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by princeb 5y ago
https://www.wbgt.sg/allstations
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by princeb 5y ago
i probably have a comment somewhere recently, but singapore is already in WBT >35 conditions in the day. it eases to around 30 at night or when rain falls. as long as power is running, it's actually fine in this country, but that&#x
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by princeb 5y ago
> The US and Europe should study the case of Japan very closely these days. but they do? bernanke was a scholar of japan's central bank policy.
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by princeb 5y ago
> They buy goods and services the wonder of economic development is that as a country's quality of life and wealth increases, consumption increases. the typical american probably consumes about 4000x as much energy as the typical DR
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by princeb 5y ago
> When literally everyone of all political stripes attended the same churches "It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o’clock on Sunday morning" -MLK
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by princeb 5y ago
> was able to apply things she learned from financial management books some people learn this early (the author's friend who grew up poor), and some people learn this late (the author), and some people never get a chance to learn th
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by princeb 5y ago
Singapore is already completely inundated in severe WBGT conditions: https://www.wbgt.sg/allstations thankfully, much of the population are within easy reach of conditioned air, either their home, office or an indoor mall.
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by princeb 5y ago
skimmed the article - there's apparently a creation/redemption mechanism similar to ETFs. settlement is always a mystery to me in crypto so i can't weigh in here. how do you guarantee delivery of the physical for units of the
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by princeb 5y ago
Teslas look like Kias. this was a big thing in the early 10s when electric cars looked like i3s and twizys. everyone wanted a normal looking car and tesla was the first one to make a normal looking car. now priuses and leafs look normal and
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by princeb 5y ago
surprise, extremely poor people know exactly how much things cost. they know their bank balances down to the cent.
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by princeb 5y ago
this actually reminds me of an article i read on nyt some time ago, about poor college students or first gen students in top colleges. the parents were invited to the school to meet the faculty and the parents who were college educated or t
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by princeb 5y ago
on contrary, miners tend to run gpus undervolted and underclocked for efficiency. gamers tend to run gpus overclocked (and sometimes overvolted) for performance.
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by princeb 5y ago
> Personally i think getting the tones right is the most important part of being understood in Chinese yea. it really doesn't matter where you are from, the UK, the US, Japan, Korea or Hongkong. if you can't get the tones right
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by princeb 5y ago
the classic scifi trope of an advanced extraterrestrial race is one that is able to not merely ensure its existence but also develop and advance itself rapidly through aggressive intergalactic colonization and resource extraction.
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by princeb 6y ago
edit: immediate settlement is profoundly beneficial for a brokerage. imagine a single trade on the robinhood app, there is counterparty risk between the retail trader and rh and there is a separate counterparty risk between rh and the marke
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by princeb 6y ago
> I'm surprised the CEO of a brokerage is advocating for it. settlement is a necessary but undesirable part of the business of a brokerage, because it locks up capital, which is costly, for a business model whose margins are shrinki
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by princeb 6y ago
yes. the japanese word for the hamburger is hanbaga, which is a distinct word from hanbagu. hanbaga is as different from hanbaga as macaroons are from macarons.
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by princeb 6y ago
> never mix strawberries and shrimp fried prawns in mango puree and sweet mayo is a fairly popular dish in parts of china. prawns in honey wasabi is another sweet variant.
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by princeb 6y ago
in finance people joke about the 'broker's bottle', which is what the sales people use under the desk if clients and markets both require their non-stop attention. i mean, it's just a joke, nobody really has these in an
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by princeb 6y ago
https://www.nature.com/news/the-myopia-boom-1.17120 > In the early 2000s, when researchers started to look at specific behaviours, such as books read per week or hours spent reading or using a computer, none seemed
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by princeb 6y ago
i would imagine most private language learning schools use a program where they have the first couple of classes - e.g. the basics of reading and writing the script, introductory phrases - in the student's native language before moving
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by princeb 6y ago
mbux responds pretty quickly for me, it's carplay that seems to be really fiddly for some reason.
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by princeb 6y ago
> Demon Slayer yes. don't know if OP is referring specifically to some anime or anime in general but the 3 of the top 5 grossing films in japan are animes and animation is a fully developed medium for story telling of all ages. if n
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by princeb 6y ago
> I would suggest that it is worth a lot this is not a particularly scalable advantage. if you plan on reaching every single corner of the global market, what does customer proximity mean? if you have to have an office everywhere you do
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by princeb 6y ago
instead of breaking new ground in statistics, i'm using 100% of my brain's ability to add, minus, multiply and divide to squeeze another 0.003 bps in trade execution. i sleep soundly at night knowing that there are guys who are w
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by princeb 6y ago
> If you cannot do a one click install corporate IT security policies very often block installs of any kind.
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by princeb 6y ago
you can do this with pivot tables. if your database has more than 1m entries you can do some preprocessing with powerquery. you don't even have to learn a single line of new code, if you've never coded before. you only need to kno
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by princeb 6y ago
this is an amusing question actually. is cme group a tech company? it is literally marketplace technology. eurex and xetra, nasdaq, nyse, bats, lse all those guys as well. if you want to go a bit further, jpm, morgan stanley, goldman, barc
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by princeb 6y ago
unlucky me i guess. my physio basically said some people are born with better biomechanics and better structural strength for competitive lifting than others and i'm just not one of them. if i can get back to at least a 400 lb DL i&#x2
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by princeb 6y ago
i have an l5-l6 l6-s1 hernation from deadlifting. it's a somewhat similar story across some of my friends who i deadlift with. a number of of powerlifters we follow on instagram are on regular cbd oil therapy. i'm on lyrica and a

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