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jgbmlg··on Ask HN: What's Your Personal Motto?
Avoiding stupidity is easier than trying to be brilliant.
jgbmlg··on Radio Garden
You might also like https://radiooooo.com/
jgbmlg··on Ask HN: How do you stay focused with competing priorities?
I disagree with one project at a time. It's usually impractical even if you don't have to work and you are being supported by a stipend or family wealth. In most of our situations it's necessary to keep several balls in the air or you will end up in trouble, professionally or personally. So the question is not only prioritization I like https://slab.com/blog/eisenhower-matrix/#:~:text=The%20Eisen.... You also need to allocate time slices of your attention and energy. A strategy that works is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique
jgbmlg··on Ketchup is a non-Newtonian fluid
Yes, he needs to fill the pool with a dilatant fluid not a thixotropic fluid.
jgbmlg··on How to convert your old laptop screen into an external monitor
I've sort of dumbified 2 smart TVs by coupling them with cheap small computers with ethernet or WiFI in and HDMI out. I don't know absolutely that the TV's are not spying on us, but I can get to the internet going around the TVs not through them.
jgbmlg··on Tell HN: Parts of YouTube are down
Can confirm
jgbmlg··on Experiment shows why ticket sellers hit you with last-second fees
Airlines charge progressive luggage fees because they have discovered that flying air freight on passenger flights is highly profitable. Air freight rates generally range from $1.50–$4.50 per kilogram. Airlines typically price airfreight at 4–5 times that of road transport and 12–16 times that of sea transport. 1st Bag: $30 · 2nd Bag: $55 · 3rd Bag: $180 · 4th Bag: $200 · Each bag maximum 50 lb/22 kg. Companies shipping cargo like smartphones that are very valuable when priced by weight (a kg of iphones is worth thousands), don't care if they have to pay 15 times the ocean transport rate, if they can get them to market much faster and securely by air transport. Airlines don't want to lose space in the cargo hold for that business because their passengers want to check 2 bags and their golf clubs on vacation with them. The baggage costs are as much about discouraging checking baggage and incentivizing carry-ons as they are about makeing extra money off the passenger business.
jgbmlg··on Security features of the Intel/Windows platform secure boot process
Could this be a conspiracy in restraint of trade masquerading as security?
jgbmlg··on Asteroid capsule located in Australian desert
Does it seem like the first reel of a disaster movie?
jgbmlg··on Ask HN: Films that made you see the world differently?
My all time favorite movie. From the opening monologue by Carol Reed to the ending walk by Anna past Holly. The music. the fingers through the sewer grate. Cuckoo Clocks!
jgbmlg··on Ask HN: How to Master Poker?
Read a lot, play a lot. Keep a swing book and write down what you've learned and review it often. You are about to take the first step on a long journey. Here's the first page of my poker swing book: Buy into a Poker game with the idea of completely destroying it. Pay attention and attention will pay you. It's difficult to conceal character. Over time, the worst player in the world catches just as many good cards as the best player in the world. Don't open limp and attack open limpers. Don't cold call. Raise or fold. It takes a stronger hand to call a raise than it takes to raise. Reraise 3x the original raise. Never reraise with QQ or JJ preflop (unless you are very seldomly balancing with a limp reraise). Play tight EP loose LP. Don't overvalue flopped bottom two pair--you are probably up against top pair or an overpair with 5 outs as well as draws, and you can be counterfeited by a higher running pair on the board. Also go slow with top and bottom pair. J 10 is the best connector hand. It's the only 2 cards that can make a nut straight 4 ways: 9 8 7, Q 9 8, K Q 9 and A K Q. It can't make a bad straight. Change gears suddenly. Once they catch on, change gears again. Play mostly tight in a loose games, and mostly loose in a tight games. Targets of plays need to have at least a 20 BB stack; preferably 20x your bet. Set mine small pairs. But not against small stacks. Raise suited connectors, midpairs and broadways in late position if no one raises in front of you. Bet or raise big Aces, but fold if reraised. Bet JJ +AK 6 BB. Only go for a limp reraise rarely. Commit stack in low SPR hands. Fold one pair hands when facing a turn raise. Don't call down with inferior cards! Continuation bet 1/2 pot, but don't raise dry flops if you have a monster. Raise pot with top 2 pair and no pair on board but be careful with bottom two pair and top and bottom. Ask yourself, "Given how I’ve played the hand so far, what might my opponent think I have?” What we does he want me to think he has? What sort of hand might he actually have?” Don't bet so much that a hand you want to call, will fold, or so little that a hand you want to fold, will call....Especially on the River. Don't help your opponents play correctly. Big pots and big bets are for big hands: Big bets mean big hands. Don’t make or call big river bets with mediocre hands. Big pots and big bets are for big hands. Don’t forget. Make sure that you bet or raise enough with your good hands so they can’t profit by playing longshot draws. Don’t justify optimistic calls Whenever you bet or raise, always have an answer in your head to the question: “Will I pay off a big raise on this hand, or will I fold if it comes to that?”
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Da. Kamrad.
jgbmlg··on Did an experimental drug help a U.S. coronavirus patient?
It would be better to know more about the patient who received the Remdesivir. A downside of HIPPA healthcare information privacy rules is that they inhibits the transfer of useful information about new therapies. Researchers can't require a patient to waive their privacy rights as a condition of receiving an experimental therapy, but they should ask them to voluntarily do so. Although someone at death's door is in a pretty vulnerable position to be asked to do anything, the greatest good for the greatest number should prevail.
jgbmlg··on Show HN: What should I include in my Covid-19 shopping list generator?
flour
jgbmlg··on That 1970s Feeling
The criticism of an unrelated study by Prof. Rogoff were politically motivated as well. No one is free of political bias. And no study, especially in economics is beyond criticism. As the article notes, the authors freely acknowledged and also responded to criticisms which they believed were unwarranted. But all that is not related to the points addressed in the article. As it happens, Ken Rogoff's accomplishments, which are considerably more extensive than the brief bio at the end of the article, are more than sufficient to rebut unrelated criticism. Regardless of your political views, discounting or ignoring Ken Rogoff's views on economic matters is a mistake.
jgbmlg··on The Wetware Crisis: The Dead Sea Effect
The only rats to leave a sinking ship are those who can swim.
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