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Currently in Tokyo
Unfortunately, the login page shows as invite-only; instructs me to contact the workspace admin for access; but doesn't give any obvious way to contact that person. If you are an admin and would like to invite me, I have an email in my profile.
It bothers me that crossing an invisible line in the ground blocks access to stuff that others can see simply by standing on a different patch of dirt.
(With the added irony that this is a Japanese show, in the Japanese language, and I am physically in Japan at the moment.)
Will someone please post a summary?
Would someone please explain in simple language what this is, and why it's cool?
Here author Ari Diaconis chooses NOT to marry Dunia Rkein due to his illness, uncertain survival prospect, and not wanting to burden her with his long-term care (if he survived)
Compare to Feynman, who married Arline Greenbaum despite the fact that she had severe tuberculosis and only a slim chance to survive.
Similar, but different. (Of course)
I wonder, is it better to never marry, or to lose the spouse shortly afterward? Is it easier or harder depending on the gender of the survivor (in our era, not the 1940s)?
For situations like this where a fiasco just keeps getting worse, each step its own facepalm.
* Asking users to generate private keys on the issuer's server
* Storing those private keys
* Emailing those private keys
* Sending that email completely in the clear
* Running unsanitized user input on their server
* as root
Perhaps you're thinking of some other organization with the same name?
Anyway, the core point of my comment was that I liked getting some background on the drivers that led to the 2nd amendment.
It gives you a clear picture of how well the different browsers support a given piece of web technology.
"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
This tweet claims to describe the roots, early debate, and context of 2nd amendment's inclusion in the constitution. I found it interesting.
https://twitter.com/egavactip/status/967923256983420928
I wonder what bias author Mark Pitcavage brings to the discussion. According to twitter profile he is connected to https://www.adl.org/who-we-are which claims to be some kind of anti-semitism group. (Which I have never heard of before)
How would you advise a motivated, but time-limited person who wanted to learn a language to B2?
That said, while we're on the topic of Anki did you know the cards can execute javascript? (Since Anki uses webview to display the cards).
Python for plugins with css/js in the cards themselves gives incredible power and flexibility to your flashcards.
https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=5041
I strongly urge you to paper-trade the live market before risking real money. https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/software/am/am/managea...
No. We were the other BS across the street.
I worked on two different (energy) trading floors. One was a fairly large venture (30 or so trading desks + mid/back office + dev/ops/DC teams + management). The other was one of the huge banks. Both were in Stamford CT.
I spent well over 5 years there and never once did I see those sorts of shenanigans.
There was some stuff: the guy that liked to throw a football across the floor, occasionally smashing a monitor; the guys that bet $1000+ each over who could lose the highest % of body weight in 2 months (or was it one month?); and the occasional swearing, but nothing near the "like a sailor" level I hear about.
Pretty much everyone I worked with was highly professional. They were profit motivated (for sure), but even there I personally witnessed people making fair deals where they could have squeezed someone dry and unwinding deals at a loss to keep a good counterparty relationship.
I'm so glad I never worked with the handset smashing, drug abusing, loudly swearing, king of the world, type-A assholes that I hear about.
I'm not in a position to read the paper right now, so my apologies if that's covered in there. I want to ask just in case it's not, while this is still on the front page.
> a gobsmackingly terrible investment decision
Here is a somewhat paraphrased version of the author's main points:
* Not just an initial, but a relentlessly ongoing drain on the cash reserves of the owner requiring an endless parade of repairs and maintenance without which it will crumble
* Illiquid. It takes months of time and effort to buy or sell
* Expensive to buy and sell with very high transaction costs: 5%+ commissions, buying and selling
* Undiversified. Represents a disproportionate percentage of a person’s net worth
* Complex to buy or sell
* Lots of extra fees and reports and documents you must pay for
* Generates low returns. At or below the inflation rate
* Leveraged. If the price goes up a little bit, leverage will magnify this and people will convince themselves it’s actually a good investment! Most will never consider that leverage is also very high risk and could just as easily wipe them out
* Mortgaged. You pay interest on the loans. Many people borrow money against it more than once
* Unproductive. Never pays interest, never pays dividends
* Immobile. Fixed to one geographical spot so at any given time only a tiny group (if any) of potential buyers for it will exist
* Subject to the fortunes of a single neighborhood
* Fragile. Easily damaged by weather, fire, vandalism and the like. As such it requires expensive insurance to cover these risks. Often the the bad things that are most likely to happen aren’t actually covered
* Heavily taxed.
* * If it should go up in value, we tax that gain. If it goes down in value we do not offer a balancing tax deduction on the loss like with other investments
* * Taxed annually, not just when bought or sold
* * Tax rate goes up as value increases. Does not go down when value decreases
* Subject to eminent domain
* Increases stress, leads to more divorces, but then be impossible to divide
(Note, I am biased against homeownership. Which hasn't stopped me from recently buying a house for a variety of reasons, mostly revolving around space needs for my family that could not be met with the available rental options in my current city)
https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html
This is a progress bar, not a countdown clock. Personally, I find it super helpful in keeping perspective on the value of my time.
I do not mean to detract from OP's work (which is cool), I just thought others reading the comment might enjoy this other article too.
I like it a lot and have found it valuable in figuring which movies to watch in my limited free time.
All within 12 years. I think we should stop measuring against data from a different global climate.
A LOT of people make decisions based on emotion. Then they cherry pick the facts (if any) that support the choice, and disregard the facts that oppose.
"Reactor" evokes "Nuclear Reactor". For many people, "nuclear reactor" is a deeply loaded term. Likewise "Thorium" (and other words that end in "-ium") sounds dangerously like "plutonium" and "uranium".
It doesn't matter how much better/safer this technology is. Don't expect the public to respond positively when we use those words. There's too much knee jerk, "no nukes!" baggage.
We should start calling these "salt power stations" or something else accurate, yet non-threatening. Otherwise, IMHO, it will be a steep uphill battle getting public and legislative support for building these things, regardless of their many benefits.
I think it would have saved us both a ton of trouble, misunderstandings, and hurt feelings.
I liked this guide by the Financial Samurai [1] who advocates his readers avoid living a conspicuously rich lifestyle. It's been a few years since I read it, but a quick skim makes me think it's held up pretty well despite its paranoid tone.
[1] http://www.financialsamurai.com/the-rise-of-stealth-wealth-g...
I can't think of any other organization that evokes that near-rage quite as fast or as strong. Even Immigration doesn't seem as hateful.