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by divbzero 3y ago
If you buy T-bills through a brokerage, you can easily resell them on the secondary market using the same brokerage. The market price climbs as maturity approaches, so you typically capture yield in proportion to how long you held the T-bil
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by divbzero 3y ago
Two related, though not quite identical, lists provided by HN are: https://news.ycombinator.com/best https://news.ycombinator.com/over?points=500
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by divbzero 3y ago
I like how --all reveals forgotten refs.
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by divbzero 3y ago
The truck will blend in well on Mars.
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by divbzero 3y ago
This is the analogous website with every Apple TV aerial screensaver: https://bzamayo.com/watch-all-the-apple-tv-aerial-video-scre...
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by divbzero 3y ago
10M shares out of 900M+ shares is a relatively small decrease. The $2B dollar amount is small enough that it’s more likely a sale by Ted Weschler or Todd Combs instead of by Warren Buffett.
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by divbzero 3y ago
> Occasionally we gather up all of these ideas and share them in what we call a Request for Startups, or RFS — a Y Combinator tradition that goes back over a decade. I wonder how many YC startups joined due to a past RFS and went on to
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by divbzero 3y ago
I like the brutally honest cookie notice in one of the examples: We value your privacy data. We use cookies to enhance your browser experience by selling this data to advertisers. This is extremely valuable.
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by divbzero 3y ago
I prefer the simpler: <center>Here you go!</center>
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by divbzero 3y ago
Could ChatGPT have learned this from instances in the training data where offers of monetary reward resulted in more thorough responses?
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DNS Complexity (2007)(dl.acm.org)
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An Icy Moon of Saturn May Be Hiding an Ocean Under Its Crust(smithsonianmag.com)
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by divbzero 3y ago
> At tech companies some roles are highly leveraged… These leveraged roles can create enormous amounts of value, but the unlock in technology can come from a single person, a single insight. This core idea about tech employees having hig
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by divbzero 3y ago
Using sudo for a Windows program doesn’t seem as bad as using curl as an alias for Invoke-WebRequest . While the real curl can be installed and fully functional on Windows, sudo is intuitively an OS-level program that deals with OS
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by divbzero 3y ago
Does anyone have recommendations for what to look for when buying a slide rule? Are there certain features or materials that make it easier to use?
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by divbzero 3y ago
I love the older letters that have time travelled “about 17 years”, “over 18 years”, or “over 19 years”. Apparently, this service has survived since 2003. I hope it will continue to exist decades from now.
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by divbzero 3y ago
Another alternative, if you use a digital calendar consistently, is to create a calendar event in the future and write the letter to your future self in the event notes.
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by divbzero 3y ago
Is there an analogous service that sends out letters if you go missing or pass away?
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Red wine in space may age faster than on Earth, study finds (2021)(space.com)
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Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to families of children harmed online(abcnews.go.com)
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Elon Musk's battle with Delaware is about more than a $55B pay package(businessinsider.com)
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by divbzero 3y ago
A pitch drop was first captured on camera on 11 July 2013 at Trinity College Dublin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7jXjn7mIao
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Indian Tectonic Plate Is Splitting in Two Beneath Tibet, Latest Analysis Finds(sciencealert.com)
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by divbzero 3y ago
The Atlas Obscura website is down right now, but I’ll be curious to see if the editors publish their own apology and retractions.
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'And protein chain outgrabe': The making of a '70s cult classic(stanmed.stanford.edu)
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by divbzero 3y ago
Costco’s credit card partners change from time to time based on fee negotiations: Costco in the US switched from American Express to Citi/Visa in 2016. Costco in Canada switched from Capital One/Mastercard to CIBC/Mastercard
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by divbzero 3y ago
It’s definitely not just seniors. If you watch young kids use apps, they tap all over the screen to figure out which elements are actually interactive.
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A Historical Tour of Silicon Valley (2010)(scaruffi.com)
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As if by magic: Lifelong inventor Lanny Smoot holds over 100 patents(uspto.gov)
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by divbzero 3y ago
Rclone has a large selection of storage backends [1] plus a crypt backend [2] for encrypting any of the storage backends. [1]: https://rclone.org/overview/ [2]: https://rclone.org/crypt/

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