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Does it measure performance vs the market? E.g. If I followed Nancy Pelosi's disclosed trades on the day that she disclosed them in accordance with her minimum allocations, I would outperform S&P 500 by 7.7% pa? Btw, I think someth
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GMail has been making it harder to sign into old accounts, forcing me to verify my device and also add a phone number to my old email accounts, and then sometimes still refuses to let me sign in.
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Nothing is wrong with a good-faith question asked out of an honest curiosity. Have you looked at which countries were identified as high risk back in April 16 2020? https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/04/16/sri-lank
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This article is being dismissed because it is not a good-faith question, nor is it being asked out of an honest curiosity.
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It's not just that Israel is one of the most dense countries in the world. https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries... Tel Aviv is one of the most dense cities in the world. https://
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> Nevertheless the titular question deserves to be raised Does it though? Or is it "just asking questions" about the competence of experts and "the media"?
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Tech valuations have doubled over the last four years. The simplest heuristic is price/sales ratios. Money losing companies that are doubling their revenue are currently going for nosebleed ps ratios of 40-100, which equates to $5-$13b
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> To enable us to provide free Oracle Cloud accounts to our valued customers, we need to ensure that account holders are real people. We use your email, phone number, and credit/debit card for account set-up and identity verificatio
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There is a script for that, I was able to score a 3CPU/12GB Ram after a few days. https://hitrov.medium.com/resolving-oracle-cloud-out-of-capa...
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I think they are only planning to scan US phones, so I am not sure how German law applies here.
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> If CSAM scanning is going to (or is already) mandatory, I vastly prefer Apple's method here. This is such a good point. The US government has been heavily pushing for backdoors, and can gag discussion under threat of national secu
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> 2. Anyway, is that legal ? Even if some crazy store material on his Apple hardware isn't that illegal search non usable in law courts ? Yes, it's considered legal. Apple reviews the content first. Courts say this means it is
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If you insert 4 rows into a table, and join it on itself without any conditional criteria, it will result in a cartesian product of 16 rows (Select * from a, a) Do that cartesian join three more times, and you have over 4 billion results. T
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The same API that was used in the April breach. https://restoreprivacy.com/linkedin-data-leak-700-million-us... Even if you don't considered inferred salary directly tied to you as "personal data," surely yo
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This hack includes inferred salary, facebook username, mobile number, geo location... None of this is publicly available. None of this can even be downloaded by myself when I get a copy of all my data from linkedin... https://www
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This is not the complete book. The complete book is a wonderful allegory for dating & relationships.
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Marilyn had the same framing of the problem as everyone else. Marilyn made her key assumptions explicit in the original explanation she gave. 92% of people still disagreed with her. And most of them seemed fully aware that she had the guine
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The problem the reader originally submitted clearly implied both those things, at least clearly enough for Marylin > and the host, who knows what’s behind the doors, opens another door ... which has a goat The explanation Marylin origina
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Haynes sells an excellent Build Your Own Internal Combustion Engine model, which teaches children about all of these concepts.
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CSCO, DELL, IBM, MSFT & ORCL (Adjusted for inflation). Only MSFT outperformed from dot com heights. Valuation matters.
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A software engineer, a priest, and a doctor are trying to enjoying a round of golf. Ahead of them is a group playing so slowly and inexpertly that in frustration the three ask the greenkeeper for an explanation. “That’s a group of blind fir
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by nzealand 6y ago
In terms of sharpness, each lens is different. And the sharpness varies depending on the focal length (zoom), aperture and the sensor. A great way to visualize this, is to take a look at the sharpness of the nifty fifty canon lens https:&#
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We Are Legion ( https://www.amazon.com/Are-Legion-Bob-Bobiverse-Book-ebook/d... ) is a fun sci fi series that takes this to a place I had never seen before.
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If being data driven is wrong, I don't want to be right.
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The Pareto Principle is key for scaling a business. 80% of the revenue comes from 20% of the customers. Segment your customers to shift low revenue customers to low cost channels. And it scales, depending on your unique Pareto Curve. 4%
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A few random thoughts - Always ask for a copy of a good presentation. You can reuse any visually compelling elements. - Start with a personal story or an interactive set of questions. - Think about who your audience is, and why they care. W
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You can download audible files, and convert them later to non-DRM.
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There is so much more to happiness than negative news. A friend escaped Bosnia during the war. She chose to live in New Zealand, because the top news story of the day was about a cat that was lost. She figured if that was all New Zealand ha
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I think you are asking the wrong crowd. I have asked almost all the common questions at some point, but searching through my overly detailed notes, I never asked this one. My rather dismal view is Recruiters are primarily looking first for
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I tried getting an egg inside an impossibly narrow mouthed glass container by soaking it in vinegar for a few days. The vinegar dissolved the shell very efficiently, but it also swelled the size of the egg by maybe 25%.

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