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U.S. moves to cut Huawei off from global chip suppliers(reuters.com)
9 points by aazaa 6y ago|1 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
This has ruined many movies for me. But here's a thread that talks about movies/TV shows in which the gun was never fired: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/64x53j/whats_the... Funny
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by aazaa 6y ago
Is the Gretta Thunberg voice intentional?
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Court Allows Emoluments Case Against President over D.C. Hotel to Proceed(npr.org)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
> ... Deno is (and always will be) a single executable file. Like a web browser, it knows how to fetch external code. In Deno, a single file can define arbitrarily complex behavior without any other tooling. > ... > Also like brows
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Los Angeles County’s stay-at-home orders will “with all certainty” be extended for the next three months, county Public Health Director Barbara Ferrer acknowledged during a Board of Supervisors meeting on Tuesday. Oddly, the article ne
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by aazaa 6y ago
From the abstract: > ... Consistent with our hypotheses, we find that bullshit ability is predictive of participants’ intelligence and individuals capable of producing more satisfying bullshit are judged by second-hand observers to be hi
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by aazaa 6y ago
The authors don't list an affiliation with Abbott. Usually such a paper will have a statement about conflict of interest or competing interest. This paper has none that I can find.
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The chief executive announced the plans on Twitter Monday: “I will be on the line with everyone else,” he wrote. “If anyone is arrested, I ask that it only be me.” Translation: my employees now must weigh the consequences of losing the
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by aazaa 6y ago
The page lists "Coinbase Transaction" in the quantity 7.15968084 BTC. The coinbase transaction is the first one listed in the block. It has no explicit payer, and can be valued up to/including the sum of: - the block's a
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Measures by the Fed and U.S. government have underpinned the recent rally across markets. The Fed made it clear it was willing to step in to buoy the economy. Why bet against the market when the central bank is willing to do that? The
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Silver Thursday(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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Heath Robinson (Codebreaking Machine)(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
For comparison, the BLS reports an all-time high for unemployment (one-year period) in the US was about 25%. It was 1933, deep into the Great Depression. https://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LFU21000100&series_id=LFU220.
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Moderna eyes 'early summer' start for phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trial(fiercebiotech.com)
22 points by aazaa 6y ago|4 comments
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Triffin Dilemma(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
Favor interrogative-led questions over leading questions. A leading question attempts to get the listener to agree or disagree with a premise you feed to them. An interrogative-led question often begins with the words: who; where; what; whe
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by aazaa 6y ago
> Has anyone been through this who managed to recover their optimism and creative spirit? Please help me. What can I do? Have you tried helping someone? If not, find someone who needs help, then help them. This seems to be a good way to
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by aazaa 6y ago
The article never clearly states it, but the goal of proof-of-work, and by extension this protocol, is to throttle access to write privileges on a ledger. Bitcoin does this by forcing miners grind on a nonce to try to get a block hash below
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Quantitative Easing, MMT, and Inflation/Deflation: A Primer(lynalden.com)
2 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
> The collapse in crude prices and the government’s drawdown of foreign reserves is putting more pressure on the Saudi riyal. Still, prices for 12-month dollar-riyal forward contracts are well short of their all-time high reached in 2016
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by aazaa 6y ago
This follows a similar move by JP Morgan Chase: > Due to the economic uncertainty created by COVID-19, we’re temporarily not accepting applications for new home equity lines of credit (HELOC). This will protect both you and the bank. ht
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by aazaa 6y ago
The author seems to be starting with the premise that complexity is necessary . I'm not sure I'd agree. Some complexity exists because the effort to simplify was too great. Either cost or skill prevented the refactor. As the sayi
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by aazaa 6y ago
Hypothesis: the face-ripping rally in stocks and total disconnect from the real economy is the result of trading bots that have mistaken the flood of central bank liquidity as a demand spike. The algos haven't yet been updated to refle
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by aazaa 6y ago
> And what I have found is that most – say, 90%, of what I learn at one job is completely useless for the next one. Then the problem isn't with what's being learned. The problem is that the author lacks a framework for generali
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by aazaa 6y ago
Probably too long. Very difficult to crop titles to fit HN limit.
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Yes, Treasuries Do Have Risk(seekingalpha.com)
1 points by aazaa 6y ago|0 comments
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by aazaa 6y ago
The underlying current in this article and others recently posted on the topic is that a return to in-person schools will happen next year. Districts and states need to be asking themselves: "What if that isn't possible?" The
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by aazaa 6y ago
> I don't understand why so many people on this site seem to think it should be a few programmers and some suits to sign the checks. I don't, either, but then again I never said that. I'm merely wondering how the jobs brea
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by aazaa 6y ago
The panopticon-as-a-service product Banjo is hawking right now is way more disturbing than the past rantings of the company's founder.

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