anonymars

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by anonymars 4mo ago
I think it can become diluted to a meaningless term, or co-opted to mean different things to different audiences (not to sidetrack from the point but the first two examples I can think of what I mean are "fake news" or "woke&
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by anonymars 4mo ago
I'm guessing they are referring to a certain synonym for idiot/moron/imbecile/cretin/dolt/etc. which fell off the euphemistic treadmill
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by anonymars 4mo ago
Twitter too, right?
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by anonymars 4mo ago
AKA, the ol' "this time is different"
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by anonymars 4mo ago
Funny enough, I'd say that is exactly the place where tristanj's crusade actually makes sense, because those indexes are supposed to track the total market
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by anonymars 4mo ago
> 6 months is far more than enough time for the market to decide a fair price of an equity 6 months from when? The IPO with its minimal float?
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by anonymars 4mo ago
Then it seems pretty disingenuous to keep arguing it's only 0.125% so it's not a big deal
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by anonymars 4mo ago
> Where did I say [I want to turn S&P 500 to a total market index]? Right here: > Because the index needs accuracy. If a company is 1-2% of the total US market cap and not included in the index, then the index is wrong right now.
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by anonymars 4mo ago
> Ahmadinejad Did you mean Ahmadinejad or Rouhani? The negotiations technically started under Ahmadinejad but Rouhani would be more reasonably considered a reformer, and is probably more relevant in the context of the JCPOA's lifec
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by anonymars 4mo ago
Hibernate puts SELECT last if requesting only specific properties? LINQ: var query = from e in entities where e.property1 == value select e.property2;
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by anonymars 4mo ago
Also helps with autocomplete, which is why LINQ starts with `from`
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by anonymars 4mo ago
Microsoft SSDT (SQL Server Data Tools), but I think it only works against Microsoft SQL Server https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/sql-server-data-t...
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by anonymars 4mo ago
But I'm still not really seeing what the US would have been otherwise likely to do to "win" in Afghanistan? Is the implication that they somehow convinced Trump to prematurely withdraw from Afghanistan because the Taliban we
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by anonymars 4mo ago
Why would the US news media seek to weaken US influence (or stop war)? Seems much simpler to assume that "sensationalism sells"
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by anonymars 4mo ago
I'm confused, are you insinuating that the Taliban essentially ran a PR campaign to portray themselves as sheepherders to garner sympathy from the US population to reduce its appetite for fighting them?
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by anonymars 4mo ago
And why did SpaceX want the rules changed? Because anyone holding those passive indexes (a huge percent of holdings) would be forced to either liquidate them or invest in SpaceX Is there a relevant distinction you are trying to make, beyon
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by anonymars 4mo ago
> Apple? Dell? Workday? How long after their IPOs were they added to the appropriate indexes? Did the rules change specifically for them?
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by anonymars 5mo ago
My absolute favorite fact about the Surface is that if the battery runs out, the Surface Dock power is unable to bootstrap it. You have to plug in a charger Not sure if that's still the case but truly astonishing https://su
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by anonymars 5mo ago
> People were sold on the Internet with "you can do things online conveniently" and reintroducing the need to physically go somewhere negates that angle entirely But how often does one need to do recovery procedures like this?
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by anonymars 5mo ago
I guess you can infer how they weighted the two concerns
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by anonymars 5mo ago
Presumably the logistics of being back at a major hub
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by anonymars 5mo ago
I think to paraphrase Plato's Republic, who else would want it?
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by anonymars 5mo ago
Welp, if enough people think like the other fella, line will go up and money will be made Something about finding out who's swimming naked once the tide goes out
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by anonymars 5mo ago
I won't forget that a bold trio went out to the pad during the Artemis I countdown to tighten some bolts for the launch: https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/artemis-red-crew-team-h...
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by anonymars 5mo ago
"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be" -- Kurt Vonnegut
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by anonymars 5mo ago
> Anyone with deposits in an accredited bank should be made whole - always Sure, but is that the case now? Is everyone made whole when a bank fails and they have more deposits than the insurance limits? Or only when it's the well-
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by anonymars 5mo ago
You can keep the adapter attached to the headphones and it's not an insurmountable hassle You certainly can't realistically keep an SD card dongle permanently sticking out of your phone to store your photos/etc.
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by anonymars 5mo ago
Related: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UZFI-8D5uA - 40sec ("What does it look like I'm doing?!)
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by anonymars 5mo ago
Or perhaps it is more complicated than that "Even under idle conditions at relatively cool temperatures, sporadic elevated voltages are observed when the processor is resumed from low power states in order to service background operati
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by anonymars 5mo ago
You're implying that if you don't run the CPU at high power and high heat it won't have problems, and that undervolting or underclocking will prevent damage. This is not correct: while that is helpful, Vmin degradation occur

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