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by alephnan 5y ago
s/function/computable function
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Many of the Wall Street people are actually on WSB.
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How much of this is attributable to meme stock style momentum versus fundamentals?
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When I searched "Nord stream 2 sanctions Trump" a few days ago, the article about Trump was the second organic result after Biden's most recent reversal of the reversal. This was on the 3rd, 4th mobile viewport, because Googl
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Nord Stream 2: Trump approves sanctions on Russia gas pipeline (2019)(bbc.com)
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People are laughing at this, but it's less dumb than the adjacent project when I was still at a certain BigTech. They were implementing a "3rd party platform" like Geocities where you can describe your webpages in YAML. This
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Then why not cache the response and just put a banner on the project giving people context, instead of individually half answering the technical questions with a rhetorical question?
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> You just don't get to support a murderous communist regime for 100 years and then say "but we had nothing to do with it". I'm sorry, but you had everything to do with it. This is easy to say when you have the privil
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by alephnan 5y ago
As part of my annual routine, I'm exploring the "latest and greatest" JavaScript UI library. Solid.js's performance seemed compelling. 15 minutes into documentation and this is what I encountered. Can you guess which one
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This is the same code in Svelte.js # Counter.svelte <script> let count= 0 setInterval(() => { count += 1 }, 1000) </script> <div>The count is: {count}</div>
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I was just about to share [Postwoman]( https://postwoman.io ) but it shows this: Update: 16th August 2020 Postwoman is now Hoppscotch
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Very insightful thread and epitome of HN bringing out people with deep expertise on a subject. Multiplayer video game networking is a standalone discipline in its own right. It feels like most Computer Science departments are producing cand
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I was collecting FANG salaries in the states. I was in the 1% for my age, and most people would consider this the "American dream". I was miserable. I moved to Japan with a much lower income, but my standard of living is so much m
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You're right. I've been in the weeds analyzing the finances of tech companies where the users of the apps are actual customers, and the term 'user' weren't as nice
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> having credit cards on file is conveniently closer to making more money It will be a drastic change to pivot the company from one where the customer is the product to the customer. Credit card input also introduces friction and bounce
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2018: "Square become Stripe, while Stripe becomes Square" Stripe's bread and butter is payment backends, while Square was the point-of-sales system https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18007454
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> In general, this effect is bolstered by wearing 'office' attire under the coat This part I did not know. This does bring up a good point as to whether Google itself believes in these cliches of STEM. Google's company cu
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> I suppose he has never been to the UK? I was never surprised, I am just giving context about Japanese tea culture. I have a condo in central London, thanks. I've had over a hundred Michelin star restaurants in the UK, I am very we
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> STEM make up the tools we use to understand the world. So you're saying it's the only tool to understand the world? > As a bonus, the STEM way of thinking is very useful for an honest societal debate. What about philosophy
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Google Doodle is an organization that controls the eyeballs of billions but succumbs to all sorts of biases, including being Western centric. Pertaining to OP's question of tech pushing people into STEM, Doodle perpetuates the narrativ
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by alephnan 5y ago
Google Doodle is obsessed with depicting woman in lab coats such as https://www.google.com/doodles/michiyo-tsujimuras-133rd-birt... . I criticized the Tokyo Olympics Doodle as being ridden with cliches of Otaku/Ner
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> people who don’t watch Rogan and simply base their opinions on second-hand information This theme stretches beyond Joe Rogan
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I've noticed they stopped showing ads from actual businesses. Instead, it was sponsored posts from individuals self-promoting for purely vain reasons as opposed to some commercial reason.
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You can do Level 2 options trading in a IRA. So you can sell covered puts / calls, or buy puts /calls. Those do not require margin. You cannot sell uncovered calls / puts, which would require margin. Part of my position was b
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by alephnan 5y ago
This seems like post-hoc confirmation of "I knew it! I told you guys so!" like people who claim a catastrophic recession is around the corner, quarter after next. If you have some special insight that the wider market doesn'
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by alephnan 5y ago
"Obama became the first president ever to write a computer program. It was a very simple program — all it does is draw a square on a screen—but that's the point" https://www.wired.com/2014/12/obama-b
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Apple to turn iPhones into payment terminals, rival Square(reuters.com)
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> I'd also guess that they are the same people downvoting your comment. I've noticed this trend on HackerNews in recent years of downvoting without providing a substantive criticism. I'm curious if HN has plans to curve th
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by alephnan 5y ago
Then why use Spotify at all?
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by alephnan 5y ago
This is enlightening. I do see they have a marketing / landing page which makes me feel there is a product charter beyond half-a-SWE: https://edu.google.com/products/classroom/

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