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Comment · 4 years ago
I just checked front side of CNN, first 6 titles are about some unofficial trip. They do not know if it will happen, what will happen, where it may happen, what that means...

There is no value for me there. Even if I invest time into filtering, there is no value to gain from that. Maybe it is important, but I am not policy maker or investor, it is not important right now for me!

I can find out about that visit week later, after it actually happened. Without all the speculations and opinions. And since it will be podcast I can listen while running or exercising, and with much lower investment from my side.

Comment · 4 years ago
》CNN, WSJ, and BBC

That is a news equivalent of junk food. Clickbait partisan outrage generator.

I would suggest some independent podcast with daily or weekly summaries. Much higher information density.

Comment · 4 years ago
Well, that really is just technicality, is it? We could call it recession now, and later correct it, if data show something else.

I am worried we will get another wave of censorship about "recession conspiracy".

Comment · 4 years ago
Why we have to wait until 2023 to call it "recession"? Because of elections in November? Why not wait until 2025 after presidential election?
Comment · 4 years ago
People are rational, model works.

But you can not approximate complex system like human brain with couple of variables. There are not hundreds, but millions of biases.

Advanced epicycle models had dozens moving parts. JPL planetary ephemerides (modern equivalent in polynomials) have several millions of parameters and terabytes of equations.

Comment · 4 years ago
English is not my native language obviously.
Comment · 4 years ago
》epicycles were still not enough to describe what could be observed.

Epicycles based models were far superior in practice, such as predicting planetary conjunctions. Heliocentric models did not really catched up, until Newton invented gravity and calculus.

And centre of mass of solar system (barycenter in Newtonian physics), is outside of Sun, so heliocentric models technically never gave solid predictions! Stellar parallax (main prediction from Copernicus theory) was not confirmed until 19th century! Heliocentrism is mainly philosophical concept!

I will stick with my primitive old thinking and biases, thank you! If I get mugged a few times in a neighbourhood, I will assume it is not safe. There is no need to overthink it!

Comment · 4 years ago
I visited Manhattan once, what I noticed was how run down metro (underground) was. I would compare it with Kiev metro around 2016, and that country was already at war. I have no idea how city hall can get away with doing so little!
Comment · 4 years ago
Get refund for your CPU. Clearly broken design, most likely not fixable by microcode update.
Comment · 4 years ago
It seems disabling JIT on JS VM and only using slow interpreted mode is a good choice.
Comment · 4 years ago
Why bait? Heathrow has terrible service and 400 pounds may be worth it to get normal service. It is something like bakshis in Egypt... It pays off after couple of hours.

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