> The author touts Spotify's recommendation engine and rightly so, nothing comes close.
Actually the author does the opposite, saying that YouTube’s algo is superior.
For me, Spotify used to be THE recommendation engine, but the last few years I found it to regurgitate a lot of the same songs, and recommended the same songs to people around me.
To be fair, I’m far less in “discovery mode” than I used to be, but Spotify is contributing to this by no longer inspiring me. It’s easy to get Spotify like everyone else and just be over with it, but a healthy discussion about active choice is always welcome.
Agreed, along with a message of some kind explaining what's happened. My kid ended up with all the animals on the boat and unable to move any of them off, and didn't know why. This was before she understood all the rules of the puzzle.
I think it is surprising. The US has a larger nominal GDP (which is what matter for this calculation), and USD is also rather unique as the global reserve currency. 60% of USD are held outside the US.
These stats would seem to indicate that either CNY moves much more slowly than USD (which would also surprise me) or that there are also colossal reserves of CNY outside of China (which I believe the Chinese government is actively working to prevent with capital controls?).
Population isn’t that big a factor. India has 36x as many people as Canada, but INR and CAD have about the same total cap.
I think the site is reporting M2 for each of the currencies, which includes much more than just the bills + coins. E.g. the value of all USD coins + bills is "only" $2.1 trillion [1] vs. an M2 that's 10x larger. The 60% of all USD are held overseas statistic only applies to coins + bills and not M2 [2].
An explanation could be that people in Chinese save more and keep more of their savings in banks, compared to Americans?
To be fair, most of the blogposts are not written for us on HN, but for the followers of the blog in question. I do not mind having to figure out the context, if it means I get to explore the esoteric and far corners of the internet from one place :)
As others have pointed out, it’s probably the carrier that does not support the right kind of E-Sim.
But furthermore, an Apple Watch with cellular bought in the US, cannot use cellular data in e.g. the EU. Not sure why, but it must be localized on a software/hardware (?) level. At least that’s what the Apple genius told me on my last visit to the states..
Not sure where you get your facts, but Litecoin all-time-high was around $360. The founder, Charlie Lee, stayed and is still a visible and active advocate for litecoin to this day.
My bad, I was wrong about the peak price (this was just from memory, and that was almost 4 years ago -- however no excuse for not looking it up).
I was, however, right about everything else. Lee sold all his coins, made a giant pile of money, the value of the coin collapsed to literally fractions -- and has yet to come anywhere close to a recovery.
If Elon sold 100% of his Tesla shares and "stayed a visible and active advocate for electric cars" I'm not sure you'd be as bullish.
No, he didn't run away (he's still very active in the community: https://twitter.com/SatoshiLite) and the foundation wasn't on the brink of bankruptcy.
About the only thing you were right about is that he sold his coins. (According to him the reason was so he could be financially secure and able to focus on the project instead of feeling incentivized to pump the price)
I have the same X1, same with two others on my team, and none of us are experiencing any fan issues like yours. Its silent most of the time, even with CPU intensive work.
Actually the author does the opposite, saying that YouTube’s algo is superior.
For me, Spotify used to be THE recommendation engine, but the last few years I found it to regurgitate a lot of the same songs, and recommended the same songs to people around me.
To be fair, I’m far less in “discovery mode” than I used to be, but Spotify is contributing to this by no longer inspiring me. It’s easy to get Spotify like everyone else and just be over with it, but a healthy discussion about active choice is always welcome.