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New comment by dkga in "Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)"

dkga — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:36:32 +0000

Could be related to the light spectrum. Kindles aren't really "screen" like the others; they do have background light but you can turn it off and use it with its paper-like screen (which is what I do and really like it). But traditional screens have blue light as part of the normal light they emit, which is known to disrupt sleeping patterns. When I am using my cell phone or computer right before sleeping, I usually turn on colour filtering to make my whole cell phone be tinted red. This helps wonders. I found this page that explains how this can be done: [0].

[0]: https://ios.gadgethacks.com/how-to/keep-your-night-vision-sh...

New comment by dkga in "Mel Brooks is 100 today"

dkga — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 00:29:08 +0000

That movie is so fun and intelligent and heartfelt, pure Mel Brooks genius

New comment by dkga in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

dkga — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:47:12 +0000

I’m surprised it’s just sixty. I don’t think anyone, not the least consumers, wants AI used upstream of themselves.

New comment by dkga in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

dkga — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:57:46 +0000

Beautiful text. By the way, I can't thank enough the maintainers at ctext.org. What a beautiful work they do.

Reading Buffett and Munger, the stuff that stuck had nothing to do with stocks

dkga — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:25:09 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/ValueInvesting/comments/1u0hbzt/spent_my_first_year_actually_reading_buffett_and/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48454444

Points: 2

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New comment by dkga in "Stop the Apple Music app from launching"

dkga — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:22:39 +0000

I signed up for Apple’s subscription which includes Apple Music. We are a Spotify family, but I then cancelled our premium subscription to avoid duplicate spending. I embraced Apple Music with an open heart in spite of the reservation from my family members. I liked that DJ feature that joined songs. But everything else felt subpar to Spotify. In particular, with AM I feel that they were always pushing US pop/rap music to me, even as I was listening everything from old Tunisian singers to Denmark’s Magtens Korridorer. But overall it just felt that Spotify folks really liked music as an Art form, whereas AM really wanted you to listen to whatever they were featuring/pedalling. Like that song lyrics translation feature introduced by Spotify - only if you enjoy songs in languages you might not yet understand you would think of such a nice feature!

New comment by dkga in "The Pirate Bay Remains Resilient, 20 Years After the Raid"

dkga — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 22:52:40 +0000

What MJ episode?!

New comment by dkga in "WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency"

dkga — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:04:31 +0000

I suspect this is to mitigate perverse incentives for countries to avoid reporting outbreaks and collaborating with the WHO for fear of tanking their economy

New comment by dkga in "DeepSeek 4 Flash local inference engine for Metal"

dkga — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:30:52 +0000

That a serious number? By the way, how does a hardware normie like me even measure this?

New comment by dkga in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

dkga — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:42:04 +0000

I think it is also more than that. In car-centric places like Brazil or the US, older people essentially need to drive or be driven around to have a social life. In pedestrian friendly cities like many in Europe, it is very common to see older people walking to meet their friends/relatives. I saw it all the time in Switzerland. Even those with severely limited mobility would prefer to actively walk or take the tram/bus somewhere (no matter how much time it took) than stay at home.

New comment by dkga in "UK Fuel Price Intelligence – Market analytics from reporting stations"

dkga — Tue, 05 May 2026 03:31:43 +0000

Hi, economist focused on monetary policy/inflation here! That data would make for a cool empirical paper that could help central banks and other economists better understand price dynamics around a significant shock. Are you interested in discussing it?

New comment by dkga in "A treasure trove of fossils rewrites the story of early life"

dkga — Mon, 04 May 2026 12:07:39 +0000

What a treasure indeed! I just didn‘t understand why this particular site had so well-preserved soft tissue fossils? I assume it is probably related to the geology of the site during formation of the fossils, and probably the researchers themselves are not quite sure. But I would love to know more, if anyone here understands about this sort of thing.

New comment by dkga in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

dkga — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:41:28 +0000

Curious about how exactly does Kyndryl (or Solvinity for that matter) plan to monitize citizen data.

New comment by dkga in "Soft launch of open-source code platform for government"

dkga — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:37:31 +0000

Any recommendations / lessons learned when building this? I would love to give it a go for Brazil if one doesn't already exist around the time of my holidays in June/July.

New comment by dkga in "Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown"

dkga — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:12:19 +0000

Unfortunately I had the same impression. Or the comment on Anna Du's looks. Otherwise great reporting that, even in an informal substack piece, lose the shine with these types of aggressive comments. The content speaks for itself and is already quite damning to the corrupt editors. No need for ad hominem attacks.

New comment by dkga in "Third editor fired in Elsevier’s citation cartel crackdown"

dkga — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 00:10:07 +0000

Not "behavioural economics", but rather a very small number of rotten apples.

New comment by dkga in "DeepSeek v4"

dkga — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 10:01:39 +0000

Not only that, but in tandem the collapse of social capital in the US has been the result of a very intentional process (on top of the multidecade undercurrent of declining social capital). This according to Robert Putnam himself (sorry, don’t have time to find the source now but will add it later).

New comment by dkga in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

dkga — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:33:11 +0000

Yeah the car always seemed (to humble me) to be so… un-Apple. As in, the iphone was a success because of its aesthetics but also it solved a real problem, while creating a whole new market. But in the case of cars, cars are the problem.

New comment by dkga in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

dkga — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:29:17 +0000

I have one such mac. Things I like: the keyboard feels smooth, the speakers are great and the touchbar (yes you read correctly). Things that make me partially agree with this post I am responding to: annoying overheating, including when I plug an external monitor (!); the camera was really subpar, it always seemed as if I was facetiming using a 2002 cybershot rather than a 2019 MacBook Pro; the screen has nice colours but very easily feels smudgy. Other than this, I love using that computer as a secondary device.

New comment by dkga in "Tim Cook's Impeccable Timing"

dkga — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:22:19 +0000

Same. I still have my intel Mac as a secondary, backup device and I still love using it, in part because of the touchbar.