SpeakMouthWords (u/SpeakMouthWords)

SpeakMouthWords commented on Measurement of the W boson mass reveals 7σ deviation from calculations science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/nvalis

junon · 4 years ago

Can someone explain this in laymen's terms?

SpeakMouthWords · 4 years ago

Someone has run an experiment, and in this experiment they created a large amount of evidence that seems to say that quite an important particle in particle physics weighs something slightly different from what we thought it should.

This is important because the weight of that particle was predicted by our generally-accepted theory of how the universe works. If the weight is different, it means the theory hasn't taken into account everything that it should.

SpeakMouthWords commented on No laughing matter? what the Romans found funny antigonejournal.com/2021/... · Posted by u/diodorus

V-2 · 4 years ago

I don't understand this one:

"An incompetent astrologer cast a man's horoscope and said: "You are unable to father children." When the man objected that he had seven kids, the astrologer replied: "Look after them well.""

SpeakMouthWords · 4 years ago

I had a completely different interpretation to everyone else. I read it as the astrologer doubling down on his assertion despite the evidence staring him in the face. The guy can't have kids, so he should look after the ones he has! (Even though they prove that he CAN have kids)

SpeakMouthWords commented on Why don't tech companies pay their engineers to stay? marker.medium.com/why-don... · Posted by u/mattydoincode

SpeakMouthWords · 4 years ago

The Bridgerton example is silly and not comparable. His character is barely in the other books, so of course he's not in the other seasons. It's like asking why Professor Quirrell isn't in the second Harry Potter film.

SpeakMouthWords commented on Reddit Welcomes Michael Seibel to Board of Directors redditblog.com/2020/06/10... · Posted by u/rmason

antihero · 6 years ago

So if they have a meeting every 3 months, what is the rest of their time spent doing? Sounds like a pretty cushy job.

SpeakMouthWords · 6 years ago

It's not the full-time job of each member.

SpeakMouthWords commented on N26 will be leaving the UK n26.com/en-de/blog/leavin... · Posted by u/vinnyglennon

SpeakMouthWords · 6 years ago

Worth noting that N26 was touted for a while as a grim reaper that would come to the UK with its vast capitalisation (at the time about 2-3x as a much as any UK mobile bank) and blow Monzo and Revolut away.

A good lesson that a well-funded incumbent in another market can't always make the hop to a different geography with assured success.

SpeakMouthWords commented on Depressed People See the World More Realistically (2017) vice.com/en_us/article/8x... · Posted by u/imartin2k

buboard · 6 years ago

Could it be that people who see the world Realistically, get depressed?

SpeakMouthWords · 6 years ago

You would be hard pressed to elucidate a biological causation there.

SpeakMouthWords commented on Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment stripe.com/au/blog/negati... · Posted by u/mhoad

esotericn · 6 years ago

Way less than $20 a month in a lot of the world too. Americans have a footprint twice as high as Brits, even.

SpeakMouthWords · 6 years ago

Cars and air-con are the main offenders there, right?

SpeakMouthWords commented on Y Combinator invests in Monzo through its Continuity Fund cnbc.com/2019/06/24/monzo... · Posted by u/satchet

lordnacho · 7 years ago

The UK bank space could do with some fresh players. Currently I'm looking for a new bank for my business, because:

1) I need to have foreign currency accounts. My bank has them, but I'm unable to see the accounts when I log in. They've known about this for 4 months now, and I keep getting sent in circles by the Indian call centre. They've sent me to branch twice, with no coordination, the people in the branch can't help me either.

2) I need to have an end-of-year statement for my taxes. It seems someone messed up the SQL or something, because I have statements for every month, except the end of the year. They haven't fixed this either.

So I've started looking around for other banks, but most of the challenger banks don't do multi currency accounts.

I'm in the market for a new personal account as well. Revolut works just fine technically, but I don't like what's being said about them and I'd rather not support them now.

It would be nice to have business and personal together, but that seems hard to find among the challenger banks, since they seem to not do FX. (I've emailed several over the past week.)

Lastly TransferWise does Borderless, which seems like exactly what I need, but it seems to not be a real bank account. Certain online businesses require withdrawals to be to someone (or a business) whose name matches what they have as their account details, and that doesn't work with their scheme.

SpeakMouthWords · 7 years ago

Incidentally what doesn't Monese (https://monese.com/business) have that you need? Is it the end-of-year statement?

SpeakMouthWords commented on Brain imaging study reveals signs of Parkinson’s decades before symptoms appear newatlas.com/parkinsons-d... · Posted by u/melling

SpeakMouthWords · 7 years ago

The analogy I've heard for early detection of neurodegeneration is that it turns the condition from terminal to chronic. This is similar to how late detection of HIV usually means AIDS and death, now it means a manageable condition, but life.

Interestingly, there are a companies working on this from different angles. Here's one doing it with voice analysis: https://auralanalytics.com/

SpeakMouthWords commented on A Literary Tube Map of London inthebook.com/en-gb/liter... · Posted by u/DanBC

SpeakMouthWords · 7 years ago

This is an outdated version of the Tube map.