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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
Time; the nature of time itself. I know that time prevents all things happening at once... but what _is_ time? How does it work? How did it start? Mind-boggling...
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
Exactly. Thus one might think that they are related, but actually they aren't really.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
My personal discovery: “testament” and “statement”. They are anagrams, and obviously have some semantic connection - “this is what I’d like to happen” vs. “this is my opinion on a topic”. But no shared root (known to me) or other relation.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
… in which someone discovers that practical examples of physical exercise (walking, running) aren’t mentioned in the original research paper. It’s a valid observation, but it’s then also a critique of making scientific research accessible t
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
> My friend lives in very cold Alaska. There’s another Alaska, less cold? I’ve read reports that even Ring doorbells don’t eh… ring because of the outage.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
s/Control/Escape perhaps?
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
“Meta” is a four-letter word. Or less ambiguous, “meta” is a word of four letters.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
I have an Awair Element, https://uk.getawair.com/products/element , and it suits my needs just fine.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
Meta is a four-letter word.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
Perhaps because of the AABBA rhyme scheme and the shorter third and fourth line. But in a limerick the first line traditionally introduces a person and a place, which doesn’t happen here.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
Sorry, but no. Those three are all 'bearish' strategies, but "going short" is selling something you don't have. Buying put options isn't short selling, although both are anticipating a decrease in the value of
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
Only if someone is about to cut the grass… then it starts to get pointless.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
According to which criteria are some studies apparently “pointless”? Who’s to determine these criteria? And aren’t they just opinions instead of real facts?
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
> if bitcoin blows up the other direction, the author loses 100% of their investment (if they are smart) or unlimited amount of money (if they are stupid). Well, he bought put options, so his max loss is the investment he made into that.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
> he is basically suggesting he has a crystal ball on when it's going to happen. No. Just some time before Christmas 2021.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
On "why now?", he stated that he thinks the pool of new greater fools is running empty: > My best guess is that pretty soon the supply of greater fools runs out.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
Is he underwater? Aren't the put options that he bought previously just not cheaper now? On options being underwater: "Underwater stock options have an exercise price which is greater than the market price of the underlying stock.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
AMA: Ask Me Anything
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
Once I discovered Darebee, https://darebee.com/workouts.html , I don’t need any other fitness workout database. The size of the set of exercises, the clarity of instructions and the fee (zero) are hard to beat.
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by jschulenklopper 5y ago
Well, Basecamp is their company, isn’t it? If they don’t have the right to make those changes... who has?
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by jschulenklopper 6y ago
https://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/1989/11/08 - on the surest sign of extraterrestial intelligence.
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by jschulenklopper 6y ago
Dijkstra / A* search algorithm do not prescribe which algorithm to use to add/insert items to the queue, or which algorithm to use to maintain a priority queue. So, your optimization might be an improvement, but it doesn't ma
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by jschulenklopper 6y ago
Also interesting: https://observablehq.com/@mbostock/best-first-search , a visual display of A*
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by jschulenklopper 6y ago
Just discovered that the random token generation still needs work for https://onthesamepage.online/ . You can easily guess or create (short) board ids, and see what was drawn there by others.
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by jschulenklopper 6y ago
On the Same Page is brilliantly simple - thanks for sharing. One minor improvement: the auto-selection of items by hovering the cursor could be a bit more visible - the dark grey is quite subtle (and not too different from black). May I sug
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by jschulenklopper 6y ago
Relevant: YC also has a RFS, https://www.ycombinator.com/rfs/
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by jschulenklopper 6y ago
Thanks - it's my TIL for this day. I only started to notice the 'special' submissions (with no voting buttons, no points, all to workatastartup.com) recently. I guess that these submissions had fallen of the front page earlie
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by jschulenklopper 6y ago
Ah, thanks. Didn't notice them before - most likely because they fell down from the front page before I had time to see them.
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Is Hacker News inserting links to Work at a Startup hiring posts?
2 points by jschulenklopper 6y ago|4 comments
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by jschulenklopper 6y ago
No, not according to the lawsuit: "Parler has tried to find alternative companies to host it and they have fallen through. It has no other options. Without AWS, Parler is finished as it has no way to get online."

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