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by merek 4y ago
> The FSA regulated FTX Japan is the only regional FTX moving forward with returning depositor's assets Genuinely curious, do you have a source for this? Thanks
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by merek 4y ago
Possibly caused by the Youngest Toba supervolcano eruption: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toba_catastrophe_theory See "Genetic bottleneck hypothesis"
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It depends. There can be several benefits of selling to businesses (based on experience): - You may only need to be responsive to customers during business hours. Of course this changes when you sell globally. - User-facing upgrades (new fe
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by merek 4y ago
> Most people want to smoke themselves to death in the open This could very well be biased, as you would never notice people who smoke in private. > It's nobody's right to pollute our air for the sake of their bad habits, th
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by merek 4y ago
How much risk are you willing to take? High risk appetite: You might see massive returns, but will most likely lose a lot (e.g. gambling, speculative stocks). Low risk appetite: Achieve much smaller returns, but the chance of any loss is mu
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by merek 4y ago
I'm not an expert, I think by default they payout in the currency of the country that your business is located in. In not sure about India, but in AU, we have the option to receive USD payouts to USD accounts in Australian banks, so yo
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by merek 4y ago
> I would recommend people to use AWS monitoring Use a monitoring service to monitor the provider of the monitoring service? Wouldn't it be better to use a monitoring service hosted on a totally different provider? I'm not even
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I recently came across this Nova documentary on the discovery of a living Coelacanth. I think you're right, living Coelacanth's were well known to locals as they commonly turned up in the catches of fishermen, but completely amaze
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by merek 4y ago
Thought I'd take this opportunity to thank you for your work. I came across your site searching for a box-shadow the other day, after spending too long attempting it myself
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And what says the East?
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by merek 4y ago
Love this one: Five precepts of the Soviet intelligentsia (intellectuals): Don't think. If you think, then don't speak. If you think and speak, then don't write. If you think, speak and write, then don't sign. If you thi
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by merek 4y ago
I've used EB extensively for a range of applications and it has been very reliable. There have been a few pain points (see cons below), but I suppose this is to be expected given the complexity that it tries to manage. Pros (in additio
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by merek 4y ago
The speed of the airbag is remarkable. It's fully deployed and waiting moments after impact (see 54s, easier to see with 0.25 playback speed). Perhaps a rare example of an explosion that saves lives.
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The Pleasure of Finding Things Out (1983)[video](archive.org)
1 points by merek 4y ago|1 comments
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by merek 4y ago
Physicist Richard Feynman talks about his childhood and the influence of his father, his feelings about having participated in the development of the atomic bomb, the influence of scientific logic on his perceptions and philosophies, and hi
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Fusion: The Energy Promise (1976)[video](archive.org)
1 points by merek 4y ago|1 comments
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An introduction to nuclear fusion energy and an exploration of the technologies being researched in 1976. Interestingly, they raise the possibility of a global warming doomsday scenario from waste heat due to massive global energy usage. At
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by merek 4y ago
> Traditionally European VCs and founders both operated under the assumption that startups need to save money rather than spend to get the best. And consequently those startups don’t grow into big companies that would pay for talent. I w
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Can You Stop People from Drinking? (1992)[video](archive.org)
2 points by merek 4y ago|1 comments
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A fascinating look at US and Russian approaches to curbing alcohol abuse
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Any decent manager who demands immediate delivery better be aware of the long term costs. In the long run, it's usually cheaper to deliver a well-built feature over a longer time period, compared to a poorly built feature delivered pro
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by merek 4y ago
> The wealthiest countries are generally those that have _more_ cultural drinking I don't think this is correct but I think I understand where you're coming from. Looking at the top 10 countries by alcohol consumption for 2019
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Best comment IMO > Even soullsess machine cant work properly when it`s being shouted at
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Introducing the Fiibean wepa Taki: https://labs.openai.com/s/95bli4C4CKZ73DMigFNdDKQ4
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In general, how could one know that something has no unknown unknowns? By definition, one wouldn't know.
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by merek 4y ago
From your link: > Stick of Truth: Banned because of a scene of sexual violence involving minors. Sounds to me like the censors are doing a good job.
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Who are the Western dictators?
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by merek 4y ago
> BTC and ETH are the interesting and worth putting a small percentage of your holdings into At what price?
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The King of England, Tony Blair, could start shoving you around.
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by merek 4y ago
Well, from a different programmer's perspective, ideal scenarios ("ending" or "eliminating" bad things) are rarely a reality. We can reduce car related deaths by regulating automotive vehicles and driving behavior.

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