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by bwood 6y ago
Amazing how we can go from "one billion calculations per second" being an incredible marketing claim [1], to components hitting 20 teraflops...in just 20 years. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lb7EhYy-2RE
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by bwood 6y ago
Interesting article, but unfortunately none of it is verifiable. It cites creationism.org (!!!) as a source and concludes that the fossil shoeprint is regrettably lost.
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Investing with leveraged ETFs (Hedgefundie's excellent adventure)(bogleheads.org)
1 points by bwood 6y ago|0 comments
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by bwood 6y ago
Alpaca is great! As far as brokerage APIs go, theirs is top notch and a breeze to code for. The founders are also really responsive and helpful. I know this because I wrote an app that connects to Alpaca accounts (as well as other brokerage
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by bwood 6y ago
I've been looking to connect with Zerodha's API, but it doesn't seem to be available to non-Indian people. Any suggestions on how to get started?
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Show HN: Build your own personalized robo-advisor on Interactive Brokers(getpassiv.com)
3 points by bwood 7y ago|0 comments
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by bwood 7y ago
I can't speak for the other provinces, but New Brunswick has a track record of throwing money at ridiculous energy projects that don't have a chance of working. For a recent example, this: https://www.cbc.ca/news&#
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by bwood 7y ago
Does this not count as detection of an event horizon? Or is it just considered strong circumstantial evidence? https://eventhorizontelescope.org/
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by bwood 8y ago
I've been using the new 8110 for nearly a year and it's exactly what I was looking for. Battery lasts for about a week, no ridiculous restrictions on texts or contact name length, and it can even create a wifi hotspot. It's t
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by bwood 8y ago
>> don’t split login across multiple pages >I've never seen this done except when it's necessary because depending on the account identifier (username) a different authentication method is used -- e.g. redirecting to your
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by bwood 8y ago
I don't have data to back this up, but I suspect the main issue with needle skip is from vibrations being transmitted through (and maybe amplified along?) the arm. Since the arm is still mounted to the base, it could be that levitating
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by bwood 8y ago
The author addressed this from a slightly different perspective under the question "The military can use your research anyway, from the open literature. Why not have them pay for it?". His thoughts basically boil down to a combina
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by bwood 8y ago
Basically, yes.
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by bwood 8y ago
Awesome, I can't wait!
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by bwood 8y ago
I just signed up because I wanted to be able to clone a git repo into a repl and pair program as needed. There doesn't appear to be an easy way to do this, I figured it would be the obvious feature especially with the GitHub login opti
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by bwood 8y ago
The Bitcoin Cash folks didn't want to use a new cryptocurrency, they already had bitcoin and wanted to use it more like cash (i.e., low transaction fees). Basically, there was a large subset of Bitcoin users who did not agree with the
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by bwood 8y ago
This is pretty much what you're asking for: https://www.nokia.com/en_int/phones/nokia-8110-4g It runs KaiOS, which is a fork of Firefox OS IIRC. It's basically a dumb phone, but with some critical "
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by bwood 8y ago
I'm not sure that's a constructive way to look at it. Arguably both adoption and abortion are harmful to the child. Arguably reducing taxes on a particular group is harmful to society at large. Both are done frequently, so I think
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by bwood 8y ago
In most developed countries there is no easy way for man to "opt out" of responsibility for an existing pregnancy. The argument goes that women can have an abortion or give the child up for adoption if the pregnancy is unwanted, b
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by bwood 8y ago
This is pretty common for large enterprises. They have an official PR mouth and any public communication regarding the company which doesn't first pass the PR filter is often a fireable offense, even if it's all positive and puts
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by bwood 8y ago
I picked up the 8110 4G in Europe and it works fine on Canadian networks.
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by bwood 8y ago
+1 for the Nokia 8110 4G. I had to go to Europe to get it, but I am very pleased so far. Very minimal with a few critical "smart" features like the wifi hotspot. For some reason it also has Google Maps, though it's barely fun
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by bwood 9y ago
Anecdotally, I once crossed an empty street in Munich when the crosswalk said not to and was promptly chastised by a police officer.
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by bwood 9y ago
Not the GP, but I get 4-5 hours real world use with my XPS13. Sometimes that gets cut in half if there's a rogue process eating a core that I don't notice. Overall I love it, it's the first proper successor to my beloved 12&q
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by bwood 10y ago
Yeah, I just updated the landing page with a screenshot. It's pretty basic and unpolished at the moment, but I'm working on some improvements.
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by bwood 10y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yeah, I don't expect much mass appeal from supporting only Questrade, it's just the brokerage that I use myself. Good idea on getting them to fix those HTTPS issues, really no excuse for it these days.
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by bwood 10y ago
Shameless plug, but I'm actually working on a product that does exactly that. It started as a personal tool that integrated with my brokerage account to take the hassle out of rebalancing and knowing which trades to make with my monthl
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by bwood 10y ago
You also get taxed when exercising options even if you don't immediately sell the shares you just bought. Something like the difference between the strike price and the current value being treated as income you earn upon exercising the
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by bwood 11y ago
I'm assuming that they're specifically using the Bitcoin blockchain, not necessarily starting their own from scratch. If they want their own blockchain, then they need to distribute the mining just like Bitcoin has done, or else i
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by bwood 11y ago
If the AI doesn't have its own intention (perhaps having intention is a prerequisite for being truly intelligent), it's conceivable that we would program it with an intention or goal, such "find the most efficient way to prod

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