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by matco11 5y ago
It means that they looked at the price of Bitcoin and saw that, if they had sold at that price, they would have lost $51mm. This does not mean that they sold the Bitcoins, but that they had to set aside a reserve of money for a potential fu
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by matco11 5y ago
I believe it’s good practice to think about your compensation not only as “what you get for what you do”, but also as “what you get for not doing what you would rather be doing”. Some companies, some products, some teams, some (lower) level
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2021 Nobel Prize in physics: here’s how study of complex systems changed science(theconversation.com)
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Trio of scientists win Nobel Prize for physics for climate work(theguardian.com)
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The Average American Would Pay $242,000 for One Extra Year of Life(future.a16z.com)
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by matco11 5y ago
The content of the article is inconsistent with what is explained by other sources, and, from a quick search, the author seems to be politically involved on the subject. The law was introduced in 1930, during the Fascist era. The Italian C
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Data Scientists Square Off over Trust and Privacy in 2020 Census(bloomberg.com)
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China Port Shutdown Raises Fears of Closures Worldwide(bloomberg.com)
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> This pact aims to keep the rise in global temperatures well below 2C this century and to pursue efforts to keep it under 1.5C. It seems to me that continuing to communicate just the average temperature increase is a missed opportunity
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by matco11 5y ago
A few years ago, I got a little put off by the wasps-fig thing, then, after some research, I found that wasps have nothing to do with the species of figs that are consumed by humans
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Secret 'Jurassic Pompeii' Yields Thousand of 167M Years Old Fossils(bbc.com)
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AWS for Health(aws.amazon.com)
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by matco11 5y ago
For me Clubhouse worked for a few weeks, not a few days… I haven’t used it for the past few months, but I think it’s just a matter of time before they figure things out to make it more usable again: 1) I feel the growth in the number of use
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by matco11 5y ago
Lots of interesting pearls of wisdom. I really enjoyed reading this and found it useful. Perhaps it’s me, but it almost feels like the author perceives that managing a company is the same as making a stack of decisions, and the piece covers
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by matco11 5y ago
>The old privacy policy contained a provision that discouraged children under 13 years old from using the program. After extensive further consultation with our lawyers, we have determined that this provision is unnecessary given the act
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by matco11 5y ago
Perhaps, the system should report two numbers: the % usage of the CPU overall resources and the % usage of the throttled resources. There is no constraint that one has to use only one number. Perhaps, in 2021, CPUs are complex enough to des
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by matco11 5y ago
I am confused. I almost bought the Peloton treadmill months ago and it was pretty clear that the $40 subscription was needed and was on top. To me, the $40 subscription for treadmill is not new news
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by matco11 5y ago
I like this idea, but I am not convinced about how it is applied here. If they could have made this video a 200 years ago, the population on earth would have been 800mm people, instead of 7.7bn people. Same humans, same planet, but ~10x di
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Icahn on Inflation, Investing, and What He Misses About NYC(bloomberg.com)
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by matco11 5y ago
Talc is a mineral in clay mined from underground deposits. It’s the softest mineral known to man and that makes it useful in a wide range of consumer and industrial products. Asbestos is also found underground, and veins of it can often be
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Some vaccines help nations exit the Covid-19 pandemic faster than others(straitstimes.com)
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Waiters Reject Signing Bonuses, Hobbling an $860B Industry(bloomberg.com)
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that’s not what they say it happened. The human remains accumulated there over time. From the article: > Experts believe the individuals lived in different time periods. Some bones could be as old as 50,000 to 68,000 years, whereas the m
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Bond Market’s Inflation Bulls Get Powell Go-Ahead to Double Down(bloomberg.com)
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Inflation
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Why Flying a Helicopter on Mars Is a Big Deal(bloomberg.com)
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by matco11 5y ago
Amazing of you to share this. It will get better. You will feel better. I understand how you feel now, but (I am sure) very many people out there would rather trust their data to (a future) you given how careful you have been, how much you
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by matco11 5y ago
Sounds great. Maybe, in addition to working on price segmentation, one way to leverage the behavior (“stickiness” as you call it) of your users is to create a mechanism to make them refer new customers to you: you can create an inexpensive
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by matco11 5y ago
Because the discount rate of the yearly plan is financially very attractive (17% off), there are really two main reasons people go for the monthly option: 1) they are unsure if they are going to like your product enough to be willing to go
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Earth-300 a nuclear-powered super-yacht(superyachts.com)
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