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Readit Newsdaneyh commented on Show HN: Quantus – LeetCode for Financial Modeling quantus.finance/... · Posted by u/misstercool
daneyh commented on The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development pikuma.com/blog/jungle-mu... · Posted by u/atan2
I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The pound buys a pence's worth; banks are going bust; shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter; yutes are running wild in the street, and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it.
We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat. And we sit watching our TVs while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be!
We all know things are bad -- worse than bad -- they're crazy.
It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out any more. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we're living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, "Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials, and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone."
Well, I'm not going to leave you alone.
I want you to get mad!
I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot. I don't want you to write to your Congressman, because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street.
All I know is that first, you've got to get mad.
You've gotta say, "I'm a human being, goddammit! My life has value!"
So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window, open it, and stick your head out and yell: "I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!!"
Last time I tried to quit coffee:
First day: Okay
Second day: Intense, soul-crushing beating headache, it hurt so much I didn't know what was up and down, my teeth hurt, I was out of commission entirely that day. I have previous experience with pain, if I didn't know the cause of this, I would have sought out medical assistance it was bad.
Third day: Headache less intense, still photosensitive, halos, dizzy.
Fourth day: Headache almost gone
Fifth day: No headache, "oh, that easy?"
Sixth day: Pain starts in right leg, mostly in the hip joints.
Seventh day: Deep, deep excruciating pain all down the right leg, it was almost unbearable, I was twisting and turning, couldn't lie down, couldn't sit up, walking was kind of okay.
Hip pains lasted the better part of a week, it was a hellish week. Then my son was born, leg pain continued, I was useless, lack of sleep made headache return, I had a cup of cofffee, 20 minutes later I remembered how good one could feel. Now I'm back to about 2 cans of 0.5 liter monster energy + 6-10 strong cups of coffee per day.
I don't know why this was downvoted, but that's my "before and after" anecdote.
I stopped smoking many years ago (daily smokning 20+ cigs/day for multiple years), it was soooooooooo easy compared to this, because while the cravings were harder, they were only cravings combined with brain trying to make excuses, but with caffeine, the amount of physical pain I had to endure was very bad.
I might try again some time, if I ever get about a month of time where I can be alone and not have to do anything.
whoa, that is a lot of caffiene. I'd probably try to taper down over a longer period, maybe 24/36 weeks rather than cold turkey cutting completely....Come up with a plan with glide path down. Cut the monster energy drinks first they are absolutely dreadful for you not just from the caffiene but due to the artifical sweeteners and colours.
daneyh commented on Ask HN: What is your favorite piece of entertainment of the last three years? · Posted by u/bakuninsbart
Hmm I stopped watching football because it was only the rich teams winning everything. I'm not sure if it's great entertainment though. Watching 2 hours to see your team lose (or worse, get 0-0) is not a good feeling. I normally only watch the German national team because they win big and lose big.
It's funny because a 0-0 can be an incredibly entertaining tussle whilst a goal-fest can be a shambolic thing to watch.
I've unsubscribed from all podcasts on Spotify almost 6 months ago now, and switched back to apple podcasts for some of the reasons above. I only use spotify for music. On the "Home" page of the app about 50% of my recommended content is still podcasts. I'm now considering going back to apple music too..
any tips for getting playlists and likes out of spotify?
daneyh commented on Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest (2015) news.yale.edu/2015/09/22/... · Posted by u/marc__1
What actively used financial instrument today has the longest time horizon? 100 years?
* sports stadium construction loans UC Berkeley $443 million by 2112
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-01-04/college-f...
Most equity/preferred shares are considered perpetuities (i.e as long as the company is in business)
There are many many perpetual bonds still being issued today however they tend to be 'callable' at the option of the issuer ...most after 5/10/30 years, if they aren't called then they maybe called on the same date every 5yrs or so (so I don't really count them as they aren't really 'forever'.
Oxford and Cambridge Universities in the UK have recently issued 100 year 'Century' bonds in GBP. Thats the longest i've seen recently (I cover EUR/GBP bond markets at work)
Wow it's great to see so many HNers making music out there, looks like my programming playlist is about to get some much needed fresh content. I've been sitting on a pile of half-finished projects I've been meaning to get around to completing for ages, throwing a few of them out there to hold myself accountable to follow through:
https://soundcloud.com/guhcci/sonder
https://soundcloud.com/guhcci/sleepwalking/s-dy4AaQTvGlf
https://soundcloud.com/guhcci/alight-demo/s-tgQ0GjLwC3Y
https://soundcloud.com/guhcci/just-a-dream-ft-cobu-demo/s-1w...
https://soundcloud.com/guhcci/another-future-bass-thing-demo...
Any and all feedback would be much appreciated!
Wow these are great. You should definitely continue and do a bandcamp or something
daneyh commented on Ask HN: What are some of your favorite journals or magazines? · Posted by u/pthreads
Two which i've subscribed in print form recently:
Monocle - Really a general affairs magazine particularly focussed on Urban design, travel, technology, business and current affairs. Global editing staff. Produce some nice podcasts as well.
Courier - Startup focussed in the UK but i find it generally informative and attractive style to it.
I do have sympathy for those with dark(er, which is basically everyone) skin who may not be able to directly tell the efficacy.
My concern is that mineral sunscreens are difficult to apply and leave a film on the skin (which is the entire point, I guess?); i hate that feeling, so I use chemical sunscreens. I'd bet that some of them have very nasty long-term side effects. So in the end i almost always go with trying to cover my skin with clothes/shade/whatever if at all possible.