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by kchoudhu 4y ago
Actually, the US government has released oil from the SPR while simultaneously undertaking to buy oil in the future at a given price (i.e. engaged in the futures market) in an effort to control the oil futures term structure. This not only
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by kchoudhu 4y ago
Yes, absolutely.
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by kchoudhu 4y ago
Oh, Lenovo is shipping laptops? The cancellation of the last three orders I attempted to place with them left me under the impression that they weren't shipping them anymore...
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by kchoudhu 4y ago
"You can pay the fine, or spend tens of thousands of dollars to do something no one has had any issue with for decades." Seem reasonable?
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by kchoudhu 4y ago
That's on the LCC, not the aggregator. They don't want to pay commission, and that's fine. If you want to fly on them you have to actually go on their website.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
Just goes to show how quickly you can deplete literally two decades of goodwill.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
The parallels are legion (unfortunately).
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
This rings true. I live in Doha and a very good family friend is an instructor in the local flag carrier's training program. He was recently bemoaning the following situation: 1. There was a go-around on some flight or other (for good
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
Is the point of health insurance to increase health, or to insure against catastrophic health failure?
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
Yup, my traders are getting the "sorry!" error when trying to log into QuickSight, so looks like another great day at AWS.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
At this point I have no idea why anyone would put anything in us-east-1. Also isolation is not as good as they would have you believe: I am unable to login to AWS Quicksight in us-west-2...
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
This resonates because my entire professional persona is Career Idiot Asks Questions. It's worked out reasonably well and acted as a filter for professional situations where I definitely would have been very, very unhappy.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
And we care about what this twitter random thinks about monetary policy because...?
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
Just define a small universe of allowable ETFs and options on those ETFs and be done with it. This is not hard.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
Good.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
The first thing that irritated me when I moved to Qatar was how it was impossible to access a wide variety of US sites from foreign countries: my local trash service, Southwest Airlines... the list went on and on and on. I ended up standing
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
Somehow the text is not just... kubectl -n my-ns delete pod,svc --all
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
Most consistently excellent AWS product: it's a simple thing that does a simple job with minimal hassle. I suspect it will save me the trouble of ever having to run messaging infrastructure again.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
Naturally: policing is after all a state sponsored service.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
If you want to opt out of taxes, the legal remedy you are seeking is renunciation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statelessness#United_States
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
I like this. * Remove access to healthcare * Revoke driver's licenses * Remove access to courts I agree that while the government doesn't own you, you still operate inside the collective and have obligations towards it. Of course,
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
I've been using pkgsrc to package our firm's stuff for Mac OS X clients, it works a charm. https://www.anserinae.net/setting-up-a-pkgsrc-repository.htm... Currently working on using it to distribute the same softw
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
This is what the financial industry does. There's a secured "extranet" that everyone runs FIX on top of. For the most part, it works.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
Oh no.
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by kchoudhu 5y ago
I'll bid if it comes with a guarantee that the author can never say he went to Harvard again.
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by kchoudhu 6y ago
Somehow missing (6), which is calling a fellow professional or coworker "immature".
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by kchoudhu 6y ago
Aid.
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by kchoudhu 6y ago
This is why I insist on data and root partitions on all the machines I administer. Go ahead and kill the data partition, at least the root partition will keep the system up and running.
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by kchoudhu 6y ago
CUSIP?
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by kchoudhu 6y ago
But the distinction is useful because it paves the way for something everyone wants, which is seamless upgrades without user intervention. The fewer places the user touches something, the fewer decision points the upgrade process has to dea

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