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by adventured 7y ago
> For some reason it reminded me of Trump's first book, The Art of the Deal. They're both primarily selling the same thing, the glorification of the author's image.
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by adventured 7y ago
That really depends on the specific nature of your bounce around trait, what you need to fulfill that part of your personality. Only you can properly answer that of course. However, a few speculative ideas: - Consulting can be interesting t
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by adventured 7y ago
After the peak of unemployment during the great recession, it took three years to get the U3 unemployment rate down from 10% and back below 8%. Three years. 2%. We're somewhere around 23% right now. Call the peak 28%-30%. Assume a shar
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by adventured 7y ago
Looking at Amazon's stock, one of the more surreal financial things going on during this pandemic depression, is seeing the Bezos fortune cross $200 billion today while we have 30 million newly unemployed persons in the past six weeks.
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by adventured 7y ago
> How many people's primary computing devices are ARM-based devices at this point? At home, it's a high percentage and has been for many years. In office environments at work, it's still near zero (emphasis on primary ).
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by adventured 7y ago
You probably can't. He appears to like jumping into challenges such as those that AMD was facing and Intel is facing now. The jumping would seem to imply he's doing it to pursue an interesting challenge as the primary. Some person
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by adventured 7y ago
I'll also take the opportunity to say thank you, for creating Redis. I tried Redis when it first came out, mostly just experimenting with it. I had not used it in production for many years and have recently made aggressive use of Redis
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by adventured 7y ago
I doubt it. He's worth $38.5 billion; $26b of that is in Tesla. He can shave off hundreds of millions of dollars from that any day of the week - if he cared to do so. The compensation package is relatively small compared to his existin
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by adventured 7y ago
The munis and banks all have a direct IV funding line from the Federal Reserve, they mostly have absolutely nothing to worry about. The gloves are entirely off for this one, the Fed can snap up trillions of dollars in toxic mortgages if nee
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by adventured 7y ago
> But is anyone seriously advocating keeping a $600/week around after the quarantine? Yes. Or something close to it: https://www.businessinsider.com/americans-would-receive-2000... "The Emergency Money for the
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by adventured 7y ago
> Of course there was even the episode of his name featuring in the 100 'Women' novelists of 20th century list of Time magazine. For those curious, it was in a small 2016 article about college textbooks [1] ("These Are the
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by adventured 7y ago
> Mass murder can be not terroristic (a lot of people murdered, but population not terrified) I think that would be such a rare scenario as to be worthless as a premise. Can you name a bunch of prominent examples where a lot of people we
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by adventured 7y ago
The part where the Starfleet cruises around space in giant militarized weapon platforms with phase cannons and torpedos, engaging in de facto military conflicts?
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by adventured 7y ago
> despite being substantially smaller in population than countries with economies of comparable size Which countries would that be? There are very few with economies of comparable size. The next above Japan is nearly three times larger (
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by adventured 7y ago
> Can it be dangerous to post your MVP on "Show HN"? The short and obvious answer is: sure, it can be. You might get cloned by someone with an advantage you don't have at the moment , before your product can get the tract
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by adventured 7y ago
> I've often wondered where the point is where vacuum-tube delivery to individual apartment buildings becomes cheaper? If you're including everything into the factoring: never. > For places like Manhattan, it's just har
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by adventured 7y ago
> Every single country that has had any success containing the virus ... has had rigorous continuous testing to contain the spread That's demonstrably false. There are numerous prominent examples in fact. Taiwan is not doing a high
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Covid-19 Human Challenge Trials(1daysooner.org)
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by adventured 7y ago
The big problem with Sweden's approach, is that the duration of immunity is entirely unknown when it comes to SARS-CoV-2. We don't yet know what antibody level is required to generate that hypothetical immunity, including whether
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by adventured 7y ago
> Japan's testing has been extremely anemic Anemic is definitely a nice way to put it. Japan is testing at a per capita rate below that of Iraq, Ukraine, Vietnam, Mongolia, Moldova and South Africa. Their testing rate is so extraord
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by adventured 7y ago
That doesn't inherently follow at all. It very much depends on the company in question. IBM has a very profitable business and has for the past decade. They're paying around mid 2.x% interest on their debt ($1.3b interest expense
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by adventured 7y ago
During the same briefing, Trump immediately attempted to clarify that he wasn't suggesting injecting cleaning disinfectants into the human body. That didn't prevent the rabid anti-Trump media from making it a headline on every sit
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Extraordinary diseases require extraordinary solutions(sciencedirect.com)
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Mortality rates drop sharply in parts of India, bucking coronavirus trend(reuters.com)
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Blood-clotting complication is killing coronavirus patients(washingtonpost.com)
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by adventured 7y ago
> If that is the death rate for people who need ventilators then a lot of the arguments for "flattening the curve" are less compelling. edit - to the downvoters who refuse to read anything before downvoting, here you go: Boston
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by adventured 7y ago
> In tests/capita US is 42nd That requires that you compare the US to Iceland, Faeroe Islands, Falkland Islands, UAE, Malta, Gibraltar, Luxembourg, Bahrain, Estonia, San Marino, Cyprus, Isle of Man, Lithuania, Brunei, Qatar, Liechte
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by adventured 7y ago
The ownership is nothing more than symbolic. They have absolutely no control over the Federal Reserve. They can set no policy, they dictate nothing through the 'ownership.' They receive profits in exchange for participating in the
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by adventured 7y ago
> How about we try the trickle up economy for once? We are. The vast majority of the stimulus so far has gone to benefit the bottom 3/4 of the US economically. Here is some of what's in the $2 trillion recent stimulus: - $268b
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by adventured 7y ago
It doesn't really need much of a counterpoint, given how silly it is. Regarding the USD, the same doom cults say the same things during every major global problem / event / disaster going back generations. The dollar was supp

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