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by 300bps 4y ago
My retention from listening to text is a tiny fraction of my retention from seeing written words and numbers.
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by 300bps 4y ago
I think it’s more political. If you agree with the political conclusion of a study then it’s science. If you disagree then it’s fake news.
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by 300bps 4y ago
Wow. That statement is the worst kind of review any potential employee could ever read.
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by 300bps 4y ago
What frameworks are everyone using to achieve small and fast page size?
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by 300bps 4y ago
Another practice I've found that helps me keep my subscription spending in line is torrenting all software and media for free There was a time that the only practical way to see media was to torrent/IRC/newsgroup it. But th
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by 300bps 4y ago
Microsoft Edge on iPhone had the same response. A script that traps the browser so you can’t use the back button to display a scam ad making it look like I won a Samsung Galaxy S10.
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by 300bps 4y ago
They were a DeFi ponzi chain which was obviously going to fail This is an excellent example of the “No True Scotsman” logical fallacy.
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by 300bps 4y ago
Prime stuff shipping 5-9 days Most things I order from Amazon arrive the same day or overnight. A tiny minority takes 24 hours. but I can't find Mountain Dew Energy in cherry limeade and haven't been able to for 3 weeks now. T
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by 300bps 4y ago
pH will drop to pH7.95 by 2045, and most marine life in our oceans dissolve. Coral dissolving I can understand. But the article seems to be saying “most marine life” which gives me images of sharks and tuna dissolving. I see three options
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by 300bps 4y ago
Petscii Robots!! https://www.the8bitguy.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Petsci...
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by 300bps 4y ago
Right there with you. My computers in order were: 1. Commodore 64 2. Commodore 128 3. 10 MHz 8088 After the 128 I considered a) Buying a Lt Kerrnal 20 MB hard drive b) Buying an Amiga c) Going IBM Compatible Thank God I went with the 8088 b
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by 300bps 4y ago
Google, Siri, and Alexa all agree I’m on the right track, BTW. I would argue that they are so rudimentary and universally terrible that it argues the exact opposite. They’re able to convert speech to text fairly well but understanding and
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by 300bps 4y ago
I prepared a spreadsheet of the approximate amount of karma I would’ve received had HN not been down and will be submitting a reimbursement request to dang.
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by 300bps 4y ago
I haven't heard of a widely-used IRC client that doesn't have built-in SSL connectivity for quite some time. For example: https://www.mirc.com/ssl.html
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by 300bps 4y ago
My parents were paranoid about kidnappings. It was like perfect social engineering on my parents' generation with TV movies like Adam - the story of John Walsh's son who was kidnapped and beheaded: https://www.imdb.com&
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by 300bps 4y ago
Image you're desperate to feel special. You want to be famous but every crazy thing you've done has gotten no attention. And then you see a mass murderer's face plastered everywhere. Links to their rap songs. Long new stories
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by 300bps 4y ago
generally sticking plasters over systems that are convoluted, unreliable, or otherwise broken So pretty much every system not written from scratch in the past five years?
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by 300bps 4y ago
My IPv4 address with FiOS changes frequently. I use an outside dynamic DNS provider that the FiOS router supports natively so I can always get back to my home network. I think that would work for IPv6 as well but not with the use case where
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by 300bps 4y ago
The Bitcoin Whitepaper was published almost 13 years ago. It still hasn't solved basic use cases that have been solved in traditional finance for many decades. Illegal uses of cryptocurrency are the only real use case that makes any se
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by 300bps 4y ago
That’s not how bonds work. Bonds have an analytic property called duration. Most people interpret that to mean the amount of time until the bond matures. The true definition of duration though is a bond’s interest rate risk. “Old debt” inte
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by 300bps 4y ago
The US Government is $30.5 trillion in debt. It currently pays $437 billion in interest on that debt per year. The US government takes in $4.37 trillion in tax revenue per year. https://www.usdebtclock.org/ So we pay 10% of
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by 300bps 4y ago
Legally you're not liable for something someone does while impersonating you This unfortunately isn't true. It also sounds like he created an app key from his root account that enabled anyone to literally impersonate him. A typi
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by 300bps 4y ago
Running Lambda, I get a million calls per month for free. Then it's 20 cents per million calls. Just curious - have you really researched cloud solutions or did you just compare the price of hosting EC2 instances in AWS vs having your
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by 300bps 4y ago
As a member of Gen-X, I get nothing out of retro Windows machines. And though I was an expert on IRQ, config.sys, etc back in the day I would not want to return to those bad old days. Give me an old Commodore though and that’s a good time!
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by 300bps 4y ago
Respectfully, you are making very bold claims about your coverage of Bloomberg data and it seems like you don’t have a handle on the actual scope of what data Bloomberg provides. From a brief review of your website it seems like you have le
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by 300bps 4y ago
90% of Bloomberg terminal or 90% of the data available on a Bloomberg terminal? Bloomberg terminals have tons of apps, messaging, trading, APIs and so much more. Even with your data how do you compensate for not having access to Bloomberg e
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by 300bps 4y ago
I'd imagine financial certs would be the most useful (CFA in particular). I’m similar to you - have a ton of certifications and I’m an insanely good test taker. Several years ago I signed up for the Level 1 CFA exam in late August to
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by 300bps 4y ago
I have to trust that at least 51% of validators Don't you mean 51% of hashrate? Pretty big difference because a single person with substantial resources could acquire 51% of hashrate.
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by 300bps 4y ago
best shot we have at addressing this problem What problem? I ask because USD is one of the most sought-after currencies largely because it has so few problems.
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by 300bps 4y ago
The government has had practically zero control over cash transactions, historically speaking. Government has had extremely tight control over cash transactions. 1. Try to give someone $100,000,000 in cash. It literally weighs over a ton.

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