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by pdog 5y ago
My doctoral thesis was on precisely the question of what role the Great Eagles could have played before and during the War of the Ring to deliver the One Ring to Mordor. It's not simple enough to say they were great beings who would ha
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by pdog 5y ago
Animals tend to run away when you throw something like a rock or a big stick at them. It's possible the primary benefit of utilizing projectiles by early humans, even before they could fashion weapons or throw accurately, was as a defe
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by pdog 5y ago
> It's interesting that he cannot prove that his "black swan" strategy has ever been actionable for his own or anyone's portfolio, how to use his theories to make significant money vs. normal strategies... Mark Spit
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by pdog 5y ago
> That’s because experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering from COVID-19. Since when has not knowing something been justification for intervention? Given that people have been getting
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by pdog 5y ago
The chilling effect is real. Even if service is reinstated, the precedent is now that major platforms can arbitrarily censor your news stories for weeks, shut down your servers, and remove your apps from their app stores. Why would anyone b
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by pdog 6y ago
> Because of things like Apex Crypto, it feels like pretty much every stock broker app will now let you buy Bitcoin and they'll do it with lower fees than Coinbase. Which stock broker app lets you deposit in Bitcoin? Or withdraw y
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by pdog 6y ago
If you're worried about nuclear waste, why not build small nuclear reactors way out in the desert and encase them in concrete for a couple hundred years once you're done with them?
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by pdog 6y ago
No ECC support means it's totally useless for workstation workloads.
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Google Fires “Ethical AI” Research Lead Meg Mitchell, Escalating Turmoil(bloomberg.com)
94 points by pdog 6y ago|3 comments
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by pdog 6y ago
> The internet is a bunch of private fiefdoms. For $7 a year you can host a website that's accessible from anywhere in the world. Things are better not worse.
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Florida Braces for a Gold-Plated Makeover as Wall Street Heads South(bloomberg.com)
3 points by pdog 6y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 6y ago
Generally speaking, you don't initiate a short position with longer than a two- to three-year time horizon. The cost of borrowing the shares, plus the opportunity cost of holding cash for margin maintenance requirements, is too prohibi
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by pdog 6y ago
“Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become .”
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by pdog 6y ago
> Are you seriously suggesting that Tesla production will increase by 100x within a decade? Tesla scaling electric vehicle and battery production by 60% CAGR for a decade doesn't seem too ridiculous when you put it that way. And t
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by pdog 6y ago
"Don't tell me what you think, tell me what you have in your portfolio." Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game If you're convinced Tesla is vastly overpriced, you should prove it by shorting the stock or buying put o
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by pdog 6y ago
My friend is a SaaS pricing expert. She normally charges upwards of $578 USD per hour for her consulting services, but she was happy to take a look at your site for free. Here are some of her recommendations: * Lite should be called Free an
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Andrew Wilkinson of Tiny Capital Makes Market Debut with SPAC(bloomberg.com)
2 points by pdog 6y ago|0 comments
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HP 12c, Wall Street's Cult Calculator, Turns 30 (2011)(wsj.com)
4 points by pdog 6y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 6y ago
I had no idea what "disposable terracotta cups" were, but they're pretty interesting: https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2016/10/26/kolkatas-age-ol...
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Tours of Duty: The New Employer-Employee Compact (2013)(hbr.org)
1 points by pdog 6y ago|0 comments
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by pdog 6y ago
This works well for daily journaling too.
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by pdog 6y ago
What's with all the emojis? I tried reading the article, but I gave up after twenty or so emojis. They're attention-grabbing for no reason. There's something seriously off-putting about so many emojis in an article written by
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Elon Musk Unveils Brain Computer Implanted in Pigs(bloomberg.com)
2 points by pdog 6y ago|1 comments
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by pdog 6y ago
Stock market returns have always been about a small handful of big winners. It's one of the reasons why indexing usually outperforms stock picking. The median stock actually performs worse than short-term treasury bills. In other words
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Banks Uncover Loophole to Buy Home Loans at Below-Market Prices(bloomberg.com)
1 points by pdog 6y ago|1 comments
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by pdog 6y ago
The article doesn't really explain why mass surveillance or surveillance capitalism has to end. In fact, if the exemplary tools of resistance are lasers and traffic cones, it sounds like the system is well on its way to being perfected
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by pdog 6y ago
Most Americans don't even realize they're trapped in their own country now. You can't leave even if you want to.
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by pdog 6y ago
That's my point. The Spanish flu killed 750,000 in the United States at a time when the population was around 100 million. It was certainly a massive crisis. What was the reporting like and how has it changed?
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by pdog 6y ago
Did this pervasive level of criticism, animosity, and negativity exist a hundred years ago during the last serious pandemic? Every week there's some new crisis. It feels like the entire media is always trying to highlight the next syst
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by pdog 6y ago
A lot of good writing advice in this memo: The key person to think about is the reader. People generally read only one screen and SELDOM read more than two screens. (A screen typically is around 300 words.) A long story on a complicated top

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