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by krn 6y ago
> According to [1] and [2], the US has performed twice as many tests per capita as South Korea. That's probably because South Korea managed to quickly contain the spread by starting large-scale testing much much earlier. And its n
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by krn 6y ago
It was probably indirectly explained here: > I know a thing or two about long distance motorcycle travel, but [...] nothing that could generate affiliate income.
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by krn 6y ago
It was separately confirmed to be correct two days later by NBC News[1]: > U.S. spy agencies collected raw intelligence hinting at a public health crisis in Wuhan, China, in November, two current and one former U.S. official told NBC New
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Three Russian doctors fall from hospital windows, raising questions(cnn.com)
3 points by krn 6y ago|2 comments
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by krn 6y ago
I am not surprised, knowing that[1]: > As far back as late November, U.S. intelligence officials were warning that a contagion was sweeping through China’s Wuhan region, changing the patterns of life and business and posing a threat to t
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by krn 6y ago
> To be clear though, most of the time you don't want to own the technology behind the business because if it is deemed faulty and causes a major problem or has a major security bug etc a client can sue not just the business but you
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Ask HN: Can I legally own the entire intellectual property of my SaaS company?
6 points by krn 6y ago|5 comments
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by krn 6y ago
> Because the average bike price is going up it also becomes interesting to steal parts. A decent handlebar + shifters are easy to sell individually. That's an interesting point. Doesn't that make a folding full-size bike the o
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A facial recognition company wants to help with contact tracing(nbcnews.com)
2 points by krn 6y ago|0 comments
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An open-source DAW and live environment, built in SuperCollider (2016)(cdm.link)
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by krn 7y ago
> We had to move off of Stripe because Stripe doesn't handle tax collection and remittance. Chargebee does this on top of Stripe.
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Russian mercy mission to Italy is a front for intelligence gathering(telegraph.co.uk)
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Novosibirsk: 'No risk' after blast and fire at Russian lethal virus lab (2019)(bbc.com)
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by krn 7y ago
> Either positive or negative + a comment, sounds like it would work way better. Exactly. This is how CouchSurfing works. It's just another way of asking "Would you recommend this place / this person to your friend?".
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by krn 7y ago
> I'm not sure this is proven It might not be proven yet, but at least that's what happened to people who survived SARS[1]: > Bruce England was a paramedic on duty in Toronto during the early days of the Sars outbreak and, h
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by krn 7y ago
> How? Running a public DNS service allows Cloudflare and NextDNS to provide faster and smoother DNS updates to their B2B customers by avoiding third-party DNS resolvers and caches.
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by krn 7y ago
> What’s in it for the Cloudflare & NextDNS? It gives them a competitive advantage in DNS industry against other B2B providers, such as NS1.
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by krn 7y ago
> Jokes aside, though, I don't think it's entirely coincidence that SQLite, something that is so good and reliable, was made by someone who seems so conscientious and thoughtful. The same could probably be said about Redis and
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by krn 7y ago
> There is a difference, N26 is an issuing bank. Monzo and Revolut are too: https://monzo.com/blog/2018/06/07/is-monzo-a-bank/ https://blog.revolut.com/we-got-a-banking-licence&#x
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by krn 7y ago
> To an extent, flying is just way too cheap. I mean, I was looking at a roundtrip london/barcelona just last week, it was $25. By train I'm looking at at least 10 hours, likely more like 15, and $300. That's because you a
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by krn 7y ago
> Facebook said it is asking the influencer accounts that posted the Bloomberg memes to retroactively use the tool meant for such posts. After this happens, the posts will be labeled as a "paid partnership" with Bloomberg. >
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by krn 7y ago
Exactly, since Netflix is using highly optimized FreeBSD servers for video streaming[1]: > In the end they are now effectively at 200Gb/s encrypted video streaming from FreeBSD per server. [1] https://www.phoronix.com&#x2
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by krn 7y ago
It's closed-source, but Bitwig Studio[1] is probably the best DAW that supports Linux natively since its initial release in 2014. At least for electronic music production, it's considered on a par with Ableton Live. [1] https:&#x
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by krn 7y ago
At least in Europe, people enjoy living in a society where everyone is more or less economically equal, and there are relatively few benefits of trying to become a multimillionaire. Unlike in the US, wealth usually brings more social isola
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by krn 7y ago
> And how to do that? Especially for those of us in Europe? https://www.degiro.eu/
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by krn 7y ago
The 2000-2002 were an anomaly in the entire 35 years history of Nasdaq-100: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASDAQ-100#Annual_Returns
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by krn 7y ago
Nasdaq-100 dropped by -41.89% in 2008, and then went up by +53.54% in 2009. That's it. The only other negative performance since 2002 was in 2018 (-1.04%). If you are a kind of investor who starts selling off in the middle of an econom
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by krn 7y ago
Most index-fund based retirement investment packages focus on 80/20, 60/40, and 40/60 stock-to-bond split, depending on your current age. Nasdaq-100 or SP-500 can be a part of a medium-risk investment portfolio as long as the
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by krn 7y ago
The absolute low point was in 2008, when Nasdaq-100 went down by -40.54%. The last 15 years: 2019 35.23% 2018 -3.88% 2017 28.24% 2016 7.50% 2015 5.73% 2014 13.40% 2013 38.32% 2012 15.91% 2011 -1.80% 2010 16.91% 2009 43.89% 2008 -40.54% 2007
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by krn 7y ago
That's a good point, but Nasdaq-100 had an average annual return of 13% even when counting from December 31, 2007 – which is before the beginning of the last recession.

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