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by hahajk 6y ago
I guess you have to ask what gives stocks value in the first place... especially tech stocks that don’t issue dividends.
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by hahajk 6y ago
> Depending on the net of buys/sells, RH is on the hook to pay or recieve that net cash. That’s credit risk. Except in RH case, their customers have already transferred money from their bank account to RH. RH should have 100% of the
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by hahajk 6y ago
Ha, you didn’t even see the 30% that the restaurant paid Uber for your order. https://restaurants.ubereats.com/us/en/pricing/
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by hahajk 6y ago
Luckily when I needed to install Acrobat Pro for a month I suspected Adobe was running such a scam so I used a Privacy credit card. After I finished with their product I paused the card and sent customer support an email asking to cancel (s
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by hahajk 6y ago
The Space Liability Convention basically says that all space objects are tied to a nation. While that law is designed to make international disputes easier to handle (India can sue the US instead of SpaceX for instance), i think it prevents
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by hahajk 6y ago
https://github.com/HexHive/printbf well this is a brainfuck interpreter inside printf. I’m pretty sure there are plenty of c-to-bf transpilers.
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by hahajk 6y ago
I found an article that says that OEMs pay around $10 for a Windows license, at least for tablets. If I was buying a new computer I’d probably keep Windows installed for $10 just in case I needed to dual boot some time in the future.
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by hahajk 6y ago
> Of course, those people were caught and that goes against the "not detect this problem" part. We just never heard about the ones that weren’t caught ;)
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by hahajk 6y ago
I also heard that having its own power grid makes it an appealing place to build data centers. Especially for the military who are worried about power-grid-hacking.
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by hahajk 6y ago
Keeping information from the public to avoid mass hysteria is one thing, but keeping information from hospitals so they don’t have to implement prohibitive protocols is daft. If the healthcare response would be unreasonable, the right thing
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by hahajk 6y ago
and if you start implementing these sanity checks, they better be everywhere. Operators will start to rely on them and might become careless - they believe the system will catch any egregious typo. The one spot where the sanity check isn’t
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by hahajk 6y ago
You say risk has 2 or 3 components. The two you list, liklihood and severity, are the two I usually hear. What is the third?
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by hahajk 6y ago
The good news (for now) is most of these low cost satellites are going into LEO and will deorbit on their own, even if something goes wrong with their planned deorbit (like a collision).
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by hahajk 6y ago
How does that work?
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by hahajk 6y ago
The person you’re responding to is saying that such licenses are not legal in the EU.
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by hahajk 7y ago
Well yeast already produces alcohol!
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by hahajk 7y ago
Probably not supposed to be open. Although technically anything developed by the govt is public domain...
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by hahajk 7y ago
It reminds me of something I read in response to that question (I can’t remember where): People love to place things in tidy categories; nature doesn’t.
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by hahajk 7y ago
One application that seems to me like it should be a natural fit for Prolog is building a (human) schedule: class goes from 8-4, a student cannot take two classes simultaneously, Joe is not available on Wednesdays, etc. I forget the specifi
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by hahajk 7y ago
Yes, it’s displaced water... So I’m guessing the trapped air bubbles here increase the displacement of the water while only adding the weight of the air? It seems like such a small amount of displacement you’d get from these tiny air bubble
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by hahajk 7y ago
omg if I saw a 46 year old climbing around a playground by himself, I would... keep my child close to be sure. Is that the right reaction to have? I think it probably is.
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by hahajk 7y ago
Would you recommend any English translations?
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by hahajk 7y ago
> Many consumer applications, particularly modern ones, keep their users on rails. Predefined UX paths that execute pre-defined algorithms on data provided by the user. The user is typically hopeless to solve any problem not explicitly a
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by hahajk 7y ago
> What? Why? Putting devs on something that will provide benefit rather than might is hardly a firing offense. I simply don't believe you. I don’t work at Amazon but failing to see past your own team’s mission and missing your role
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by hahajk 7y ago
Don’t plants convert CO2 into O2 and sugar, meaning the CO2 no longer exists? When the tree dies what mechanism causes CO2 to be released?
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by hahajk 7y ago
Are you upset that the artists just get a jpeg where some of the artistic choice has already been made (like posing and lighting)? Or do you disagree with portraiture in general as an art form?
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by hahajk 7y ago
Usually when someone says “synthetic data” they mean CGI, not simply transformations of existing data. Using synthetic data is fraught (and presumptuous), as you are assuming you understand the problem domain 100% and are also extremely goo
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by hahajk 7y ago
Negotiate with whom? I don’t think there’s anyone at the hospital you’ll have access to that can guarantee you a lower price (or can probably even tell you what the price will be). After you’ve had the treatment and finally given the bill
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by hahajk 8y ago
I’m always surprised how much a small typo early in a reading can affect my opinion of what might otherwise be a very well-done paper.
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by hahajk 8y ago
That sounds like Reader View. I don’t think copyright law requires rendering the entire webpage exactly as the server requests.

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