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by cft 6y ago
I was vacationing in Spain and made friends with my Airbnb hosts: they invited me over for dinners in their house. He was 73 and his biological son was 6 or 7. The boy looked very bright. His wife was I think 44.
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Too Big to Fail: The Entire Private Sector(nytimes.com)
2 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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Too Big to Fail: The Entire Private Sector(nytimes.com)
1 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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by cft 6y ago
PayPal already has micropayments, 5c+5% https://www.paypal.com/us/smarthelp/article/what-are-micropa... https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/merchant-fees#fixed-fe... Without
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Paul Tudor Jones Buys Bitcoin as a Hedge Against Inflation(bloomberg.com)
1 points by cft 6y ago|0 comments
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by cft 6y ago
locate relies on indexing crons. This has killed several production servers until I disabled it.
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by cft 6y ago
Also the mode data you have, the more you can fine tune your ML fraud systems
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by cft 6y ago
Yes, but the configuration of SELinux can be changed.
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by cft 6y ago
I would rather change some obsure the settings once (like tapping 5 times on phone info) than being pestered every time
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by cft 6y ago
Note that they will eventually tighten SELinux policy to forbid exec() outside of userspace of the process https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072#issuecommen... So the app will not work on the OS le
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by cft 6y ago
At some point these restrictions to exec() will be enforced on the OS level, rather than on the API level.
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by cft 6y ago
It will be impossible to distribute the app targeting 28 in the near future. Targeting 29, the only replacement for apt get that they could come up with is to stuff Linux binaries into 100s of apps and upload those apps to the play store. I
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by cft 6y ago
I migrated from JuiceSSH to Termux because it allows you to run remote diagnostic locally, ping, traceroute, schedule crons and even vibrate your phone and display notifications to alert you. It also allows you to port forward ssh, whereas
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by cft 6y ago
When we need to quickly diagnose and fix some sudden server issue from anywhere, Termux is indispensable. I even bought a tiny Bluetooth USB keyboard because of it.
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by cft 6y ago
You might call this a solution, but I disagree: https://github.com/termux/termux-app/issues/1072#issuecommen... "As i said on another issue, you should really start communicating this to users now , via
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Termux and Android 10(github.com)
412 points by cft 6y ago|314 comments
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by cft 6y ago
If anything, new Android is killing termux, one of the best apps for devs: https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/wiki/Termux-and-An...
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by cft 6y ago
Also I believe a third party installed app cannot do a push notification when app is not open?
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by cft 6y ago
You sort of do: before you sideload an app, you have to toggle a switch, agreeing that you are going to do something potentially unsafe . In the similar arrogant manner, they care about your safety purging Podcast Addict app, like parent
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by cft 6y ago
https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1261805845735604224... Nothing in the metadata. Pure evil.
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by cft 6y ago
I think a socially good deed would be to take the original tweet https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1261671685477941253... and respond to it tweeting @FTC , @kenpaxtontx (who is behind the antimonopoly case)
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by cft 6y ago
I think it's condescending to point out to people what their real interests are. People have agency.
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by cft 6y ago
In the hinterland there are many (relatively poor) owners (of small businesses, farms, shops). In the centers, there are salaried employees that are often richer than the hinterland's owners and very rich mega-owners, that are few. The
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by cft 6y ago
Not sure what you are talking about: in 1993 Panera's predecessor was bought by Au Bon Pan, a public company, and it has since remained in that orbit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panera_Bread I would not compare
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by cft 6y ago
Also in the VC and IPO world, there are companies with infinite PE, like Pinterest. I am curious how much of the total stock market cap these account for, because to be in S&P 500 you need to have positive earnings for 4 quarters. These
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California officials reject subsidies for SpaceX over Tesla spat(reuters.com)
39 points by cft 6y ago|81 comments
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by cft 6y ago
"Modest decline" of interest rates to 0 and into negative unleashed massive QE where the stock prices are tied to buy back programs and Fed purchases of corporate bonds more than to the fundamentals. I refer you to my original com
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by cft 6y ago
It's hard to interpret: this one https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe shows an anomaly that began in mid 90s. The inflation adjusted one could be interpreted simply as continuing concentration of capital and centralizatio
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by cft 6y ago
Have you seen this graph from the same source https://www.multpl.com/inflation-adjusted-s-p-500
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by cft 6y ago
I upvoted you. This indeed shows that PE systemically entered into 20+ territory only this century. Those are long-term effects, I'm not predicting a crash "this market cycle", but a systemic change in 20 years.

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