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by samspenc 5y ago
> Meta uses AWS’s proven infrastructure and comprehensive capabilities to complement its existing on-premises infrastructure, and will broaden its use of AWS compute, storage, databases, and security services to provide privacy, reliabil
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by samspenc 5y ago
> A disinformation network with ties to China used hundreds of fake social media accounts—including one belonging to a fictitious Swiss biologist—to spread an unfounded claim that the U.S. pressured scientists to blame China for the coro
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by samspenc 5y ago
But then, in the next two paragraphs: > It comes in advance of Washington state implementing a controversial new capital gains tax. Passed by lawmakers in April, it primarily targets stock and business ownership sales with a 7% tax on lo
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Microsoft CEO sells half his stock, weeks before WA state implements gains tax(geekwire.com)
40 points by samspenc 5y ago|56 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Thanks I thought this was a Verge article and was surprised to find the link led to the home page and couldn't figure out what it was all about. So if I'm understanding this right: OP actually posted a link to the Verge home page
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by samspenc 5y ago
I can't tell whether this post is sarcasm or real. But I guess that's what happens when reading a VC post these days.
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by samspenc 5y ago
I've been looking into a home gym and am torn between Tonal, Mirror and other offerings. Just curious if you've compared Tonal against Mirror, Peloton, etc?
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by samspenc 5y ago
While this is worth a discussion, I'm not sure I agree 100% . It looks like the author has only seen the past 10+ year bull market, and not seen falling valuations, which could wipe out equity options and render them underwater or belo
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The Milky Way May Have Lost a Bunch of Satellite Galaxies(sciencealert.com)
2 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Yeah I was confused when I opened up the link as well. This is basically a meta-bug complaining about why the original bug was closed: https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/4461 But as the other
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by samspenc 5y ago
My guess is that Visual Studio Code for the Web [1] and other cloud-based IDEs taking off, JetBrains is being forced to respond with their own cloud-based IDE. But hats off to them, this looks super cool. I would love to know how they porte
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When does a relation DB table become too big?(connor-mcdonald.com)
1 points by samspenc 5y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
If you're a CS student or software engineer: don't go for a grad degree (MS or PhD). Start work right out of college, whether it be at a startup or FAANG. Get some work experience, savings (and stock if you're lucky), you can
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Jerome Powell Nominated for Second Term as Federal Reserve Chairman(wsj.com)
1 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Nit: I think the year in the HN title should be (1973) instead of 2973 (i.e., a full thousand years in the future.)
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by samspenc 5y ago
Came here to say this. My friend recently took a plane ride and every time he would move his mask slightly to unlock his phone through FaceID, a flight attendant would come to ask him to please put his mask back on or he would get in troubl
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by samspenc 5y ago
Same with the Economist and a few other publications.
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by samspenc 5y ago
Came here to post a similar comment: most readers may not realize that cgtn.com is Chinese state-run media.
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by samspenc 5y ago
Curious to hear from folks who actually work in the online ad industry: I've repeatedly heard the author's claim (and other similar claims) repeated in multiple forums and chats about online advertising, i.e., 70% of ad impression
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Since 2008, QE Monetary Policy Has Cost American Savers $4T(wolfstreet.com)
1 points by samspenc 5y ago|2 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
> I was running 4 teams with 24 direct reports. Wow, 24 direct reports. Didn't your management chain ever consider bumping you up from an M1 to a M2 manager and bringing / promoting one level of managers under you to manage an
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by samspenc 5y ago
This is fantastic -- I love WSL and it's so much more performant than running a Linux VM on VirtualBox on my Windows, but I've been missing the Linux window managers (GNOME / KDE etc). Looking forward to using this along with
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52 years after he became ‘America’s Most Wanted’, his obituary solved the case(washingtonpost.com)
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by samspenc 5y ago
This was the pattern I read in the title: "[Country] [Government org] Works Manual". Surely, I thought to myself, the only reason this would have made it to the HN front page is if there were a few guffaws in it related to how asi
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by samspenc 5y ago
Am I missing something about how and why this made it to the HN front page? Seems to be a fairly trite government publication that is more of interest to civil engineers. I thought maybe there was something in the document that would provok
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by samspenc 5y ago
First, I completely understand and empathize with your sentiment. But do you think the FBI should be allowed to pursue multi-year investigations against U.S. citizens based on intelligence information that they knew was fake? Because that&#
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by samspenc 5y ago
Can confirm that 6% is the norm and average cut the agents take in the US. Typically 3% for seller's agent and 3% for buyer's agent. The entire commission is paid by the seller so the buyer never sees this, though technically thos
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by samspenc 5y ago
I wonder if they hired a SEO company and said "Hey, we want to be on top of the organic front page results for any Hadoop ecosystem related searches" and paid them a bunch of money for this.
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by samspenc 5y ago
Just FYI if you haven't visited the site before: several of their articles have made it to the HN front page before. I actually find Stratechery articles to be well thought through, deep and comprehensive, I like how the author (Ben Th
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Amazon Earnings Suffer as Growth Slows, Costs Rise(wsj.com)
3 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments

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