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by fiveFeet 8y ago
Qualcomm is an american chip maker and NXP is a Dutch chip maker. Why do they need approval from Chinese regulators to merge? Can someone please clarify?
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
Thank you for mentioning this. It gives a much better perspective.
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
One thing to note is that all the newfound moons are small, between about 1 and 3 kilometres across.
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
Haha! Good joke!
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
New users should probably learn Python instead of R.
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
That is super cool! Thanks for sharing!
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401(k) plans of many large companies are heavily concentrated in employer stock(fortune.com)
2 points by fiveFeet 8y ago|0 comments
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
I used to be a big fan of octave until I learned python + numpy + pandas dataframes. After that I did not have much need for octave.
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
Gives good results. Thanks for providing the link.
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
Zim is awesome on a local machine. For remote work, I stick to vim. All the notes are stored in a gitlab repository which makes it easy when switching across machines.
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Gnome has moved to GitLab(about.gitlab.com)
640 points by fiveFeet 8y ago|201 comments
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
Are the cloud hosting services profitable at these very low prices or are they reducing the prices just to gain market share? If it is the latter, sooner or later they have to increase prices, no?
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
This book is a great read. It is about how homo sapiens became the most powerful species on earth. It changed the way I used to think about various things such as religion, capitalism, nationalism, race, gender, equality, independence etc.,
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Deutsche Bank axes at least 7,000 jobs in trading retreat(reuters.com)
2 points by fiveFeet 8y ago|0 comments
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
A bit off topic but I wish the Costco membership had something like "Amazon Prime Video" for watching movies.
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github repository for python job listings(github.com)
1 points by fiveFeet 8y ago|0 comments
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YouTube to launch music streaming service next week(reuters.com)
8 points by fiveFeet 8y ago|6 comments
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by fiveFeet 8y ago
Moviepass or not, I would like to see a theater which sells concessions at reasonable prices.
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Amazon com: launches international shopping from United States(4-traders.com)
2 points by fiveFeet 8y ago|0 comments
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by fiveFeet 9y ago
Would you recommend it compared to feedly?
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by fiveFeet 9y ago
This whole episode showed how important Qualcom is for United States national security. It still looks like a potential acquisition target with a price tag set by Broadcom. If Intel acquires Broadcom (thus making it an American company) the
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by fiveFeet 9y ago
gitlab projects - for todo lists, notes etc., (so they can be accessed everywhwere) pycharm - for editing python programs Zim - for wiki style editing vim - for remote files, non python files etc., where pycharm is not option
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Gary Cohn to Resign as Trump’s Top Economic Adviser(nytimes.com)
2 points by fiveFeet 9y ago|0 comments
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iPhones may shut down in cold weather(support.apple.com)
29 points by fiveFeet 9y ago|44 comments
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by fiveFeet 9y ago
You raise an interesting point. Their press release claims that they had removed assault-style rifles from all DICK’S stores after the Sandy Hook massacre and that they are now removing them at all 35 Field & Stream stores. http:/
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by fiveFeet 9y ago
Hopefully they will take care of this loophole as they improve the algorithm.
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by fiveFeet 9y ago
I love it. Thank you, Google! A lot of other tech companies - Paypal, Square, Stripe and Apple pay announced years ago that they would not allow their services to be used for the sale of firearms. I hope other companies like Amazon, visa,
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by fiveFeet 9y ago
Yes. But how do you make the government do it?
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General Mills to buy pet food maker Blue Buffalo for $8B(reuters.com)
64 points by fiveFeet 9y ago|57 comments
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China cracks down on funeral strippers(nypost.com)
5 points by fiveFeet 9y ago|2 comments

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