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by nknealk 6y ago
Seconding render. I host a Hugo site with them. Their free tier is pretty feature-rich and I love the automated builds. My site is set up so that any push to the main branch on a private github repo gets automatically checked out, compiled
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by nknealk 6y ago
The FDA can (and will) audit anything and everything you do for approved drugs/treatments. There are no trade secrets in medicine. This is why companies patent things. You literally can’t hide information about something that’s about t
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by nknealk 6y ago
Ya. I'd really question how you can get 5%-10% yield in some of these deals. Risk and yield are generally very correlated. How much more counterparty risk are you really taking compared to treasuries which yield nearly 0%? Lots of time
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by nknealk 6y ago
In your citation [0], table 3. "No counterparty risk" on bitcoin is listed as "High" and "Moderate" for treasuries. It also lists real estate and gold as having more volatility than bitcoin. I would question so
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by nknealk 6y ago
Probably the most important line: To reinforce our long-term commitment to providing global access to affordable and flexible world-class learning, on February 1, 2021, we amended our certificate of incorporation to become a Delaware public
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The offer letters to key executives dated 2019 contain the following. Looks like they were doing flexible work long before COVID hit: "We currently offer all salaried, SF-based employees to work from anywhere they want on Tuesday and T
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by nknealk 6y ago
I just upgraded from a 2017 12" macbook to an M1 air. It's day and night in terms of performance across the board. I love the fanless design and the M1 air runs cooler than the 12". Also the keyboard is much better.
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Their single biggest expense is “commission and other transaction related expenses” which clocks in at just over 3B. I don’t know how much control they really have over commissions.
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by nknealk 6y ago
M1 air used mostly for VSCode and web browsing. I regularly see swap in the 1-3 GB range. I think I have < 100 hours of usage. SMART/Health Information (NVMe Log 0x02) Critical Warning: 0x00 Temperature:
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by nknealk 6y ago
I played D2 regularly all through my teenage years. I think it might be one of the most exploited games ever which was half of what made it fun: * There were a variety of ways to duplicate items online. One really popular and well known one
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by nknealk 6y ago
> This ends in hyperinflation. Except for the part where the fed said (and continues to say) it would raise rates if it saw sustained high inflation
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> The difference between the PySpark & Scala APIs confuse the hell out of people I personally had this experience when first wanting to learn spark, and it really turned me off to the whole spark ecosystem. Curious if you have any su
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by nknealk 6y ago
It’s worth noting that, while this is true, the reason the fed exists is because if they didn’t do that, we’d have bread lines. I’d argue that recent fed actions are the reason supermarket shelves aren’t barren which is in the interest of a
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> Insurance Companies play a similar game, based on the observation that a promise is a sellable good, and with enough statistics about various events occurring and their likelihoods, one can sell an unfair (worse than even) chance to re
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by nknealk 6y ago
Yes, because in the long run the equity will increase in value by the amount the currency has been debased holding all other things constant. Put another way, if a currency is debased by 20%, businesses will raise prices or reduce costs to
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by nknealk 6y ago
If you look at the fourth table, the 15W config allows for 6 seconds of turbo at 42W. Which probably explains why the benchmark isn't very different between the 35W and 15W configurations. The processor probably just draws 42W for the
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by nknealk 6y ago
Ministry for the future. It imagines a future where global warming goes unmitigated. I don’t want to spoil anything beyond that. Fantastic glimpse into what our future may hold.
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by nknealk 6y ago
The loan was collateralized by shares, not used to purchase shares. Also the founder got a sweetheart deal on the interest rate. “ The loan [to our founder] accrues interest at a rate per annum equal to the long-term federal rate establishe
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by nknealk 6y ago
Anyone else notice the Adam Newman style loans to the founder in the footnotes? " (ii) cash proceeds to our Founder in an amount of $125 million, (iii) a loan to an entity controlled by our Founder in an amount of $119.0 million, as de
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I remember my first introduction to the hacking scene was installing custom firmware on the PSP. It allowed over clocking the processor to 333mhz which made god of war run smoothly
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Like the Sunday crossword but SQL puzzles instead. Currently working on a back catalog of content and hope to launch later this year.
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In the USA, we do the same thing, but with apples. Many grocery stores will carry like 10 different kinds of apples. I personally love honeycrisp and opal.
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by nknealk 6y ago
Possibly a dumb one but do you allow your browser to share your location? On mobile if you have location sharing enabled, most devices will allow the browser to get coarse GPS location
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There are a variety of comments saying that discount rates are going to 0 because of fed actions which therefore justifies high asset prices. Another version of this story is “the fed printed cash and it has to go somewhere”. While it is tr
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A more interesting question might be: what is the evolutionary pressure that caused convergence towards aging across essentially all multicellular living things on earth?
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I want to see the dinosaurs
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by nknealk 6y ago
Just a thought — as far as I know, the degrees granted by online programs (like an MSc) are exactly the same degree as what’s granted by an in person program. You’re not required to disclose on your resume that the MSc was earned virtually.
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by nknealk 6y ago
We actually had a case study on the groupon accounting scandal as part of my MBA. In a nutshell, they claimed the retailer’s cut of the revenue in their financials improperly which arguably overstated their market power. Other interesting t
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by nknealk 6y ago
The shape of the first chart is really interesting to me. The M1 has a positive linear slope from 1 to 4 clients. Then from 4 to 8 clients the slope is essentially zero, maybe slightly positive. And then beyond 8 the slope goes negative. Th
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I’ve had the same brother printer since college. Started in 2008. It still works great. Seconding brother as a cheap and reliable brand.

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