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by vagab0nd 7y ago
We were planning to start (our first) small business, which would require locking in some capital. I'm worried about the future of the economy, and have been thinking about putting it off. I know a lot of people say don't time the
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
I'm not up-to-date on these bacteria. It's shocking to me that at this day and age we still don't have good treatments. Would bacteriophage have helped?
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
I still can't wrap my head around this topic after reading the article. >> Yuan is not able to escape China, and therefore while other countries might see capital flee the country long before the point China has reached. China ha
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
My favorite demonstration of this has to be the engine sound of the Batpod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpUSNZQAb4
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Slightly off topic, but why isn't a one dollar bank note worth more than one dollar in a bank today ? I have a very basic understanding of how bank works, so please correct me. If banks can only lend based on the reserve, it seems ban
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Ask HN: What's your real life superpower?
1 points by vagab0nd 7y ago|2 comments
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
I did something very similar just recently. I have a calendar event to backup all personal data every 3 months, based on a checklist. I'd always wanted to automate it but every time I tried, it just seemed such a daunting task that I n
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Very interesting results. From the paper it sounds like the algorithms you used are very similar to Libratus (pre-solved blueprint + subgame solving). What change made it so that the computation requirement is much lower now?
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Ah, the good old mpq files... I remember extracting sound/music from Warcraft 3 and using them as ringtones.
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
This is what I'm trying to achieve. Do you have any tips on how you managed to do it? Did you have to change your lifestyle to e.g. reduce living cost, etc.?
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Sure. I've heard that a lot. But that's very abstract. What actual work is involved in "setting a strategy"? And why does it seem less visible compared to other work?
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Ask HN: What do middle-level managers do?
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Is this why you didn't write "jk" at the end?
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
When I read this I thought the PDF version was just hard to read. So I made a better copy of it: https://nerfsoftware.com/reflections.html
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
OT: what does it take to design a font? I've always wanted to make my own. Is it a reasonable thing to do for an average person with an okay design taste, if I'm willing to put in the work?
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
This makes me think: is sustained happiness even possible? I certainly haven't experienced it myself. Given limited resource and time, I find it really hard to meet that goal.
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Yes it is a meta quality, and that's why it's not irrelevant. For instance, when told something is "hard", you can calibrate yourself on what that means. You also get the correct sense of what's possible and what&#x
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Speaking from my own experience, I think it's very important to have a balanced view of the fact that you are smart. i.e. you shouldn't be ignorant of it. If you "play" competitively in any of the fields, being ignorant
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Why is "old age" a better choice? Usually there's some kind of a disease that can't be handled by the aging body. Is it because it's not worth it to identify what the disease is?
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
I worked on this project where we needed to analyze the motion of objects from the camera in real time. We were trying to find an algorithm that was fast enough to run on the hardware, but to no avail. One day, it dawned on me that since ou
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Just try a bidet, please. It's so worth it. I had a "itchy butt" for the longest time. Tried many methods, saw many doctors (not fun!). Found no real solution. Flushable wet wipes helped somewhat, but didn't completely s
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Left-Coiled Snail(en.wikipedia.org)
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
> To honor and respect the privacy of those who offer their bodies to science, no further details are given medical students about the person who had once inhabited the body lying on the silvery slab before them. Unless you are special I
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Regardless of whether it benefits employers, it makes sense for healthy young people, no? If your health care spending is low, you get free money every paycheck. Also last time I looked at my HSA account, it's both pre-tax contribution
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by vagab0nd 7y ago
Personally I can say the same thing for Arch Linux. Since you've used both, could you elaborate what is better in Pop!_OS than Arch?
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
> Having thousands of files in a single directory is usually not very file system-friendly, and definitely not recommended. I wonder, is this specific to the situation when I use "ls", or is it in general? I recently worked on
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Exploding Animal(en.wikipedia.org)
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James while John had had had had had had had had had had had a better effect(en.wikipedia.org)
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Adding to that, I sometimes fear that my Google search results are biased towards my own search history.
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by vagab0nd 8y ago
Reminds me of this xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2105/

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