around I found Stylish [1] chrome extension which allows you to select dark modes (and others) for many common websites. Unfortunately many of the dark themes are really just dark grey, whereas I really prefer a deep inky black
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by ishtanbul 9y ago
There's an overarching theme here of thin neon lines and white text on black background. Its interesting to me that despite the popularity of this in movies as the default "futuristic" computer interface, it rarely seems to
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by ishtanbul 10y ago
The Economic Growth Engine: How Energy and Work Drive Material Prosperity by Ayers and Warr Describes the economy in thermodynamic terms, as a materials processing machine, in contrast with neoclassical models of abstract "factors of p
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by ishtanbul 10y ago
talking about the importance of variable input cells in minute 43 smh. working in finance this is not very impressive. also excel on a mac is inferior. I think only about 1% of excel users actually build models with it so the need for advan
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by ishtanbul 11y ago
It looks like he's drawing on top of the spreadsheet, rather than using the cells. I've experimented with using a combination of conditional formatting and "creative" formula writing to produce algorithmically generated