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noddy1w··on Amiga Music Tracker in JavaScript
Amazing project, thankyou :)

Notable artists who started their careers on trackers: aphex twin, machinedrum, axwell, darude, deadmau5 +many more

noddy1w··on Risky business: linking Toxoplasma infection and entrepreneurship behavior
The "jokes" in this thread really underscore how painfully humourless tech people are
noddy1w··on Wiped-Out Hedge Fund Manager Confessed His Losses on YouTube
A good thought experiment is to imagine a hedge fund which invests in the s&p500 all the time, but once per year takes all its capital and sells options with a 5% return and a roughly 1/20 risk of ruin. On average they beat the s&p500 by 5% every year, and only explode once every 20 years on average.

If you could charge 2 and 20 and smoothtalk investors the chances that you get rich before it explodes are pretty good.

Differentiating an investment with a negligible chance of going to zero (like the s&p500) from one with a small but nonzero chance is difficult until one of them explodes.

noddy1w··on Why doctors hate their computers
Medtech is annoying because of the primary focus being documentation. I spend much of my day writing stuff that noone cares about for people who will never read it. Doing this on paper is slow. Doing it on a computer is even slower. Finding a terminal and filling in structured forms is a pain in the ass when I want to be seeing patients, doing procedures etc. Using things like google glass and offsite scribes is a good way to do this.
noddy1w··on Parity founder demos Substrate, live launches a blockchain in minutes
No mention of gavin woods' sloppy code resulting in 150,000 ether worth of investor funds being lost forever after the polkadot ico?
noddy1w··on Palantir Weighs Giant Public Offering
Peter thiel, libertarian who also runs a govt surveillance outfit? What a POS
noddy1w··on SoftBank Gives Startups Billions of Reasons to Hold Off IPOs
Great that the gains of american innovation are accruing to mysogynist oil sheiks
noddy1w··on It’s not such a problem that the Large Hadron Collider hasn’t found new physics
Isn't the milky way 100000 light years across?
noddy1w··on Don't Steal Money from Day Traders Before They Lose It
Not if the exchange has spreads and leverage. Even small spreads can screw your odds completely if you trade at margin, and gamblers bust means if you turn over your money a few times at high leverage you'll probably lose it all.
noddy1w··on AI Can Transform Anyone Into a Professional Dancer
He's a maestro, love his iharmu vids especially
noddy1w··on Anki: Memorization with Spaced Learning
I got through all my medical anaesthesiology board exams with anki,although i do prefer flashcards where the order is the same rather than anki style algo.
noddy1w··on MoviePass couldn’t afford to pay for movie tickets on Thursday
>In Europe, audiences prefer more avant garde films (read: bad films which pretend to be about something) so theaters have significantly more leverage overage distributors

Wow, sorry that somebody on earth wants to watch something other than comic book movies

noddy1w··on Offshore owners of British property to be forced to reveal names
Anyone think it is reasonable to predict plummeting high end real estate prices and a further pummelled pound as demand dries up and motivated sellers dump properties and sell pounds here?
noddy1w··on Ask HN: What podcasts are you listening to?
Agree with above, my faves are econtalk, conversations with tyler..

RedScare is 3 new york russian girls talking about issues like #metoo from a socialist/anti-liberal perspective, its great