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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> You may have heard, last week, YouTube terminated the entire Cornell University Library account on their site. They did? Seems to still be available for me: https://www.youtube.com/c/cornelllibrary I couldn't
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
500ml every 2-3 hours seems like a very normal amount of water. I drink more water than most and I usually go through 4-5 litres in a regular work day.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> "Just eating whatever you want" results in being a five hundred pound diabetic who dies of a heart attack at 40. This is categorically untrue for much (I'd hazard to say most) of the population. It's certainly untru
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I actually laughed at "I'm not going to start feeding my cat different foods depending on where exactly he is located". That's a really great punchline.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/fren It predates the co-opting by the alt-right though.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
3AC = Three Arrows Capital, the hedge fund the article is about.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I think it's clearly true that we have internal processes which cause us to take actions. If those processes are entirely deterministic then that means every action you take is also deterministic - as in, you could not have acted other
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I've made enough off TSLA to afford a Tesla, but I'm actually now considering the Ioniq 5 over the Model Y. Specs are very similar and it's like 2/3 the price. I've been a believer in Tesla for a decade now but it i
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Whenever you think to yourself that you have to do things a certain way, it's good to remember that it's really all just a bunch of people on the other side. Hiring managers and recruiters are just people, looking for other people
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> Specifically, those who bought a house to live in in the last 3-4 years. No, everyone in Canada has to renew their mortgage at least every 5 years, into whatever the prevailing interest rate market is at that time.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
You are correct that in Canada we don't do 30-year fixed mortgages. We only lock in interest rates for a 5 year term. However, we have what's called a stress-test. In order to get a mortgage at the previously low 5-year fixed rate
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Which 99% of people couldn't care less about.
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Ah it was right there under my coffee cup the whole time!
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> Allow regular people to set up a BBS that other people could connect to. Once there they can read/post on public message boards, they can send direct messages to other users on the same BBS, they can exchange files between them, t
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Other competing services gave you 2-5MB, which was so low that the standard thing to do was to delete email after you read it. The selling feature of Gmail was "Now you can keep all your mail and have a permanent searchable history of
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
#C0A575 (coasts) is a sandy-brown beach color. #6E0DE5 (geodes) definitely has that deep purple color you think of. And my favorite, #5A6E57 (sagest) is about as close to the color sage as you can get.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
On Windows, it's now faster/easier to use the built in Snip+Sketch tool (Win + Shift + S). It does instant rectangular selection, then pops up a simple editor which you can then copy/paste anywhere you'd like. I have Win
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/trilemma.asp So given the trilemma then, it sounds like Bitcoin maximalism means fixed exchange rates (since all countries use BTC), and free flow of capital (since that's
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Maybe you are not aware of what Staff Engineer roles tend to involve. There's lots of technical direction, scoping, working with other teams, etc.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
My company does max 30 minute meetings. It's great and somehow everything still gets discussed. Occasionally we run a bit long but everyone knows you can only rely on people to be there for the first 30 minutes. I'm in a Staff rol
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I guess you use a BBQ or eat food that doesn't require cooking for a couple days? Power failure is very rare where I live so it didn't occur to me. I have never experienced a power outage for more than a few hours in my entire lif
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Boiling water is a proxy for rate at which energy can be delivered to food. Heating a pan up to temp is much faster on induction than gas.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
They are faster to heat than gas since they can deliver all energy directly to the pan, whereas gas wastes ~75% of the energy heating the surrounding air. They boil water much faster than even an electric kettle for this reason. Pot handles
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
Induction does have instant control since it induces heating directly in the pan.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
> You are not paying the full electricity cost for mining Bitcoin in transaction fees, the generation of new coins is offsetting some of that cost. This is the big factor. As the block reward decreases, transaction costs will need to inc
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
That's my point. Those stories are specifically about the journey not the destination. You don't read long-form articles to ingest information, you read them for the flowery prose and turns of phrase and evocative mental imagery.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
"I don't want to read the whole thing, can someone just tell me whether Ahab catches the whale or not?"
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
You are comparing one side of one trade to the other side of many trades. Each individual options trade is zero-sum (one side wins exactly as much as the other side loses, barring transaction fees), as is the total of all options trades.
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
A great comment on a great video I found a while back: https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/ofw6en/wo... > You have to have the ability to physically manifest your vision of what the mus
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by cecilpl2 4y ago
I found this challenging but won on my first attempt without any undos. Spoiler for today's word: https://imgur.com/a/kNvhK0q

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