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by soniman 5y ago
What Yahoo! Finance did right was that if you had a watchlist of 100 stocks, all of the news from those 100 stocks would show up in one feed, instead of 100 separate feeds. It would also be good if I could screen by news source, so that spa
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by soniman 5y ago
Koyre's From the Closed World to Infinite Universe Koyre is basically the orginator of the history of science. This was his popularization. Einstein & Infeld's Evolution of Physics Picks up where Koyre leaves off.
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by soniman 5y ago
Am I the only person who uses bookmarks for notes? I will type something like "bizidea - hydroponic urban farming" in the omnibox, save it to bookmarks, and if I want to search bizideas, it's always there. There's also a
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by soniman 5y ago
There was an academic fellowship with something like a $40 application fee and it got like 1000 applicants so the fellowship was funded by the application fee! That is literally a circular prestige economy.
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by soniman 5y ago
When I would watch BBC Shakespeare productions and follow along with the text, I noticed BBC would change things like "O Jesu" to "O Lord" or change complicated medieval political terminology to "we are fighting for
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by soniman 5y ago
You really think that grainy video from forty years ago is driving the discussion? It's unwatchable.
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by soniman 5y ago
This guy who learned Japanese from anime. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJG9kpqTRmU&t=681s Learning Latin with Harry Potter latinus. http://indwellinglanguage.com/reading-latin-extensively/
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by soniman 5y ago
Internet gurus are hacking language learning and the consensus is moving towards the importance of a steady diet of "comprehensible input" versus grammar instruction. That was always the expert opinion I think but the internet has
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by soniman 5y ago
I had a 4th gen processor (i5-4200) and it couldn't render video without lag until until the OS was upgraded to Windows 10 with DirectX 12, after which it was more than capable of handling video. DX12 probably added a few years to the
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by soniman 5y ago
I thought GPUs were involved in all sorts of calcuations like matrix calculations that had nothing to do with graphics.
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by soniman 5y ago
Are laptop GPUs different from data center GPUs? I would assume that Linux is so prevalent in DC that support for Linux would be a given.
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by soniman 5y ago
This is a little off topic but I don't want to read a lot of text-heavy blogs that all look the same. Give me a little variety and some nice pictures to look at. By the way this looks nice and I'm going to check it out, too bad my
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by soniman 5y ago
These stories are all planted by the trucking companies. These stories have shown up a million times over the last twenty years, and maybe earlier. The WSJ, NYT, Bloomberg, WaPo and now NPR run this same article about every two weeks. It al
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by soniman 5y ago
Bing is my homepage, beautiful photos every day. Search results in US are fine.
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by soniman 5y ago
"Because the Circassian was thought to be the purest, most primordial exemplar of the white race, that may have led the white viewer to yet another thought: that the sexual fate and the sexual proclivities of the “Circassian Lady” (no
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by soniman 5y ago
https://donaldgmcneiljr1954.medium.com/
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by soniman 5y ago
"Language learning apps are step 5 in the ten step process of achieving programmer hubris nirvana. 1) I'm in college and I'm going to build an app to easily buy and sell books 2) Off campus housing is hard, I'm going to
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by soniman 5y ago
How so?
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Rentech, Simons lose tax fight, agree to pay IRS over $7B(bloomberg.com)
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by soniman 5y ago
CP5-471-312N , got it refurbished for $150
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by soniman 5y ago
I was looking at buying a new computer recently and dreaded another ugly Windows machine at $500. Some Chromebooks were going for almost nothing and with crouton for loading Linux it was the perfect solution. Later on I found out Linus also
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by soniman 5y ago
Linus has said that he uses Chro
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by soniman 5y ago
I would be willing to pay money for a service that would allow me to a) pick sources (or ability to opt out of certain sources) and b) follow specific tickers and c) mass import tickers (ie ability to cut and paste a huge list of tickers fr
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by soniman 5y ago
"Stenophylla had not been seen in the wild in Sierra Leone since 1954 and anywhere since the 1980s in Ivory Coast, Davis said. A few examples were held in coffee research collections." I think that means that there are a few labs
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by soniman 5y ago
https://www.macrotrends.net/2535/coffee-prices-historical-ch...
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by soniman 5y ago
Articles like this are probably planted by an industry group. The article mentions that the species was never lost because samples are held in labs, so there really isn't any news content here. What is probably going on is that coffee
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by soniman 5y ago
If hiring is so broken, then some company could succeed by hiring all the non-traditional applicants. Has nobody tried this? "We hire weirdos" might attract a lot of high-quality applicants. There is a market failure here or there
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by soniman 6y ago
Thanks
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by soniman 6y ago
For stocks Bbg is overkill. A stock investor basically needs latest PR, SEC and earnings release info for his watchlist of stocks, which can be done using Feedly and Seeking Alpha. Alerts connected to the watchlists ("high volume on st
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by soniman 6y ago
Another PG (Phil Greenspun) had this comment on Bel: If you weren’t persuaded by the existing 100+ dialects of Lisp that have been created over the years, Bel from Paul Graham should change your mind and lure you aware from the dark and ted

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