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by nubbins 5y ago
That may be a perk of having had an aristocratic ruling class, the first industrial revolution, and global empire (not being sarcastic- I'm a big Hidden Houses of Wales fan, would love to renovate an old castle). The UK was historicall
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by nubbins 5y ago
For all the focus this article seems to put on "hedge" I can't imagine there are many hedge funds left that are really market direction neutral are there? With the performance of the SP500 being what it is in the past few yea
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by nubbins 6y ago
Sorry for the late reply, I don't entirely agree but thank you for laying out your argument point by point, it has certainly given me a different way to look at things. I do agree that the quality of art is roughly proportional to the
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by nubbins 6y ago
This is a strangely mechanistic view of the economy not allowing for human joy (which economists would lump in as utility.) I get a great amount of satisfaction from great food or art far beyond the costs required to produce them. I don&#x2
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by nubbins 6y ago
The entire idea that you must be anti-racist is borrowed from Marxism- a totalizing ethos that sees everything through the lense of race (instead of class). Its not enough to say I am a neutral person who treats individuals the same regardl
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by nubbins 6y ago
Across all my HN comments I've found there is an optimum level of detail where it sounds like you know what you're talking about, beyond which is too complicated to get many upvotes. The exception is occasionally on HN you get an
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by nubbins 6y ago
Is the Bay Area really friendly to all immigrants in a way that metropolitan Texas is not? I think the definition of friendly should include being able to afford decent space to live. I could imagine that for a young well off Chinese or Ind
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by nubbins 6y ago
Look at the directionality of prices for one way rentals. Because of the outflow from big cities NY area pickup -> Southern US dropoff prices are still 3x+ vs going the other direction, where I believe they used to be similar prices both
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by nubbins 6y ago
I think people know that a piece of meat on a grill that is totally burnt black is not healthy. And likewise I'd throw away or at least scrape off burnt toast. Browning on foods is a huge source of flavor though (Maillard reaction I th
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by nubbins 6y ago
I think the key here is the analogy is just a warm up for the actual full detailed explanation. Where I find analogies always fail is in journalistic tech books that just use analogies to explain concepts but never get down to low level det
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by nubbins 6y ago
Out of all resources I have found Wikipedia to be almost uniquely useless for teaching yourself a new concept, its like "explanation by committee". On the other hand if I can understand a Wikipedia article I know I am at least in
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by nubbins 6y ago
I understand Apple's likely concerns about encouraging distracted driving. As a cyclist and motorcyclist I take distracted driving seriously and don't actually watch youtube videos while driving (just listen). My issue with this a
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by nubbins 6y ago
The best feature for me was being able to use carplay with youtube to watch videos, instead of the limited handful of apps that iOS paternalistically limits you too. Ultimately it wasn't worth the hassle to keep up (and now as a bonus
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by nubbins 6y ago
Possibly I am judging too harshly on a few weaker podcasts (though isn't that always the risk when a show has so many episodes) but "pop history fun facts" is how I would characterize a lot of the non Western ancient/med
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by nubbins 6y ago
I love this podcast for anything in British history or literature. The aristocracy episode was particularly interesting. But the further afield it gets from that I feel like I don't come away having learned much about the history. He&#
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by nubbins 6y ago
I used to use google maps as just a GPS rather than navigation instructions. I've since found it is most helpful to use navigation in major cities because the directions are so much more complicated and the consequences for a single wr
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by nubbins 6y ago
Maybe people in middle America already have enough space to not feel pinched so that extra space is viewed as an amenity not a huge factor that they demand? In my experience in denser high COL areas space is priced basically linearly on the
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by nubbins 6y ago
Quarantining outside a big city has opened my eyes to how much urban life is purely consumptive activity. Living in a low density area, just having space and a vehicle to transport supplies I was able to grow vegetables, restore an old moto
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by nubbins 6y ago
That's so frustrating, as a bank they are making it harder to avoid fraud by training people to trust them. I was in the same position where someone tried to hack me but I will never give out information to a incoming caller, so I aske
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by nubbins 7y ago
You can tell they're not messing around because there are 7 MIT math and physics courses listed as corequisites. Looks like a fantastic resource. On the other hand I have no idea when I'd get the time to do this until I retire. Ma
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by nubbins 7y ago
I enjoy the little nuggets of wisdom like: >Learning your first calling convention is like learning your first programming language. It seems complex and daunting at first, but it's really quite simple. I will definitely read this a
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by nubbins 7y ago
I agree, if it actually mattered then flight attendants would check for cell connections as rigorously as they do seatbelts. Even if you've never flown basic logic will tell you on a flight of 100+ people not everyone remembered to swi
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by nubbins 7y ago
Ouch, that really hit home about Thucydides. I was going through the Classics at one point, and did get a lot out of Herodotus and some of the philosophers, but Peloponnesian War just seemed like a list of islands they sailed to, and fought
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by nubbins 7y ago
McDonalds as a company has fine food quality based on the fresh hot and delicious McDonalds I got in Japan. I believe McDonalds US has a store management and personnel problem, i.e. that no one gives a shit. Even after the “fresher” Quarter
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by nubbins 7y ago
High end omakase meals generally come with 1 or 2 .5 oz pieces of tuna. Even at 3x a day it would be comparable to one can of tuna. Of course mercury varies heavily from fish to fish but unless they were living on tuna/swordfish this s
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by nubbins 8y ago
That seems like a good strategy but maybe we should also work towards a mindset of enjoying the process of working on hard problems even if apparently fruitlessly. Whenever I feel I’m spinning my wheels I remind myself thats how I learned w
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by nubbins 8y ago
A lot of conservatives see the value in private arrangements (ie social capital) over public programs certainly, but I think their pro big business policies and suburbanization, inequality etc drive social atomization at least as much as th
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by nubbins 8y ago
Hmm I guess the distances are similar but I'm thinking the corridors of midtown and downtown NYC where a pedestrian or cyclist is trapped between giant skyscrapers and 2-3 lanes of fast moving traffic (or worse a Robert Moses highway p
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by nubbins 8y ago
I have to live in one of these places to do my career that I trained for (not trendy or super high status). If you could go back in time and say to a student "you can't actually be whatever you want, learn something that is region
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by nubbins 8y ago
Whenever I visit, SF still feels more human scale, relaxed, less anonymous, and more friendly to me than the shrine to global commerce that is most of Manhattan. But I trust people who live there who say its getting worse and its a lot smal

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