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Re:The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success on Sunday May 26, 2024 @03:53AM (#40480391)
Yes, but he tested for likelihood of lung cancer through gene screening. Odds we favourable so he kept smoking.
Re:Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use? on Wednesday December 13, 2023 @02:55AM (#38623996)
Reminds me of an advanced version of the old Dropbox where you could quickly host static sits from the finder. Was the best thing about Dropbox. Of course they killed it.
Dropbox was amazing. The ability to share a url to any HTML file basically made the service a micro blog host.

Of course they then added “productivity” tools and removed the actually productive features like sharing HTML.

I’ve moved to Google too but still prefer the Dropbox GUI.

*ten year user of Dropbox

Re:Sam Elsom's seaweed solution to tackle climate change on Monday October 02, 2023 @04:06AM (#37735209)
Sam is a great guy with a true passion for this. Hope it succeeds.
Re:The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe on Friday May 12, 2023 @06:52PM (#35923550)
I would love a contemporary account of the Chicago underworld, have the Italian families long since been replaced by the cartels?
Love to hear more about this. I also suffer from RSI and would love to know if it’s helped changing input to voice
Re:Pretty Good House on Monday January 16, 2023 @11:22PM (#34409098)
Dan do you ever talk about retro fitting old houses at your monthly talks. It would wonderful to learn what can be done to existing (my home is 1880’s) buildings to improve their performance.
I was waiting for the point where it was show MSC is just a front for the cartels.
Re:Your Cellphone Will Be a Satphone on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @11:01PM (#34157400)
Yes; the misty program is what you are thinking of. It had a clamshell RF shield to deflect incoming tracking
Re:Winning a London Garden Allotment on Saturday July 30, 2022 @10:24PM (#32292577)
I’ll never forget seeing an email from McKinsey outlining cuts to Gov. spending on aboriginal health with you guessed it in the email footer, “We pay respects to the Eora people……”
New respect for steeple jacks!
Re:How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:08AM (#27244552)
Interesting. You think it’s a deliberate verbal IQ filter implemented by the scammers?
Re:How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap on Saturday May 22, 2021 @04:03AM (#27244524)
I’m always amazed that just slightly better grammar would increase the scammers success rate by miles.

There is no way I would read the correspondence as legit, but it’s not bad and given the return on the scam it’s wild that they don’t slightly improve that step.

Maybe Elizabeth Holmes is helping out?
Re:Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (2018) on Saturday April 17, 2021 @02:02AM (#26841939)
I’m guessing he bought BTC at $1 and has been enjoying days of hazy BBQ life since
Re:Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:44PM (#26527726)
100% here in Australia the old Defenders have become a collectors items since the change to the new shape. I recall a lack of pedestrian safety stopped the original Defender entering the US market too
Re:Low Earth Orbit Visualization on Tuesday March 02, 2021 @02:43AM (#26312854)
Just wanted to say thank you for this. My six year old and I use it all the time.
This is borderline evil. It’s not about a “moment” it’s not about stoic “knowing”.

It’s about being selfless.

Re:Smoothstep.io, a Shader Animation Tool on Saturday February 27, 2021 @01:14AM (#26283078)
Impressive
What did Gill do that was illegal?
Australia has the same the population as metro Manila. It's simply not a big deal for Google other than the precedent set for other markets.
I often wonder in some markets if there isn’t an opportunity for a Leica M6 approach.

Here is a well built analog object that should last generations.

Perhaps the analogy fails when you think about the supporting characters, film development, tractor parts, but it does seem a market luddites version of “x” exists.

What is the barrier to adding more data? Do they need funds to purchase it from satellite providers?