qwtel

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by qwtel 9y ago
"In investing, it is better to sell a year too early, than a day too late".
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by qwtel 9y ago
i know. it is sort of fun writing it like that, which is why i did it.
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by qwtel 9y ago
what is most fascinating about nassim's writings is the night-follows-day certainty with which they will cause a flock of bitter nerds to crawl out of their dimly-lit offices to unwittingly mutter one item or another from the "nas
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by qwtel 9y ago
this is just the latest instalment in a never-ending series of mechanistically declaring illegal anything the kids like. renting out your flat to tourists for profit? upsets the neighbours, doesn't comply with arbitrary laws written ce
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by qwtel 9y ago
c.f. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
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by qwtel 9y ago
I see it the other way around: Any programming (or similar) job that doesn't compensate you as if you were working 70 hours a week is taking money away from you. These are not the 1900s and you are not assembling widgets in a factory.
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by qwtel 9y ago
i think the idea is that if theres a bear market in the real economy, more people will flee into the virtual one
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by qwtel 9y ago
> If you have a notary anyway there are more efficient ways to go about things. like trusting in bob: http://intheoreum.org/ be warned: this link contains humor.
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by qwtel 9y ago
appreciate that you go so directly after evaluating a business idea, but it's a bad one. if you were hellbent on making this work, you'd have to approach it from a different angle: Instead of "paying" for a "newslet
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by qwtel 9y ago
> Which candidate do you think people will vote for? the one that is taller, talks with more confidence and has more gray hair
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by qwtel 9y ago
There's also the good ol' jekyll and my theme Hydejack that I'm gonna shamelessly advertise here: https://qwtel.com/hydejack/ It features a lot of JS that does some pretty wild things (FLIP animations, p
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by qwtel 9y ago
> your web sentiment analysis score does not meet the threshold for hire except you would be lucky if one well-meaning employee would tell you the above sentence off the record in violation of every contract he/she singed with Profi
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by qwtel 9y ago
you're right. let's get rid of safety nets, because YAGNI. it's so efficient!
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by qwtel 9y ago
because its good engineering. you don't know what might break your JS in the future. you also don't know which user agents people will use in the future. I was quite surprised to discover that some "UC browser for Android&quo
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by qwtel 9y ago
> In contrast, tulips weren't a new technology. Depends on your definition of 'technology'. From wikipedia: > The tulip was different from every other flower known to Europe at that time, with a saturated intense petal
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by qwtel 9y ago
I wonder what deranged form of loss-aversion is driving google's decision to make dart their preferred UI language for their upcoming OS fuchsia.. hopefully I'm just ill-informed and everything is fine.
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by qwtel 9y ago
I certainly dropped out of learning spanish with duolingo a couple of years ago (after maybe a few months). All that is left is how to order a beer, but with such a horrible german accent that at least one native speaker burst out into laug
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by qwtel 9y ago
Too bad my Nexus 5 just bit the dust a couple of weeks ago. I was surprised that this only works with the Nexus 5 though, since it's a pretty old phone. I was primarily using it to performance-test stuff on a low end phone. Maybe maruo
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Fellow-travellers and useful idiots(newstatesman.com)
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by qwtel 9y ago
as somebody who is entirely financially secure due to my family-ties and level of education, which, statistically speaking, is also due to my family, I could not agree more with this hand-waving, compassion-free, no skin-in-the-game observa
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by qwtel 9y ago
> it's much more likely that Bitcoin will just adopt whichever features that make this competitor superior since the bitcoin community continues to fail to adopt the most basic measures to do something about its scalability issue (t
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by qwtel 9y ago
as I understand, he sold mt.gox to its current owners long before the attack, which is also before they conducted a rewrite, that subsequently allowed for the attack.
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by qwtel 9y ago
strange how they didnt do that right out of the gate... maybe nobody would lend and invest in a company with no history of building a car, let alone one that was deemed impossible? now lets put on our after the fact analysis hat, where caus
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by qwtel 9y ago
Passive equity ETFs across all major regions, weighted by contribution to world GDP. A minor portion in various cryptocurrencies, so I can do some active 'trading' (really just losing money), but on a smaller scale, without gettin
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by qwtel 9y ago
we are very serious software ENGINEERS. very serious people. like lawyers, but not as attractive.
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by qwtel 9y ago
are we running out of clickbaity headlines?
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by qwtel 10y ago
> Limiting the global mean temperature rise to below 2°C with a probability of 66% would require an energy transition of exceptional scope, depth and speed. It seems that sovereigns don't quite think like individuals: If this was a
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by qwtel 10y ago
You might be happy to hear that the $1500 machine recommendation is outdated. You can view the current recommendation here [1] and it basically boil down to: RX480/GTX1060 plus i5 -- very much below $1000 at this point. [1] https:&#x2
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by qwtel 10y ago
i take that as a compliment.
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by qwtel 10y ago
If knowing every detail of something was required for criticising it, writing a massive, incomprehensible document would be an effective way to dismiss any criticism out of hand.

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