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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Not a sustainable solution, but you might wanna download a session manager and periodically just save the current session and start with a fresh one. No loss of data, no perpetual accumulation of tabs. Also use a service such as Firefox Poc
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Check out the works of Paul Wilmott, which include textbooks and a magazine of the same name which is (or at least used to be) the most expensive magazine subscription there is. Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Using a bookmarking service such as Firefox Pocket (alternatives include Pinboard) helped me reduce my Internet time. I just bookmark all the pages I find interesting. This is, of course, entirely useless since I'm never actually going
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
> PSP. It introduced me to gaming really and switching on that elegant device for the first time and seeing the intuitive user interface was magic. > I swear that when I got my 2015 MacBook Pro the Desktop would load instantly when op
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Ask HN: Self-Experimentation During Lockdown
2 points by kratom_sandwich 6y ago|2 comments
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Are you familiar with the "Reply all" podcast? They have a "recurring segment, called 'Super Tech Support' [in] which [...] the Reply All team [...] takes on odd or especially complex tech support issues that the li
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
I guess this boils down to what your mean by "inspiring"; let me give you some of my favorites by category: > Movies about people doing stuff, usually investigating something - makes me want to get up and get stuff done [1] Col
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Can't remember where I read this but IIRC it's not a healthy for a machine to constantly run at 100%, hence you make an engine with a peak performance of 200mph which constantly runs at a cosy speed of 100mph.
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Well, there is (quotes taken from Wikipedia): LessWrong [1] - a "community blog and forum focused on discussion of cognitive biases, philosophy, psychology, economics, rationality, and artificial intelligence, among other topics."
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Voting at a company's stockholder meeting is another reason. If an investor needs to control a certain amount of votes to have some proposal approved, he can borrow the shares he is lacking instead of buying them.
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Does this seller have any reputation (i.e. has anyone bought a game shell)? Reminds me of the popcorn pocket [1], which seems to be stuck in manufacturing limbo ... https://pocket.popcorncomputer.com/
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
So apparently there's a film on Le Roux in the making by Michael Mann ("Miami Vice", "Collateral", "Black Hat"), which is not based on the Evan Ratliff reporting (Atavist Magazine and later the book "
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Quick background: "Die letzten Tage der Menschheit" is a collection of scenes dealing with WW1 which are not meant to be seen as one coherent play or performed at once. Usually, theatre companies select a subset of scenes to perfo
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Most likely explanations: > Confirmation bias > Coincidence > You left other traces on the internet (searches, whatever) which fit into a pattern of people liking specific cereals
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Doesn't require an account for me ...
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
I think if you have a genuine interest in this topic and some basic understanding of maths (probability, etc.), textbooks can be quite accessible. Read, for example, "Coporate Finance" by Berk and DeMarzo or have a look at the CFA
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
"The fastest path to financial success is going to be dumping all your money into some kind of short term leveraged bet. This will come with a huge risk of losing everything." Betting everything on a single number in Roulette is c
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Soviet problem-solving method TRIZ might be exactly what you are referring to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ Also, have a look at Polya's "How to solve it": https://en.wikipedia.org/
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Currently there is a top post on /r/learnprogramming which (links to a Github which) contains a more dense list: https://old.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/iz064h/li...
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Also, check out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24091707
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23246672
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
This is a neat hack for reducing PDF file sizes. As you may know, macOS already has a built-in filter to reduce file size, but for me, it often results in almost unreadable documents. This stackexchange question shows how to create a custom
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
I would say there's an equally massive chance that the speaker will mention Sears who dominated the mail-order business until Amazon came along :D
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Just today, I saw that some Thinkpad models have AMD inside ...
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Don't know if Interwetten is available in North America; it would be my choice as a European. [1] Also, William Hill has a politics market. PredictIt is a US-based prediction market, which should work in Noth America, but is not availa
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Ask HN: How did you build your social network at your current employer?
1 points by kratom_sandwich 6y ago|1 comments
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
> It's not that different from "gambling" in the stock market. Would you say that there's a difference in the number of skilled / unskilled market participants in the stock market and in the betting markets? E.g.
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
Although I personally didn't like it very much, I know that many hold "Gödel, Escher, Bach" in high regard.
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
As a wannabe power user, my impressions are: > The presentation itself was kind of weird. From Apple, I would have expected something more elegant, less over the top, less humorous > I'm very fond of the Steve Jobs analogy that c
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by kratom_sandwich 6y ago
So the "About this Mac" screen says "Version 11.0" ... A silent farewell to OS X?

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