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>> If a company really cares to follow GAAP to the letter, teams are supposed to estimate how much of their work should be categorized as maintenance or keeping the lights on, and that counts towards OpEx, while development work count
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>> What’s the angle here? Probably the patent portfolio that Nuance aggressively asserts[1]. They also went on a 51-company (!!!) acquisition spree up to 2018[2] after ScanSoft acquired Nuance[3] (but kept the name) in 2005, when bot
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Using the HN search bar at the bottom of the page with keywords "stellar keybase" will return a bunch of different threads.[1][2][3] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21758671 [2] https://news.yc
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The Wired article that the CEO of Mobilecoin is implicitly endorsing in this thread specifically categorizes Mobilecoin as a cryptocurrency. At least, it doesn’t seem to be a distinction worth splitting hairs about (yet).
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The slashdot effect triggered Cloudflare’s DDoS protection and is returning errors for that page.
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Congratulations on the announcement. >> Those outputs contain the entire original supply of MobileCoin (250 million MOB) [1] Is the entire supply of 250M MOB available for sale on FTX, or is only a restricted number of MOB tokens avai
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That video was awesome. Reminded me of a cell-based version of the game Factorio.
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>> Ignoring down payments (which differ greatly between the two examples) and other expenses like property taxes, the 2020 mortgage rate allows someone to buy 172% as much house as they could in 2000. In nominal dollars this is corre
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The High School Advantage(dailyprincetonian.com)
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>> I am not sure what you are showing other than that you believe our population growth from mass immigration needs to continue despite the negative outcomes. Perhaps to put a more human perspective, I graduated with a STEM degree du
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>> They stopped making them in 1993 because the incoming Liberal government adopted an incredible deficit slaying austerity approach which was in vogue at the time. What was "in vogue" at the time was a Conservative (sic) M
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>> Toronto is often ranked near the top of least affordable cities. When the only factor is home ownership, which is the focus of URI's study, this is absolutely correct. But then I think back to how absolutely unaffordable hous
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>> Population growth [...] can be incentivized by literally paying people more money to have Children. Some countries tried this approach with mixed results.[1] Given that we're both worried about the debt-to-GDP (i.e. profligat
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>> What would that growth be after 25 years of constant 1% growth/year? 1.01^25 = 1.282 or 28.2% growth. Sounds like a good bet to try to grow economic activity in the region if the immigrants are typically educated and are net-
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>> The standard of living and affordability has objectively dropped for young people today. [...] But according to some people, hey you can still get into the market! Just buy a condo! I remember the frenzy of the '89 housing bu
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>> It's one of the most expensive cities to live in in the world, [...] Toronto was ranked as the 98th most expensive city in the world; not even in the top 50, even though it's the 4th largest city in North America. Perhap
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>> Feel sorry for the kids who finish a degree in STEM from Waterloo or UoT and end up working for 40k a year. The starting salary for STEM grads seem to be well above 40K CAD, perhaps even >65K CAD [1]. >> A down payment on
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The outside researcher, Kim Nilsson, wrote a recent summary[1] in response to articles attempting to whitewash CoinLab's involvement in the case. [1] https://blog.wizsec.jp/2021/01/earlier-mtgox-payouts-coinla
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Coinbase didn't need Mt. Gox to become what they are today. I'm not sure this line of reasoning holds much water. Perhaps if we were to follow Vessennes' absurd chain of reasoning to its logical conclusion, CoinLab itself sho
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>> “It could’ve been a trillion-dollar company,” Vessenes said. “It’s so sad.” The current $16 billion CoinLab claim against Mt. Gox is based on what the company thinks their portion of Mt. Gox would be worth if it had been managed we
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>> I can burn the $10 note you gave me [...]. There's nothing illegal about that. Not to detract too much from your analogy but burning money is illegal in some jurisdictions[1], and in the United States is prohibited under 18 U
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There was a design doc[1] that described the problem and some subsequent discussion that goes beyond the GitHub PR history, and a HN thread[2] 6 months ago. [1] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_WvwHl7BXUPmoiSeD
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>> But in some situations, raising $150M with government and institutional backers is easier than raising from traditional VC directly. Like a big government backed initiative with all the flair, PR, announcements. The >$150M rais
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Semi-flippant response forthcoming, but if you factor in cost of living differences in their respective local currencies (e.g. moving to NYC or SF pre-COVID), healthcare (pay more in the US), comparable taxes (NYC/SF) to Toronto/V
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... and we wonder why so many Canadians move down south to California or Florida. Even cold-blooded reptiles like basking in the sun once in a while.
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>> It took commercial vendors nearly a decade to build 5G and the only reason they were so "fast" was because they had already experienced engineers on their payroll who understood the basics of 3G/4G. 100% agree. Also
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Certain European wines under 14% ABV, whiskies, cheeses and other agriculture products have been levied a 25% import tax by the USTR since October 18, 2019.[1][2] [1] https://time.com/5704663/trump-tariffs-whiskey-wine-
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Few people can. The specific track and field analogue is the 400m dash.
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>> Bosworth, a major confidant to Zuckerberg, stating that [...] Talking about (inadvertent) misquotes: the quote was attributed to a "February 2016 internal memorandum sent from an unnamed Facebook manager to Andrew Boswor
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Not a downer at all; that's the real truth. The visual eye candy is needed because Excel just doesn't excite anybody but power users, and even then only if the spreadsheet model pertains to their expert domain. I have exactly the

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