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Coronavirus Research Resources(pages.semanticscholar.org)
1 points by rococode 7y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
Most of the major brokers have free trades now for stocks and ETFs - Schwab, TD Ameritrade, IBKR, etc. If you're trading something more advanced like options or futures, you'll pay some small fees (options at Robinhood are free, t
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S&P 500 triggers 15-minute trading halt for the second time this week(bloomberg.com)
340 points by rococode 7y ago|522 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
Especially relevant today since after hovering around -5% for most of the session after the first halt, right now we're at -6.9% and threatening to push below 7% again.
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by rococode 7y ago
Wow... Being down once - OK, it was record-high volume, servers were strained. Twice - well, it was only a day after the first time and it takes time to fix these things. But a third time, nearly a week after the first incident (and once ag
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Stock trading halted for 15 minutes after the S&P 500 drops 7%(cnbc.com)
32 points by rococode 7y ago|3 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
I work out of UW, one of the theories going around was that other schools would be watching to see when UW would close, since we probably have it the worst right now (i.e. "UW isn't even closed yet so how could we close?"). I
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by rococode 7y ago
Maybe (assuming 8 hour work days) Morning people: 7:30-3:30 Night owls: 10:30-6:30 In between: standard 9-5 Only 4 hours worth of meetings allowed per day, 11-3. Bonus side effect of limiting useless meetings and helping morning and night f
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by rococode 7y ago
It's going to be really interesting to see how vocabulary changes as frequent space travel becomes a reality. This may be one of the few times in history where a field has had so much imagination invested into defining it (sci-fi stori
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Nisechūgokugo (Pseudo-Chinese) – internet language blurring Japanese and Chinese(old.reddit.com)
4 points by rococode 7y ago|2 comments
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Robinhood offers $15 discount, blames outage on record trades(techcrunch.com)
2 points by rococode 7y ago|0 comments
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by rococode 7y ago
If this is a leap year problem, apparently similar issues happened 4 years ago and they never fixed it... Thread from exactly 4 years ago, March 2 2016: https://old.reddit.com/r/RobinHood/comments/48mep4/
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by rococode 7y ago
This add-on for Firefox is helpful for that (redirects all www to old): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/old-reddit-re... I presume this is the corresponding Chrome extension: https:/&#x2F
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by rococode 7y ago
Agreed. It's often said that being a solo founder is harder than having a co-founder and you'll face more challenges - fundraising issues, heightened stress, knowledge gaps, etc. And those are pretty true. But all those problems p
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> I can give some tips on what I think is good inexpensive food to get in case anyone is interested. I'm interested! I've mostly heard of canned foods and the military-style rations / dried meals that last many years (alth
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by rococode 7y ago
There's gotta be more to that sperm donor story. "Oh that must be my biological kid from that sperm bank trip 20 years ago" is not the natural train of thought when you see someone who maybe vaguely looks like you as a sugg
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by rococode 7y ago
Yeah uh, poor choice of words on my part, I guess that's why I'm not a writer. I have a bad tendency to use "fun" as "interesting" rather than "enjoyable", should probably be more careful about that..
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by rococode 7y ago
Just my opinion, of course, but I guess one very simple way I think about it is, a government that expends a lot of effort controlling its people even in normal times is naturally better equipped to do so than a government that generally en
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by rococode 7y ago
Here's one source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/02/25/cdc-coronav... > While South Korea has run more than 35,000 coronavirus tests, the United States has tested only 426 people, no
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by rococode 7y ago
Here's one of the higher-profile examples: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-kills-chinese-film-... > Chang's father, mother and sister also died from the disease, Chinese financial news outlet Caix
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by rococode 7y ago
I've been checking for updates on the virus several times a day since it first started being reported in Western media around Jan 20 (in part because it's been a fun distraction, in part because I have friends in Wuhan). I like to
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It's certainly effective. I once spoke with a guy who founded a relatively large e-commerce biz ($100m+ revenue) and had been exploring a new product. To validate it, he put together an entire webstore complete with an actual checkout
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Ask HN: How can startups running ML models reduce their compute costs?
1 points by rococode 7y ago|2 comments
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The a16z Marketplace 100(a16z.com)
1 points by rococode 7y ago|0 comments
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Here are some tweets about it: https://twitter.com/search?q=Bert%20Sutherland&src=typed_que... This one appears to be the first (18 hours ago): https://twitter.com/harrymccracken/status/1230001
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by rococode 7y ago
Anyone know what's up with "Slabo 27px"? Looks like its recent usage is much lower than other fonts with similar totals (it's at 800m views in the last 7 days while the fonts above and below it are all ~4b). Also the onl
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Nisechūgokugo (Pseudo-Chinese) – internet language blurring Japanese and Chinese(old.reddit.com)
1 points by rococode 7y ago|0 comments
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Nisechūgokugo (Pseudo-Chinese) – internet language blurring Japanese and Chinese(old.reddit.com)
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Not OP but it sounds like they were using Elements ("the payment flow was misconfigured and the least I could do is disable the submit button upon click"). I would hope that Stripe's own checkout form is well-rounded enough t
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by rococode 7y ago
NameSilo is my go-to registrar - consistent pricing, free forwarding, free WHOIS privacy, instant security alerts on account access, simple and functional interface, great customer service, basically everything you could ask for from a regi

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