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I have a friend who is an apartment manager. I believe they typically accept the first qualified candidate that applies. So those items are still required, but they just create a binary condition. First to apply is an obvious tiebreaker tha
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Even writing a $1B loan doesn't create $1B in value. You start with Alice having nothing and Bob having $1B in cash, then you end with Alice having $1B in cash, $1B in debt, and Bob having a $1B loan asset, which nets to $1B in total v
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Notional values can not be usefully compared between asset classes. That's why it's so dumb that people keep reporting them in the media. Comparing $1T of CDS to $493T of derivatives is like comparing Fahrenheit numbers to Celsius
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The second reminds me of the much maligned London Olympics logo.
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Amazon gives away a silly amount of free AWS credits to some accelerator programs. At 500 Startups I think they give you $50,000 or $100,000 in credits that expire after a couple years. I assume they do the same for YC. Obviously most compa
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Thank you for the kind comment. It's interesting that you say that the build quality is very high on some of these homes. I was debating the issue with someone before writing this comment and that was a question I had. I was thinking a
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This conversation has gone in a very interesting direction. It's true that on one level the perspective of this blog author corresponds to a sort of class-based tutting of the nouveau riche, but on another level I can't shake the
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Most of the images of Fallingwater on the Internet have so many trees that it's a little bit hard to see the whole structure as an architect would. I found a site though which has photos of an architectural model of it[1] as well as a
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There are a couple people who make 3D printed full color maps on Shapeways. They are actually pretty cool: http://www.shapeways.com/shops/tinymtn http://www.shapeways.com/shops/smartmaps
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I read that as: if you find a bug and report it, you may get invited into the formal bug bounty program (but may not get a payout on the first one). No idea if that's right though.
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Because of the way insurance prices are structured post-ACA, if you are old you are getting a big underwriting subsidy. If you are a typical billionaire, it is cheaper to purchase insurance than it is to self-insure, because part of your co
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They can't do that because other companies will undercut them to gain market share. They could collude to set prices, but that's illegal in the US. Also, some auto insurance companies aren't organized as corporations, such as
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The largest container of most soda brands available in American supermarkets is a 2L bottle.
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Did his algorithm include the helper concept that makes this wait-free, or are you just talking about the fetch-and-add queue part?
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I had never heard of Kotlin before, despite reading Hacker News daily and otherwise being generally plugged-in to programming discussion on the Internet. So for many people this will be their first introduction to the language.
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I regularly have issues with Slack's desktop app using a tremendous amount of CPU and memory given the functionality it's offering.
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The barbell piercing that it anchors to is permanent, but I think the device itself has to be removed to charge.
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When Clayton Christensen came up with the concept of "disruptive innovation" it originally referred to a specific phenomenon. Normal innovation is when the large firms servicing a market make incremental improvements to their prod
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I agree, and it was really a letdown. I was curious what would be the best argument against Chesterson's fence in the abstract (obviously arguing against it in specific cases is done all the time).
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This is directly related to a comment I posted on another article two days ago[0]. This may seem more surprising than it actually is, because by "overweight" and "obese" they are referring to BMI categories, according to
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The finding that people with an "Overweight" BMI have a lower rate of all-cause mortality is consistent and has been called the "obesity paradox." A very interesting study came out this month that addressed it.[0] Basica
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AppleScript has an it keyword[0] that refers to the current application receiving commands. It's also made to resemble natural language in many other ways. From experience, this did not improve it's usability. It is often referred
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Returns to the S&P should beat GDP growth even in the long run, steady-state. GDP growth flows to both debt and equity. The debt market is actually much larger than the equity market and since its returns are lower than equities, and th
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If worse is better then there can't be a better BBB.
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That situation only exists because the other party had auto insurance. If they didn't have auto insurance and you didn't have auto insurance that covered it, your health insurance policy would have covered it.
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No, I have not. My experience is mostly with Yesod and Django. If progressive enhancement is truly a zero-overhead solved problem in these other frameworks that certainly sounds very interesting though.
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Any additional technical requirements lead to more work (or less quality), and progressive enhancement is obviously a technical requirement. I think this is obvious if you think of even the most basic web interaction: form submission. With
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It wasn't a secret, it was fully announced it just didn't have a media blitz associated with it. For example, it was reported on in the Washington Post[1]. 1: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix&#x
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You may be interested in BeeLine Reader [1]. It puts a color gradient on alternating lines to text to hopefully let you read faster. I think it works a little bit. When I really want to read an entire article but don't want to invest t
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I'm on exactly the opposite end of the spectrum (and no one else seems to be supporting the full opposite position, so I may as well). I use use emacs with rainbow-identifiers-mode[1] enabled, which gives every variable a different col

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