throwphoton

7 ms·

31.
by throwphoton 6y ago
Please submit those stories to HN!
32.
by throwphoton 6y ago
The flu doesn't generally involve rolling the dice so quickly that morgues run out of space.
33.
by throwphoton 6y ago
If housing is profitable, in the sense of offering appreciation above the general rate of inflation, then it becomes less affordable to the next buyer, who has to fork over a larger percentage of their lifetime earnings to live there. It&#x
34.
by throwphoton 6y ago
Apple should simply re-release the pre-touchbar 2013 Macbook Pro, with USB-C ports. "Peak MacBook Pro" was 2013 (once they fixed the screen-coating deterioration).
35.
by throwphoton 6y ago
The touch bar forces you to look at what you're doing in a place that should strictly be muscle-memory, and it's a flat surface that isn't safe to touch in an area where you rest your hands. More than once I've hit the &
36.
by throwphoton 6y ago
It is the self-collateralization that is circular, not my thinking! Not all credit markets work like this; instead expecting as collateral something you actually own, and making margin calls when the value of that collateral falls.
37.
by throwphoton 6y ago
For home loans, the collateral is the house, which is strange because the house doesn't truly belong to the borrower until the loan is paid off. Deeper still, the conditions where home loans are risky are the same conditions where hom
38.
by throwphoton 6y ago
I think the thesis of this type of trading is that black swan events are underestimated in the market, making far out-of-the-money options (i.e. insurance against unlikely events) sufficiently cheap that you can make money in the long run e
39.
by throwphoton 6y ago
I'm in my 40s in the SF Bay Area and recently landed a new software development job. The process took several months. My initial interviews were disastrous; it had been many years since my last job search and I didn't know I wasn
40.
by throwphoton 6y ago
You could also fit a large assortment of gourmet meats into a stack of shoeboxes, but it's preferable to display them in a way that whets the observer's appetite.
41.
by throwphoton 6y ago
> But we have to work together to fix it What, concretely, does this mean, especially if creditors are pressuring people to return to work to keep up with their payments, and returning to work is a public and personal health hazard?
42.
by throwphoton 6y ago
> If it is absolutely obsolete, why is it still present on Apple's laptops? I suspect Apple sometimes recognizes when they make a wrong turn. They'll never put the headphone jack back in the phone, or remove the touchbar from
43.
by throwphoton 6y ago
Absorption spectra baffle me and I've never seen an explanation that helps me understand. It seems conceptually simple, except the requirement that the energy of an photon exactly match some required energy in order to be absorbed se