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by maartenscholl 3y ago
I'd be interested to know if Amazon has a client risk group, because I've seen a few of such large monthly bills, and I sure hope they don't settle these in arrears at such a low frequency as monthly payments.
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
I think we get an apparent contradiction because of how we stratify the data. According to the CDC/KFF study, firearms are still the leading cause of death for people age 1-19, and substance use is only 6th in the list for that age gro
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
How is the headline deceptive? If you can trust the source, the statistic holds for individuals aged 1-17, as is written in the first sentence: "In 2020 and 2021, firearms contributed to the deaths of more children ages 1-17 years in t
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
Firearms are the leading cause of death for children in the US. That is not the case in other wealthy countries. According to this article https://www.kff.org/global-health-policy/issue-brief/child-a...
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
This spells bad news for "MICROSOFT B.V.", the famous Dutch software company that has reported being responsible for billions of revenue of the Microsoft Corporation over those years.
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
The reference to the Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) here is puzzling. Foremost, the strongest form of the EMH implies that consistent outperformance is not possible, contradicting the rest of the writing and what I believe is its main po
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
Then you can't claim they both rhyme, because I didn't provide that context...
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
Thank you for the English lesson, but you claim you've never encountered ambiguous overloaded identifiers that you couldn't resolve while developing a parser? "He took the lead"?
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
In these studies advocating for the unyielding rigor of statically-typed languages, it's amusing that the authors choose to express their arguments in English: a language where "read" and "lead" rhyme, but "rea
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
This online etymology dictionary (etymonline.com/word/sick) says that: The restricted meaning of English sick, "having an inclination to vomit, affected with nausea," is from 1610s. Usage and etymology may differ, even i
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by maartenscholl 3y ago
There is a graph showing the house prices in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and an arrow pointing at 1971 - but unlike the US, the Netherlands left the gold standard already in 1936, and according to that graph the house prices went lower fo
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by maartenscholl 4y ago
I read that and I don't think it contradicts my comment, as the firm had the Dutch entity and thus the knowledge of Dutch labour laws at the time of the firing. This is contrary to what the parent supposes.
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by maartenscholl 4y ago
If you'd read the second sentence of the article, you would have learned that the company has a branch in the Netherlands.
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Citadel ditches Chicago for Miami following crime complaints(ft.com)
10 points by maartenscholl 4y ago|8 comments
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by maartenscholl 4y ago
No. 12, Miranda Castle, was completely demolished several years ago
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by maartenscholl 5y ago
I got microsimulation, which exists and even has a Wikipedia page Link /vL5R
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by maartenscholl 5y ago
In Google's Book Ngram Viewer, prepone shows up in a higher percentage of texts in the early 1800s than in text from the past two decades. However, I don't know how accurate the corpus is for those old texts.
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by maartenscholl 6y ago
The same company issued a long maturity (1000-year) bond, which on the trading floor became known as the Ultra Long Dong, and broke many many trading applications that used 64 bit nanosecond timestamps.
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by maartenscholl 11y ago
"expertsexchange" only matches the Chinese “cha”, and not "sex" or "sexchange".
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by maartenscholl 11y ago
I think this should also do a phoneme based comparison, for example the photo sharing website Flickr is pronounced like this word (as a slang word it is well known) https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flikker
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by maartenscholl 11y ago
I hash the personal question using a common hashing algorithm together with (another) passphrase.
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by maartenscholl 14y ago
I like that bicycling is gaining in popularity outside of my country (The Netherlands), but do you need to re-invent the wheel every time? Simple (theft-resistant) reflector strips have been the norm here for a long time: http://www.fietse
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by maartenscholl 14y ago
The Soviet Mars-2 and Mars-3 missions were quite successful (orbiting and landing). Here is a gallery of mars images 1971-1974[1] The soviets were also the first to land on Luna in 1966 [2] and on Venus in 1975[3] [1] http://www.mentallands
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by maartenscholl 14y ago
6.7% down. It looks like it's already passing it's 30-day VMA. This is bad news because the unfreezing dates have been known since IPO, and the large volume implies that people are eager to liquidate their shares.
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by maartenscholl 14y ago
There are relatively low volumes but steady price gains over the past month. This could be a sign that a lot of people want to get into the market quickly without reasoning about the price. When we look in the order book of one of the large
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by maartenscholl 14y ago
Batteries don't last and you need access to them in order to replace them, making theft easier. There are systems that integrate a dynamo in the chassis of the bike. It's also more environmentally friendly because you provide the power for
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by maartenscholl 14y ago
Concerning the design of the bikes, I think there is still room for improvement. The designers can look at the design of the Public Transportation Bike ("OV-Fiets") in the Netherlands[1] which was a major success in a country where there al
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by maartenscholl 14y ago
If you like reducing programs to basic expressions you should read into SKI combinator calculus and the X combinator. Here is a paper that describes the construction of an efficient X combinator[1]. Reading the paper gave me insight in how
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by maartenscholl 14y ago
Here is another image not shown in the article: http://instagram.com/p/N-9yeZoC7_/
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Alexei Navalny, Russian Opposition Leader, Finds Bug In His Office(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by maartenscholl 14y ago|1 comments

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