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by ckastner 6y ago
> The article states that EY didn’t “verify cash balances”... I’m not sure what that means - “verify” is a dirty word in audit because it’s not specific enough. In a German-speaking newspaper (I'm sorry, I don't recall which
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by ckastner 6y ago
Just to be clear, my argument was rhetorical. I fully agree that in practice, we're seeing something completely different.
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by ckastner 6y ago
> why would Amazon want to place such onerous restrictions on their suppliers? Because they have a massive counterfeiting problem, as evident by this submission. To reiterate, what I suggested would only be onerous for the highest-risk
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by ckastner 6y ago
I've said this before: they should look at how the finance industry deals / has been dealing with bad actors for decades before they engage in a business relationship with a client. Assign every vendor some risk category based o
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by ckastner 6y ago
I'm always fascinated by that fact that despite the immense amount of observations we have carried out on our planet (especially during the satellite age), the ocean is still largely uncharted in detail. The discovery of the Muirfield
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by ckastner 6y ago
As I mentioned in another submitted story: SoftBank really knows how to pick them. It invested 1 billion about a year ago [1]. [1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-04-23/softbank-... .
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by ckastner 6y ago
> Wirecard AG shares continued their free-fall after the two Asian banks that were supposed to be holding 1.9 billion euros ($2.1 billion) of missing cash denied any business relationship with the German payments company. For reference
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Wirecard’s $2.1B Hole Deepens After Forgery Claim(bloomberg.com)
10 points by ckastner 6y ago|1 comments
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by ckastner 6y ago
Indeed, I must have messed something up (I submitted on mobile). Unfortunately, I can neither edit the link, nor delete the submission.
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by ckastner 6y ago
Incredible. Market cap as of right now seems to have surpassed that of Toyota, making Take the most valuable car maker in the world.
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Tesla shares surge past $1k as Musk revs up the Semi(reuters.com)
2 points by ckastner 6y ago|3 comments
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by ckastner 6y ago
This is good news, but Lenovo should be lauded even for their current Linux support, which already extends to a great deal of their systems, see [1]. https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd031426 By cha
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by ckastner 6y ago
They won't even show their own rating anymore. I assume it's counterproductive to the goal of capturing eyeballs for as long as possible.
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by ckastner 6y ago
> I really didn't realize until perhaps the last 2 years that Facebook fundamentally tapped some hidden human need/instinct to argue with people who they believe are incorrect. Hidden human need/instinct to argue, period
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by ckastner 6y ago
One possibility would be the 3990X's lower base clock of 2.9GHz vs. the 3.7GHz of the 3970X.
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by ckastner 6y ago
Note that this was for the fiscal year that ended in March, so before most of Covid-19's impact. Can't imagine what FY2020 is going to look like.
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by ckastner 6y ago
I have to admit, the title does sound misleading in this regard, and (to me) even more so the tweets advertising the paper as per the submission.
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by ckastner 6y ago
As far as I understand it, they are comparing the statistics of the 5,683 sample to the 17M in order to determine whether anything stands out. If Covid-19 deaths had no associated factors, then we shouldn't see much of a difference bet
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by ckastner 6y ago
The city of Vienna did this with their major shopping artery (Mariahilfer Straße), despite an enormous amount of skepticsm. They closed off all traffic in some parts, and most of all traffic in others (to allow for crucial intersections). W
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by ckastner 6y ago
> When people do this it comes across as malicious harassment rather than a genuine legal complaint for harm caused. Why so many jurisdictions, and why on the very day it came into effect? The very day should be obvious: because these co
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by ckastner 6y ago
The title should have mentioned the person by name: it's Max Schrems [1]. He has a legal background, and has fought a number of high-profile privacy cases in Europe. The day the GDPR came into effect, he filed violations complaints aga
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by ckastner 6y ago
It's not mentioned expressly in the article (there's just a link to the movie), but the book is briefly to be seen in The Matrix . Neo uses it to stash cash and warez. I remember reading about this, and being just astonished how
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by ckastner 6y ago
> It’s not like his track record is any more exceptional than Musk’s. Everyone makes mistakes, but to conclude that Berkshire Hathaways' track record is "not ... more exceptional than Musk's" is beyond folly. Their s
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by ckastner 6y ago
Those are great options, but the 12-core Ryzen 9 3900X sells for less than $450 now. Sure, it has half as many cores as the 3960X Threadripper listed, but 12C/24T is still a lot. Also, it's much easier to cool -- 105W TDP vs 280W
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by ckastner 6y ago
> The tech conglomerate has poured more than $13.5 billion into WeWork So the potential downside is still even larger. Seeing as WeWork needs to continue to pay their long-term leases, 2020 is not going to look good for them thanks to Co
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by ckastner 6y ago
Extensive write-up, including the history of the many individual visual effects, and the MIDI melody: http://www.sizecoding.org/wiki/Memories
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“Memories” – 256 byte MSDOS intro [video](youtube.com)
3 points by ckastner 6y ago|2 comments
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by ckastner 7y ago
Remarkably, a spot in the close vicinity of Cape Canaveral was chosen by Jules Verne as the launch site for the moon travelers in his 1867 book From the Earth to the Moon .
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SoftBank’s Fake Startup “Valuations” Come Unglued(wolfstreet.com)
1 points by ckastner 7y ago|0 comments
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by ckastner 7y ago
> No business is going to hoard 50 billion dollars in an emergency fund for a pandemic that cuts 90% of revenue, that's just absurd. That just isn't right, for a number of reasons. First, the 50 billion applies to the entire

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