cecilpl2

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by cecilpl2 5y ago
This is what Canada does with its Roth equivalent, the TFSA.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Education is aimed at people who are well-intentioned but unaware , which is a vastly larger population than those who are intentionally causing harm. How will requiring people to take a 30 minute class "destroy the sport"?
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Cool, but it seems like 80% of the results in your example demos are Youtube video IDs.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
No, because if you short at close on ex-dividend and buy back at open the next day, ceteris paribus you gain the stock price delta (which is exactly equal to the dividend), but you also owe the amount of the dividend to the person you bor
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Explanation: In order to be eligible for the dividend of $0.42/share, you had to be holding the stock on Friday at close. You would therefore normally expect the share price to drop $0.42 between Friday close and Monday open. Looks lik
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Side note about the Alt-1/2/3/4 shortcuts in calculator - does anyone else find that they only work sporadically? I just tried it a bunch of times now and got maybe 50-60% success rate on it actually triggering the mode switc
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I'm reminded of a story told by Joel Sposky about Simcity on Windows 95. The DOS/Win3.x version of SimCity had a bug where it used memory after freeing it, which worked fine on DOS since the memory didn't get reallocated. The
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
https://medium.com/@xzyfer/why-node-sass-broke-your-code-and... What do you think of this example, where a library made a breaking, non-backwards compatible change, causing user code to throw fatal errors. They defende
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> "I have to document this project but no matter how much I want to just do it, I nevertheless continually find myself on imgur or Facebook or Hacker News or some random other website reading up about how switched-reluctance motors
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I respond to these canned messages with a canned reply: 1) Do you offer permanent remote work? 2) What's the salary range for this position? Twice now I have been very pleasantly surprised by the answer, and one of those resulted in me
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
That seems very roundabout. "unreal" seems like relatively recent slang to me, just like the "very great" meaning of "fantastic". "Fantastic" also means "based on fantasy", so the leap to &q
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
It uses IPoAC.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Reputational damage is real damage, unless you are arguing that reputation isn't a thing which is patently false. Careers and lives are made and lost on the back of reputation. Companies can be destroyed by the social media mob. "
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Google Search fails the cumulative layout shift test. I can't count the number of times the "People also search for" box pops up in the middle of my search results 3-4 seconds after load. It's just enough time for me t
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Why wouldn't you unroll the entire loop so no divisions are ever required?
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
They did filter, but the details for that lab showed the country as "Wuhan" and the city as "Chona".
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
It's awful. "Search with Google" is actually the only reason I ever use the context menu. Copy? Keyboard/mouse buttons for that. Select All? Why would I want to do that when I just made a selection? Print Selection? How
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I use the Tree Style Tabs extension [0], which took some getting used to but is miles better for tab navigation. Vertical tab sidebar means you can see more tabs at a time, the collapsible tree means you can organize them into logical group
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Same here. A drink at lunch and the rest of my day is pretty much shot, so it's only happening if I'm on vacation or my plan was to lie on the beach all day anyway.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Anyone who does any backcountry camping should have a map and compass and know how to use them.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
You'd have to cash out all of your FAKECOIN for electricity and still be out $0.10, with no FAKECOIN left.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
... from working?
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
What's with all the bible quotes around here lately?
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Logan's Run was a dystopia.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> I almost never bother reading chat history in IRC, but in Slacks/... you are expected to keep up with @mentions and on "important channels" etc. Isn't that more of a feature of the kinds of environments that run Sla
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Reposting a comment I wrote a couple days which surprisingly is on-topic once again! Multiple adjectives always have to be in the order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. You can have a lovely little old rectangul
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> You only usually bother with one once you've made an offer and the vendor's accepted it. This is no longer the case in most of North America, where your offer only has a chance of being accepted if it's unconditional.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
My favorite example of one of the difficulties of learning English comes from my friend who's an adult ESL teacher. Multiple adjectives always have to be in the order: opinion, size, age, shape, color, origin, material, purpose. You ca
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Where on earth are you seeing 4-6% per month?!
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
The correct answers for this test are: SPOILERS (answers in rot-13) 1. N 2. O 3. P 4. Q 5. N 6. O 7. P 8. Q

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