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> Fourth you must bet big. No. You must bet right - and it depends on how right you are. Look up the Kelly criterion. Bet 1 - 2*probablity of losing of your current pot - will maxi…

The only source for the "I refuse to see a pimp in the mirror in the morning when I shave." quote that I can find is Drucker hmself. The German Ambassador didn't resign in 1906. Ma…

They're a (quite sour) eating apple. Bramleys are better cookers.

Nice try to bring in some EU bashing. But Switzerland isn't a part of it.

Obligatory counterexample, comedies. A quickfire screwball classic like "His Girl Friday" has lots of smart lines per minute where recent Hollywood ones will have two jokes in 90mi…

It's not so much the language as the horrible layout - with all the navigation at the left leaving the text so small. The reported lower vitamin D levels in more severe RA are more…

Vaguely competent financial management is by no means assured. I suggest reading Tim Geithner's "Stress Test" to to see how hard he had to fight to get some basic things done.

Agreed if you're making a web page. However there are lots of us writing applications which are delivered by browser. With that lens you're completely wrong. Then I do want to send…

No. Every golang stdlib proxy I've tried to use is a toy. They very inefficiently copy the message body and the memory behaviour is just horrible. Try posting a 10MB message. (That…

Nice try millenials. But the boomers grew up in times of lower car ownership and general road traffic - so while there was leaded petrol - the exposure to lead wasn't necessarilly …

Nice to see some love for wavelets. They're great for many more things. Robust volatility measurement, galerkin methods for numerical solutions to differential equations in finance…

I'd really like some kind of architecture picture describing what runs where. Regardless of whether it's promoting the cloud service why would I want that to run a rPi service? A p…

Not very like gravity. They explicitly say "outperforms gravity models". Also the economic concentration laws behind this would often follow power laws - so maybe the inverse squar…

Bit of a leap of logic there. Using proprietary cloud services is the decision that causes lock-in, not the tool you use for managing it. Terraform and Pulumi do a resonable job of…

I never got to the article as I gave up after 25 "no" clicks on the cookie form. (I know I could block better - but sometimes I like to see the state of the bad ui design). Website…

Houses in Cornwall need Radon surveys. https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment/environmental-protec...

This isn't Citibanks UI design. This is about Oracle's core banking software Flexcube. It's way deeper than UI. The loan entity didn't support the update they needed to make so the…

In the end this could work out well. People go where the stuff that they want is. I occasionally dust off an old twitter account when I want to reach an org which is otherwise hidi…

Not seeing it on my watch. Just a fairly uninteresting solar graph. Maybe it's not available on my watch - but shows a real problem in modern UI design. The "shadowban" school of U…

Next year they're planning to hold the conference in Scunthorpe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem It's 25 years since that problem was identified and people are stil…

"Nature will castigate those who don't masticate." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horace_Fletcher

Shame that there isn't a review in this rambling incoherent article. Academic writing at its worst. Wonder what grade it'd have got if turned in by a student.

Does this give a better space saving than a gyrator? https://www.sites.google.com/site/roelarits/home/gyrator

That's true - but where do you put the function? In a complex system I can end up with loads of these totalling functions scattered about. I might have gross and net versions of th…