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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Personal Capital isn't available for Canadians. In fact, there existed no other alternatives at the time (~2017). Especially none that did things like adjusting the cost basis of each security based on the foreign exchange rate on the
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I wrote a web tool that automatically syncs all my brokerage transactions from multiple brokerages (either using their APIs or web scraping). It also grabs daily closing prices of my stocks and relevant foreign exchange rates from public so
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
None of the above. This is because every atom in your body is accelerating at the same rate, so there's no pressure involved.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Another theory I read was that some signal from your hippocampus (memory storage) fires, so that the rest of your brain believes erroneously that the current sensory input is coming from memory.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> Then if the cat still doesn't right itself, it seems like it is using acceleration rather than vision to determine which way is down. This is not possible because objects (including cats) in freefall do not experience the sensatio
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> Don't know what you'd do for the litter box though. Cat diaper?
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Depends on when you bought in 2013. I bought in early 2013 at $32 (pre-split), for about 200x. If you bought late in 2013 you probably paid ~$180, for only 30x.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Nice to see Zulip is still around! I was the Zulip evangelist at a previous company, but sadly was never able to get buy-in from senior leadership on the advantages of a real-time chat system. I contributed a couple of integrations that I&#
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Story time: I also once had my bank account hacked - in a manner of speaking. I tell you this story in the hopes that it helps you recognize if you have similar flaws in your own security. I used to run a VNC server on my home PC (flaw 1).
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
This sounds like an argument for why companies should be allowed to sell unregulated drugs and use asbestos and lead paint. Individual consumers, who we all know are extremely knowledgeable and informed on all topics interacting with their
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
This has always been the case, but you notice it more and more over time due to your own continually deepening perspective.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
This is fascinating to me! How did you manage to merge code in the 80s? What tools were available? Did you have three-way merge tools or did you do it more manually? Or rather did you talk frequently and ensure that you weren't steppin
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I'll add the ability to specify and tag regexes ("comment", "timestamp", etc) on a file-type by file-type basis, and then specify various tags as "unimportant" for the current diff is super powerful. It me
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> I would always finish by asking for advice on what it takes to be successful at X company Strong agree on this. I also recently switched jobs and I asked this question of everyone I interviewed with. I got thoughtful answers from every
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I wrote a script to poll the Parks Canada reservation system for availability for a camping trip I wanted to do, so that I'd get notified the instant someone cancelled and space became available. Sadly after two weeks they banned my IP
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
This is a fantastic article, thank you for sharing!
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Sadly I no longer know my friends phone numbers, since the advent of smart phones. But I still know the phone numbers of anyone I regularly dialed as a child, 30 years ago. I have all my important numbers memorized - SIN, multiple credit ca
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I don't, though I did play piano for 10 years starting at age 6. I think the frequencies are around middle C or so, though I haven't really checked. Only digits have notes associated with them. A number like 1000 is just four note
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Wow, this is utterly alien to me. I have always had a head for numbers but they are never shapes. The unique thing I think I have is that I visualize long strings of digits as notes on a musical scale. 735 is high-low-middle. I have found I
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Conservatively each person needs 1500 calories per day and that's cutting it close. That's about 2 million calories per year for 4 people. Potatoes are one of the most calorie-dense vegetables by weight and by growing space. They
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
TL;DR Sturgeon fins grow bone similarly to tree rings - in annual layers. By studying the outermost layer of many samples found on the K-Pg boundary they were able to deduce that they all died in spring. Corroborating evidence is found from
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Yes. Poly is great if it works for you but it's definitely relationship grad school. The complexity grows exponentially with the number of people and the ways in which they are connected. It's not unlike software. To torture an an
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
As do I. I credit my dad with this. From a very young age he would frequently ask me what my earliest memories were, and ask me to recount them in as much detail as I could remember. That really cemented in my memory a few key moments in my
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Did you just conflate Hacker News with the government?
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Sure, then a bunch of kids end up learning the lesson "I'm better than my peers" and a bunch of other kids end up learning the lesson "My peers are always out to hurt me".
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Seems like a pretty positive lesson to me: teaching kids that these power structures exist, are harmful, and that they need to be mindful not to take advantage of power; that they should instead strive for equity.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Sometimes that means being beaten up for fun, or having your belongings stolen or destroyed, or being the victim of power games. It's a great way to learn some deeply ingrained life lessons like "all of my peers are out to hurt me
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
> IMHO a manned mission to Mars makes almost zero sense. Whether it "makes sense" or not, there are a lot of people that want it to happen, and it also happens to be the express purpose of SpaceX and Starship. That's it&#x
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
I would just round to the nearest eV and keep the commas. > the mass of an electron is approximately 510,999 eV and the mass of a proton is 938,272,088 eV. This reads best to me.
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by cecilpl2 5y ago
Ah thanks, that flew over my pre-coffee head. :)

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