pete762

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by pete762 7y ago
A few days ago on HN the letter-to-shareholders by Howard Marks was posted, where he says investing is like Blackjack or Backgammon (it involves luck and skill) and how a good decision doesn't necessarily bring a good result and vice v
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by pete762 7y ago
Except he makes it sound as if the water was "poisoned" with the sole purpose of manipulating humans (and/or frogs), while it's "simply" an unfortunate side-effect of producing food large in quantities.
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by pete762 7y ago
What does dark matter have to do with black holes?
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by pete762 7y ago
Cargo cult has been around forever.
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by pete762 7y ago
> I don't care about what people will say at my funeral because I won't be there. Sorry, that's just stupid. Having people (honestly) say something nice about you at your funeral is not the end goal, but it's a _sympt
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by pete762 7y ago
building this thing is part of the whole "developing better technologies" thing
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by pete762 7y ago
Or even better for loneliness: Find a team sport you really enjoy. Two birds with one stone.
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by pete762 7y ago
Can I ask what you do (and where)? That's absolutely insane money for former soviet states, probably equivalent of >>1 mil in the bay area.
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by pete762 7y ago
No, more like hard to fake abundance of resources. Whether they're wasted or not is in the eye of the beholder.
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by pete762 7y ago
The use cases for long lasting and energy dense batteries are much more diversified than just cars.
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by pete762 7y ago
Some of the English samples by non-natives were completely incomprehensible. I hope the system learns to be accent free.
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by pete762 7y ago
Yes, it's basically congruent with what the BBC article mentions. Being immersed into a video game leads to less memory formation of what happened beforehand. This can be used in trauma prevention etc.: https://www.nature.co