mortehu

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by mortehu 7y ago
Edward Tufte, one of the people who coined the word, explains: https://www.edwardtufte.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id=...
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Most retail brokerages do this, and the information is regularly made public by law. https://www.schwab.com/public/schwab/nn/legal_compliance/imp... shows that Schwab sends less than 1% of orders to exch
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by mortehu 7y ago
> The actual word for word transcript is still stored in the top secret security system it was moved to when it was obvious there was a problem Is it really? Are you sure you're not confused by articles referring to the same documen
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by mortehu 7y ago
Wearing long sleeves while typing, regardless of the weather outside, completely solved my wrist pain problems. I first tried it after reading this post: https://codewithoutrules.com/2016/11/18/rsi-solution&#
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by mortehu 7y ago
It'd likely also require proof of liability insurance.
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Although it's not an experimental condition, the Nordic countries have no minimum wage.
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Again, this is aggregate air pollution, not caused by one individual fossil fuel power plant. My whole point was this distinction. Obviously fossil fuels in aggregate cause lots of death and damage.
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In the case of fossil fuel, this is not an incremental risk per plant. Each fossil fuel plant gives electricity to a similar number of people, but can't individually render a subcontinent uninhabitable.
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by mortehu 7y ago
The coin toss example works when the distribution is unknown, and relies purely on independence and stationarity.
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The most popular size based S&P indices (e.g. S&P 500) have more complicated criteria than just market cap. New constituents must trade more than its market cap every year, must have traded publicly for at least 12 months, and the
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by mortehu 7y ago
It's partially the opposite. Some system calls only accept backlash, but user space programs and libraries may abstract this. E.g. LoadLibrary, which is similar to execve/dlopen.
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by mortehu 7y ago
The other way to look at it is that enemy combatants have no problems using innocent civilians as human shields. If US decided it would not harm human shields, the world would find out, and US would never win another battle again.
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by mortehu 7y ago
Purging user data is one of the most common action attackers take when compromising an account. This makes it prudent for storage service providers to silently delay mass deletions to the extent allowed by their data deletion policy/G
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by mortehu 8y ago
European countries often have a minimum 5 year warranty on electronics sold to consumers, while Apple's extended warranty costs more than 10% for just two years, so that's got to be an important factor too. AppleCare is probably b
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For other confused readers: no emails were leaked, only email addresses.
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Underwriters only get to keep shares if the IPO is undersubscribed by the public. A bigger part of the problem is that many retail brokerages don't allow IPO participation or require huge account balances to do so, so people can't
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by mortehu 8y ago
Using your interpretation, the inability to waive a right means nothing.
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There's no penalty for prompting when consent is not needed, so everyone just decided to prompt of their own volition to minimize legal risk. The law doesn't force sites to prompt, but it effectively forces users to answer prompts
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US spends more tax dollars per capita on health care than Sweden, and most other OECD countries, so the extra tax expense goes to other things. Ignoring of course that your tax calculation is way off. https://www.commonwealthfund
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This is a pretty weak argument since crude oil is a commodity and selling it anywhere reduces its price everywhere.
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The main Gmail desktop website is sort of like a desktop application. Most active users keep it permanently open. Try https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/x/ , https://mail.google.com/mail&#x
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by mortehu 8y ago
The O(N log N) best case only applies to comparison sorts. What's described here is not a comparison sort, and could easily be made O(N) with radix sort if the size of the numeric type is constant.
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by mortehu 8y ago
If you buy E-mini S&P 500 futures, your effective overnight leverage can be up to 22x. You could put part of your money in short term bonds to avoid such extreme leverage. There are also 3x leveraged ETFs you can hold overnight. Of cour
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by mortehu 8y ago
I think you're confusing Chromecast and Google Home. The article you linked is about Chromecast. They don't behave the same way. If you lose access to the original network, a Google Home device needs a factory reset via a button.
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by mortehu 8y ago
I don't think Google Home can forget its configured network without either access to that network, or physical access.
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The 4 digit authentication code prevents you from sending your WiFi password to an evil device.
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by mortehu 8y ago
You can't write to a running executable on Linux either, but you can remove it and create a new file with the same name (optionally atomically with a rename). The old file keeps existing until it's closed. This allows running prog
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Google fixed this specific case and a few others last year: https://blog.google/products/search/improvements-searching-s...
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If you want to delete all cookies and site data, go to the "All cookies and site data" page in settings (chrome://settings/siteData) and click delete all. This also deletes Google cookies. If you just want to brows
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According to SSB, the 75th percentile for full-time system architects in private industry (the highest paid software developer category) in Norway in 2017 was $103K/year. This is close to the 50th percentile for all software engineers

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