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by samspenc 5y ago
Actually CNN does pay the airports to feature them but hopefully not much longer: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20...
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by samspenc 5y ago
The rest of the paragraph: > Later, I started my own business. Ghost. And after 9 years of doing this, my perspective changed a great deal. The cycle is complete.
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Africa internet riches plundered by China broker(sfgate.com)
5 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Does anyone know which website OP used to purchase the billboard (second screenshot)? Seems to offer "billboard as a service" and booking it online.
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by samspenc 5y ago
This paragraph seems to concisely summarize what NYT got wrong in their analysis: > Age is a common confounder in public health research, and COVID-19 is no exception. The mortality burden of COVID-19 is not randomly distributed across a
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by samspenc 5y ago
> BTW, individual taxpayers used to have this, too, it was called "income averaging". TIL about income averaging, I've never heard of this before. Looks like it was phased out in 1986? https://www.phillipslawfir
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by samspenc 5y ago
Fascinating as the desktop computer and running Linux on it are, I find the blog's domain name (in Japanese, is it Katakana?) and HN's rendering of the URL even more riveting.
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by samspenc 5y ago
Ditto, hadn't heard about it before either: https://github.com/1j01/jspaint
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by samspenc 5y ago
Quite likely only investors in Google / Alphabet stock know that site and have it bookmarked because that's where Alphabet publishes its quarterly earnings. I also guess for the same reason, it only gets significant traffic once a
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China's Microsoft Hack May Have Had a Bigger Purpose(npr.org)
7 points by samspenc 5y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Not a CA resident here, but I'm trying to understand Prop 22: does it require all gig companies except Uber and Lyft to "provide a health care subsidy and wage floor"? So with this ruling, Uber and Lyft will start providing
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TSMC overtakes Tencent to become Asia’s most valuable company(cnbc.com)
7 points by samspenc 5y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Never heard about the linktr.ee service before seeing it listed here, but it looks like a one-stop shop for creating a landing page which supports donations. I'm guessing that social influencers are using this a lot?
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A Landlord Making $75,000 a Year Could End Up in the Millionaire Tax Bracket(wsj.com)
5 points by samspenc 5y ago|2 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
I was going to say that if they priced it per minute or hour, like some other IaaS offerings, this would have been competitive. I can imagine a developer or occasional user using this for 1-5 hours a day, and then putting it to sleep... But
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Microsoft delays office opening until October, will require vaccination(seattletimes.com)
8 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
That's an interesting perspective. Also, since Google runs several of its services on its own cloud platform [1][2], I wonder if they are just moving data center and similar CapEx costs into their GCP budget, thus removing those cost l
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by samspenc 5y ago
> I reckon a good deal of Oracle sales force now works at AWS. Thomas Kurian, GCP CEO, is ex-Oracle and has likely hired more in leadership positions. Sorry just want to clarify: did you mean to say "reckon a good deal of Oracle sal
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by samspenc 5y ago
Wow. I had no idea China accounted for that much of the global percentage for CO2 emissions. If I'm looking at this right, their share is more than the US plus largest EU countries combined ?
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by samspenc 5y ago
But it doesn't explain why they would delete an entire page and all its contents?? This is equivalent to saying that it's alright for Facebook to delete the pages and all the content of the Democratic Party, Republican Party AND i
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by samspenc 5y ago
A Facebook "page" is a collection of posts and other content. Think of it as similar to a website or blog, except that it's hosted right on Facebook and has additional Facebook specific features. Facebook allows people to set
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by samspenc 5y ago
I will admit I had never heard about this service till I saw this announcement. Seems like a cloud-hosted SaaS (or AI/ML as a service?) solution that let you build deep learning AI/ML models written in Jupyter notebooks that ran o
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by samspenc 5y ago
This is fascinating, but I was intrigued by why in the world they were using IBM mainframes to do their translation into multiple languages. And then I realized that the article was published in 1984 (!) so it appears that MEPS / IPS d
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What I learned from Software Engineering at Google(swizec.com)
14 points by samspenc 5y ago|1 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
Yeah if the buyer exercised the right to buy the option, the seller has no choice, oftentimes it just "disappears" from their brokerage account and shares show up in the buyer's brokerage account. It's also possible he p
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Saudi Aramco to Sell More Assets in Multi-Billion Dollar Push(bloomberg.com)
2 points by samspenc 5y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 5y ago
As someone else once said, easiest way to become a millionaire is to start as a billionaire and lose money...
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by samspenc 5y ago
I've seen this issue with a lot of smaller news sites on mobile, scroll a bit further down than you're supposed to and you're suddenly on a completely different article or the home page.
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by samspenc 5y ago
"Don't believe everything you read on the Internet." - Also Abraham Lincoln circa 1864 :)
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by samspenc 5y ago
And YOLOing their life savings into some meme stock, /r/WallStreetBets style.

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