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Sixty years ago, Belgium set up a live display of people from Congo for the 1958 world fair.

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/26/649600217/where-human-zoos-on...

It's such an underwhelming amount of money buy apparently politicians are really this cheap. Such a shame, you wonder why those guys feel so lousy about themselves they would bend the knee this quickly.

Yes exactly, this is what Nassim Taleb writes about in Anti fragile. Bets with a known limited downside and the potential of an almost unlimited upside.

> In essence, some experts say, they are quietly adopting the Swedish approach.

https://archive.is/5uC31

This is great news and honestly the whole Covid19 situation has been the first subject I systematically censured myself because of the amount of downvotes here on HN.

We are all human, this book "Madness of Crowds" gave me most insight last half year.

https://www.amazon.com/Madness-Crowds-Gender-Race-Identity/d...

Governments are actually profiting the most from current situation by auctioning frequencies to Telco's.

Finland is the only country that uses the proceeds from these auctions to build one network from which all providers lease.

The rest of the countries milk the auctions as a cash-cow. The cool thing for countries is that they do not have to call this officially a tax on peoples income.

https://www.gsma.com/spectrum/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Imp...

> The UK’s largest supermarket will on Tuesday commit to boosting sales of meat alternatives by 300% within five years, by 2025. Over the past year, demand for chilled meat-free foods – the most popular line including burger, sausage and mince substitutes – has increased by almost 50%, the retailer said.

When the sales of this vegan category is $1 today the target will be reached by $3.

Ok could be sloppy reporting of the Guardian but also the press release of Tesco [0] doesn't mention amount of sales in a valuta. The Guardian almost did a one on one copy pasta here.

Meat replacers are much more expensive sometimes with a markup of 300% compared to meat. When measuring the environment effects of meat replacer sales, committing to a weight goal would even be more transparent so the public knows how much damage is prevented by Tesco.

[0] https://m.marketscreener.com/quote/stock/TESCO-PLC-4000540/n...

If you want to lose weight it would be better to do your cardio after strength. By reversing your schedule you immediately start burning fat in your cardio because it generally takes 20 minutes before you start using these reserves.

I was talking about the possible positive goals from such a scoring system without projecting local extremes on a foreign system.

Maybe this system is able to make sociopaths more accountable for the suffering they cause.

We have no data on people with this spectrum of mental illness because they do not report themselves. Estimations on the number of sociopaths in the wild are anywhere between 1% to 5 % of the population.

If this social credit score is able to limit the damage these people can cause during their lifetime I would say the experiment is successful.

Google News app offers multiple perspectives around news events under a button. Fox, WSJ, CNN and Bloomberg coverage on the last Trump rally.

Gitlab is a remote company because of the poor health of the ecosystem.

Mollie & Adyen have had success because of the walled garden iDeal payment system of the Dutch banks. Eindhoven was a very innovative region until Philips decided to move HQ.

Even Sweden produced more unicorns with a population size a 1/3 of the Netherlands.

Maybe you have had more luck with raising money but I experienced a lot of stupidity from private investors.

Which Dutch unicorns came out of that ecosystem you are talking about?

> For QAnons who’ve taken the red pill, the world of MSM is unreal, designed to deceive and prevent us from seeing the truth.

2nd article comment

> So one thing that all of you anti conspiracy theorists never talk about is how many ideas are no longer conspiracy but found to be true,

I think the power of QAnon comes from the fact MSM hasn't reported properly on the most important ongoing matters since WWII.

We still have no real whistle blower protection. Assange is currently silenced and the coverage has been very disappointing in MSM. This reinforces the doubt on what is real told by MSM for many years to come.

What if they had black hole bomb capabilities?

You are right, I had my first playboy calendar when I was 8 years old. All this secrecy how we are made and how people like to do that is depressing. We are just a bunch filthy animals.

Last year FAANG created 98% of the S&P500 return. This means that the other 495 incumbents made a lost and are being disrupted.

Facebook > Users > Content > Advertisers

Apple > Developers > Apps > iPhones

Amazon > Sellers > Products > Buyers

Netflix > Creators > Video Content > Customers

Google > Websites > Webpages > Advertisers

Nonsense article, S&P 500 average company survival time decreased since WWII from 65 to 12 years.

Companies that do not adapt will default within 8 by 2030 this is also a reason good IPO's are done at a later stage when profitability is in sight.

Technology is causing disruption by outsourcing the revenue generating activities to producers by providing them enough matching consumers for the value they add. Market cap of platforms are on average 8X revenue while traditional companies trade at 2X. That 4X difference in market cap revenue is what makes the technology disruption to move as quickly as it does.

This is journalist trying to make sense of their own world but hasn't been informed proper.

Could you link to the research report of Bank of America?

I have never seen coke cut up with those substances. Mannitol is mainly used in Europe. To test cocaine on how pure it is many people test it by checking how much solves in water.

Yes exactly this, I think it is the only way to restore faith in capitalism. The bailouts should also over.

If you don't pay you obey!

Putin also used Deutsche Bank to laundry $20bn.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/apr/17/deutsche-ba...

Im was referring to narcism, autism, ADHD and the rest of what is classified by DSM 5 which similar institutions as the church use to classify people as sick.

DSM 1 also classified non hetero behavior as sick.

> Being told that you are sick from your earliest memories because of who you are attracted to, something you don't have control over, leaves lasting scars on a person.

Isn't that with every deviation of normal?

You can look at ratios like WACC and ROIC.

TSMC's weighted average cost of capital is 7% (WACC)

ROIC % measures how well a company generates cash flow relative to the capital it has invested in its business. For TSMC the ROIC is 28%.

If you would like to compare competitors these ratio's combined with growth rate give a very good market overview.

https://www.gurufocus.com/term/wacc/NYSE:TSM/WACC-/Taiwan-Se...

Wow is that image view counter only from these links on HN?

What value is added by training a model yourself? Why don't they provide that model?

Isn't the real innovation here to give people a $4.3 million model for free?

Instead of letting people burn unnecessary compute power to train a model 2 years behind state of the art.

Physics is especially a poor domain to pick an analogy from at the moment. But if we can borrow from that whole religious domain I think the following is more apt.

Maybe the people of Germany have an invisible halo protecting them from bad woo woo from Wuhan.

Meh, I thought Google was always on the cutting edge of ML. They just tried to pimp up a two year old dysfunctional show pony and sell it as a new racehorse. I would like to see a trained GPT3 that's is currently up for rent from the AI shop delivering actual innovation.