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by takinola 1y ago
To be fair, Dogs of War was based on Forsyth’s experience covering real-life mercenaries in the Biafra war. Fun fact, he started out as a war journalist and got fired for playing favorites and slanting his coverage towards one side. IIRC, h
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Ask HN: Share Your Favorite Bookmarklets
28 points by takinola 2y ago|11 comments
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by takinola 2y ago
Archive link - https://archive.is/PsBXp#selection-5747.0-5747.61
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The Ford Executive Who Kept Score of Colleagues' Verbal Flubs(wsj.com)
2 points by takinola 2y ago|4 comments
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by takinola 2y ago
At this point putting realistic sounds in movies would confuse the audience and take them out of the movie. Bald eagles don't sound like most of us think they do and swords don't make that sound when you wave them around or sheat
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by takinola 2y ago
There are a lot of things in movies that don't align to real life. Eagles don't sound like you think they do. Swords don't make that sound when you sheath them. The problem is that audiences have been so used to these visu
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by takinola 2y ago
Serious question, who is still buying memecoins? Why do they do it? The graph for each memecoin is essentially the same - a quick runup followed by a sharp drop to a flatline. Who still thinks putting money into these things is a good id
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by takinola 2y ago
I have the exact opposite reaction. Asking people for permission puts pressure on them to think about what you are doing (your responsibility) and make the decision about whether it is the right or wrong course of action. When I am asked
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Expectation vs. Reality(toluakinola.substack.com)
1 points by takinola 2y ago|0 comments
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by takinola 2y ago
I don't quite follow the logic of either of these proposals. If (a big if) AGI displaces human labor, then most people will not have any income from employment. If that happens, who has the income to purchase the output of the AGI?
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by takinola 2y ago
There is a steelman argument for not pushing back on plans that don't make sense. You have to remember that folks like this are not just random mad men spouting crazy ideas. This is someone that has had crazy ideas in the past AND ma
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by takinola 2y ago
My understanding is a lot of difference in healthcare spending in Europe v USA can be explained by the cost of pharmaceuticals and the fact that we have fancier (read more expensive) stuff. The pharmaceuticals pricing is due to the factor t
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by takinola 2y ago
All public companies, especially of this size, have their financial statements audited. Of course, shenanigans still happen but I haven't heard any credible claims regarding UNH just yet. More importantly, corporate hanky-panky is al
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by takinola 2y ago
A quick look at United Health's P/L shows a 6% profit margin. This does not quite support the popular rhetoric of a corporation in search of relentless margin (unless the argument is they are bad at it despite all efforts).
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by takinola 2y ago
I don't think financial institutions are legally allowed to even offer this as an option. Plus, it would be very expensive to opt you out of the risk systems. Plus, some subset of opted-out users would still sue when they are, inevita
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by takinola 2y ago
But that's my argument exactly. Even if kids with Ivy League degrees disproportionately have successful careers, lots of non-Ivy League kids also go on to have very successful careers. One possible explanation is that the Ivy Leagues
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by takinola 2y ago
> The parents are a bunch of professionals, virtually nobody doing anything else, and most kids went to private primaries + got tutored. We must have left some poor but capable kids in the wrong school. The idea that the school you go to
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Salt Typhoon Telecom Attack(washingtonpost.com)
5 points by takinola 2y ago|1 comments
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by takinola 2y ago
Prince Nico Mbarga was not someone I expected to see on HN. What a throwback to the past. Sweet Mother was practically required on the playlist at any event where your mother was going to be recognized in some form or the other (which is
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by takinola 2y ago
There is some logic to retention bonuses at failing companies. The point is not to get "you" to work as CEO of the most failing company on Earth. It is to get someone that the board thinks is competent at rescuing the company to
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by takinola 2y ago
That's kinda the point of the bonus, isn't it? If you otherwise would not want to, they give you more money to make it worth your while to stick around.
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How to Avoid Getting the Middle Seat Without Paying Extra(instagram.com)
2 points by takinola 2y ago|0 comments
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by takinola 2y ago
If this happens, someone will build an aggregator that interfaces with all the 190 different services.
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Why would anyone need JavaScript generator functions?(jrsinclair.com)
3 points by takinola 2y ago|1 comments
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User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment (2018)(userinyerface.com)
32 points by takinola 2y ago|2 comments
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The Deep Sea(neal.fun)
42 points by takinola 2y ago|4 comments
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by takinola 2y ago
> It is also important to note that introducing such measures would require everyone to identify themselves online, which could mean that people over the age limit are excluded This seems like a solvable problem. Imagine there is an age
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by takinola 2y ago
My understanding is the liver does not regrow but the remaining tissue just gets bigger. Hence, the liver is not quite a perpetual motion machine.
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by takinola 2y ago
Interestingly, I agreed with the idea that they are better when discussing tech and VC (after all that's their day job). Do you have any examples of where they have been significantly off on tech finance?
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by takinola 2y ago
> The real problem is the electorate This is similar to a company blaming customers for not buying from them and preferring their competitors' products. The game doesn't work that way.

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