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by beezle 6y ago
Windows update does give warning and allows you to re-schedule updates to a different day and time. You can also push back on when you start getting certain kinds of updates. It may not be a perfect situation but I don't find it to be
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by beezle 6y ago
Is there still a use case for a new dish built into the same natural bowl? Why not build somewhere else? If there had never been an Arecibo at that location would someone actually pick it today to site a new scope? Not trying to diss all
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by beezle 6y ago
You are missing the point. The S&P 500 and most large mutual funds are not anywhere near as diversified as typical investors believe them to be and have become less so over the past few years. Investors buy them for the perception of gr
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Puerto Rico radio telescope, already damaged, collapses(apnews.com)
3 points by beezle 6y ago|0 comments
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by beezle 6y ago
In fact, that is quite interesting - Software, Industrial, Networking, Semi, Retail.
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by beezle 6y ago
Wow, no disrespect but that made me laugh. Worldcom? Enron? AIG? Lehman? I could go on but you get the gist. The only thing an index fund (I'll assume SPY for sake of argument) gets you is diversity in number of holdings, but that be
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by beezle 6y ago
The 60/40 rule cuts both ways. You are also subject to daily market to market cash/margin drawdowns. It is probably easier to just buy RSP and then buy virtually any 'market' or tech etf/mutual fund to round up the
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by beezle 6y ago
That is not true at all. RSP has for many years outperformed SPX over many different time horizons. It really is not until 2019 that there is a significant underperformance which also coincides with the outsized top 10 market caps. ref:
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by beezle 6y ago
Not sure why everyone counts Intel out. They still have an enormous war chest to use hire the best and brightest to get back on track. Everyone also seems to forget that every time AMD has caught up to Intel in the past either AMD has itsel
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by beezle 6y ago
Ah that is not quite accurate. Sure many linux distros will install a desktop environment for you. FreeBSD will require you to install a package for the one of your choice which should also install all dependencies. As noted elsewhere, X p
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by beezle 6y ago
Isn't that argument put to bed by the fact that all of the BSDs still exist, are actively maintained including new features and are used by many individuals/corps in a diverse range of cases?
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by beezle 6y ago
On an individual level perhaps so but probably not when you consider the number of cars vs the number of heavy transports.
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by beezle 6y ago
And here the wayland people were telling us a few months back that X11 was dead and no longer updated!
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by beezle 6y ago
Perhaps I missed it - does the article say that the test groups were NOT wearing masks and social distancing? Or that they were? If they were wearing masks and social distancing, what % of that 95% came from that vs the vaccine? [adding the
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by beezle 6y ago
So what exactly does the 95% protection represent? 95% protection of people who wear masks and are good about social distancing and avoiding crowds/bad indoor situations? Or 95% of people going about their lives in the manner that w
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by beezle 6y ago
Was she instructed to continue wearing a mask and do social distancing?
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by beezle 6y ago
Here's the thing though. You (and the others you mention) are not likely to have had any diagnostic testing done to see if there have been knock on effects from the virus. That you may not have symptoms of other problems does not in
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by beezle 6y ago
That may be but they must have some indication of how strong a response those who got the vaccine are generating vs the time they entered the trial. Is there fall off? More or less than expected? How confident are they that immunity will l
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by beezle 6y ago
Yes but those are near lifetime immunities. Not said (that I'm aware of) with these two covid vaccines is how long they protect for. If it is less than a year it will be very hard to get and keep people taking it.
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by beezle 6y ago
First (and I'm no expert here) I don't believe that (x)nm is the be all end all of cpu performance. Architecture still matters. Second, perhaps the AMD/Apple fan boys have not noticed but Intel has many times the volume of AM
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by beezle 6y ago
To first order processor speed is a very good indicator of performance when comparing similar core count products.
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by beezle 6y ago
Lets be honest - Apple has not really expanded its share of PC/Laptop market in a long time. Ordinary consumers are not going to care about this, especially with the Apple premium tacked on. I think combined it runs 10% +/- year
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Second cable breaks at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo telescope(sciencemag.org)
4 points by beezle 6y ago|0 comments
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by beezle 6y ago
I have a 20/10 dsl line that requires phone service so end of day cost is about $89 a month. For $11 more, I can get 50/25. I'm not eligible for the 100/X service which would be about $25 more. I don't have to p
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by beezle 6y ago
So who are left in the fpga space? Lattice?
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by beezle 6y ago
You mean like RHIC and JLAB? They had to compete mightily over comparative trump change for an upgrade to an electron-ion collider? (RHIC won but JLAB will contribute) There are plenty of other areas of real research that are still nominall
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by beezle 6y ago
Unfortunately what much of our elected officials (state and national) do is based on "like" and "dislike" rather than actual law. In the case of Google/FB/Twitter, both have many dislikes rooted at best weakly
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by beezle 6y ago
Agree (responded in an earlier comment). If DOJ are going to look anywhere, it should be the advertising side of things and placement in search results (as opposed to sidebar ads). Even then, I'm not sure there is any case.
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by beezle 6y ago
There are still other search engines and were many more prior to "google" becoming a verb. They won over those because their search results were faster/better. Yet there is no barrier to entry in websearch. As seen with DDG,
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by beezle 6y ago
Long long time FF/Navigator user at this point mostly by inertia. The biggest issue I have (forever) is FF is a memory pig that eventually becomes sluggish. Though I do have a lot of tabs in four windows, I've set prefs so it only

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