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The Life and Death of Tart Frozen Yogurt(tastecooking.com)
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by gniv 7y ago
"Qualcomm Inc. shares fell the most in more than two year" That's technically correct, but misleading. The stock is still 20% higher than it was on April 15, 2019. (57 then, 69 now).
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by gniv 7y ago
There is another dynamic here: Small cities are trying harder to attract workers. Here is a nice writeup illustrating this: https://annehelen.substack.com/p/this-land-is-your-land
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by gniv 7y ago
First thing I did after reading the article was to check the recovery options of my gmail account. Here's a direct link, takes one minute to audit yours: https://myaccount.google.com/u/0/security?hl=en
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by gniv 7y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19964089
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by gniv 7y ago
> She was able to match a palm print recovered from the elevator control panel, and lifted during initial crime scene processing, to those taken from Wypych in 1971 when he was arrested for larceny, SPD said. So, why didn't they at
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by gniv 7y ago
I called a few times to ask the pharmacy hours, which are shorter than the main store's.
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by gniv 7y ago
Can you say more? Which peerweb? Looking at the search results for "peerweb" [1], none of them seems like a serious active project. [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=peerweb
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by gniv 7y ago
I think it's one of the two quizzes here: http://www.gameswithwords.org/quizzes Edit: It's the "Which English" quiz, as per this article: http://news.mit.edu/2018/cognitive-scientist
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> Uber isn't rolling profit back into the company like Amazon They kind of are. It’s just a matter of timing. They are rolling future profits, bankrolled by VC.
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by gniv 7y ago
But that's what you said: > "make shitloads of money selling everyone's personal information to advertisers." It's a very important difference between trusting Google with the data, and trusting a random advertis
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by gniv 7y ago
After going up by the same amount in the last two weeks. I've seen this pattern in previous quarters: irrational increase in the days before earning, then a fall back to the same price. Not sure what's happening, could be option&#
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by gniv 7y ago
"One standard antidote to foolish optimism is trained, habitual use of the simple probability math of Fermat and Pascal." If somebody read the book, I'd like to understand what he means. Why does he think people are generally
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by gniv 7y ago
I misread the title. The article is about the rate of adoption of new releases. Personally, I think it's due to people keeping their phones longer (and, of course, carriers not passing on the major updates).
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335 and 295
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by gniv 7y ago
> I 'wash' my rice several times before it goes in the rice cooker. I wonder what percent of the arsenic I'm removing. Very little apparently: https://youtu.be/H_Lui1v2A1M?t=135
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by gniv 8y ago
Hmm. So my rearview camera in my car just died and a bit of research revealed it's a common problem with this car model. Maybe I should try to fix it.
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by gniv 8y ago
If you paid 10 years into social security, you are eligible for payments, wherever you are in the world.
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by gniv 8y ago
I have recently learned about Janteloven, and it was a revelation when trying to understand the people in the Nordic countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
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The news are driven by political interests. The actual investments are driven by potential for profit. Wind is big business in Texas, Oklahoma, Iowa, for example. Texas alone generates more than a quarter of its electricity from wind, but y
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by gniv 8y ago
> Is Lyft losing money because they are offering a service below cost or because they are spending on marketing to acquire and protect market share? I would say the latter mostly. See page 17 of their S-1: https://www.sec.gov&
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by gniv 8y ago
Is that illegal though (wrongly blocking a video)? If it isn’t, YT can just shrug it off.
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by gniv 8y ago
> is taxed under the Bush era cap gains values of only 15% Not really. A lot of it is taxed as income when vested, as mrep mentioned. And if you do keep them long term, at that level of income the long-term cap gains tax is 20%. And ther
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> after including the $2,750 Federal tax credit, Small typo: $3,750
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> IMO, you shouldn't ask people to sort recyclable materials at home I don't know where you are, but I think your opinion is colored by the status quo in your country. In a lot of places in Europe people do sort them, and from
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by gniv 8y ago
Answering my own question: it still exists, it's on the right-click menu.
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I think bird's eye view was the angled view, which seems to have disappeared? I cannot find it.
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I think the meaning here was ideas that are assumed widely used, and the surprising value is in the fact that they are not widely used, and the need to be spelled out.
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Yes it’s hard but there are mature solutions. See Google Spanner for example.
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> No mention of ending inflation Did you mean to say "No mention of ending low inflation"? Otherwise your comment doesn't make sense to me.

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