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by kenneth 6y ago
Florida also celebrates Thanksgiving / Christmas / New Year. So any comparisons showing CA's abject failure at containing the virus despite some of the harshest lockdown measures (while Florida performs similarly with a far o
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by kenneth 6y ago
I have the same doubts you do about Tether's legitimacy, but there's a few conclusions I believe you're jumping to which I think don't quite hold: - Tether's volumes being greater than other crypto-currencies don&#x
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by kenneth 6y ago
Video of his testimony via Zoom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXNRttPfeSI
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Written testimony of Keith Gill (starter of GameStop mania) to Congress [pdf](financialservices.house.gov)
2 points by kenneth 6y ago|2 comments
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by kenneth 6y ago
I've only ever tried opioids after being a surgery. I was prescribed off oxy to take every 4h. Was supposed to take it for two weeks. Every dose knocked me out and made me feel so uselessly drowsy… I quickly dropped it to one a day and
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by kenneth 6y ago
The value of the debt is 42¢on the dollar. So Citi is down 58% on the book value of the $500M in debt. They lost close to $300M from the mistake.
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by kenneth 6y ago
The idea of Facebook without news honestly sounds wonderful. Only original posts (without any news, links, shares, or any content that's been posted before to avoid memes) would probably be the optimal experience. Where do I sign up fo
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by kenneth 6y ago
I had, surprisingly, the opposite experience when I exasperatedly wanted to cancel my BofA account. I had had it with their awful customer service and simply wanted to never do business with them again. I went into a branch expecting a diff
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Between the Spreadsheets: love, relationships and polyamory with Excel and agile(economist.com)
1 points by kenneth 6y ago|0 comments
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by kenneth 6y ago
Not sure why everyone is assuming Noam is a billionaire. He mentioned he had little equity, and from what I could find that amounted to single-digit millions out of the acquisition's billion-dollar price tag. Of course, compensation si
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by kenneth 6y ago
Absolutely is. It's an intelligence (i.e. spy) agency under the Director of National Intelligence, specializing in signal intelligence (SIGINT)
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by kenneth 6y ago
Oftentimes, media will use imagery or illustration that are there for illustrative purposes. I don't think Bloomberg claimed to be showing actual photographic evidence. Not to mention, oftentimes the story and the presentation come fro
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by kenneth 6y ago
I previously submitted this story a few days ago[1], where it garnered some discussion and a bit over 100 upvotes, but never made the front-page due to some down-weights in HN's algorithm. I'm reposting this story at Daniel's
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Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 Follow-Up](bloomberg.com)
402 points by kenneth 6y ago|214 comments
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by kenneth 6y ago
I noticed that it's commonly accepted that Bloomberg's 2018 stories on the Supermicro hack were bogus, costing them a huge amount of reputational damage. However, Bloomberg stood by the stories. I'm very curious to see how th
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Supermicro Hack: China Exploited a US Tech Supplier over Years [2021 follow-up](bloomberg.com)
150 points by kenneth 6y ago|26 comments
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by kenneth 6y ago
You're essentially you're willing to trade security of critical infrastructure (and potentially risk lives) for the convenience of being able to do your job from home.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Today the thought people can't bear is no longer porn, it's anything remotely not woke. It's any opinion that even slightly diverges from their own.
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by kenneth 6y ago
I just always write ET, PT, MT, CT.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Belgium does a great job of proving that that doesn't quite always work.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Stripping the Monarchy of their lands goes quite a bit further than just abolishing the monarchy. Removing the right to rule a county is one thing. Stripping a wealthy family from all their holdings seems to go a bit too far by any measure
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by kenneth 6y ago
He lives and works mostly in Texas now, and used to live in LA, with some time in SF
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by kenneth 6y ago
The tower only has one apartment per floor, so at least that's one thing they don't need to worry about.
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by kenneth 6y ago
If you're watching a game with friends (as you should be), the pauses are a great to interact, grab a new beer, discuss the plays, etc. That all enhances the game-watching experience. It's far harder to do that in a sport that doe
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by kenneth 6y ago
Still vastly more than most people make in that amount of time
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by kenneth 6y ago
Used to be the claim was sports were racist for not allowing black people to play, now it's racist that they do and that black people succeed at higher rates in sports. When you're looking to claim racism, it doesn't matter w
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by kenneth 6y ago
Turn-based strategy is more fun to play when playing with bots, real-time strategy is more fun to play multi-player. Waiting for others sucks.
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by kenneth 6y ago
Given the UI of Hacker News shows the username only in a tiny grey font that very few people read, has no profile pictures or DM functionality, I seriously doubt that most people being friendly here are trying to get into your pants. This i
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by kenneth 6y ago
Sidenote: are you from Lichtenstein?
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by kenneth 6y ago
At ~1:20:00 in the Clubhouse session with Elon Musk, Vlad is brought in and explains the last week's craziness with GameStop, why Robinhood has to limit trading of GME, AMC, NOK, etc.

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