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rublev··on Why Canada's cannabis bubble burst
My dealer pulls up within half an hour of texting them, with a full ounce they grew themselves. They know everything about the plant, and breed it for high THC. No delivery fee. Friendly. Great weed. No packaging. No bullshit. And great deals. Most dealer you buy from you won't be paying $280 ($10/h per O). Why would I ever go the "legal" route?
rublev··on Some Facebook Employees Unite to Challenge Its ‘Intolerant’ Liberal Culture
>Am I crazy, and the world has just moved on to be horrible?

Lol I got fired for making a joke after-hours over beers to a guy that wasn't politically aligned. It's wild. To mess with someones livlihood because of a political opinion.

rublev··on Toronto adds more tech jobs than Silicon Valley in past 5 years
>Its housing is just as unaffordable

What? It's not even remotely close.

rublev··on Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently
Yeah it has nothing to do with the fact that we're built differently both mentally and physically. Kindly stop concern-trolling.
rublev··on Marine experiment finds women get injured more frequently
I've never seen a female welder, mechanic, miner, or construction worker in my life.
rublev··on The Legend of Nintendo
>they clearly know something most games studios and tech companies don't.

money

rublev··on Bitcoin estimated to use 0.5% of the world's electric energy by end of 2018
As opposed to the utter waste of multiple resources and everything included in the pipeline between dollar issued and dollar spent?
rublev··on Leonard Bernstein invented how we do modern classical music
One should read the correspondances between Glenn Gould and Bernstein, they are very deep. There's a book I recommend that is a compilation of most of Glenn Goulds letters, they are incredibly beautifully worded.

Bernstein helped motivate me towards classical piano more than anyone. Watch his "The Unanswered Question" series as well.

rublev··on Why is Ember fading away?
>with React, I'd spend the first couple of days just fiddling around with build scripts.

Yeah a long time ago now. Since July 2016 create-react-app has been available, there are many other scaffolding tools as well.

>Sure, there are now react boilerplates that do this, but there are too many out there to properly evaluate what to use.

Use the one provided by the creators, facebook.

Why not just make it a part of the framework?

React is small (ok, "small"), you can use it out of the box without any build scripts. It doesn't make sense to package it up.

And speaking as someone who's done React for a couple years now and had to port old rails codebases to api-only / react views... yuck, never again. Rails is cluncky and most of the devs I worked with didn't know how anything works 'under the hood'.

rublev··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
Still in beta on my localhost, probably launching in a few weeks. It's a fairly big project even just as an MVP for a single exchange.
rublev··on Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it cool?
Working on an SMS crypto trading bot where you can text it trading commands according to whatever exchange you connected to. I've been in many situations where I needed to trade and logging into the exchange on my phone is cumbersome and could sometimes take 3+ minutes, and by then the opportunity is gone.
rublev··on The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
Company I worked for did M/W/F core hours (5 hours) and the rest from home if need be. Then Tuesdays/Thursdays were work from home.

Unreal. Literally the best feeling ever, no stress at all. The job was hard too but that extra degree of control and self direction made a difference.

People are not rats.

rublev··on The health care toll today’s work culture exacts on employees
Yeah I love coming home from my hard as fuck underpaid job to turn on the TV and see idiots kicking a ball for $100 million dollars.

Something is definitely wrong.

rublev··on DeleteFacebook: Perspective from Mastodon
Delete facebook and 5 seconds later you won't remember most of the people you keep in contact with as those connections don't matter.
rublev··on Bus Lane Blocked, He Trained His Computer to Catch Scofflaws
The concrete jungle is only a dystopia to those who are constantly in a whirlwind of inconvenience and don't have enough money to throw at it.

If you're rich you cover the inconveniences with nice condos, taking cabs, and eating out.

rublev··on Theranos, CEO Holmes, and Former President Balwani Charged with Fraud
It matters because fixed fees mean a % of the population will be unscathed by those consequences, and a % will be unable to afford the fine.
rublev··on How to Study Mathematics (2017)
I have absolutely no mathematical background. https://www.reddit.com/r/mathbooks/comments/1ehupq/totally_d...

Here people are saying you need a solid pure math background. I skimmed through it and it gets complex very quickly. Around page 58 with the formulas I get lost.

Thanks though, I think I'll be ready for this after Gelfand and Kiselev. Can't wait.

rublev··on California-Grown Coffee Is Becoming the State's Next Gold Mine
I don't think it is. I don't give a flying fuck about coffee or food or wine or any of that shit, but I can genuinely taste differences in coffee. I'd be surprised if you couldn't.

There's a little roaster in St Lawrence Market where I go and I pickup random bags of whatever coffees for fun, and they are extremely different.

Wine I've never been able to discern. I don't think coffee is in the same league at all.

rublev··on How to Study Mathematics (2017)
I've always wanted to learn mathematics but have no idea where to start, I have no formal education in anything.

I tried the Ivan Savov books and they seem great but I have no way to judge the quality of any resources.

Where do I start as a complete beginner? I want books not online resources like Khan etc.

I would eventually like to get into Geometry but I have no foundation whatsoever, just basic algebra.

rublev··on Branching Layouts With Ease
78% is not pathetic. All major desktop browser versions support it. It's only a ~4% different prefixed vs not. For where it fails, use flexbox and css as fallbacks. The time I've saved using grid and having to deal with fallbacks far outweighs the thought and effort I'd have to put into the same layout otherwise.
rublev··on Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company
Too many bad actors involved to have a clear sight. Better to start from a clean slate.
rublev··on How Schopenhauer’s thought can illuminate a midlife crisis
So start being an asshole, it's a lot of fun I promise you. Just fuck with people in a good way.
rublev··on Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK
He is making that exact point.
rublev··on 'It Was the First Time I Cried in the Operating Room'
30 years? Damn. Can you go more in depth about that? What sort of systems and languages did you work with? How do you test it?
rublev··on Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
Buy incrementally, hold. If all markets are tanking, cash to USD, wait for the blood bath to be over. Otherwise you are gambling.

Accessible crypto is going to be a disaster simply because of unregulated markets. My friends get shakey when they lose $100 in the market, this is going to be "Weak Hands: The App". Or "Taking Candy From A Baby: The App".

I had to lose ~$200k over the course of a couple months and only after then I started really getting into the swing of things and started making good money while also making it back. It took all that to realize that if I didn't day trade my yields would have been much much higher. Day trading is hard, don't do it unless you really truly know what you're doing. Reading crap about market psychology and fractals and fibonacci this and wave theory that is all trash and does not make you a trader.

Here come the 'I lost my life savings' rants by people with weak hands. Regular people + unregulated market = blood bath.

rublev··on Robinhood Crypto – Invest in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
If you have any branding ideas for "stealing from the poor" that will get those poor to use it, I'm all ears.
rublev··on Thousands of Turks accused of using Bylock app despite never having used it
Do you blame your grandmother for propagating popups or do you blame the ad industry?
rublev··on Thousands of Turks accused of using Bylock app despite never having used it
Can't blame the masses. I feel no contempt for propagaters, only catalysts.
rublev··on Thousands of Turks accused of using Bylock app despite never having used it
>What do you think will happen when the top captures so much wealth production that the rest of the world cannot self-suffice?

That won't happen. They gave us nice little condos and handled just enough necessities and bleed us just enough where nobody will uprise.

rublev··on High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets (2013)
>High-end art prices aren't "manipulated" in some kind of nefarious way

Oh boy.

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