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kruxigton 43% of South African youths are not in employment, education or training

Same as in Greece there are (traditionally, I don't know currently) 3 people handling every bus. One driver and two to take payments etc.

kruxigton Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts

Thanks! Yeah, too bad we didn't get an explanation. Just removing a post with lots of interesting discussions in it from the front page is not my preferred respons. Should be some better way.

kruxigton Klarna users are being signed in to random accounts

Why did this one disappear from the front page so fast?

kruxigton Julia 1.6 addresses latency issues

I agree with you guys. I have been coding in Julia for 2 years and very little has happened in tooling. For example, the graphical profiler is buggy. I love the language though. Hoping things will change!

kruxigton EU bans Belarusian airlines from European skies

Planes from Minsk are travelling from and to Stockholm as we speak. For what it's worth Swedish authorities claim decision not taken by EU yet.

kruxigton Brain size drives differences in yawn duration across mammals and birds

Why do we need to cool our brains when we are tired and not for example when we are exercising or thinking hard or in a hot environment?

kruxigton How fit can you get from just walking?

I had a mentally rough start to my work life. I graduated as an engineer in 2009 and for several years I couldn't really make much choices for myself, but after 7 years I quit having a boos. I now work for myself and all is good.

Anyway. One of the important steps (pun somewhat intended) of getting back in mental shape was to walk part of the way back from work. If I would have walked all the way that would probably have been something like 80 k steps and I could get off the train at several places on that way. And since I could also get on it again I could both choose the length of my walks and the vary where they took place.

My record during that period was a day where I in tota walked almost 40 k steps. There is something that happens after about 3-4 hours of walking like that. At least I can achieve something similar to a runners high. Also, I had some problems around let's say my more sensitive parts, which also got completely fixed by that treatment.

If you've just walked for 1-1.5 hours, that's still good and everything. But if you have the time and have some mental/physical problems, and like walking, try 3-4 hours several times a week. There's some magic in that. I recommend having a start and a goal but taking different paths and exploring. Listen to some pods sure, but also explore and think. Most important though, put in those 25 k + steps, and do it in a pace you like!

kruxigton The bank effect and the big boat blocking the Suez

Micro transactions is a model that might be a good alternative to all of those. The idea is that if you agree on paying say 1 dollar you get to access that specific article. There can of course be variations like you pay x to get future access to y number of articles.

kruxigton Electricity needed to mine Bitcoin is more than used by 'entire countries'

The thing is, Bitcoin is becoming the new gold, not the new money. Gold is energy/capital expensive to mine which is related to its property as a store of value. Just as most of the gold now in the world took great effort to mine, so maybe must bitcoin. Maybe there could be a better way, maybe not. It is clear that it's not a good idea to have money which requires large amounts of energy for circulating, but it could be that a reasonable way to create the "gold" base for digital money is the energy expensive way that is the path chosen by Bitcoin. Maybe not.. or maybe. Other ideas?

kruxigton The Ghost in the MP3 (2014)

Though it sounden incredible then, compared to the blip blop sounds we were used to.

kruxigton Beej's Guide to Network Programming (1994-2020)

"At first glance this seems like a great read" Agree!

kruxigton Block The New York Times

Of course, such facts get downvoted as per usual.

kruxigton Spreadsheet Wars (1988) [video]

Amazing how little has changed. Higher res screens with more colours. Where do all the other processor cycles go?

kruxigton Block The New York Times

It is very clear that, compensating for living standards, people of African and MENA descent commit more crimes than native Swedes while people of East Asian descent do not.

kruxigton Block The New York Times

Yeah. 100% with you on this. The world can be divided in 2 groups. The ones that are aware of this and a large part which actually isn't. However, even as someone who has, like you, been part of a few stories, and thereby rather early realized they are never correct, even then it's easy to forget this and read the daily news too naively. Especially in uncontroversial subjects.

kruxigton Block The New York Times

NYT is the DN of the US. I wonder who their Wolodarski is.

kruxigton A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

Yeah, the state of Yahoo is really strange. It's still the best free one I've found. Why I'm looking for alternatives..

kruxigton A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

I would't call it perfectly fine. It's still not trustworthy enough. You would certainly want to double check it, which in turn makes it rather unnecessary in the first place.

kruxigton A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

This might be the only real use case haha

kruxigton A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

What would you say pros and cons are compared to yahoo?

kruxigton A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

Nothing wrong with that! :)

kruxigton A terminal stock watcher and stock position tracker

Is anyone really using any of these stock trackers (including those built in in OSX etc? I think the whole idea is broken. This is why:

If you are interested enough to regularly check the price of certain stocks and indices you know that the most important thing is that the shown price is CORRECT. And you know that the most trustworthy way to get a correct price is to go directly to the largest brokers and the largest and most trusted portals like Investing.com and Marketwatch.

On the other hand if you don't care that much. Why the hell would you like to have a special application for checking when you could as well go to any of the above?

kruxigton Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

Yeah, that sounds mostly really unlucky :(. I mean, anyone can understand that a company fires an employee that publicises a security weakness in a product instead of clearing it internally. However, when the employee doesn't understand that he is an "employee" of that company... Sounds like an unfortunate mistake.. you can be fired for those.

kruxigton Agent fired from literary agency for using Parler and Gab

I think large parts of the right has now come to the conclusion that it can not hold itself to so much higher moral standards than the opposite team, or it will continue losing and moving down leagues until there is no right team left.

kruxigton Intel outsources Core i3 to TSMC's 5nm process

https://invst.ly/tj4ss

This is the graph for the stock price of Intel over the last 25 years. Doesn't look like it's bottoming out just yet...

kruxigton The Hazards of Asset Allocation in a Late-Stage Major Bubble

Correct answer!

kruxigton Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler

Then you could just as well say "your right to religion should not limit my right to free speech"?

kruxigton Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

This is a culture war. This is not a battle of logic.

kruxigton Code Browser

I'm amazed by people who casually write a new language that actually works well enough to write a complex and highly useful program in.

kruxigton 2020 had some significant silver linings

So your theory is that we can actually stop working and start getting UBI and things will turn out fine?