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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
There's also nifty Windows application called Ditto - basically a searchable history of the system clipboard. Any time there's any complex command or a snippet, I intuitively just highlight it (in Putty) or CTRL+C it Log in to our
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
There's one major annoyance with Sony headphones and earbuds - no way to mute/unmute yourself - you must walk back to your laptop to do it. Why, oh why, Sony?
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In a similar vein - US military and industrial complex is without a war, and suddenly, out of the blue, a tiny European country that previously hosted US military bases and secret prisons - decides to irritate the main US geopolitical rival
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Venture capital used to be about placing small, diverse bets on a lot promising startups - everybody in the process was trying to make the world a better place Since about 2018, VC game changed - now it's about brazenly placing massive
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Not just 1600 - it was fairly common knowledge since antiquity. In 300 BCE, we knew not only that the Earth is round, but also roughly its radius. Moon's distance and radius was estimated about 100 years later. Sun-Earth distance was a
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It's also amazing how inflation is treated as some mysterious, unpredictable force of nature that just strikes out of the blue. Recently, I've seen a lecture on inflation from Marxist point of view - and it was a refreshingly intu
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This is a fundamental issue with the ad business - the ads are selected from those who bid, not from those that are relevant. For example - if I'm listening to a podcast with a captivating guest, the relevant links would point to their
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
In a small nation with limited cultural outreach, the only way to make a return on the investment is to target the largest demographic group - 50-70 year olds, high-school educated - with low-brow, casual, anodyne content. Trying to fill an
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
> My experience with clusters is that the clustering itself causes more problems than it solves. There's also a whole slew of failure modes that are capable of bringing down entire clusters if a single machine misbehaves. Usually to
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
To add to that - putting aside the present state of Sino-US relations, our prior beliefs should reflect what academic work on lying in politics tells us (1): * lying in official diplomatic relationships between countries is rather rare * wi
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Taiwan is not a shining beacon of democracy either. Since the creation of the country in 1949, the total number of parties holding power is: two. For important issues like the geopolitical orientation and the business model of the country -
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Unfortunately, the fact that us-east-1 is roughly 10% cheaper than other regions usually overrides any other concerns
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No, this rags to riches story is just a myth that Finland (the same goes for Norway) tell to themselves. In reality, in the early 1900s, Finland was poorer than Western Europe and some British colonies, but richer than just about any other
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
The FED has tools to affect monetary base (physical currency + bank reserves). But inflation is mostly a function of money supply (physical currency + deposits), not monetary base. All tools at FED's disposal are very indirect, leading
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
FED actually has three mandates, one of them almost never mentioned: * employment * price level * moderate long term interest rates
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There's one more reason - the one I use to rationalize my idleness to myself: in addition to our work output, the corporations are also paying us to be a part of their "reserve army". We might work 3-4 hours a day, but when t
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
To put things in perspective We've already warmed up the planet by about 1C from pre-industrial times, and...well, pretty much nothing consequential happened Based on the most likely temperature impacts of the most realistic emission s
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
Somewhat gruesome, because this is exactly how a lot of these vulnerabilities are "handled"
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The chance of seeing Eurobonds and EU-wide unemployment fund is significantly higher than any breakup of Eurozone
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Very simple They count on the following set of assumptions: * The inflation we're seeing is transitory, and almost all of it has already materialized * FED will give in to the political pressure and increase interest rates * ECB is mor
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While this is a good argument, people's revealed preferences point in the other direction The countries that are closest to that margin, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar or Iran, are actually perfectly happy with pumping more fossil fuels. Bin
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
To underscore how ridiculously rich the rich are in developing countries, one can take a look at country sheets in World Inequality Report 2022 (1) Adjusted for price level, excluding the top 1%, and focusing on the 90-99% percentile: incom
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And it's not like they're just coasting on their past glory. As an exaple: the country is now criss-crossed by high-speed rail (Frecciarossa), 300km/h, so good that it is out-competing local flights. Most of it built within t
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There's also a lot of confusion due to the overloaded use of the term 'drone' Drone could mean remotely piloted $4M Predator firing $140,000 a piece Hellfire missiles But drone could also mean mass-produced, battery operated
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With Tether - it's best to follow "fraud until proven otherwise" principle That "commercial paper" could very well be IOUs from themselves to themselves
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Not to forget - there are more choices than big-cloud and host-everything-yourself. One can rent VMs from Hetzner at 1/3 the price of AWS (and 1/10 the data transfer fees). No managed services, like Dynamo or S3, but will full con
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
More underappreciated aspect is variety. US tends to be very copy-paste - once you solve someone's problem well, it's quite likely your solution is universally applicable to large swaths of the market. EU varies not only country-t
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The fundamental problem is the same as with business and management research - any useful signal is completely drowned in an ocean of noise. Success of a project depends on the characters of the people involved, connections of the project l
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Some Windows 10 updates add Edge into the taskbar if you move it out of it. Hilariously, if you install multiple Windows updates in a batch, you might end up with multiple Edge launchers in the taskbar. I think at least once, it changed the
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by thow-58d4e8b 5y ago
The main difference is that in the 90s, the US still had real physical activity underlying its economy, and pretty impressive at that. You smack Microsoft, but who cares - there's still a wide industrial base, hundreds of thousands of

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