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by jeffwass 9y ago
Probably not too differently from how equity exchange products deal with corporate events like mergers and spinoffs.
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by jeffwass 9y ago
For "Show, don't Tell," Anton Chekhov summed it up best, much more succinct than your quote from the article : "Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass." That brief quote a
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Back in 2nd grade my friend got a small snickers bar at school that he discovered had a hole in the wrapper and a same size/shape hole also extending further into the candy bar. I recall it being a small squarish kind of hole, you coul
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Twitter urged firms to delete data during 2016 campaign(politico.com)
44 points by jeffwass 9y ago|13 comments
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The following line (in the next paragraph) is good too : "Unfortunately, Twain was not so astute in his choice of parents."
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I've felt that SUV drivers should be required to pay much higher insurance premiums, as per a 'danger' factor. You choose to drive a dangerous vehicle, you need to pay higher insurance for it. On a similar note it's also
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Our Amazon delivery person recently left our packages in the garbage can in front of our house. Didn't even bother to put a note through the mail slot saying "your packages are in the bin". Luckily my wife found them.
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Could it be Brett? First time I noticed this taste in a wine my thought was of Band-Aids. Apparently that's a nottoo-uncommon description. http://www.decanter.com/features/the-misunderstood-world-of-...
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Could ayahuasca have health benefits?(bbc.co.uk)
146 points by jeffwass 9y ago|150 comments
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I have a PhD in physics, and this is exactly how I learned the material. I mean, really learned it. I did fine in plain math classes, but never quite connected with the material. Calculus and linear algebra both really only 'clicked&#
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by jeffwass 9y ago
If you're in the USA start with ARRL. Find a local HAM club and go to some meetings. http://www.arrl.org/getting-licensed Find a club : http://www.arrl.org/find-a-club
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by jeffwass 9y ago
This isn't interesting, particularly comparing number of qubits in start-of-the-art to number of bits of memory classical computers had in the old days. Ie - the article mentions a potential 40-qubit machine for their enterprise custom
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by jeffwass 9y ago
My uncle was a doctor in Kansas City at a pediatric hospital. He was a toxicologist, and specialist in brown recluse spider bites. The author of this piece and my uncle most likely knew each other well, it seems they've published paper
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Below is a slightly-modified comment I wrote 59 days ago on benefits of Duodecimal (Base-12) over Decimal and Hexadecimal. Sexagesimal takes the benefits of Duodecimal further by introducing a nice factor of five into the mix, though at the
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Equifax says 400,000 U.K. customers were affected by hack(money.cnn.com)
4 points by jeffwass 9y ago|1 comments
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Not to mention that EV's powered by fossils fuel power plants provide cleaner air where people are. Further, a few large plants can better filter particulates and other exhaust more efficiently than millions of smaller engines in every
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Many American companies (including most or all YC startups) do the same, incorporating in the low-tax state of Delaware for favourable tax treatment even though the company's offices and bulk of revenue-generation are elsewhere.
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by jeffwass 9y ago
I was surprised they didn't even use a link on their main equifax domain, but set up a new one that could just as well been any phisher.
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The color purple: How an accidental discovery changed fashion forever(edition.cnn.com)
5 points by jeffwass 9y ago|0 comments
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by jeffwass 9y ago
>Thy are pale pink compared to the vibrant rich red of the wild. Meat colour can be deceiving (at least for land-based mammals). Eg - Some American supermarkets treat meat with carbon monoxide to keep it bright red for days. http:/
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Was about to say the same. Scrivener is your friend here, and it's not even $130
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Reminds me of the old joke about grouping parts into three bins : Military-spec, commercial grade, and Radio Shack.
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by jeffwass 9y ago
One of the first pics in that article comes from an earlier chip he previously reviewed - the Intel 3101. I'm proud to say my dad provided Ken with those two Intel 3101 chips. Ken's review of the 3101 is here: http://ww
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Coincidentally I just decided a few days ago to ditch caffeine for awhile. Last week I had terrible sleep, from 3-5 hours a night. Even though I was exhausted during the day, I still couldn't fall asleep at night. I only drink two cups
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by jeffwass 9y ago
But you're also putting faith in the person who prepared it that it truly is decaf. I've been burned by getting regular coffees at restaurants and coffee machines when I ordered decaf. I wonder how hard it would be to have a &quot
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by jeffwass 9y ago
Vulcan was 'invented' when the orbit of Mercury didn't match our theory of [non-relativistic] gravity. Then recanted when we improved our knowledge of gravitation. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulcan_(
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by jeffwass 9y ago
this one, which I assume you are referring to, is a classic. The one I had from the 80's had a green cover. http://www.forrestmims.com
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by jeffwass 9y ago
A "medical university"? Strange, I wonder how I did my PhD in experimental condensed matter physics there :-) It's a general research-focused university, like MIT. The oldest research-based university in the USA in fact. Tho
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by jeffwass 9y ago
As a former Baltimore resident, what exactly makes you think Baltimore fails the sniff test? For example, Johns Hopkins University is IIRC the highest-funded research-focused university in the USA. (Edit - adding link to support above : Joh
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by jeffwass 9y ago
You're greatly overestimating the difficulty of migration of diesel to petrol. Also you say to "give it time". Why, that's 30 people a day, a Grenfell disaster every 3 days. Will you personally apologise to the families

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