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by docPangloss 6y ago
Charles Schwab, Oracle (and Larry Ellison to Hawaii), HP, Macy's, Palantir Technologies, et al.
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by docPangloss 6y ago
Cyberpunk Day is on Tuesday and Wednesday of the second week of December for CD Projekt RED and the video gaming industry. Are you ready for Game Day?
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by docPangloss 6y ago
If you are an IT professional in America -- especially one who writes quality code -- then this article is for you.
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by docPangloss 6y ago
According to moveBuddha , 16% of outbound residents from San Francisco Bay Area moved to Texas in 2020. Also, Stripe Workers Who Relocate [to an affordable city] Get $20,000 Bonus and a [10%] Pay Cut.
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by docPangloss 6y ago
Thanks for the link to ExplainShell; it'll help me a lot as a newbie.
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by docPangloss 6y ago
Five Great Books for Introverts, by Five Introverts and Loners who changed the world.
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by docPangloss 6y ago
Agreed , as I posted earlier about masks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984527 This post links to an article showing masks don't work (N95 masks that are worn properly do work, though). "The Most Masked E
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by docPangloss 6y ago
HackerNews continually gets triggered by my posts: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24984527 This post links to an article showing masks don't work (N95 masks that are worn properly do work, though). "The Most
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by docPangloss 6y ago
"Meanwhile in Sweden, only 5% wear masks. The authorities have never recommended them believing that they are a waste of time. Sweden has used a soft lockdown that avoided fines and mandates. And the media in lockdown countries has spe
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Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death, Unless (Said Nobody, Ever)(coventryleague.com)
1 points by docPangloss 6y ago|1 comments
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by docPangloss 6y ago
"...heed the warnings of history and be very wary of Trojan Horses and enemies from within, as we alluded to previously regarding the spread of quasi-Bolshevism in the West and U.S."
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Marvell to purchase Inphi, a networking chip firm, for $10B(theburnin.com)
1 points by docPangloss 6y ago|1 comments
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by docPangloss 6y ago
Another massive M&A deal in the chip sector! We are witnessing an 𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 of an industry in real-time, people. • 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 (𝗡𝗮𝘀𝗱𝗮𝗾: 𝗠𝗥𝗩𝗟) confirmed yesterday its intent to acquire s…
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by docPangloss 6y ago
My guess is France-based SendInBlue will begin acquiring even more MailChimp defectors; Amazon SES as well.[1][2] [1] https://www.sendinblue.com/mailchimp/ [2] https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing&#x
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by docPangloss 6y ago
Replying to the person stating I provided "false" info, which is all supported by links and sources!: It’s always “conspiracy theory”...until it becomes “conspiracy fact” years later. Read Google’s (or Apple’s, or Yahoo’s) denial
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by docPangloss 6y ago
I forgot to mention that Ocular is free (no cost). The Dev team also provides related software that is referenced in the link already provided: * Evince * Free Software PDF readers * Poppler * DjVuLibre
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by docPangloss 6y ago
If one wants to keep one's privacy and use desktop software, then I can recommend Ocular, which is developed by KDE (think Plasma for Linux): https://okular.kde.org * It's cross platform (not just for Linux) * Can read
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September 2020 ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment is 26.9% in US(shadowstats.com)
1 points by docPangloss 6y ago|1 comments
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by docPangloss 6y ago
September 2020 ShadowStats Alternate Unemployment is 26.9% in US. http://www.shadowstats.com/alternate_data/unemployment-chart... Alternate Unemployment Charts "The seasonally-adjusted SGS Alternate Unemployment R
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by docPangloss 6y ago
There's a variation of Rodale's approach that is used in gardens. I just shared it on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24826386 about Ruth Stout and her no-till garden & farming approach. Admittedly, d
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Ruth Stout's No-Till Gardening and Farming(gardensall.com)
9 points by docPangloss 6y ago|0 comments
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by docPangloss 6y ago
I referenced PRISM in a comment to a recent Apple article on HN a couple of days ago. It triggered HN and Apple fans and the comment ultimately got shadow-banned by moderators.[1] Anyway, it’s astonishing that so many people willfully conti
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by docPangloss 6y ago
@desilentio pushed human development forward by informing the original commenter that its source, in this instance wikipedia, is flawed (to nobody's surprise). There are many high-quality sources on the Internet and in books. No need
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by docPangloss 6y ago
Apple is more like a cult with totalitarian rule. Google is not too far behind. Both track your every move/conversation and share ALL your data with government agencies via the PRISM surveillance program led by the NSA (Google joined P
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Fastly to Acquire $28M Signal Sciences for $775M(coventryleague.com)
3 points by docPangloss 6y ago|1 comments
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by docPangloss 6y ago
If you don’t like reading about Short Squeezes, WAFs, CDNs, IaaS, HackerNews, Class Action Lawsuits, M&A, and Greek Mythology, then you ain’t a FinTech Nerd!
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by docPangloss 6y ago
Concise comment: Thanks for the tip about GoldBack dot com. It looks promising. ___ Long-winded comment: That article you shared references the “Utah Legal Tender Act in 2011.” According to the article shared by the Coventry League Blogent
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U.S. States That Permit Gold as Legal Tender(coventryleague.com)
2 points by docPangloss 6y ago|2 comments
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by docPangloss 6y ago
I, too, can vouch for Automate the Boring Stuff with Python -- one of the first resources I used to learn a bit of Python since I wanted hands-on, practical lessons. I'll check out Think Python as well.
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by docPangloss 6y ago
The map is an infographic that displays bubbles/gears proportional to a country's GDP (manufacturing only) worldwide. The blog author then extends the analysis by including three tables about GDP and per capita data, along with fo

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