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by melq 6y ago
>I mean, just think: were there really 100k legitimate Robinhood accounts that were blocked from an HME buy to justify a bad review? With out a doubt. Robinhood has 13 million users according to their own filing with the SEC. WallStreetB
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by melq 6y ago
Couldn't they close their position and still have the short interest go up because of other investors opening new positions? If these institutions are going on record as closing their positions, when they actually havent, aren't t
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by melq 6y ago
Damn I didn't know Spotify had implemented DRM. Back in the day (7 years ago maybe?) they had a low-level C SDK available for anyone to use, I learned alot about data streams and wrote my first ring buffer trying to capture and process
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by melq 6y ago
He may be a scumbag patent troll, but Modernist Cuisine was a hugely important work in the food world. The techniques and recipes in it are most certainly used all the time in professional kitchens. It's a 600 dollar book for restauran
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by melq 6y ago
He definitely isn't a Michelin star chef, technically he isn't even a chef. A chef runs a professional kitchen at a profit, he runs a research lab. I'm sure he's an excellent cook but I don't think he's even wo
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by melq 6y ago
>I'm not sure there are many engineers at Apple that truly understand what makes the M1 perform better. Of course there are, and those people are computer engineers or electrical engineers (and I'm sure many software folks as w
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by melq 6y ago
"I am a musician, not a psychologist or sociologist. If I can do that, anyone can do that. Take the time to talk with your adversaries, you will both learn something." Thanks for the link, that was an incredible talk, and that guy
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by melq 6y ago
If this Forbes article is correct, a nanometer of silicon is about 2 atoms wide. Can't get much smaller than that! https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimhandy/2011/12/14/how-big-is-...
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by melq 6y ago
$600 dollar chair with no adjustable arm rests? No thank you.
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by melq 6y ago
>man, I did not realize that macOS is that complicated. Why is there a "studentd" running? I don't even use Classrooms :/ I find myself running in to the same thing whenever I am poking around my running processes. Th
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by melq 6y ago
So no on-demand instances? I could see this being useful for CI/builds/testing but not if I have to buy 24 hours at a time.
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by melq 6y ago
It's certainly possible, but I don't think it's supported. I'm not just talking about hardware issues, but like general support. As far as I know, if you have a mac under warranty/applecare you can book an appointme
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by melq 6y ago
This is a weird take. I hesitate to accuse you of not reading the study, but calling it an 'article' makes it seem like you just read the headline. The fact that there's a compound that has such a profound effect on the nervo
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by melq 6y ago
I think you're probably right in that this discussion isn't changing anyone's opinion. That said, I don't know how it could be tired, as these laptops were just released. I also don't know what you mean by 'un-
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by melq 6y ago
I don't think you need to measure having a better overall feeling. If someone says they feel poorly then they feel poorly. Suppose there was some object way to measure such a thing, what are you going to do with that metric? Imagine be
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by melq 6y ago
IMO it's not an unreasonable notion to have. I don't think its out of the question that they would change course and lock it down. I'm not saying it's likely or probable, but I don't think it's an unreasonable
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by melq 6y ago
I agree. Not locking the bootloader doesn't mean they're going to embrace running other operating systems. As a long time mac user, the idea of them supporting other operating systems seems really un-Appley to me. What happens if
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by melq 6y ago
>October self-inflicted deaths were up 600 year on year, with female suicides, about a third of the total, surging over 80%. Not quite, about 1/3rd are women, which is 80% higher than last year. Still troubling regardless, of course
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by melq 6y ago
I think the person you're responding to is how you would go about banning it in the first place, not necessarily why you would ban it.
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by melq 6y ago
If the intention was to rehabilitate, then they wouldn't have sentenced a non violent offender to 2 life sentences. Giving someone a life sentence means you (or the justice system at large) are either unwilling or unable to rehabilitat
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by melq 6y ago
Security through obscurity refers to relying upon keeping the details of the security mechanism secret. An API key itself is a secret, but the mechanism for how that key is generated and used is public knowledge. In fact, the reason the bes
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by melq 6y ago
Technically speaking, retribution is a punishment dealt to someone for committing a crime, so any prison sentence is an act of retribution.
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by melq 6y ago
One reason was that the government didn't like the people using the the psychedelics in the first place, and drugs were a convenient justification for going after those people. Marijuana prohibition in the US is the same story.
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by melq 6y ago
Community colleges offer value to people like myself, who for whatever reason did not succeed in high school and would have no other access to higher education (and perhaps couldn't afford it even if they did). In my case, a few semest
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by melq 6y ago
No, what is actually funding those organizations would be the profits of the drugs they are selling. The law may be responsible for creating an environment that allows such groups to prosper, no argument there. But an unjust law doesn'
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by melq 6y ago
I don't believe they do either. For example, it's often said that the death penalty is used as a deterrent, though it is clear from the data that isn't true. https://www.aclu.org/other/death-penalty-quest
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by melq 6y ago
I'm a big fan of the old NPR show Car Talk, and one of the major lessons I've gleaned from it is don't buy something like a Maserati unless you have a burning desire to put your mechanic's children through college.
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by melq 6y ago
Seems to me that almost all technology tends to become both more complex and easier to use over time. What's easier to use, a pdp 11 or an iphone? Or a plane from the 1960s vs a modern one that can fly itself? Making things easier to u
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by melq 6y ago
What do you suppose would happen in the minutes before those tweets are taken down and identified as fraudulent?
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by melq 6y ago
Local papers are just about the best possible news source you can have. Not to mention they are the actual primary sources that your nebulous 'news coverage' would be relying on.

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