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maxfromua··on The suck is why we're here
I feel like part of this post is a bit of hypocrisy.

> This is why reading actual books in full might now be more valuable than it ever has been: Only if you’ve seen every word will you discover insights and links an AI would never include in its average-driven summary.

Is summarizing by a human much different? Let's check if the author has a consistent stance on reading every word.

https://nik.art/books/

> The 4 Minute Millionaire: 44 Lessons to Rethink Money, Invest Wisely, and Grow Wealthy in 4 Minutes a Day > This book compiles 44 lessons from some 20 of history’s best books about money, finance, and investing. Each lesson can be read in about 4 minutes and comes with a short action item.

Hmmmm

maxfromua··on Ask HN: Why did the ruble stabilize and what's going on?
Let me tell you an old Jewish anecdote from Odesa (Ukrainian city with a significant Jewish population; russians hit a residential building there using a missile strike today, a few people died, 1 kid among them). - Moisha, what’s the price of this meat? - Abraham, it is 300 UAH/kilogram. - But your neighbor is selling at 200 UAH/kg. Why yours is so expensive? - Why don’t you buy there then? - He doesn’t have it anymore. - Well, when I don’t have meat, I sell it at 100 UAH/kg.

So, the price can be any when you don’t have a free market. In USSR, the official exchange rate was 0,7 rouble per dollar. Black market was 2-3 (might differ, depending on the year, of course).

Recently I have seen photo with X-rates in moscow: USD buying at 70, selling at 300 EUR buying at 80, selling at 100 Looks silly, right? Everyone knows EUR costs more than USD. The reason is the same as in the anecdote above.

maxfromua··on Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System (Poseidon)
It was a disinformation campaign about hypersonic missiles.
maxfromua··on It’s not still the early days of blockchain
Sorry, can you please explain (or give some link) how it is related to blockchain? https://www.helium.com/lorawan doesn’t mention this word In general, I was under the impression that IoT devices are underpowered for such usage. Thank you!
maxfromua··on Smart VC match for startups raising seed/Series A/B/C rounds (38K funds)
TIL there are 38K funds. That's 10-30 times more than I expected.
maxfromua··on Ask HN: Smoothness and performance of Qt based systems vs. native apps and OS
Lumina is another option
maxfromua··on The Perils of M1 Ownership
So, one of the conclusions should be “don’t buy used M1 Mac”. Do I understand this correctly?
maxfromua··on Linux Sucks 2020
"Arch users are vegans of the Linux world" - excellent comparison :)
maxfromua··on An army of volunteer ‘elves’ fights disinfo in the Czech Republic
"Orcs" isn't very popular, but "Mordor" is one of the most popular synonymous for russian state here in Ukraine as well.
maxfromua··on Every default macOS wallpaper, in glorious 5k resolution
Thanks! Blue kittens (#139 in your Dropbox) is the best wallpaper I ever had :)
maxfromua··on The First MBA Course on the Longevity Economy
I haven’t passed the captcha and got “access denied” forever. Cloudflare protects you from visitors ;)
maxfromua··on Show HN: Play Tetris in Your CLI
Is “command line” a proper word for this? Terminal - OK, but that’s not CLI.
maxfromua··on Parsoid in PHP, or There and Back Again
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_salarie...
maxfromua··on SoftICE
I recall those lessons for script-kiddies “Crack [software name here] with SoftICE” in early 2000s.
maxfromua··on Parcel – Fast, zero-configuration web application bundler
Not the first time https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=parceljs.org
maxfromua··on PHP 7.4
Sorry, what is 5.9? You meant PHP 5.6?
maxfromua··on DragonflyBSD, 4.8-RC available
But I've heard the same points like 5 years ago. What had changed on a big scale?
maxfromua··on Dmitry Medvedev declares official holiday in Russia: Programmer's Day
of course - 2nd for SS-18 targeting U.S. :)