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by WoahNoun 3y ago
This literally happened in April with non-billionaires off the Mexican coast. https://www.npr.org/2023/04/20/1171063782/missing-american-s...
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
I think the problem a lot of people have (even math majors) is expecting the lecture to be the first introduction to the topic. It's like taking a literature class and going to lecture without doing the reading. Reading (or even just s
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
That's the point. A particle moving in 3D space can instead be considered as a curve on a 2D manifold (a surface) embedded in 3D space. So then you only need two dimensions for position and one for orientation.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
The bill called for the declassification of any information related to the theory. Not a bill affirming where it came from. If there is no classified information confirming the theory, there is no reason for Biden not to sign it.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
> We don't tax people on the FMV of gold when they dig it out of the ground. The IRS considers found gold to be gross income and taxes are owed on it.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
I read the manifesto and somewhat disagree with the claim "It follows that we must not introduce any topic for which we cannot first convince the students that they should want to pursue it." But in skimming the book, it's ju
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
It's just a list of links with no real substance. Don't they have some crypto scams to attend to?
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
That's an 18 year old article and the OP's PDF shows hospital's closing in Montana, the Dakotas, Idaho, Michigan, etc that aren't near the border.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
I'm pretty sure most of the George Floyd protests didn't ask for permission beforehand.
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
You submitted it yourself to HN. Do you think the audience of HN is "other, regular, uninformed people?"
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by WoahNoun 3y ago
This entire blog post can be summarized as "21 year old discovers how cell towers work."
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
My favorite anecdote from that book is Grant wanted to teach mathematics at West Point under Albert Church before he went off to the Mexican-American War.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
The simplest explanation, IMO, is to look at the piece Amazon doesn't own. The bandwidth to send a continuous stream of 4K video from dozens (hundreds?) of cameras from the store to the cloud for processing. That can't be cheap.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Not sure about NYC, but the Seattle locations are next to office buildings that are pretty empty compared to when the stores opened.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
What do you mean by neutral? Because being "neutral" on an argument like "is the Earth flat" is a terrible journalistic standard.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
There would be no payments from the treasury so no direct cost for the government. The "cost" would be an opportunity cost of collecting payments. Which from a government perspective is offset by the spending and savings in the br
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
The book value is at par. The market to market value is probably closer to a 15% discount from par if they tried to liquidate immediately. So this is likely actually a premium.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Public schools are heavily funded by property taxes. So schools in upper middle class and above areas are (usually) pretty great while schools and low income areas are (usually) pretty not great.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Do you have a source for that? A quick google search shows the opposite. https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/military-expenditure#:~:... . https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
It's multiple neighborhoods all next to each other in Seattle. They are absolutely contributing to the rental crisis in Seattle proper.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Not if the group colluding collectively control the vast majority of the market. (>70% in some Seattle neighborhoods are colluding with this software.)
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
It's the lead sentence in the first paragraph. >Apartment vacancies are piling up. The biggest wave of new rental buildings in nearly four decades is expected to cut the pace of rent growth across the country.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Because property management companies are colluding to raise rents even if it results in more vacancies. https://www.propublica.org/article/yieldstar-rent-increase-r...
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
The 2016 mobileye summon feature worked. The current tesla smart summon feature is still in beta.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
It was Mobileye who dropped Tesla because Tesla was making claims Mobileye was uncomfortable with. https://arstechnica.com/cars/2016/09/tesla-dropped-by-mobile...
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
The global paper of record for financial news (IMO) is the financial times. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Times
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
This is true in all parts of law. Law is not code. It's part of why we have judges.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
Because the law isn't computer code and there are always grey lines. From Matt Levine: >But there are also a lot of places in securities law where the rules are a little bit vague and you are operating a little bit on the cutting ed
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
It looks like a mobius strip. Not sure if that is intentional. I don't hate it.
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by WoahNoun 4y ago
And do those vendors use crypto to buy from their suppliers? Otherwise, they have to raise their crypto denominated prices as the exchange rate falls and you're still in the same boat as selling it yourself.

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