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70% of Americans with credit card debt admit they can't pay it off this yea(cnbc.com)
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No, straight from Yahoo finance. Also doesn't include dividends.
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That last line caused me to do a double-take: > Intel shares were trading up 0.9 percent Friday at $53.61. The stock is near its highest point since the dot-com era. Sure enough, it hasn't recovered its pre-crash price (~ $75). That
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by apo 8y ago
The subtitle is misleading: > Once hailed as unhackable, blockchains are now getting hacked This might be fine if the article didn't talk at such length about majority hash rate attacks. It implies that this kind of attack is someth
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I didn't see anything other than anecdotes to back up the claim in the title. Did I miss something? Also, anyone thinking about a PhD owes it to themselves to understand firsthand what that means before getting started. There is an exc
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Looks like the flaws are: 1. "overstatement of activity" 2. 7 transactions/second 3. constrained currency supply (21 M) 4. fraud in exchanges Odd that only one of these points (2, scaling) relates to Bitcoin the protocol itse
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... Eventually these houses will hold four families each, or they’ll go back to woods and fields, slightly formaldehyde-tainted from the lumber. ... It's interesting to think of the future scenarios that would cause each outcome to p
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by apo 8y ago
Patent expirations don't factor into this article very much, but there's this: The simple explanation for excessive drug prices is monopoly pricing. Through patent protection and FDA marketing exclusivity, the U.S. government gra
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Bob Neill’s second book of typewriter art(archive.org)
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Linking pseudonyms from two different networks (in this case, Twitter and the phone system) together is a classic and serious privacy leak. It's far from clear exactly what information Twitter, in its longtime effort to combat spam, ha
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> While the 3-month to 10-year spread “has a relatively decent track record of predicting recessions, it suffers from a timing problem,” said TD Securities U.S. rates strategist Gennadiy Goldberg. “Its inversion can suggest a recession o
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> Print statements are very helpful for uncovering that. Yes, I used to do that all the time. It was excruciating, only I didn't realize it. Then I started actually learning how to use a debugger. Efficiency in uncovering bugs went
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Fascinating slide deck. They work out a scoring system to identify exchanges with fake volume. This has a number of consequences. For example, the exchange-traded volume starts to look more realistic given Bitcoin's aggregate value. Si
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> I do not condone single-stepping through code to find the bug. Hard to take this post seriously because he offers no clue as to how he actually finds the bug (being "careful" is ludicrously vague). That would be an interestin
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The Visitor Pattern Explained(manski.net)
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From the introduction of that paper: One of the main contributions of Modern Money Theory (MMT) has been to explain why monetarily sovereign governments1 have a very flexible policy space that is unencumbered by hard financial constraints.
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A good place to start is with a simple description that you can carry in your pocket: MMT proposes that a country with its own currency, such as the U.S., doesn’t have to worry about accumulating too much debt because it can always print m
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> That said, Google could face a backlash from the other side of the ideological divide if it reverses course. Google faces a backlash regardless. However, the "deplatforming" trend of the last couple of years is deeply worryin
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have you considered going phoneless? The perspective it will give you on modern life will likely make you want to stay phoneless. Remember when everyone smoked? I mean everyone. The experience of being phoneless today reminds me of what it
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Etymology of California(en.wikipedia.org)
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I propose a new kind of Turing Test. Gather equal numbers of the least intelligible questions from SO (possibly using a metric based on low views/upvotes/comments/answers over long time) and a random selection from stackrobof
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Hollywood stars among those arrested in college admissions scam(bostonherald.com)
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Have you seen Hang the DJ ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hang_the_DJ_(Black_Mirror)
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Article doesn't mention it, but I suspect one benefit is weight control. If you eat something different every day, it's hard to be mindful of consuming too many calories. Especially given the high levels of fructose corn syrup in
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Some companies just have business models that only work if the quality of life for the world as a whole declines. They focus on extracting value for a few at the expense of the many (many of which don't realize what's happening).
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One of the most interesting characters from the documentary "Triumph of the Nerds" was Kildall. His company created CP/M, and depending on who's telling the story either lost the deal with IBM to create the operating sys
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Ford Nucleon(en.wikipedia.org)
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Rust and WebAssembly(rustwasm.github.io)
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Neon: Fast and Safe Native Node.js Modules(neon-bindings.com)
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One of the most interesting controversies I've seen about periodic table schemes is the placement of helium. It usually sits above neon as a noble gas. However, not everyone agrees with that: "Two things are surprising about Mend

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