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by kissickas 6y ago
Alphabet is selling some record amount of corporate bonds, which OP states they're using to finance this purchase (and that they raised 12.8 times this amount so there's plenty left to make more acquisitions). More detail on Alpha
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by kissickas 6y ago
I don't read HN on mobile, but I'm having the same problem on Firefox 77.0.1 for Linux Mint.
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by kissickas 6y ago
Exactly - a change in the rules would cause investment managers to more appropriately risk oil assets.
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by kissickas 6y ago
With video here: https://alexisohanian.com/home/2020/6/5/what-did-you-do (javascript required)
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by kissickas 6y ago
We don't know the mechanisms of plenty of things that we accept as proven with scientific principles, like most of pharmacy. And what about physics before Newton? Or before Einstein? In fact, we still don't know exactly how gravit
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by kissickas 6y ago
You had me for a second with the survey comment, but we don't know the mechanism for a lot of biology and that doesn't mean it's not a science. In fact, we didn't understand most of the things we take for granted today b
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by kissickas 6y ago
Spotify is available in many countries that appear dark on the map, such as 13 countries in the Middle East and North Africa. https://investors.spotify.com/events/events-calendar/event-d...
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by kissickas 6y ago
NYT is currently publishing a series of podcasts called "Rabbit Hole" which, in its latest episode, portrayed PewdiePie as a misunderstood guy who is definitely not a white nationalist or alt-right. That said, what you are saying
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by kissickas 6y ago
Interesting how you can just create water from bacteria - I wonder if that's intentional or just a workaround to avoid taking matter out of the system when bacteria die.
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Couchsurfing on the verge of closure, removes all third-party advertising(blog.couchsurfing.com)
3 points by kissickas 6y ago|0 comments
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by kissickas 6y ago
In addition to the point raised by wool_gather, why do you need a paper trail with non-anonymous voting? The votes never need to be re-counted, as far as I know. A senator would surely notice if a "yea" appeared next to her "
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by kissickas 7y ago
> On a wet weight basis the Asiatic clam clearance rate here averaged 19X higher than the native mussel. No wonder these things are taking over our waterways (along with zebra mussels, also briefly mentioned). > Although the proposal
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Factorization of RSA-250(lists.gforge.inria.fr)
29 points by kissickas 7y ago|5 comments
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by kissickas 7y ago
I was going to comment the same - definitely not going to be watching movies with the family on this site :D What is the meaning behind the name?
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by kissickas 7y ago
They had already announced that the tournament would be held without audiences (and presumably food service workers and so on) yesterday.
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by kissickas 7y ago
> Robinhood said last week that a confluence of factors -- record account sign-ups along with highly volatile and historic market conditions -- led to unprecedented stress on the firm’s infrastructure. > That heavy load caused the so-
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by kissickas 7y ago
This is why I will never use a centralized exchange again.
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by kissickas 7y ago
Discussion on the Washington Post's great exposé 23 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22297963
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by kissickas 7y ago
I didn't realize that about the original predictions for the Kuwaiti oil well fires, that's interesting. They are still cleaning up the oil from the sands on the eastern coast of Saudi Arabia 30 years later though.
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by kissickas 7y ago
Ah thanks, by default. From what I gather from the study, if you disable telemetry and don't use Google/Yahoo in the search bar, you're good to go.
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by kissickas 7y ago
I'm uninformed. By what metric is Brave better than Firefox on privacy? I did some quick research and could only find clearly biased (and poorly-written) sources making that claim.
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by kissickas 7y ago
The reddit thread (where it was originally posted) has some good discussion. https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1dqh7d/after_seein...
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by kissickas 7y ago
I've been running FF on Fedora for the last 14 months with no problems. I typically have 20-40 tabs open, but then again, I'm also using NoScript so maybe 10-20 of those tabs are not doing so much damage to my performance. (The on
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by kissickas 7y ago
Larger discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22289826
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by kissickas 7y ago
> Research communities are unanimous in acknowledging the value of peer review > 82% agreed that standard peer review ensures high-quality work gets published How common is the view that peer review only serves as an institutional gat
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by kissickas 7y ago
Opt-out link: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=facerec
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by kissickas 7y ago
It could still be problematic if "With regards to transparency and records keeping requirements, Foote said he 'cannot confirm if any personnel have Signal or Wickr settings which allow auto-delete of messages at this time.'&
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by kissickas 7y ago
No need for "some scumbag" when "someone" will suffice. The original title was "Why Your Brain Needs Exercise" (the article title) which is highly misleading - looks like it fooled you too - so I agree with the
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by kissickas 7y ago
That keyboard-centric design for GUIs (I clearly have never taken a design class) is what makes Reddit Enhancement Suite such an effective product, in my opinion. HN's interface is possibly just as effective in that it discourages me f
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by kissickas 7y ago
Love the travel alarm clock on sale for $3.95. Those will probably be on sale for the next 20 years.

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