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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
If they have a workforce in China, there are 100% spies working there. Putting it another way, China would be foolish not to have spies working at Zoom, just like it would be foolish to not have spies working at Facebook, Google, Amazon, Mi
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
Whatever happened to the finding 10+ years ago, where scientists found jellified T-Rex bone marrow? It made a huge splash, and they claimed to be able to see structures in the blood, etc, but I haven't heard anything since, and I can&#
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
My son is profoundly gifted, although he's not in the same league as some of those children described in the study. I absolutely consider him a special-needs child. He's been kicked out of two schools (including a "gifted&quo
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by pfarnsworth 6y ago
How can a captured planet ever maintain a stable, almost perfectly circular orbit around the Sun, at a plane that almost exactly matches the rest of the planets? It's impossible. The only way this can be explained is if all the planets
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I've been playing Hack/Nethack since 1982-ish. My friend got it for his IBM PC, and we were both addicted. The only reason why I kept asking for a computer for my parents was so that I could play Hack. I was the one who figured ou
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
The worst is the Tesla interface. It's great to look at and if you're sitting in the car parked, but if you're trying to drive it is terrible. To be honest, stuff like this should be legislated away, it's too dangerous.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I thought the PCR tests in Asia had a specificity of around 70% which is why they needed two positive tests in a row (or two negative tests in a row to confirm the patient had recovered).
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
You probably don't know much about IB then. There's no vetting at all, by IB or any other brokerage, except making sure that the money is in their account. They have margin calls for a reason.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
This looks like a terrible source. I would wait until they issue a statement.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
The biggest question is whether or not their systems were able to execute margin calls. If they were down this long, that to me suggests data got corrupt and they've been restoring from backups, etc, which means maybe all their service
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
The playbook for Equity compensation has changed dramatically in the last 20 years in drastic favor of the founders. During the dotcom days, the number of shares that were given out was very generous. I know secretaries that made enough fro
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I got an MRI within a day and CT scan within a day as well. I got an endoscopy within 5 days. My friend waited 4 months for her MRI to diagnose gallbladder stones. The same friend has to wait 2 years for autism therapy for their children. T
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I was in the hospital over Christmas because of a very severe infection. I was there for 2 weeks, and am lucky to be alive. The costs were over $150k, but I ended up paying $1500 in various deductibles to Kaiser, etc. I was happy to pay $15
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Can I use Let's Encrypt to sign my own personal CA so that I can issue certs for my domain that are in that chain?
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Sorry but using cruise control in heavy rain is just simply a bad idea. It's supposed to be used when conditions are ideal, not when they as bad as can be. That is human error, in my opinion.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
To be fair to Google, I once got some decent feedback from one of the recruiters. I did fairly well, and made it through to the hiring committee. The recruiter told me that although I did well, my scores weren't home runs and that he&#
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
20% YoY for a company this size is ridiculous. If anything it shows the power of their market share and position.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
It's illegal to ask further about medical, or any personal information like marriage status, etc. Medical is a good enough answer.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I certainly hope everyone lands safely. I know it's obvious that missing a wheel is bad, but as a non-pilot, how survivable is this? Is this marginally dangerous or extremely dangerous?
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I saw first hand how the "truth" was manipulated by tech jounralists to create a narrative that they wanted. They included certain things, and omitted others, to make sure that the overarching story they wanted to tell was consist
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
The WSJ article is really weirdly written. It definitely seems very biased. They state things as facts like "Mr. McCormick, 54, had discussed jobs with the Trump administration. He also chatted with BlackRock Inc. Chief Executive Laure
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I hope you have recovered fully from this.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
I'm not sure where you live, but at least in the SF Bay Area, we have the option to set a "delivery day" and the shipments all arrive on that day. I've never used it though but it sounds like it could be very useful for
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Waze is by far the best routing. It's better than Tesla routing, which I thought used Google Maps, and it's better than Apple Maps. There's no point in experimenting with anything else because Waze is just so much better, it&
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
In Silicon Valley, until maybe 5 years ago, I would say that 2 years per job was about the average. My average is about 2.5 years, and I've had many jobs. I've found that recently, many people, especially young people early in the
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Except usually paths are made because they're the shortest path. Taking the shortest path is not random, even if you have a curved pavement path, people will cut it and walk through grass to get the shortest path. So it's basicall
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
By 6 months the incidence of SIDS is almost nil. This is what we learned with our kids, so it helped us tremendously because our son also sleeps on his belly.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
WeWork buidings are filled with clients that are brought in by other SoftBank money. It's human-centipede equivalent of VC-funds circling back around to each other, in hopes that suckers will invest in it and then they pull out.
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
CO not CO2
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by pfarnsworth 7y ago
Negative finance headlines is a great positive indicator that nothing will happen. Almost no one can successfully predict a recession or downturn, and the more people believe it, the less likely it will be.

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