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US household income, despite raises, now less than pre-pandemic due to inflation(wolfstreet.com)
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by samspenc 5y ago
Got it for 1-2 weeks January this year. At first I thought it was the seasonal flu and some coughing especially since it was in the middle of snow season. But then I had mild smell / taste loss symptoms and decided to test to make sure
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The Universe Can Bend the Laws of Physics All by Itself(popularmechanics.com)
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Scientists Say the Laws of Physics May Be Changing(futurism.com)
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by samspenc 5y ago
TL;DR: number of people with Internet access in India increased dramatically during COVID-19 lockdowns.
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Buying Influence: How China Manipulates Facebook and Twitter(nytimes.com)
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by samspenc 5y ago
Looks similar to what an E4 / E5 individual contributor makes these days at GitHub, based on Levels.fyi data (which usually seem right): https://www.levels.fyi/company/GitHub/salaries/Software-Engi...
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Global Times' editor became the voice of Chinese nationalism(theguardian.com)
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The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than It Should Be(nationalgeographic.com)
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by samspenc 5y ago
Wow this is amazing, thanks for digging in and doing this work. If this were Reddit, I would give you a gold award, but since this is HN, all I have to give is my 1 upvote.
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by samspenc 5y ago
It could also be because elected officials, media and public opinion are making it harder for the police to actually carry out their jobs and ensure public safety. That's probably an unpopular opinion but someone has to state it and ge
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by samspenc 5y ago
Plus users are now used to SPAs (Single Page Applications) and data re-loading inline in the browser without a page refresh. While the PHP and backend programming is cleaner / easier, users and service providers have moved away from th
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by samspenc 5y ago
Heh, this is the case for almost all comic books, as well as more than half the TV shows that end with a cliffhanger and never get funded for a new season.
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by samspenc 5y ago
Per this caveat in the description of the salary chart: "Excludes candidates with less than two years of experience and/or poor English skills." My guess is that this data set is skewed towards the most highly paid engineers
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by samspenc 5y ago
The article doesn't state this, but how much were they overstating it by? 1%? 10%? From the article, it looks like the error is due to some smaller companies reporting wrong numbers, either due to incompetence or malice / fraud. I
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by samspenc 5y ago
This is why I personally am of the opinion that Apple's claim to be "privacy first" is disingenuous. On the surface, it appears they care about the user, but they're really trying to cut their ad competitors (i.e., Faceb
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by samspenc 5y ago
Should have (2020) in title to indicate that this is from last year (September 2020)
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Fed Officials Accelerate Stimulus Wind Down, Project Three Rate Rises in 2022(wsj.com)
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by samspenc 5y ago
I think her own words about this proposal (government banking) sunk her nomination faster than any banks or opponents could have. Basically it came under friendly fire that she initiated herself.
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by samspenc 5y ago
This is what I thought a few months as well and bought INTC (Intel stock) on the dip ... and it kept dipping. This is my guess now: yes, Intel is a massively profitable company. But I think what the market is factoring in is that it misse
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by samspenc 5y ago
Dad? ;)
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by samspenc 5y ago
Don't film producers have to give their "advertisers" some inkling of how their (paid) product placement is going to show up in the film? I would be surprised if Peloton just paid the producers a boatload of money and said, &
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by samspenc 5y ago
Stock market up 1% today on both this news and decades-high inflation. Checks out /s but par on the course for unexpected market reaction.
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by samspenc 5y ago
I suspect there is no source for this, but OP is just summarizing what the Fed is hoping will happen -- basically they have printed too much money but they don't want to raise interest rates either, so they are just going to sit back a
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by samspenc 5y ago
Wasn't aware Handsontable had migrated from an open-source to a purely commercial license, with exceptions, as described in the linked article: https://handsontable.com/blog/articles/2019/3/handsonta
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Microsoft Seizes 42 Websites from Chinese Hacking Group(nytimes.com)
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Microsoft Azure has a service called AppMap (Application Map) that does this for services running inside Azure : https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-monitor/app/app...
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by samspenc 5y ago
Yeah as someone who lived in NYC and nearby Jersey City for over a decade before moving out, I was very surprised by OP's comment: > are free to roam around the city at nearly all hours in ways that would have been unthinkable when
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by samspenc 5y ago
> Together the dozens of stablecoins in existence, which include Dai, Tether and usd coin, have a market capitalisation of close to $150bn. I'm assuming these stable coins aren't actually backed by $150bn in actual USD, which i
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by samspenc 5y ago
Yeah but I think what OP means is that the beneficiary non-profit needs to confirm the donation to receive the company match. Benevity and other services that companies outsource their giving and matches to are required to do due diligence

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