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by panarky 4y ago
Looks more like Yahoo Finance than Bloomberg Terminal. Maybe this is for people who hate all the ads and pop-ups at Yahoo.
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by panarky 4y ago
> That objective was achieved by opening up the unemployment taps Unemployment compensation generally does not go to employed people.
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PPP payments are not "revenue" and they're not taxable income. Owners and shareholders can dividend this cash to themselves while still claiming operating losses.
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by panarky 4y ago
That's a great example of the power of Orwellian naming. Only 25% of "Paycheck Protection" funds "trickled down" to workers, while 75% was hoarded by owners. If the objective is to get cash into the pockets of worke
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I don't know if that was ever stated as the rationale, but many people inferred that it was. It's a defensive inference, to defend our belief that authorities wouldn't attempt to solve a crisis by just transferring a trillion
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At age 50+ your biggest regret will be spending your 40s focused on past mistakes and lamenting your regrets.
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by panarky 4y ago
Maybe I'm missing something but doing good things and getting rewarded by the popular vote seems like the way the system should work. Contrast that with doing bad things and then trying to prevent people from voting so you can cling to
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by panarky 4y ago
This thing gave me some amazingly relevant book recommendations, and when I asked for a link to the books on Amazon, it responded with exquisitely Amazon-like URLs complete with title slug, dp segment, item number and affiliate referral cod
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Snowflake Makes It Easy for Anyone to Fight Censorship(eff.org)
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I don't like having to click through endless cookie warnings on every website just because Europe decided to enact another bullshit regulation that doesn't accomplish anything, but European culture is strong enough to waste even m
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I've been trying for two months to provision internet service with AT&T, not because I like AT&T, but because they're the only provider with fiber in my area. My emails aren't returned and every phone call only reache
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by panarky 4y ago
Just because you can find a handful of mistakes, or a thousand mistakes, or a hundred thousand mistakes, out of hundreds of billions of moderation decisions is not evidence of evil or malice. Thousands of warehouses filled with human beings
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Easy come, easy go. We made great returns since 2008 for doing absolutely zero work except buying index funds and letting it ride. Nothing goes up forever, we'll probably give more back in the next 12 months, or not, nobody knows and t
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by panarky 4y ago
> list of arbitrarily banned words is that the list is arbitrary It's not arbitrary, it's a community norm. Not everyone in a community agrees with its norms, but enough people do to keep it a norm. As community norms change,
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by panarky 4y ago
Lots of pretty decent humor here, including a bit of meta-humor! elmomust: If you're no longer alive, then you are the ghost of a dead person. Does that mean you're currently in heaven or hell, or some other place? Ghost of Bozo:
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by panarky 4y ago
You don't need uBo to block JavaScript, you can do that right in the browser. But often blocking JS means parts of the article don't display or the site breaks in other ways. Washington Post for example only shows blurry placehold
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by panarky 4y ago
Also useful for nuking paywall overlays. Works great at The Atlantic, one click and you're in.
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Someone should study whether there's a causal relationship between empathy and depression/anxiety.
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> depending on disk speed One copy in memory can serve millions on your website.
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by panarky 4y ago
I don't know about the other Google services, but geolocation for YouTube TV seems to be pretty difficult to defeat. We have a YouTube TV family plan but we don't all live in the same city. You can travel temporarily, but if anyon
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by panarky 4y ago
LXC is how Chromebooks let you install Debian or Ubuntu or Arch in a container, with graphical applications running in the container integrated into the ChromeOS UI.
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I've flown American six times in the last ten days, and four of the flights had chaos with the entertainment system. No groans or heavy breathing on the PA, but flight attendants had to "reboot the system" once or twice every
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by panarky 4y ago
> blocking at the network level How could any network-level block by Iran prevent a user in the UK from calling a user in India?
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by panarky 4y ago
Supply destruction causing inflation seems like another monetary phenomenon. If inflation is caused by printing more money at a faster rate than the economy grows, then when the economic growth rate is negative then money would need to be d
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by panarky 4y ago
People are free to promote whatever crackpot ideas they wish. The question is whether MIT should provide a platform for everyone. Since there are infinite crackpot ideas but only one Kresge Auditorium, the MIT community must make value judg
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by panarky 4y ago
Which gives the lie to all the sanctimonious talk about protecting all speech that's legal under the First Amendment. MIT isn't protecting all legal speech, they're amplifying speech the MIT community wants to hear, and suppr
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by panarky 4y ago
The author states this myth perfectly: Every cryptocurrency is its own pot of money. When people sell, they are taking money out of the pot. When people buy, they are putting money into the pot. It's a popular myth but it's obvi
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"The MIT statement on free expression states that in order to encourage provocative thinking, controversial views, and nonconformity, the university will protect all speech within the boundaries of the First Amendment." "Ther
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by panarky 4y ago
> its current exchange value, which is the "pot of money" It's not a "pot of money" because the market cap is not determined by the amount of government currency traded for bitcoin. Trading $100,000,000 for 5,0
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by panarky 4y ago
Curious how someone can support banning books while simultaneously railing against "cancel culture". https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

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