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by JW_00000 6y ago
I'm sure in the 5 minutes I had that page open Bezos worked as hard as I do in a full year, or as the average Chinese person does in their lifetime :D
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by JW_00000 6y ago
Thanks a lot for the details!
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by JW_00000 6y ago
I'm interested in this workflow, some questions: - When you say "local editor, remote runtime", are you referring specifically to VS Code's remote development features? - Is the remote runtime a Linux VM on the same mach
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by JW_00000 6y ago
Also, are we even "after the fact" at this moment? In other words, let's see in three months' time (or one year) whether there really was a positive feedback loop that saved GME or whether there was a rapid boom-and-bust
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by JW_00000 6y ago
> The big hedge funds Which ones? Citadel/Melvin/Citron (is this all the same one?) and which others?
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by JW_00000 6y ago
This story is constantly being framed as "the angry mob" vs "Wall Street hedge funds". But surely other professional investors ((hedge) funds, high frequency traders, algorithmic traders) are also jumping on the bandwago
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by JW_00000 6y ago
Robinhood experienced several outages in March 2020 because of large volumes of trading. [1] https://www.cnbc.com/2020/03/09/robinhood-app-down-again-dur...
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by JW_00000 6y ago
His agenda could also just be to advance his career, and make as much money with as little work as possible.
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by JW_00000 6y ago
What I don't understand, is how you can so meticulously keep notes about everything you learn? This is also my problem when I see the recent "hype" around Roam Research, Obsidian, Foam etc. I constantly come across and read s
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by JW_00000 6y ago
> I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Flemish people have a distinct English accent too Yes! One thing I sometimes notice is that, in Flemish we pronounce "wat is" as "wadis", and sometimes Flemish people in En
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by JW_00000 6y ago
As a Flemish person, I wouldn't say Flemish and Walloon have the same accent in English, but I guess I'm not the one to judge. What is funny though, is that _in English_, you can sometimes detect different Flemish accents, i.e. wh
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by JW_00000 6y ago
> Maybe the kernel has some subtle good reason to do it I think OSes spread load across cores to prevent unequal heating across the chip.
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by JW_00000 6y ago
For 1): This isn't CPU magic but the scheduler in the OS. Even when running your program with only one thread, your OS will still schedule the 100s of threads that are running on your machine (from all applications you have open) onto
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by JW_00000 6y ago
This is more akin to Walmart not selling certain magazines or books because they don't like their (political) content. You could also compare it to when the Catholic Church had a black list of "heretical" books and pressured
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by JW_00000 6y ago
This seems to be a typical feature of "long-form journalism" [1]. This might be a typically American format? (As a Belgian, I also see this type of articles less often in our media.) I've grown to dislike it because it feels
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by JW_00000 6y ago
Demographic data like: age (in buckets of 10 years), gender, household income for some countries, whether you're a parent [1] + Interests/"Affinities" [2]. I think these are derived from your Google search history and th
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by JW_00000 6y ago
This is talking about apps that use the Facebook SDK, which allows Facebook to track you across apps (and websites). This includes apps such as Dropbox, Spotify, Yelp, Duolingo, and many others [1]. [1] https://privacyinternation
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by JW_00000 6y ago
> I blame technology for our current predicament. If we didn't have computers and a global internet, there's no way we would be shutting down everything. My take on this is that, without the internet, we would (1) either still
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by JW_00000 6y ago
Which platform has removed questioning of lockdown measures? I see these debates happening daily here, on Twitter, on Facebook, on reddit, and in the mainstream media.
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by JW_00000 6y ago
This is not true: person B owns the copyright to his/her contributions. As soon as person B added code, the copyright of the project no longer belonged solely to person A. And that's not a matter of opinion but legal fact. It woul
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by JW_00000 6y ago
It seems likely that percentage will increase as more people are vaccinated and do not have adverse side effects, so people gain trust in the vaccine. The same is true for other vaccines. See for example [the figure on this page]( https:&#x
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by JW_00000 6y ago
In Dutch, like in German, we write compound words without a space, so you can also invent completely "new" words. If I enter such words in Google Translate most of them are correctly translated to English and French. Granted, spli
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by JW_00000 6y ago
Memory usage has greatly improved in my experience compared to a decade ago. (At least, in comparison to the available RAM.) Actually I felt that nowadays Gnome Shell with some extensions is more resource hungry. I switched from KDE 3.5 &#x
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by JW_00000 6y ago
Can I ask how you managed to set a different scale factor for each screen? In the system settings I can only find a global scale factor... Or is this only supported using Wayland?
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by JW_00000 6y ago
For me mentally, it makes more sense that all windows of the same application are grouped. In your example, when I want to focus the PDF file, I first look for the icon of my PDF viewer and I don't want there to be three icons; I want
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by JW_00000 6y ago
Or diseases: corona
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by JW_00000 6y ago
Is there a case study comparing American and European cities? Reading the article as a European, I do not find anything that is different from Europe. Also, is going into debt to finance infrastructure really a problem if total debt stays a
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by JW_00000 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/.well-known/change-password will just redirect to https://news.ycombinator.com/changepw . If the user isn't logged in, that page asks the user to log in.
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by JW_00000 8y ago
But the "downloadable source code" is written by Apple, so that workflow _is_ software by Apple that takes an image from his website and displays it without attribution.
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by JW_00000 9y ago
Do you have more recommendations except that one?

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