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I think the threat is that he dumps his entire position and craters the stock price.

I try to keep a wide net in terms of what I listen to and I have a spreadsheet of the music that makes it past a certain threshold. At one point I graphed it and was shocked that the decades came out…

Most of these comments are hinting that it's an age issue. I disagree. Yes, the upside of what's possible has moved higher. No doubt. But the entry level has moved higher as well. Going …

People want to use trains and we want people to use trains -- which means whatever is left over is an irrelevant detail. We should subsidize it more and invest more. I lived in the south of France fo…

It's not just that the criteria they publish is incredibly ambiguous, but they will make decisions based on different, secret criteria. For example, while not stated anywhere, there seems to be a…

I'm not surprised -- and they'll keep searching. There's been little-to-no investment in long-term platform research and innovation.

It's a scam.

No, you can care passionately about more things if you don't let the world influence you. The philosopher Rene Girard talks about it better than I ever could. Basically, when we reach a certai…

I'm saying, "[ignore] the feelings of the masses," -- "divorce the world."

I think you got it; I think the term is clear. It's not having any additional emotional response beyond what you find in an interaction with an acquaintance you see a few times a year. There&#x…

No, it's not "liking" being hated, it's that it doesn't deeply disturb you. Imagine you and a buddy have been arguing lately but you still go out hunting together. A bear app…

It was just an example. Hopefully you can imagine your own, better example.

One of the big moments of enlightenment I've had was the importance of emotionally detaching from the world. What does that mean? If you see your ex on the street, emotionally detached is not ru…

The SAT score played no role as far as I know.

Yeah, there's some truth to that because she applied to Oxford earlier this year, before she got the SAT results and she got to the interview having passed the academic requirements with mainly t…

Similar opinion and story. We live in Boise, Idaho and my daughter does a hybrid model of home school and high school. She knew she got top grades and 5's on all her APs but it didn't give…

Well that's the spot price ~ $1980/troy ounce.

translation Information on the purchase of gold by the Bank of Russia on the domestic market In order to balance supply and demand in the domestic precious metals market, the Bank of Russia will buy…

SA and Russia signed a military cooperation agreement last August. Since January 2020 the US has printed nearly 80% of all US dollars in existence. $4 trillion at the start of 2020, October 2021 $20 t…

Publicly announcing that "they're considering it" is the first stage to actually implementing it. And the moment that happens I think history books will use as the marker for a new era.…

How dare you! Edit: ooooh, mine's a beetle!

I've been here since 2007 and haven't had a problem. Read that first sentence again: On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. If you don't like it, flag it. But …

It's running on France24 now too: https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220308-in-nod-to-rus... I think it explains why the markets flipped so hard…

And I do that too. It was common in the days of typewriters and lingered for some people. A friend at my first workplace after college told me I was "doing it wrong" by using only one space…

HN hates "me too" comments but I couldn't agree more. Absolutely stunning job. Great work. I don't know how I didn't know it existed before.

DUPE: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30519934

It's not joining the EU. Its application has been accepted. Bosnia's application was accepted in 2003 and it's most certainly not in the EU.