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by baldfat 8y ago
Seems like Warren Buffet won his bet just investing in the index (S&P 500 not Dow) over a hedge fund. "Buffett made the bet in December 2007, arguing that a fund holding the same stocks as found in the Standard & Poor's 50
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by baldfat 8y ago
Stock Market Investment is not a skilled ability. Example: Buffett made the bet in December 2007, arguing that a fund holding the same stocks as found in the Standard & Poor's 500 index could beat the combined performance of a grou
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by baldfat 8y ago
I Am So Mad. I have had a new workstation purchase waiting for the cards to calm down and now I read this? We get no new technology and prices where a 1080ti equals the retail price of a Titan and now they have 300k to much inventory? NVIDI
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by baldfat 8y ago
As I work on what an appropriate computer for three to five-year-old children to work in the classroom I have thought of using facial recognition as opposed to login name and password or barcodes. I also would like to see where the students
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by baldfat 8y ago
How so? Android runs on the Linux Kernel.
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So it Begins: Spotify directly licensing with some Indie Acts for a 50/50 share(billboard.com)
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by baldfat 8y ago
It reminds me in the early days of "smart phones" people would say where is the Linux phone OS we keep hearing about. They just didn't understand that Android was Linux based. The Voice Assistance is a vocal chatbot. People w
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by baldfat 8y ago
GDScript really is just a subset of Python and works really well. Remember Moonscript for Unity? Well GDScript is much better. GoDot FAQ: The short answer is, we'd rather a programmer does the small effort to learn GDScript so he or sh
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by baldfat 8y ago
Just anything that is moving your heart a tiny bit. Also old man time will take that all away from you :)
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by baldfat 8y ago
Trick: Boost your adrenaline by doing exercise before drinking down the caffeine. I learned that caffeine makes adrenaline last longer by blocking it receptors in college. https://science.howstuffworks.com/caffeine4.htm My
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by baldfat 8y ago
Which is the main OS that will us CPUs when you count servers. Granted that isn't the consumer CPUs we care about but the work on servers actually trickles down. It isn't some minor group and AMD and Intel are very much concerned
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by baldfat 8y ago
So Windows 10 isn't leaps and bounds better than Windows 7 or Windows 98???? Seriously Windows 10 is the first Windows I have ever actually liked. I got my OpenSUSE terminal open and using ranger and my other terminal programs working
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by baldfat 8y ago
I don't see how their reputations would be even garner half the trust.
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by baldfat 8y ago
That's comparing oranges with a monkey. How do they relate?
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by baldfat 8y ago
I'm closer to 50 and certainly not a teenager. Yes, Steve was the issue and his style was old fashion. There is no going back once you open up the shed. Why do people continue to want to punish a company for their past when their prese
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by baldfat 8y ago
I still think Microsoft had the lion share of the programmers mind with Virtual Studio? I am guessing it really has more to do with emotional response to the name MS then anything MS has done in the past 5 years. I use Bit Bucket because I
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by baldfat 8y ago
You mean from 2011 when Microsoft had totally different management and business model? I don't see the Steve Ballmer Microsoft has much bearing on today's Microsoft. Also it wasn't the Microsoft Account change as much as the
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by baldfat 8y ago
What would be wrong having a Microsoft account to log in exactly? They aren't getting any more information from you then they have currently purchased. I remember when I had a YouTube account, a blogger account and a Google account an
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by baldfat 8y ago
I really can't think of a better large tech company to buy GitHub (Which has been closed sourced since creation and I don't know why people are so scared). Now Oracle would make me put on my tin foil hat on immediately and deleti
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by baldfat 8y ago
Long time Linux user and it is still my preferred OS, but I never understood the hypocrisy of the MS hate in Linux. Normally it is written on an Apple product running OS X and a VM of Linux for a server. Over the years Apple's laptops
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by baldfat 8y ago
Personally I really like the Reddit Apps like baconreader on mobile more. I also like how I am always signed in and getting notifications when someone replies to my comment. All HakerNews apps fail on several ways for me. 1) COMMENTING - I
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by baldfat 8y ago
The Monster (Short Story) would make an unbelievably great movie. It was written in 1948 70 YEARS AGO and is still under copyright. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Monster_(short_story) Now that I thought about it.
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by baldfat 8y ago
Michael Jackson Estate owns everything he has done. They use to own the Beatles catalog in entirety and just sold what was left for $750,000,000. I think Disney Lawyers have their hands full.
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by baldfat 8y ago
I hope Disney wins. The 1998 Copyright Extension is over this year and WELL POSSIBLY we could get things back into public domain again!!! Can we please figure out how we can have renewable copyright law which cost over $1,000 a year per cop
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by baldfat 8y ago
> I don't get the Perl hate I would say hate is a strong word but I have 2 issues with Perl: 1) Regex choices made 2) Readability, if someone wrote something in Perl I normally would rewrite it if it took me less time then figuring
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by baldfat 8y ago
> I can manage koine (I can read it, though I wouldn't be able to, you know, speak it) We don't really know what Koine Greek sounded like but it certainly doesn't sound anything close to modern Greek. Having several years
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by baldfat 8y ago
I love C.S. Lewis he is a good philosopher but a horrible Theologian or Biblical Scholar. There are only two words for love in the new Testament: Agape and Philia and they are used interchangably. Anyone that tries to say they mean differen
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by baldfat 8y ago
Spinoza clearly makes definition statements of love. The love for neighbor was different than an emotionally based love. I have studied Ancient Hebrew, classical Greek, Aramaic, German, and Danish (WOWZ) and there isn't a time when the
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by baldfat 8y ago
I wasn't baiting and switching I was just stating your statement wasn't factually correct though your empirical evidence might state differently. Sorry if I came across with any attitude it wasn't directed at you or anyone on
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by baldfat 8y ago
My computer is in the closet and I have a two cables a USB type c and a mini display port that comes out under my desk through the wall. Absolutely quiet.

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