nbar | 1 year ago | on: The Algorithm Behind Jim Simons's Success
Yes, but he tested for likelihood of lung cancer through gene screening. Odds we favourable so he kept smoking.
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nbar | 2 years ago | on: Ask HN: What apps have you created for your own use?
Reminds me of an advanced version of the old Dropbox where you could quickly host static sits from the finder.
Was the best thing about Dropbox.
Of course they killed it.
nbar | 2 years ago | on: Dropbox handing over 25% of San Francisco HQ back to landlord
Dropbox was amazing. The ability to share a url to any HTML file basically made the service a micro blog host.
Of course they then added “productivity” tools and removed the actually productive features like sharing HTML.
I’ve moved to Google too but still prefer the Dropbox GUI.
*ten year user of Dropbox
nbar | 2 years ago | on: Sam Elsom's seaweed solution to tackle climate change
Sam is a great guy with a true passion for this. Hope it succeeds.
nbar | 2 years ago | on: The Last Gamble of Tokyo Joe
I would love a contemporary account of the Chicago underworld, have the Italian families long since been replaced by the cartels?
nbar | 3 years ago | on: TabFS – a browser extension that mounts the browser tabs as a filesystem
Love to hear more about this. I also suffer from RSI and would love to know if it’s helped changing input to voice
nbar | 3 years ago | on: The Pretty Good House
Dan do you ever talk about retro fitting old houses at your monthly talks.
It would wonderful to learn what can be done to existing (my home is 1880’s) buildings to improve their performance.
nbar | 3 years ago | on: How a Balkan drug cartel infiltrated global shipping [video]
I was waiting for the point where it was show MSC is just a front for the cartels.
nbar | 3 years ago | on: Existing smartphones will connect with new satellite constellations in 2023
Yes; the misty program is what you are thinking of.
It had a clamshell RF shield to deflect incoming tracking
nbar | 3 years ago | on: Winning a London Garden Allotment
I’ll never forget seeing an email from McKinsey outlining cuts to Gov. spending on aboriginal health with you guessed it in the email footer, “We pay respects to the Eora people……”
nbar | 4 years ago | on: Photographer Charles Ebbets takes iconic photo “Lunch atop a skyscraper” (1932)
New respect for steeple jacks!
nbar | 4 years ago | on: How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap
Interesting. You think it’s a deliberate verbal IQ filter implemented by the scammers?
nbar | 4 years ago | on: How to Tell a Job Offer from an ID Theft Trap
I’m always amazed that just slightly better grammar would increase the scammers success rate by miles.
There is no way I would read the correspondence as legit, but it’s not bad and given the return on the scam it’s wild that they don’t slightly improve that step.
nbar | 4 years ago | on: Apple Watch Likely to Gain BP, Blood Glucose, and Blood Alcohol Monitoring
Maybe Elizabeth Holmes is helping out?
nbar | 5 years ago | on: Successful BBQ pork butt and brisket is science (2018)
I’m guessing he bought BTC at $1 and has been enjoying days of hazy BBQ life since
nbar | 5 years ago | on: Tesla orders its first 8k-ton Cybertruck casting machine
100% here in Australia the old Defenders have become a collectors items since the change to the new shape. I recall a lack of pedestrian safety stopped the original Defender entering the US market too
nbar | 5 years ago | on: Low Earth Orbit Visualization
Just wanted to say thank you for this. My six year old and I use it all the time.
nbar | 5 years ago | on: When Death Comes: An Oncology Nurse Finds Solace in Mary Oliver
This is borderline evil. It’s not about a “moment” it’s not about stoic “knowing”.
It’s about being selfless.
nbar | 5 years ago | on: Smoothstep.io, a Shader Animation Tool
Impressive
nbar | 5 years ago | on: Roaring Kitty to testify on GameStop alongside hedge fund managers
What did Gill do that was illegal?
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