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by pezzana 5y ago
There's a lot to think about there. But what strikes me the most is part about turning down two offers before signing a third. It's extremely surprising that someone would do that, but maybe not so much on the first big job. Als
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The article cites three extremely common criticisms of Bitcoin. In this sense, they add nothing to the conversation. All Zulip has to do is consult their own home page. There at the top in large font is this: > Zulip combines the immedia
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U.S. consumer sentiment plunges to 10-year low on inflation worries -UMich(reuters.com)
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Red-Hot Housing Market Drives Biggest Home-Equity Drawdown Since 2007(bloomberg.com)
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> Shares of developer Fantasia Holdings (1777.HK) plunged 50% on Wednesday after it said there was no guarantee it would be able to meet its other financial obligations following a missed payment of $205.7 million due on Oct. 4. Watch th
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From an article covering the congressional testimony by industry experts: > Hunt, who co-authored a report on the subject [bolstering the US semiconductor workforce at all levels] last year, noted that 40% of the domestic semiconductor w
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> In a separate report, the Labor Department said real wages after inflation fell 0.5% from September to October, the product of a 0.4% increase in average hourly earnings that was more than offset by the CPI surge. This is the thing to
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For years economists debated the things that are now being worked out experimentally. And it turns out the economists were dead wrong about a lot of it, as this article demonstrates.
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Fed Warns of Peril in Run-Up of Risky Asset Prices, Stablecoins(bloomberg.com)
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> Note: Ethereum smart contract is the code that is deployed over Ethereum blockchain. It is written as a transaction on the block so no one can alter the logic. This is also known as Code is Law. By bringing up Ethereum smart contracts
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Are Humans to Blame for the Disappearance of Earth’s Fantastic Beasts? (2017)(smithsonianmag.com)
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Welcome to Pleistocene Park (2017)(theatlantic.com)
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What in IT interests you? Examples might include "system administration"; "penetration testing"; "backend software development"; "machine learning" and so on. If it's hard to answer that question
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> Here are some tips for converting interview into the discussion as an interviewer ... Two ideas follow. I don't think they'll work very well. Here's the #1 thing you can do as a candidate to turn the interview into a dis
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Just because it's a value you don't recognize doesn't mean there is no value. Speculation is useful and valuable to a lot of people.
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Why SQLite does not use Git (2018)(sqlite.org)
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> Pfizer’s phase 2/3 trial randomized non-hospitalized adult COVID-19 patients who were at high risk of progressing to severe illness to receive placebo or Paxlovid, a combination of the protease inhibitors PF-07321332 and ritonavi
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No. There's a big difference between drugs and vaccines. The drug doesn't generally illicit an immune response, but the vaccine is designed to do exactly that.
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Coelacanth(en.wikipedia.org)
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> But it was Jimmy Carter who appointed Volcker as the Fed chair, in 1979. Volcker was appointed specifically to do this job, as he was known as an inflation hawk, and Carter recognized inflation as America’s biggest economic problem. Vo
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It’s time for Americans to buy less stuff(vox.com)
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According to Forbes, Zillow has been buying homes since 2018: > In April 2018, the company entered the fledgling on-demand home buying market (often referred to as ibuying) with a service called Zillow Offers. Prospective sellers in 11 m
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> ‘We’ve determined the unpredictability in forecasting home prices far exceeds what we anticipated and continuing to scale Zillow Offers would result in too much earnings and balance-sheet volatility,’ CEO tells investors. That's q
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Zillow to close its home-flipping division, lay off 25% of staff(seattletimes.com)
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Avis stock more than doubles after strong earnings(lite.cnn.com)
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Zillow has listed 93% of the hundreds of Phoenix homes it owns at a loss(businessinsider.com)
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From Wikipedia: > WFP operations are funded by voluntary donations principally from governments of the world, and also from corporations and private donors.[15] In 2019, funding was a record US$8 billion, of which the largest donors were
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What a confusing article. Zuckerberg is the name I associate with Facebook. Meta is the rebranded name for the company. Meta.org is a thing that was supposed to "...give researchers, patient communities, science societies, and research
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The main takeaway from this article is that the militarization of space if moving fast . There is this document called the Outer Space Treaty that was written at the dawn of the Space Age. It has never been updated, and was written for a w