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by nojvek 2y ago
I have a Withings watch which has about 30 days battery life. Granted the display is tiny but I love that it looks like a normal watch and gets out of the way. I'd buy a Pebble if it hit 14d+ battery life with health tracking features.
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by nojvek 2y ago
Bitcoin at its fundamental is a large pyramid scheme where you need new fools to keep on buying at an ever higher price. The current newest fool is President Trump who wants to take a portion of Federal reserve and put it in Bitcoin. The gr
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Perplexity.ai does search citations really well. I can see Anthropic seeing value in that and building something internal. I was skeptic about Perplexity but it has been my primary search engine for more than 6 months now. LLMs with very li
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> hadn’t started investing beyond just the normal mutual funds/bonds/etc You'd be surprised how far you get ahead with S&P 500 + Treasury inflation adjusted securities. It's really hard to beat S&P500. Most fu
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by nojvek 2y ago
VWO was bootstrapped? wow! Some of the PMs I worked with loved showing off what VWO could do with a few clicks. Great tool. Congrats on $200M! Paras, You're now an inspiration for millions of devs, especially from India on what is poss
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by nojvek 2y ago
Likely many folks who depend on funding from NIH voted for Trump. Feel sorry for those who didn’t vote for him. No sympathy for those who did.
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by nojvek 2y ago
China average electricity prices at USD $0.075 vs US average electricity prices at 0.14c/kWh. 2x cheaper than US. And they keep on decreasing the cost every few years. China playing the long game.
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by nojvek 2y ago
I use hn.algolia.com and flagging doesn't seem to have an effect. I still see top voted and commented stories. HN works based on flagging. If a few users flag a story, it gets hidden. The algorithm errs on the side of being safe than s
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by nojvek 2y ago
> create hundreds of thousands of American jobs, and generate massive economic benefit for the entire world. 100s of 1000s of jobs seems a bit exaggerated.
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I feel really bad for kids. If every year the temperatures are breaking records, that's not a pretty world to live in.
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US is very capitalistic, and in economic terms retirees living long means they consume a lot of resources but produce very little after retirement. So they need a large base of young workers to support them. The US state of healthcare is te
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by nojvek 2y ago
I am in Florida. We have Winter, Summer and Hurricane Season. It's an yearly thing. Hurricanes get stronger every year due to warming waters in Gulf of Mexico. There are bigger Hurricanes in oceans but since no Humans live it doesn&#x2
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by nojvek 2y ago
You’re mostly talking about wildfires. The top 5 most destructive events in US are all hurricanes. They are the size of multiple states and bring more water in a period of a day than rest of annual non-hurricane rainfall. It’s desalinated w
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by nojvek 2y ago
States where pornhub is banned due to age verification: Alabama Arkansas Florida Idaho Indiana Kansas Kentucky Mississippi Montana Nebraska North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Texas Utah Virginia Louisiana Essentially Republicans who adv
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by nojvek 2y ago
Zuckerberg and Elon got what they wanted. Regulatory capture. Got the govt to ban a superior product. Elon even gets dips on acquiring it and expanding his megaphone. I guess US is becoming more like China. Choosing their horses and warding
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Mainland outline only, not state borders.
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Usually it’s the engineers that go at the bottom. Yet most of the inefficiencies come at management layer having a long chain of command.
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It's not as simple. Schools in my county are extremely selective even though they don't appear on outside. With arduous processes for application and applications only open for one day that only insiders know, or they extend appli
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by nojvek 2y ago
US is now adopting more of China ideals, than China adopting US ideals. From perspective of China, it seems they are winning as US is copying them. The bans, the protection of their industries, restricting free speech and building a surveil
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by nojvek 2y ago
sugar water & potato chips vs democracy? it's a modern marvel though how readily available sugar water and potato chips are at almost every grocery store.
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by nojvek 2y ago
We can change our culture as well. American culture is dynamic. The major issue with US even in blue cities is how apathetic they are to build new infrastructure (homes, roads, hospitals, schools) e.t.c At the end of the day demand-supply d
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What amazes me is that FL is hit the hardest from Hurricanes yet the overwhelming view is that climate change is a haux. The words "climate change" are banned from all official govt docs and communication. Big gas guzzling cars an
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by nojvek 2y ago
I asked both Claude and ChatGPT o3 to "generate svg of mainland USA with black outline". Tried various models and they got it hopelessly wrong. Claude does an okay job at "Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle"
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Network effects - the more people use Facebook, the valuable it becomes. If you want Facebook to die, stop using it. Meta makes 98% of its revenue from advertising, and that segment grew 25% last quarter YoY. Meta has 3.19 billion DAUs and
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Lots of money at the top 1% looking for high risk high returns. The top 1% in US own 40% of wealth, and top 10% own 80% of it. We are beyond Pareto ratio of 20:80.
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India has higher concentration of fried foods, or foods high in sugar, salt and fats.
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Zero IPA is really good
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Ghutterstock has plenty of $$$ to make a lawsuit. If the image catalog is close enough, that is a copyright violation.
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"There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that dem
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People ask me where I'm from - My reply is "I'm from a bunch of places, it's complicated - For simplicity, I'm from planet Earth"

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