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by tokyoseb 1mo ago
Indeed. As a young voracious reader I used to think that more reading is an unmitigated good until I came across Schopenhauer and his aphorisms. I try now to be more selective, life is short, and to engage more deeply with what I read. &quo
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by tokyoseb 1y ago
The Nikkei 225 may be below its 1989 peak in price terms but you can’t ignore the dividends which an actual investment in the index would have paid during that period. On a total return basis (if you had reinvested the dividends into the in
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by tokyoseb 4y ago
I must say it looks pretty good, wish I had tried it when I renovated my apartment. But all the other similar software I tried ultimately were a big disappointment. In my experience, once the design is complicated enough they tend to fail:
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by tokyoseb 4y ago
Really well made! The magnet-based propeller is really clever. I was curious to understand how the depth control worked and the associated blog is very informative. Turns out this is version 4 and he had tried other approaches before. The
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Cryptocurrency flowing into “mixers” hits an all-time high(arstechnica.com)
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The James Webb Space Telescope successfully deployed its sunshield(nasa.gov)
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The rise of crypto laundries: how criminals cash out of Bitcoin(ft.com)
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by tokyoseb 5y ago
Credit card fees are already regulated the EU, i.e. card interchange fees are capped at 0.3%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interchange_fee#European_Union As to why it's not a fixed payment: I'm not sure if s
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by tokyoseb 6y ago
That example is interesting. The Japanese word for real estate, 不動産, actually came from French [1], 'immobilier' (real estate, by opposition to what is movable or 'mobile' such as 'meubles' or 'mobilier&#x
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by tokyoseb 6y ago
This reminds me of the Gerbils Museum [1], although this one is obviously a real museum for humans visited by penguins, rather than a museum built specifically for penguins. [1] https://www.boredpanda.com/quarantine-gerbil-a
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BCI system gives paralyzed man back his sense of touch with haptic feedback(arstechnica.com)
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by tokyoseb 7y ago
If you’d like to read Wittgenstein but don’t know where to start I would recommend reading “How to read Wittgenstein” by Ray Monk, as an introduction before moving to “Philosophical Investigation” (rather than starting with his first book,
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by tokyoseb 7y ago
Wittgenstein didn’t come come up with the idea of a “private language” but in his Philosophical Investigations he famously argued that the concept itself is nonsense (not via a single logical “proof” but using several thought experiments).
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Wittgenstein’s Legacy: The Principles of the Private Language Arguments (2018)(doi.org)
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by tokyoseb 7y ago
Other good choices for French are the Trésor de la Langue Française informatisé (1994) developed by CNRS, and the various editions of the Dictionnaire de l’Académie Française. They can be accessed here (along with a few more dictionaries)