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by graedus 10y ago
> NAV and market cap are unlinked (as are returns for GBTC vs bitcoin) Unlinked is putting it mildly. The gigantic rally in bitcoin after the drawdown in January was almost entirely missed by GBTC. For example if you bought on 01/1
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by graedus 10y ago
> Right, but the USA has a 4.7 unemployment rate When talking about the headline unemployment rate, it's a good idea to view this seemingly rosy figure in the context of our current ~40 year lows in the labor force participation rat
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by graedus 10y ago
Indeed - it's a term with a nebulous, vague and malleable definition that sounds good to people without any real specificity attached. That's why politicians and pundits love to use it. Another good example might be a politician a
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by graedus 10y ago
Good and relevant article, title should include (2013) though
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by graedus 10y ago
> Are there any dumb TVs at all? It's a good question, and the answer appears to be yes. Here's some discussion about the topic from about a month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13347592
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by graedus 10y ago
Not the OP, but as a starting point: A 100-pack of organic white tea is $7.99 at my local whole foods, and a bit cheaper online - looks like ~$6.50 on amazon. (Green tea is about the same price). ~$0.065 per teabag 1 cup is a serving
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by graedus 10y ago
> After all the 'added expenses' of a upper-middle-class lifestyle You mean if you earn a lot but then make the decision to spend a lot, there's not much money left over, making you middle class? You seem to treat it as a
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by graedus 10y ago
> Zenimax just had to prove that it was more likely than not code had been copied. Isn't the standard in the US that one must "prove beyond a reasonable doubt", which seems like a higher standard than "more likely t
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by graedus 10y ago
All legislation is already backdoored by money and the right connections.
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by graedus 10y ago
He's posting as xxkylexx.
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by graedus 10y ago
> I now see people in the subway using WhatsApp to just send voice messages back and fourth, all the time. This is popular in Buenos Aires as well.
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by graedus 10y ago
http://www.gourmet.com/magazine/2000s/2004/08/consider_the_l... (For those who dislike clicking through 10 pages, or want to save to pocket or similar)
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by graedus 10y ago
> If they were important, the DNC would've been encrypting their emails to protect what they were talking about. Don't you think this vastly overestimates the technical competence and infosec understanding/awareness of the
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by graedus 10y ago
This is cool! I'm not seeing instructions on how to rotate the selected country. Edit: Ah, I see it now in the instructional video. My browser's video controls were obscuring it. You click and drag the compass in the bottom left
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by graedus 10y ago
True - the greater the loss, generally the harder I'll try to prevent it. However, I'll make just two observations. One: of course the potential loss from a divorce is often not equal for both partners, meaning on some level they
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by graedus 10y ago
> Carrying a "get out of jail free card" would me make more reckless during arguments, this increase the chances of failure. This is interesting. Does wearing a seat belt in a car equipped with airbags make you drive more reckl
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by graedus 10y ago
It's a good idea to prepare for risks even if they don't have a 100% chance of occurring ("inevitable"). Your point stands that preparing for a non-zero chance of relationship failure is certainly "unromantic"
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by graedus 10y ago
Agreed on Zebralight. Rock-solid construction, very compact and very powerful.
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by graedus 10y ago
Looks like it's one of GCHQ's developers: https://github.com/n1474335
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by graedus 10y ago
I was curious too - apparently it's a "Guinea", equal to 1.05 GBP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guinea_(coin) "Even after the coin ceased to circulate, the name guinea was long used to indicate the
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by graedus 10y ago
The set of those who frown upon curl ... | sh and the set of those who happily allow a black box to connect to their internet and potentially spy on them must be pretty close to disjoint, no?
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by graedus 10y ago
NYC, fios: github, twitter, soundcloud, heroku back up for me. Tunneling through an ec2 instance on us-east-1d gives the same results - can't find anything that is unreachable now.
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by graedus 10y ago
> Magic preceded the Millennials. I think optimuspaul is referring to Magic the startup. It's a virtual assistant that you text to perform various tasks for you (shopping, booking flights, etc).
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by graedus 10y ago
This appears to be the FBI surveillance plane John Wiseman tracked using a BeagleBone black, an RTL-SDR dongle, dump1090 and PlanePlotter https://twitter.com/lemonodor/status/605825895295651840 http://a
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by graedus 10y ago
Indeed, I use slick regularly. Thanks Ken!
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"It doesn’t feel good when your net worth is a negative number. But many of these debtors aren’t necessarily doing something wrong. It can make sense to borrow when you’re young—to get an education, buy a home, or even sometimes to mee
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by graedus 10y ago
Thanks for providing some color. I found this article with some more background: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/18/fashion/in-china-audi-mean...
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by graedus 10y ago
> As it stands right now, women have nearly all the power in heterosexual relationships What? I think I know where you're coming from, but surely you realize there are many relationships where this is not the case, so it's stra
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by graedus 10y ago
> also things like how color shift when white fades out (it's about different color sensitivity curves in real film) This is my favorite detail - very subtle and authentic looking. I was hoping someone could explain it, thanks for t
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by graedus 10y ago
> There are plenty of place (some large cities - SF I'm looking at you) where black people are pretty rare. Or at least rare in the areas people frequent. I think it will be helpful here to specify what type of people you're ta

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