> You cannot name a single politician who is a mathematician. I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani ( and of course Wikipedia has a list :)…
In the long term we are all dead. (Keynes) Really feels like 1928
It’s like a Facebook feed - I find it strangely addictive to read them Random bits of lives, random thoughts of people you don’t know but that you can somehow relate to - just because they wrote something
I think it’s just poorly worded; it’s about the upward mobility of the _generation born after the Second World War_. This generation lacked opportunities and this created unrest in the 60s and 70s. The previous…
- it’s 3 days not 5 (e.g leaving NYC Wednesday morning arriving SF Saturday evening) - the internet connection is excellent (even in most tunnels) so you can work, have video meetings, etc, not to mention play chess…
> Romania was basically under German occupation through most of WWII. that's not correct. Romania was an independent country, with a king, government, etc. Romania was allied to Germany, and there was a German presence,…
( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing... )
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on the contrary let's have fun about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA [IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge]
These letters are indeed jewels... There's one sentence in a letter to Louise Colet has marked my life: L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe The future torments us,…
it's actually shipping ! Leroy Merlin (the French "big box" home improvement chain) is selling a electric screwdriver that use sodium-ion battery, seems to be working well: (French)…
I still don't understand why anyone would use lambdas - except if you 1) trust Amazon blindly, and 2) have no understanding whatsoever of how a server works, and therefore absolutely unable to set one up (even as a AWS…
> the general view in Sweden is that the school is working terrible It's quite universal to find that schools in your own country are terrible :) Having lived (and raised children) in multiple countries, I can tell you…
The business of VCs is to take risk. VCs _know_ that 8 out of 10 of their investment will return zero, zitch, nada. They just expect one of of 10 to make it even -- and another one to make it 20x. So that doesn't mean…
Violin. I can't spend one day without it, as a break every few hours of coding or meeting, it's really great It's quite a lot of work, but really the best way to make your brain two sides work together - as well as your…
> You cannot name a single politician who is a mathematician. I can: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9dric_Villani ( and of course Wikipedia has a list :)…
In the long term we are all dead. (Keynes) Really feels like 1928
It’s like a Facebook feed - I find it strangely addictive to read them Random bits of lives, random thoughts of people you don’t know but that you can somehow relate to - just because they wrote something
I think it’s just poorly worded; it’s about the upward mobility of the _generation born after the Second World War_. This generation lacked opportunities and this created unrest in the 60s and 70s. The previous…
- it’s 3 days not 5 (e.g leaving NYC Wednesday morning arriving SF Saturday evening) - the internet connection is excellent (even in most tunnels) so you can work, have video meetings, etc, not to mention play chess…
> Romania was basically under German occupation through most of WWII. that's not correct. Romania was an independent country, with a king, government, etc. Romania was allied to Germany, and there was a German presence,…
( https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2008/feb/21/computing... )
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on the contrary let's have fun about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP2tUW0HDHA [IDIOCRACY Opening Scene (2006) Mike Judge]
These letters are indeed jewels... There's one sentence in a letter to Louise Colet has marked my life: L'avenir nous tourmente, le passé nous retient, c'est pour ça que le présent nous échappe The future torments us,…
it's actually shipping ! Leroy Merlin (the French "big box" home improvement chain) is selling a electric screwdriver that use sodium-ion battery, seems to be working well: (French)…
I still don't understand why anyone would use lambdas - except if you 1) trust Amazon blindly, and 2) have no understanding whatsoever of how a server works, and therefore absolutely unable to set one up (even as a AWS…
> the general view in Sweden is that the school is working terrible It's quite universal to find that schools in your own country are terrible :) Having lived (and raised children) in multiple countries, I can tell you…
The business of VCs is to take risk. VCs _know_ that 8 out of 10 of their investment will return zero, zitch, nada. They just expect one of of 10 to make it even -- and another one to make it 20x. So that doesn't mean…
Violin. I can't spend one day without it, as a break every few hours of coding or meeting, it's really great It's quite a lot of work, but really the best way to make your brain two sides work together - as well as your…