square90

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by square90 6y ago
Yup, I agree. Some folks have got pretty good light, fast pages for example, http://lite.cnn.com/ is one of my favorites.
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by square90 6y ago
With $1B you could start your own mixers and hire people to run them. Or even start your own exchange.
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by square90 6y ago
I think it's been heavily bought up by foreign real estate investors [0]. [0] https://vancouversun.com/opinion/columnists/douglas-todd-chi...
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by square90 6y ago
This reminded be of the Planet Money episode on long-haul truck drivers [0]. It's a similar contractor v. employee (company driver) scenario. Not a happy story, unfortunately. [0] https://www.npr.org/2020/08/1
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by square90 6y ago
The CARES Act and state-level programs are paying unemployment assistance to contractors and self-employed individuals not usually covered by unemployment [0], [1]. [0] https://www.edd.ca.gov/about_edd/coronavirus-2019&
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by square90 6y ago
Even DOE is partly privatized both Sandia National Laboratories and Savannah River National Laboratory are run by private defense contractors for the government. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandia_National_Laborat
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by square90 6y ago
The study examines a factory workplace which may already have a high-level of background noise. Perhaps the effect is non-linear? Anecdotally, two or three coworkers talking near me doesn't feel more distracting than one coworker on th
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by square90 8y ago
Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate
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by square90 9y ago
Yeah, I was ready for a subway history lesson.
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by square90 9y ago
I'm skeptical of the starmine dataset[0] being used: "The dataset is based on relationships between elements in the periodic table and public companies." This description is a bit vague. [0] http://starmine.ai&#x2F
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by square90 9y ago
A little tongue in cheek: but isn't that classic survivorship bias?
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by square90 10y ago
The Firefox extension review turned this up: "If you have a YouTube channel (s) and your logged in to that channel it will get your channel suspended for Violation of TOU #4 Section H" [1] Has anyone else confirmed this behavior o