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fma
6y ago
Yeah...the irony is Beijing blames Wuhan for not being transparent. And here's Beijing doing the same.
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fma
6y ago
The GPA is an interesting system when you sit down to think about it. I came into college with almost 30 general education credit hours. I received the International Baccalaureate diploma in high school. I only needed 1 more gen ed course t
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fma
6y ago
The only one that would matter is Lisa Murkowski as she's up for reelection next year. After 2022 people will have forgotten all this and move on to the next shiny object.
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fma
6y ago
The U-turn by McConnell is no surprise. He needs the Trump supporters to remain in the GOP. It's also no surprise that after he votes to acquit, he gives a scathing speech on Trump to pretend to have any ounce of care for the constitut
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6y ago
There's many issues in our science system, but it may be a blessing that you got rejected. I'm a senior software engineer. My wife has a PhD in biochemistry from a top university. When she graduated she could not get a job anywher
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6y ago
The title wouldn't be as interested if it was "I followed my dreams to change my career a software developer" I do not view career changes as a promotion or demotion. You're starting at neutral. When I clicked the articl
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6y ago
I was in the same position as OP...subscribed to 2600 as a high schooler (maybe I'm on a list)...then after college became a software engineer w/ interest in security. Even got a Security+ certification 10 years ago. Afterwards, I
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6y ago
I knew someone who tried to go to hotmail.com but went to hotmale instead...
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6y ago
Yes...now that I have kids, the libraries have great kids activities and I have gone back to the library more than when I had before kids. They also have educational adult activities as well like computer skills. They also have 3D printing,
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6y ago
I used to live in rural Georgia and there is a network of 300 libraries. It made the books I could borrow much larger because if my local libraries didnt have it, I can request one from hundreds of miles away. I thought that was the most aw
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6y ago
I use a "swamp cooler" as a whole house humidifier. It's the same concept. Also my cardboard wick doesn't get mold - unlike some other paper based wick humidifiers. I have the steam humidifiers for the small rooms. But m
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fma
6y ago
WSJ with their exclusive interviews cites Keith Gill as DeepF---ingValue instead of the whole username
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6y ago
LOL but RH is known to be pretty unstable... "Redditors in the irony-poisoned Wall Street Bets (r/wallstreetbets) community discovered an exploit in the investing app Robinhood they’ve named “infinite leverage” that enables them t
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fma
6y ago
Well, GM has previously announced by 2025 to have 30 EV models. If everyone only buys those 30 then the timeline can be accelerate. It's supply/demand and my guess is that GM assumes some adopters would be slower than others. htt
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fma
6y ago
Short interest is public info, but the price that they shorted is not. A fund could short from $10 and cover $100 to lose $90...then short again at $300 and now the price is $200. Short interest would remain the same but they'd be up $
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6y ago
Yeah, but if you're Bill Ackman you can do it on front of millions of people on CNBC. "During the epic verbal battle between Icahn and Ackman that was televised on CNBC in January, Icahn predicted that Ackman’s Herbalife investmen
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6y ago
It's illegal if you're not rich... In 2013 Bill Ackman had a huge short position on Herbalife. Carl Icahn in front of millions of viewers on CNBC promoted a short squeeze. "During the epic verbal battle between Icahn and Ackm
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6y ago
Fundamentals isn't everything and is really a way that wallstreet has brainwashed people to invest in companies that provide no returns on their investment. As an extreme case, a biotech company with no sales, no profits, no approved d
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6y ago
Speaking of management...Ryan Cohen, founder of Chewy.com is a recent heavy investor in Gamestop. Pretty sure he knows a thing or two about startups and he wouldn't be pouring in money into it if he felt it's hopeless.
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6y ago
I have Merrill Edge and for whatever reason they blocked buying GME shares...
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6y ago
Most brokers did not allow you to short because there were no shorts to borrow for that trade. This is common for stocks in high demand for shorts, especially one that is 140% borrowed. Unless you're a professional trader and have acce
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6y ago
...disagree. If you click on the comments on the well known conservative personalities that Parler sends you by default as an "average user', it's all right there. There's no need to search. How much call for violence do
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6y ago
I'd say a good amount of reddit users use their mobile browser rather than us the app because the app is terrible. So to me, the answer is yes.
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I had a {troll} account on there - so I was there everyday. I disagree with your assessment and certainly saw posts calling for violence with essentially every comment on the post supporting it. When you first signup you get connected for a
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6y ago
Seeing how their software is very far from being secure...it's probably very far from optimized, too.
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Pebble Time Steel, could be argued is better than anything anyone has made. Companies adding amoled screen drains battery, complicated OS to jam as many widgets as possible renders them hard to use. Garmin arguable comes closest, but they&#
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They don't need to create it...just have a variant of Linux. It's what the Chinese government does, and there's probably a good reason for it. However, as long as some Microsoft lobbyist can line the pockets of politicians, o
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6y ago
> video conferencing is one of the most challenging software products to deliver The smartest software engineers are in FAAGM, or so I've been told? > Second, F, A, A, G, and M do provide rock solid video conferencing. If they ha
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6y ago
Hold more if she could? Not according to this interview. If we had not taken profits in its ride up from [$]178 to 900 or nearly 1,000, it would’ve been ... maybe over 20% of the fund,” she said. “That would not be wise portfolio management
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If you look at the current fracturing of conservative media...with Trump supporters fleeing to OANN and Newsmax...what you'll get is that an audience would only watch things that reinforces their beliefs for the dopamine hit, and peopl
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