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by wyiske 2y ago
Unfortunately this is no longer true. The quality of the journalism is in serious doubt. One such example: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-myth-of-the-stolen-c... In addition many articles focus on individuals
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by wyiske 3y ago
You have a very simplistic view of the history. Many Arabs actually aren’t native to the land either, they moved there for work that the new Jewish immigrants provided. In fact there was significant mutual cooperation and benefit. Land wasn
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by wyiske 3y ago
The problem is that while al jazeera can be balanced about certain topics, fact is it is entirely government funded by an authoritarian undemocratic state and on this topic in particular it seeks to purposefully take a prejudiced anti Israe
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by wyiske 3y ago
You have a very simplistic view of the history. Many Arabs actually aren’t native to the land either, they moved there for work that the new Jewish immigrants provided. In fact there was significant mutual cooperation and benefit. Land wasn
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by wyiske 3y ago
The trouble with Java exceptions is that the forced error checking is rarely handled at the call site, making the code no longer linear. Calling var a = foo();bar(a); does not necessarily imply bar() will be called. Using a more functional
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by wyiske 4y ago
Agreed. I was actually hoping the article would talk about how to log (buffer, async, files or output stream, etc). I’ve seen at least 2 cases of excessive logging causing outages: One was using log4j zip rollover which blocked all threads
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by wyiske 5y ago
Not sure if this has been shared, but Yuval Harari, eloquently explains why everyone should care about this, the first invasion of a democratic peaceful country in my memory https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022&
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by wyiske 5y ago
It’s tantamount to appeasement to let threats like this influence any decisions
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by wyiske 5y ago
PoW guarantees the energy has been spent to find the nonce. If one person had access to a perpetual motor, they could control the market. We assume everyone else would then have to find cheaper sources of energy to compete. If we take this
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by wyiske 5y ago
This feels like an assault on truth. I skipped to the blog on “Is Bitcoin mining environmentally unfriendly” and found numerous cases of cognitive biases. Calling it fact checking is disingenuous. More like “alternative” facts. E.g, consid
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by wyiske 5y ago
The story “To the Driver Who Hit Me and Ran” makes me never want to get on a bike again
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by wyiske 5y ago
I worked at a startup about 10 years ago, and it was probably the most bureaucratic place I’ve ever worked. I was the 3rd employee, but my stock was negligible - incidentally the company wasn’t very transparent about this; When the offer wa
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by wyiske 5y ago
This article gets many things wrong. Starting with Bitcoin, he misunderstands what the mining process is. It’s main process isn’t just to mint new coins, which is what I think he assumes. Minting coins is an incentive to incorporate transac
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How Much Energy Does Bitcoin Consume? A Flawed Analysis(hbr.org)
2 points by wyiske 5y ago|1 comments
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Record Berkshire Hathaway share price breaks Nasdaq(entrepreneur.com)
1 points by wyiske 5y ago|0 comments
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by wyiske 5y ago
While I like, and am influenced by the economist, I find their formula frustrating. After stating the opposing side they often jump to their conclusions with barely enough arguments or stats. The articles don’t leave much in the way of foll
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by wyiske 5y ago
I built an app to scan receipts for bill splitting, although your use case is certainly interesting. Google‘s MLKit is very accurate for on device recognition. You can even feed frames straight from the camera with almost real time results.
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by wyiske 6y ago
The South African variant is almost certainly not spreading faster because of the variant but because there were super spreader events like recently 1000 people tested positive after going to a night club [1]. Indoor weddings, funerals, and
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by wyiske 6y ago
I’m not sure this is true. People are much more willing to buy a coffee/pastry rather than spend £2 on an app. It seems to me, that people definitely compartalize their spending, with most consumer software and apps expected to me free
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by wyiske 6y ago
I used to be afraid of debt, but understood this principle ever since an accounting friend told me about a luxury cruise liner he worked for. It was started buy an immigrant, and quite successful (pre Covid). I was confused how anyone could
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by wyiske 6y ago
A similar thing happened to me a few years back. I seriously considered changing careers, and decided not to renew my contract. I decided to try work on an idea some one suggested a while before. I ended up eventually launching an iPhone ap
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by wyiske 7y ago
I think they’re taking more or less the right approach. I do think they could have gone further and banned big events and told anyone with cold or flu to stay at home for 7 days (instead of with specific symptoms). It’s already too late to
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by wyiske 7y ago
Since this thing isn’t going away in the next 2 weeks, seems illogical to buy too much. The advice is to buy 2 weeks of supplies in case you’re infected and can’t leave the house. People would need 6+ months worth of supplies, and even the
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by wyiske 7y ago
CityAM published a really interesting article about this https://www.cityam.com/what-was-behind-fridays-national-grid... It certainly fits the given explanation