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While I totally agree with this, I think you should still get a drivers license. There's always a very real possibility that you may need to drive a car in some sort of emergency.
Re:Gary Hunt -the Messi of cliff diving on Friday February 17, 2023 @09:34AM (#34835093)
The Messi comment wasn't trying to be snarky. Was trying to foster an actual conversation about what it means to be great and how does context matter. Sorry if it came across as insulting or uninteresting- that was not my intention.
Re:Gary Hunt -the Messi of cliff diving on Thursday February 16, 2023 @11:15AM (#34820617)
Messi can be compared to billions of ppl are the world who play or dabble in football. This dude can be compared to what - a couple thousand?
Re:Ask HN: What are the best unknown books you have read? on Sunday January 19, 2020 @02:39PM (#22093478)
Financier: The biography of Andre Meyer by Cary Reich. The book goes into the beginnings and psychology of one of the most important investment bankers of the 20th century. It also goes into great detail of the toxic nature of banking and the Genesis of complexity in modern dealmaking.
Re:The Liar's Walk: Detecting Deception with Gait and Gesture on Thursday December 19, 2019 @03:32PM (#21838937)
Drugs I guess
Re:An account is now required to read Reddit comment threads? on Friday December 13, 2019 @08:44AM (#21781416)
I think quality of the conversation will always trump "privacy, openness and ad-free".

We have to pay for quality. If we're not going to pay with dollar bills, we pay with privacy.

Re:Buying and Collecting Video Game Art on Sunday December 01, 2019 @07:54AM (#21675248)
I've heard both sides of the debate (art should not be treated as commerce vs art has investment value). I think it's a very confusing debate as I see the point of both sides. Art is made to evoke beauty in all sorts of ways that we can appreciate. in an ideal world, we should not attach a sense of bazaar to it. At the same time, we need a better idea of value in art (and the illusion that said value is at least roughly quantifiable) to create an industry where art can flourish. Artists should be paid. Dealers should be paid. Neither of those things can happen without people thinking the value of their art can go up.
Re:Improving DuckDuckGo on Tuesday November 13, 2018 @02:03PM (#18443771)
Their selling point is trustworthiness, privacy and usefulness. To be useful, they must have quality software/IP. And in their opinion, that should be protected.
I'd call this shitty, but certainly not politically incorrect.
Re:It’s better to be born rich than gifted on Saturday October 13, 2018 @05:24PM (#18210099)
Many times those colleges are great because of those donations... So maybe it is fair... Perspective
Re:Face recognition in images and video with Python on Monday June 18, 2018 @09:37PM (#17343117)
Aerial images?
Like a waterfall. Once you're over the edge, it's an entirely different ball game.
I find this phenomenon similar to many other diseases. A certain diet or lifestyle works wonders in preventing it. But if you have it, there is little you can do to treat it outside of medical treatment. Eg diabetes, kidney failure, cancer.
Perhaps (just perhaps), Quantopian is gathering (or has gathered) the evidence that B > A. If so, this is a great investment.

Regarding institutional money, they have been around for a few years. I'm not sure about how long they've been running the competition, but they certainly have been running an asset management service for some time - and would have impeccable records regarding this.

In other words, there is a lot about Quantopian that we don't know and so it would be difficult to make a judgement call on the quality of AH's investment.

Re:Confessions of a Necromancer on Friday September 23, 2016 @05:24PM (#12568078)
Can you give some examples of "project management styles" that try to fix this?
Agreed. It's like: America: "Kid's here have a better chance of becoming super-rich or super-powerful - maybe even President.. Forget about health care and income equality"

Europe: "Whatever, everyone here is middle class, self-fulfilled and happy... Forget about balanced budgets, unemployment and negative interest rates..."

Rest-Of-World: "Dammit, I just want to survive..."

Re:Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks on Sunday July 10, 2016 @07:45PM (#12067844)
Again, you can't sell deposits. Chase assumed the business of WaMu, which included liabilities - mostly deposits. Deposits are a liability and it is impossible to sell a liability. So saying "they sold their deposits to Chase for less than the amount of the deposits" is entirely inaccurate. It's somewhat counter-intuitive because deposits "seem" like assets and loans "seem" like liabilities - but it's actually the other way around on the balance sheet.
Re:Brexit Is a Lehman Moment for European Banks on Sunday July 10, 2016 @05:11PM (#12067291)
Aren't deposits a liability? How can you sell a liability? Do you mean they sold their loans?
Re:Google Fonts Redesigned on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @07:27PM (#11906193)
I don't think they're reinventing anything. Google Fonts has been offering webfonts for many years. All they did here was change the website.
Re:Whats your python IDE? on Thursday June 25, 2015 @01:45PM (#9779593)
WingIDE from Wingware is really nice
Re:Apple Reports Third Quarter Results on Thursday July 24, 2014 @05:11PM (#8082217)
Officially, yes. But you could still get it to work on your home network outside the US if you wanted to. Just wouldn't get data.
Re:Apple Reports Third Quarter Results on Wednesday July 23, 2014 @10:22AM (#8074487)
Correct about the apps. But they were not geographically or operator limited. From the beginning, they were used around the world on any service.
ggplot2 most definitely