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1234throwaway··on Ask HN: What lessons did you learn from your best or worst colleagues?
the damage from 1 excel error can be so risky that its better for the company to pay a person to do the entire thing manually and derisk. infuriating from the perspective of technics, but not from that of incerto
1234throwaway··on Bill Hwang of Archegos Capital lost $20B in two days
fx pb broker dealer here (europ marketS)

it not bad to split fx trade across multiple brokers

they tell you not to do it so they get more biz and beter spread markouts

1234throwaway··on Modern action films fetishize the body even as they desexualize it
ya but vegetable oil and corn fructose syrup did not exist >100 years ago as food products. we cook our food in wat used to be called boat varnish (vegetable oil)

yes you are correct, our genes are what determines weight in realtion to the foods you eat. it affects your bodies ability to metabolise those foods , etc

but most of the foods you eat, over 90% of what is available in walmart for instance, is industrial manufactured trash that no human except perhaps escaped roswell experiemnts and MBAs can metabolise correctly

this is compounded by modern trash propaganda telling people not to eat meat, to replace meat with synthetic mineral oils and watered down oats for $500 a litre

1234throwaway··on Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable
is also isreal decision

reality is turks are often... detach from reality politically. such is life in 2nd world countries like lebanon, turkey, malaya, indonesia etc

1234throwaway··on Israel, Cyprus and Greece agree to link power grids via subsea cable
1700km is fuck all. 2 hour flight for commercial airliner, less for pointy aeroplane. even eurocopter can go 300-400 kmh, not a problem
1234throwaway··on WSL Hello Sudo: Face Recognition of Windows Hello on Windows Subsystem for Linux
>Why don't you want to update? You really should. sorry guys i cant export that report for this mornings meeting for another 45 minutes as the copy of that proprietary software we're required to use by regulations in this country is... on the windows computer that has decided to update

>How do you define absurd UIs? have you ever tried using windows 10 control panel?

>It's a bit annoying and philosophically not a great thing, but you can disable 99% of their telemetry in about 15 minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxwEwwlDM8Q CIA/NSA leader "We kill people based on metadata"

I grew up on windows and dont know how to program, and even I am dumping windows for ubuntu or osx (+ windows running in a vm for legacy software). windows is just trash. its pure trash. it has the worst user interface, the worst controls, lags, power issues, etc.

I would rather run a windows AWS instance accessed via a 4g ipad pro than continue using my pc workstation. its not good when people that dropped out of business degrees and cant program say that!

1234throwaway··on The Drenching Richness of Andrei Tarkovsky
he is not a nice person. apart from the horses killed filming rublev, look at how many people died so he could entertain his narcissistic fantasies
1234throwaway··on Communications Minister touts the opportunities of a Google-less Australia
You can't use your absolute power in the marketplace to bully people, only google and other tech giants are allowed to do that!
1234throwaway··on GameStop Is Rage Against the Financial Machine
they most likely sold the position from melvin capital to another entity to hold the risk. that way melvin capital can say "oh yeah we caved in haha reddit wins" to try and calm the market, but I would wager that some private citadel fund is now about to be forced to fellate the reddit call pump
1234throwaway··on Vitamin D insufficiency may account for almost 90% of Covid-19 deaths
The parent comment here said publicise, not publish. The studies will go ahead, but you won't see the mainstream media putting this on the front page.

The reason is that it's too sensitive. Look at the massive argument and tension that was generated just from someone pointing out that certain skin types are not suited to certain environments (melanin skin to north europe, non-melanin skin to australia) - nobody who values their political or academia career will want to touch this one, so the problem will get worse and worse, silently. It could even end up impacting educational and career outcomes in certain parts of the population that would appear to be racial characteristics because the science impacting those traits is a forbidden subject... which ironically makes people more racist.