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New comment by numbasys in "In Praise of Idleness (1932)"

numbasys — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:49:45 +0000

Thank you for this!

New comment by numbasys in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

numbasys — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 09:35:23 +0000

For the author: Getting all that money without the life experience to build some values or ambitions for your impact on the world is proof enough that your fortune is just random luck. There are millions who have put more thought into life and had no financial reward for it. Give it to them, or get a life for yourself. Then you'll know what to do.

New comment by numbasys in "Loyalty at work no longer pays – and it's employers who are to blame"

numbasys — Sat, 01 Jun 2024 22:56:31 +0000

In Europe though 15 days would be illegal. You'd start day one with 5 weeks. Minimum. Plus bank holidays.

New comment by numbasys in "Google no longer offers new domain registrations"

numbasys — Sun, 10 Sep 2023 16:26:46 +0000

Out of interest, how did you see that coming? The discussions I remember here on HN were full of people wondering why, and being generally blindsided by the news...

New comment by numbasys in "Plan for 55,000-acre utopia dreamed by Silicon Valley elites unveiled"

numbasys — Sat, 02 Sep 2023 10:10:18 +0000

So, you're saying you want to live in Europe.

New comment by numbasys in "MRI brain images become 64M times sharper"

numbasys — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 19:18:58 +0000

Sure, isogenic cohorts, if the lives of living creatures is valueless, that's fine. Better to work towards in-vivo whenever possible, in my opinion.

New comment by numbasys in "MRI brain images become 64M times sharper"

numbasys — Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:51:04 +0000

Yes, several hours per image. This resolution is still an achievement. But in vivo images (alive) are much more useful as they enable longitudinal studies, but obviously far more challenging to get anything close to good resolution in a mouse. More like 150 micron in alive, sedated mouse brains, even from 9.4T.

New comment by numbasys in "Reversing UK mobile rail tickets"

numbasys — Sun, 05 Feb 2023 16:03:07 +0000

That's a good point and another reason to encourage it. It would boost rail over road, which makes far more sense.

New comment by numbasys in "EVs Are Essential Grid-Scale Storage"

numbasys — Wed, 25 Jan 2023 13:57:35 +0000

If you're a consumer in the UK, and thinking about an EV, consider Octopus Energy's Go tariff: https://octopus.energy/go/. They also offer a salary sacrifice scheme to buy EVs: https://octopusev.com/, because this grid-supplementing storage is part of their offering, I think.

Concerns such as, "will my car be charged in the morning -- or for that emergency hospital run?" are considered, I believe, and you can set things like a "minimum charge" with smart chargers.

New comment by numbasys in "My bad habit of hoarding information"

numbasys — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 14:08:33 +0000

This is a valuable reply because it describes my own experience so well. Thank you.