captaincole

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by captaincole 6y ago
From the wikipedia article on the tiaga bombs. > "the current external γ-ray dose rate to a human from the contaminations associated with the 'Taiga' experiment was between 9 and 70 μSv [micro-Sieverts] per week". The
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by captaincole 6y ago
As someone who is in this field (work at a company that does secondary market transactions), I'm very curious as to why this explosion of growth is happening. I see two examples that aren't directly related to the articles point o
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by captaincole 6y ago
I think that this was a really interesting parallel to the natural world. There are two really important questions to be asking when trying to figure out if the exodus of Silicon Valley is temporary or permanent. 1. Is the damage or outside
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by captaincole 6y ago
I'd like to highlight a phrase in the summary here that really stuck out to me. As with some other commenters, it does seem that the judge is not particularly inclined in this argument to side with Epic because it is in the mobile gami
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by captaincole 6y ago
Good question. The two considerations I would say here are 1) Rent vs own - everyone i know in the own category is staying for now, and actually exhibiting the opposite tendencies and digging in for the long haul 2) School is now officially
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by captaincole 6y ago
I am living in SF now and this confirms a very clear pattern that I have seen emerging, particularly of tech workers. I would say that >50% of the people I know who were living in the city have left, or are in the process of leaving. Som
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by captaincole 6y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | Anywhere | San Francisco, CA I'm building a React Native application for Misfit Athletics, a competitive fitness and training company. Were building a mobile app for helping build community and distribute the best
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by captaincole 6y ago
Forge (forgeglobal.com) | Senior Full-Stack Engineer | San Francisco, CA Forge is the stock market for private companies. We have provided liquidity to engineers like the people who frequent hacker news that are paid in options and shares i
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by captaincole 6y ago
Reading between the lines here "Other activities that can resume under the new order include residential moves and the use of certain shared outdoor recreational facilities that were previously ordered closed, like skate parks, but not
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by captaincole 6y ago
I really had fun reading this and thinking deeply about the blurry Ill defined line between things that are alive (an individual) and things that are not. To take this experiment to a conclusion which the author has “left to the reader” as
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by captaincole 6y ago
While zoom has faced many privacy concerns in the last few weeks, it is incredible how reliable the service has been given the massive spike in demand. Most services would have buckled (examples abound like robinhoods recent outage) and par
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Creating a Unified Modular UI Framework at a Startup(medium.com)
4 points by captaincole 7y ago|0 comments
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A Message to the Boosted Community(blog.boostedboards.com)
3 points by captaincole 7y ago|0 comments
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Full Stack Type Safety: An Enums Journey(medium.com)
9 points by captaincole 7y ago|0 comments
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by captaincole 7y ago
Agreed and seconded. I use them mainly for testing and for demo. If I need to switch personas but not have multiple private tabs open it is a game changer.