OldManAndTheCpp

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by OldManAndTheCpp 5y ago
How is it designed and by whom?
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by OldManAndTheCpp 5y ago
I got a rapid test after getting the first vaccine -- I was told that there were more than one type of antibodies, the vaccine only provides one, so they can test for the others to see if you had the virus proper.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 5y ago
This is a known process already https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vavilovian_mimicry Examples of this are Rye and Oats.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 5y ago
Does that have any effect on reducing suicide rates?
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by OldManAndTheCpp 6y ago
College admissions are similarly a blend of different criteria: race, high school grades, did one of your parents go to that school (legacy), did your family donate to the school, are you a good athlete, are you a good musician, and of cour
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by OldManAndTheCpp 6y ago
The class grades are made up of some mix of: * Graded homework * Papers/Project/Labs * Midterm/Final Exam The teacher chooses the exact mix per class, so it's possible you fail even if you ace the exams, or pass even if
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by OldManAndTheCpp 6y ago
The purpose of standardized testing is the standardized part. It's a convenient way to compare students from different schools. The per school graduation exams have the benefit of allowing customization on a per school (per class, even
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by OldManAndTheCpp 6y ago
Making laws that target personal liberties in the hopes that they will be selectively applied does not increase justice.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 6y ago
Thank you for this, it’s a wonderful thing and I likely never would have found it without your link. My sister and I are planning a road trip, the only thing it needs is a theme. Surely we can find one in the guides.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 6y ago
Do unified backends mean that the government can't enforce antitrust action? That would be quite the loophole.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 6y ago
Insurance is a tax on everyone, and probably a tax on you specifically. Even assuming that insurance companies act as naive rationalists believe they do, losses are socialized. In actual fact, insurance companies are able to price discrimin
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
Short answer: reg fd requires companies to disclose information material to investors to all investors. The previous post is suggesting that the close work with the bank analysts is conveying material information without proper disclosure.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
"Investemnt people" are reading research reports from banks (and their own analysts), not relying on mass market papers for the news. You can see it on Bloomberg.com sometimes, there will be a link to a story with more economic de
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
Now you've shipped your thing that lasts forever. If it's a mechanical object, maybe you can get continuing revenue from spare parts, but those will bring in less than the original purchase. Worst case, someone brings up a factory
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
A cool thing I learned from watching AvE's channel is that bearing surfaces are meant to last forever if properly lubricated. The oil in them is meant to take all the load, and the metal surfaces should never touch. If you don't r
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
Are China's out-sized promises or environmental destruction more egregious than the same problems in the US or UK? The air pollution currently in China is pretty bad, but air pollution goes away pretty quickly after you turn off the co
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
In the US, you can have your kid run and play outside if you live in a suburb, in fact a better life for their children is what pushes many families to move to the suburbs in the first place.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
Why are record companies still attractive to musicians today? In the past, selling music meant having access to capital equipment (the vinyl presses), access to marketing budgets, and access to the record shop inventories. Now, music can &q
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
Ulrich Drepper. I know him personally, and respect his contributions to glibc. His writing style on bug tickets was blunt, but in most of the examples I’ve seen I believe he had the correct argument in the end (the exception is his calling
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
It was the second post by the time I got there, but the rankings are fluid so here's a permalink: https://photo.stackexchange.com/a/112702
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
I think it's just interesting to a lot of the HN audience. A modal HN reader stumbled across the post, they found it interesting, they thought it would be good to post on HN, and it was. I think it's interesting to the modal HN vi
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
That is not what is traditionally referred to as arbitrage. You are betting on an unknown variable (correct discount), not noticing pricing for the same asset being different in the same moment. Arbitrage is “sugar being sold at $2 at shop
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
I wonder if this is unconstitutional: some private schools are religious.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
I think the parent is saying you /can/ use threads, but they will all contend on the GIL.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
Dissatisfied with the performance of a home raspi? Buy a mainframe!
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
They took the pins out! https://youtu.be/cexN2-T6dxY
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
This is being told from a programmers point of view. Dave was cool from a programmers view. Writing code which enriches the ip owner is cool from the owners point of view.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
Arguably defending the right to refuse to testify.
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
Wait, naked short selling is unrelated to insider trading. Insider trading is illegally profiting on information that was given to you in trust, while naked short selling is short selling without a documented ability to deliver the stock. A
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by OldManAndTheCpp 7y ago
To be very clear to all readers: front running is illegal. No one in the automated trading industry refers to the non-illegal trading that they do with a reference to illegal trading.

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