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Knot theory in topology is super interesting and have very practical applications in the real world (protein folding, chemical structures, etc). Fun fact: Conway was involved in ta…

gnarly bug! what's the name of the paper?

Regarding your last line: futures trade nearly 24 hours, 6 days/week. It's also several times bigger than the ETF market, in terms of average daily dollar volume, so you get the li…

Definitely. It reminds me of Orwell's Newspeak in 1984- although the novel itself shows that having a "clean" vocabulary doesn't completely prevent "unclean" thought deemed by the …

I use Wireguard regularly when I'm out to access my home LAN where I have some VM's running various things like pihole (DNS server to block ads), mail server, hobby dev server, etc…

Developed/rich countries "kicking away the ladder" from developing countries is a well-known concept- there's an interesting book by the same title by Ha-joon Chang. To be clear, I…

Pivpn is beginner-friendly and you can always branch off from there. https://www.pivpn.io

Seems useful! Curious about your business model- it seems like your payment processor takes 0.5%/payment; do you charge some percentage on top of that? If so, how much? Adding a "w…

Looking from a different angle, I can see few valid reasons for using cosmetics: 1. Cosmetics often includes medical/dermatological products which are essential for some people. 2.…

Similar theory I have is that it's acceptable for most children to learn their language full-time; whereas for adults, usually it's a side thing on top of their full-time work. If …

Learning a new language is often accompanied by the very real feeling of your "mind expanding." I think that's because being able to understand/speak another language is almost lik…

GCP also offers a "always free" micro-instance that's more than enough for the task at hand. https://cloud.google.com/free/docs/gcp-free-tier#always-free