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scirpaceus commented on Seven years on, what do we know about the disappearance of flight MH370? (2021) admiralcloudberg.medium.c... · Posted by u/pantalaimon

agnos · 3 years ago

Unlikely that he's still alive, but the evidence of a controlled landing makes the whole thing more puzzling from a psychological perspective. Why slowly and consciously drag it out until the very bitter end when you've already completed your suicide mission?

scirpaceus · 3 years ago

I find the controlled ditching hypothesis less psychologically puzzling, not more, for at least three reasons: ego, agency, and practicality.

First, successfully ditching an aircraft at sea is the ultimate test of piloting skills, and possibly one difficult to resist for the ego of a seasoned captain on his final flight.

Second, it seems out of character for a meticulous pilot to just let the aircraft slip out of his control and crash haphazardly at the very end of a carefully-plotted sequence of murderous steps.

Third, a ditching would better obfuscate the final resting place of the aircraft compared to an uncontrolled dive, as it would result in fewer scattered debris floating away.

scirpaceus commented on Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas obsidian.md/canvas... · Posted by u/ericax

brap · 3 years ago

I really don’t get Obsidian and why HN seems so obsessed with it. Can anyone please enlighten me? Why do they call these notes “a second brain”? How is this “a new way of thinking”? What are you people even writing that requires this? It just seems silly, honestly. What am I missing?

scirpaceus · 3 years ago

Not trying to evangelize you, but you may not necessarily see the value in gathering random notable ideas somewhere until you put in the effort of documenting them and then see the network effect in action, i.e., new meta-ideas and patterns emerging from linking those ideas in a central location.

teedeepee commented on Show HN: A highly opinionated, fully functional Obsidian vault github.com/bramses/bramse... · Posted by u/_bramses

breadchris · 3 years ago

i used to try to create obsidian workflows, but i found them very challenging to keep up. i used to think i wanted configuration for my note taking so I could capture all the ways I wanted to interact with the information i stored. Even though i initially rejected it, i have ended up embracing logseq and it’s seemingly odd way of working. I have grown to love the daily journal being front and center as I find it removes mental overhead when it comes to figuring out what to take notes about. I just put everything in there! I don’t think, i just take notes. When i store information, i write some contextual information to help me retrieve it the next time i look for it. When i search and can’t find it right away, i add more context to the note to help me find it faster next time. I think it works for me because i don’t like the pressure of writing a structured note, but when I do take the time to write, it’s because i am excited about it and I end up streaming my consciousness in an almost blog like post (as I am doing now, i love writing about note taking). I work at an OSS company so fortunately all my notes I publish online: https://breadchris.com and i find it so freaking liberating to be able to share my haphazard ideas with others lol.

having spent a decent amount of time looking at this stuff, my biggest recommendation is to try things out for a bit, and find habits that stick. I found a way to make note taking addicting, and other people i’ve got on the band wagon have found it addicting as well so I think logseq is a worthwhile thing to try out. I haven’t put it together yet, but I would like to put together the workflow (more like a mindset, less workflow) that I follow.

Good luck to those looking for a way that works for them for taking notes! I would love to hear about what people have tried, I have a lot of ideas to share.

teedeepee · 3 years ago

Tried your website on Chrome 108.0.5359.125 (Win 64-bit), and it displayed nothing but a teal background, until I turned off the Decentraleyes 2.0.17 extension (which was reporting and blocking 542 locally-injected resources). FYI.

teedeepee commented on What it's like to live in Monaco edition.cnn.com/travel/ar... · Posted by u/mooreds

eastbound · 3 years ago

I’ve always wondered: How do billionaires ensure their security?

Does this old lady have no security detail at all? Are they as prone as us to street-mugging?

Do people like usual unicorn CEOs, I know some who have street-facing houses or houses without a big fence (they don’t live in gated communities), have armed guys to protect against intruders? Do they walk their dog at night? let their kids walk to school in the morning? Do they have security detail for all this, or are they just like us, crossing their fingers that crime be low? Being CEOs with large interests at stake, they surely receive targeted blackmailing in large quantity, don’t they? Even as billionaires, do they simply take the first Uber from their airport to a downtown hotel? Do they simply assume airport-uber-hotel facilities are naturally safe, even considering how much interest they concentrate on their person?

teedeepee · 3 years ago

Monaco is incredibly safe - undercover and uniformed police everywhere, ubiquitous video surveillance, few ingress/egress points, thorough filtering of cars coming in and out based on condition and license plate, etc. It’s a small territory and thus easy to monitor.

teedeepee commented on What it's like to live in Monaco edition.cnn.com/travel/ar... · Posted by u/mooreds

ggm · 3 years ago

This is analogous to Singapore, with a huge army of workers resident in Malaysia crossing over every day, and most returning every night. Hong Kong is somewhat similar but less so: there is enough cheap housing for a significant proportion of the cheaper labour (below millionaire class) to live in the economies boundaries.

The article does make it clear that Monegasques have significant state support for housing but that's on the assumption they aren't millionaires. The mobile workforce from outside is presumably given one of two "perks" -lower taxation outcomes (although I suspect there is some bilateral tax treaty) for at least income tax, and higher pay than they'd get working in their domicile.

I'm trying to steer clear of approval or disapproval writing this. I can't imagine making either of the two choices: to be a tax exile living there but with no statehood, or to be a mobile worker working there but having to return to an EU economy every night. The third option, being Monegasque is not open to me any more than Maltese citizenship, which is also much sought, and hard to get although not as hard as this one.

A surprising number of british working class people have Maltese citizenship, similarly Gibraltarian: thats what the british Navy does for you. I wonder if in millionaires row their advice for non-dom includes "marry a maltese"

teedeepee · 3 years ago

Most Monegasques are by and large not millionaires, but they are indeed taken care of by the welfare state very very well. However, they barely make up 25% of the residents, so they are overshadowed by the wealthier foreigners who set up residence in Monaco.

Re: the mobile workforce, there's a tax treaty between Monaco and France (which was imposed by the latter after a total blockade of the former in the 1960s) by which French citizens working in Monaco still have to pay income tax in France, even if they are Monaco residents. It's the only case of "global taxation" of French expatriates in the world. There are, therefore, no incentives for them to live in Monaco. People who set up fiscal residence in Monaco to avoid taxes are, therefore, not French.

scirpaceus commented on What it's like to live in Monaco edition.cnn.com/travel/ar... · Posted by u/mooreds

scirpaceus · 3 years ago

Born and raised in Monaco here. The article paints a very incomplete picture, told from the minority standpoint of mostly wealthy socialites and residents. There are also about 50K people commuting into Monaco daily from neighboring cities (Nice, Cannes, La Turbie, Beausoleil, etc.) who are just middle-class wage workers, and who form the bulk of Monaco's active population. In the daytime, Monaco is mostly alive from their presence, as they outnumber residents. At night, well, Monaco isn't very much alive at all.

Many if not most of the wealthy residents who can afford the insane real estate prices also own multiple properties worldwide (London, NYC, Lugano, Singapore, etc.), and shuttle between them all year round, so they aren't even there permanently. Monaco is only a fiscal residence for many of them.

Beyond the surface-level glitz, e.g. the Formula 1 and the fancy cars parked in front of the Casino, what's interesting is that the little old unassuming lady in sweatpants walking her dog in the morning may actually be a multi-billionaire, and you wouldn't be able to tell. Lot of old money that likes to keep to itself, as opposed to nouveaux riches who like to flaunt.

teedeepee commented on FTX tapped into customer accounts to fund risky bets, setting up its downfall wsj.com/articles/ftx-tapp... · Posted by u/mfiguiere

jacooper · 3 years ago

Ftx.us is apperantly a totally separate exchange

teedeepee · 3 years ago

Alameda was also a totally separate entity, until we found out it wasn't.

teedeepee commented on Tether now offering 30% interest on USDT deposits twitter.com/Bitfinexed/st... · Posted by u/thematrixturtle

Grimburger · 4 years ago

It's funny how badly people understand the mechanisms here.

Bitfinex is not offering that. It's peer to peer lending on crypto exchanges. Some random person is offering that.

I can go on there right now and create an offer of 150% APR for USDT, then screenshot it, go on twitter and claim the sky is falling. All for the cost of a few dollars.

teedeepee · 4 years ago

You could have made the same point without the first sentence. As per HN's guidelines:

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

teedeepee commented on Tether starting to lose its peg too, after Terra did community.intercoin.org/t... · Posted by u/EGreg

xur17 · 4 years ago

> There are people "in crypto" who believe the FDIC will make good any losses on their investments

Do you have a source for this? I'm heavily involved "in crypto", and have not seen any indications of beliefs like this.

teedeepee · 4 years ago

On r/gemini (named after the NYC-based exchange), it's a misconception that I see (and occasionally dispel) very frequently.