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hakeberio
3y ago
Knot theory in topology is super interesting and have very practical applications in the real world (protein folding, chemical structures, etc). Fun fact: Conway was involved in tabulating 11-crossing prime knots. I found this veritasium vi
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hakeberio
4y ago
gnarly bug! what's the name of the paper?
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hakeberio
6y ago
Regarding your last line: futures trade nearly 24 hours, 6 days/week. It's also several times bigger than the ETF market, in terms of average daily dollar volume, so you get the liquidity and smaller spreads as well. [1] [1]: htt
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hakeberio
6y ago
Definitely. It reminds me of Orwell's Newspeak in 1984- although the novel itself shows that having a "clean" vocabulary doesn't completely prevent "unclean" thought deemed by the authorities, having a censored
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hakeberio
6y ago
I use Wireguard regularly when I'm out to access my home LAN where I have some VM's running various things like pihole (DNS server to block ads), mail server, hobby dev server, etc. Wireguard is very light (cf: OpenVPN) and easy t
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hakeberio
6y ago
Developed/rich countries "kicking away the ladder" from developing countries is a well-known concept- there's an interesting book by the same title by Ha-joon Chang. To be clear, I'm not saying that any of these act
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hakeberio
6y ago
Pivpn is beginner-friendly and you can always branch off from there. https://www.pivpn.io
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hakeberio
6y ago
Seems useful! Curious about your business model- it seems like your payment processor takes 0.5%/payment; do you charge some percentage on top of that? If so, how much? Adding a "what is our business model" section in the abo
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hakeberio
6y ago
Looking from a different angle, I can see few valid reasons for using cosmetics: 1. Cosmetics often includes medical/dermatological products which are essential for some people. 2. Cosmetics can be used not just for "vanity"
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hakeberio
6y ago
Similar theory I have is that it's acceptable for most children to learn their language full-time; whereas for adults, usually it's a side thing on top of their full-time work. If given the opportunity to immerse in language learn
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hakeberio
6y ago
Learning a new language is often accompanied by the very real feeling of your "mind expanding." I think that's because being able to understand/speak another language is almost like experiencing a whole new world; anothe
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hakeberio
6y ago
GCP also offers a "always free" micro-instance that's more than enough for the task at hand. https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#always-free