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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
...or selling a live feed of airline KPI estimates to quantitative hedge funds and market research companies?
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
Especially for purposes of monetizing YouTube videos.
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
Hey man it's that or Thunderdome.
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Ozy Media co-founder impersonated YouTube exec in call to Goldman Sachs(dailymail.co.uk)
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
A while ago, Two Sigma Investments open-sourced its own curses-based internal tool for pretty printing tabular data: https://github.com/twosigma/ngrid
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
Also "proof reading" and "100 proof whisky".
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Flo Control (2000)(web.archive.org)
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
> The best solution would be if the US introduced mandatory passports or other forms of ID cards with smartcard capability, similar to the German Personalausweis. [...] This would entirely kill ID fraud at the source. So, does Germany no
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
This makes me appreciate the tough spot that Apple is in: > both the UK and the EU are moving forward on bills that mandate online service companies proactively look for and report CSAM. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if this were the m
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An Intern’s Guide to Trading(nasdaq.com)
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
I wonder how the recovery of stolen artworks plays out with insurance. If a museum's (or ultimate owner's) insurance company pays out for the theft, and then a decade later the works are recovered, does the museum (or owner) have
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
I guess someone could argue that it only costs $150 because of the ads. Windows 95 cost well over twice that when it was launched (inflation adjusted). Maybe in the same way that airfares are way cheaper than they were in the 90s, but with
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by 6502nerdface 5y ago
TFA blames "big pharma's stranglehold" for high insulin prices, but interestingly the cheapinsulin.org explanation [1] seems to be much more about "big insurance", with pharma companies basically forced to kow-tow i
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Traditional Capitalist Values (2008)(lesswrong.com)
3 points by 6502nerdface 6y ago|4 comments
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Nuclear power shouldn't frighten you(persuasion.community)
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by 6502nerdface 6y ago
What's remarkable is that archive.org apparently embeds some kind of full-on Winamp emulator for demonstrating each skin.
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Winamp Skins Collection(archive.org)
133 points by 6502nerdface 6y ago|59 comments
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by 6502nerdface 6y ago
In the spirit of sharing related work, there was another Show HN post about 7 months ago for ESQLate, which seems similar: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22073037
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by 6502nerdface 6y ago
I think vim became so popular because its only real competitor is Generally Not Used Except by Middle Aged Computer Scientists. ;)
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by 6502nerdface 6y ago
My understanding is that in Dowling v. United States, the Supreme Court specifically ruled that the very section of US code to which you link does not mean that copyright infringement is theft: > Since the statutorily defined property
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by 6502nerdface 6y ago
Well, the "law" is more than what's written in statute; you have to merge that with case law. My understanding is that in Dowling v. United States, the Supreme Court specifically ruled that copyright infringement is not the
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by 6502nerdface 7y ago
Twelve years later, is there still no accepted explanation of how they form?
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by 6502nerdface 7y ago
It appears to be a reply to this 2003 paper in the same journal: > Parachute use to prevent death and major trauma related to gravitational challenge: systematic review of randomised controlled trials [1] [1] https://www.ncbi.
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by 6502nerdface 7y ago
I wouldn't even call it intrinsic value because it's not like you can convert bitcoins back into the energy used to produce them.
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by 6502nerdface 7y ago
> For the future you should say "piqued my interest". Classic example of a common eggcorn. More details at https://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/86/peak/
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by 6502nerdface 7y ago
Y cn ndrstnd wrttn nglsh vn wtht n vwls!
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by 6502nerdface 7y ago
It's never really meaningful to ask "what's the probability of...?" without specifying the probability model with respect to which the question is asked, in this case the assumed sampling distribution of chords.
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Equifax to Pay $575-700M as Part of Settlement with FTC and Others(ftc.gov)
7 points by 6502nerdface 7y ago|1 comments
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> not allowed to count points in games before children are 12 So it's illegal in Norway for my 12-year-old cousin to beat my highscore in Pacman?
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by 6502nerdface 7y ago
And all income earned by a US citizen is subject to federal taxes, regardless of where in the world the income is earned. Hence there would be precedent for a US wealth tax to apply to a citizen’s “global wealth,” which, unlike in the case

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