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Microsoft Azure supercomputer for OpenAI ranks among top five in the world(geekwire.com)
1 points by samspenc 6y ago|0 comments
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Zoom Now Worth More Than the World’s 7 Biggest Airlines(visualcapitalist.com)
45 points by samspenc 6y ago|44 comments
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Five-year-old boy stopped on highway driving from Utah to California(nytimes.com)
295 points by samspenc 6y ago|208 comments
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Self-Publish, don't write for a Publisher (2016)(jeffgeerling.com)
2 points by samspenc 6y ago|0 comments
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Saudi stocks slump as minister warns of ‘painful’ measures ahead(bloomberg.com)
81 points by samspenc 6y ago|86 comments
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Asian Giant Hornets vs. Honeybees: A Swarm of Bees Can Cook Invaders Alive(nytimes.com)
1 points by samspenc 6y ago|0 comments
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Millions Had Risen Out of Poverty. Coronavirus Is Pulling Them Back(nytimes.com)
6 points by samspenc 7y ago|1 comments
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‘Instead of Coronavirus, Hunger Will Kill Us.’ A Global Food Crisis Looms(nytimes.com)
18 points by samspenc 7y ago|2 comments
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by samspenc 7y ago
WSJ: Facebook Usage Soars, But Online Advertising Plunges https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-warns-that-skyrocketin... WSJ: Facebook Ad Rates Fall as Coronavirus Undermines Spending https://www.wsj.com&#x
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Google to Significantly Slow Hiring in 2020: Full CEO Memo(bloomberg.com)
32 points by samspenc 7y ago|1 comments
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Over a million techies in India braving coronavirus to keep the world running(qz.com)
1 points by samspenc 7y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 7y ago
It seems back up now -- the archive.org backup that is, not the original tweet.
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Zoom Sued for Fraud over Privacy, Security Flaws(bloomberg.com)
57 points by samspenc 7y ago|3 comments
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What is PPE (Personal protective equipment)?(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by samspenc 7y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 7y ago
> limited to places where shelter-in-place is in full force, which at least in the United States, is only a small part of the country with densely populated urban areas: New York, California, New Jersey, Michigan, etc. Ummm, it is NOT a
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by samspenc 7y ago
So I was piqued by your post, and actually looked it up. It looks like the bond / credit market in the US is just under $40 trillion [1], and the value of the US stock market is $37.69 trillion [2]. So they look pretty close? [1] http
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Economic downturn intensifying: white-collar workers are being laid off now(washingtonpost.com)
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by samspenc 7y ago
I've been wondering... what if it's a regular post or article without affiliate links? I've noticed a lot of similar articles talking about people using Microsoft Teams or Google Meet to hold classes remotely (without affilia
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by samspenc 7y ago
As a long-time PHP developer, I love Laravel, all of its features, and how the community has built around it, but there are a couple of pain points I felt when I used it last year, not sure if these have improved: 1. Very difficult to get r
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Coronavirus: China factory activity plunges to all-time low, worse than 2008(scmp.com)
1 points by samspenc 7y ago|0 comments
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How China Is Hunting Coronavirus Critics(vice.com)
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Solar Power is Gaining Ground over Coal in India(wsj.com)
3 points by samspenc 7y ago|0 comments
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by samspenc 7y ago
It took me a few seconds of staring at the page to understand why this is trending. The top of the page looks like a generic, bland 404 page. Hopefully you continue further down, because the real interesting and fun part starts after the se
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by samspenc 7y ago
I'm not sure about the Bay Area, but at least for New York, it looks like building is picking up: https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-sees-biggest-home-buil... "Despite a weak outlook for residential real e
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by samspenc 7y ago
I would like to slightly disagree with some of the posts here that say $1000 may be too small or not have much of an impact... I think of it this way, no matter what you give, it's a great start. While I have open-sourced some of my ap
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by samspenc 7y ago
Could you share the link to the original Twitter thread? I guess the link was changed on HN before some of us got here.
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by samspenc 7y ago
From https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/investor/earnings/FY-2020-Q2... "Revenue in Productivity and Business Processes was $11.8 billion and increased 17% (up 19% in constant currency), with the following
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by samspenc 7y ago
My takeaway from the graph is that overall, most states are "green" or are more or less evenly distributed. However these states stand out as "red" (more inequality), which seems to me due to the following industry outli
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by samspenc 7y ago
TL;DR: he stayed over at a friend's place in a densely packed condo unit. Condo building has a home automation system with binary codes that has a limit of 16 combinations. With 40 units nearby, each unit controls at least 1 other auto
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by samspenc 7y ago
My key takeaways from the article: * "Women held 50.04% of nonfarm payroll positions in December, the highest share since 2010." * "Over the past year alone, they’ve taken on a greater share of positions traditionally held by

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