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Preliminary Report on the LaGuardia Crash(nytimes.com)
3 points by akashshah87 6mo ago|1 comments
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by akashshah87 10mo ago
>> I might be unusual in the sense that in my teens I absolutely adored Asimov as a writer of non-fiction rather than as a sci-fi author. That's because he was only the second-best sci-fi writer but the best science writer in the
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by akashshah87 1y ago
Summary from ChatGPT: - DHS proposes replacing the random H-1B lottery with a weighted system based on wage levels (higher wage = higher chance). - Weighting scheme: Wage Level I = 1 entry, II = 2, III = 3, IV = 4. - Goal: favor higher-skil
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Weighted Selection Process for Those Seeking to File H-1B Petitions [pdf](public-inspection.federalregister.gov)
2 points by akashshah87 1y ago|1 comments
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by akashshah87 1y ago
“The U.S. began defunding UNESCO under Obama after it admitted Palestine as a full member—and then withdrew entirely during Trump’s first term.” — [ New York Times ]( https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/world&#x
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Apple Unveils Liquid Glass Software Interface at WWDC Event(bloomberg.com)
2 points by akashshah87 1y ago|5 comments
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by akashshah87 1y ago
The population of Manhattan peaked in the 1910s. Source - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_New_Yor...
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Zoom Is Down(bloomberg.com)
5 points by akashshah87 1y ago|0 comments
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Dana White, John Elkann and Charlie Songhurst to Join Meta Board of Directors(about.fb.com)
27 points by akashshah87 2y ago|11 comments
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by akashshah87 3y ago
Yes, donating stock means you avoid capital gains. But even more relevant in this case is that she likely inherited the Berkshire stock from her husband which also resets the cost basis which means she wouldn't have had to pay capital
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by akashshah87 3y ago
>> as all cardholders get their bills on the same date, giving customer service reps a huge peak in workload. A real world manifestation of the thundering herd problem
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by akashshah87 3y ago
Unfortunately, looks like https://www.tarsnap.com/infrastructure.html will have to be updated. >> So far such an outage has never occurred; but over time Tarsnap will become more tolerant of failures in order to minim
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by akashshah87 4y ago
This is not true. If the bonds are held to maturity, there are no losses.
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Your Bank Has Failed (2009)(youtube.com)
20 points by akashshah87 4y ago|1 comments
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Stanford president’s research under investigation for scientific misconduct(stanforddaily.com)
8 points by akashshah87 4y ago|0 comments
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LastPass – Notice of Recent Security Incident(blog.lastpass.com)
2 points by akashshah87 4y ago|0 comments
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by akashshah87 4y ago
This is not true. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/04/29/tech-c...
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by akashshah87 4y ago
Also used to filter wine - see https://www.winespectator.com/articles/are-egg-whites-really...
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Design for Arabic (WWDC 2022)(developer.apple.com)
2 points by akashshah87 4y ago|0 comments
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by akashshah87 5y ago
The current stock price of the company is theoretically the present value of future cashflows. For example, if you had project this revenue growth a year ago, you should have bought Facebook stock and not Amazon and you would have bet corre
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by akashshah87 5y ago
If you had put money in VTSAX on 1/26/2017 and reinvested dividends, you would be up 101.91% with an annualized return of 15%
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by akashshah87 6y ago
Interesting to go back and read the HN discussion from Jan 30, 2018 when the venture got announced - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16264662
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Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan Health Venture to Shut Next Month(bloomberg.com)
7 points by akashshah87 6y ago|1 comments
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iOS Exposing All the Ways Facebook Tracks You with Its iOS App(youtube.com)
2 points by akashshah87 6y ago|0 comments
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Google, Facebook Had Illegal Deal to Rig Ad Market(bloomberg.com)
207 points by akashshah87 6y ago|19 comments
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Google CEO pledges to investigate exit of top AI ethicist(axios.com)
78 points by akashshah87 6y ago|92 comments
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Facebook Bans All Groups, Pages Linked to QAnon Conspiracy(bloomberg.com)
11 points by akashshah87 6y ago|3 comments
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by akashshah87 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21259697 made it to the front page of hackernews. Title of the post was "You may never see Studio Ghibli’s movies on streaming services". Today we have this news.
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Studio Ghibli movies will stream exclusively on HBO Max(theverge.com)
3 points by akashshah87 7y ago|1 comments
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Wealthfront Fined in SEC's First Actions Against Robo-Advisers(bloomberg.com)
2 points by akashshah87 8y ago|0 comments

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