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by stu2b50 6y ago
Well, yeah, that's absolutely expected. The promise of index funds isn't "you'll always make money!!" over any short-term period, the promise is that if the stock market as a whole increase, which it tends to do, yo
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by stu2b50 6y ago
You're conflating index funds with S&P 500 Index funds, though. You can buy an index fund with _zero_ tech stocks. You can buy something like VINIX which has considerably less weight on the BigN tech firms.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
This is wrong in two ways. First, the 10 dollar clones are ass, if you've ever tried one. Second, what the material cost is doesn't matter, at least on its own--a gifted airpod is one that's not sold. The opportunity cost is
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by stu2b50 6y ago
That's because they're not the same class of processor. The chain is like Your bank account -> visa/mastercard/discover -> PayPal's merchant bank account -> the person you're paying bank account PayPal
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I think you're seeing what the benefit is, though: it feels like you're just using an API to some company's DB. Payment processing is one area is that just a complete nonstarter to homebrew on your own. It's fucking awfu
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by stu2b50 6y ago
It's one of those weird swirly gradient things, not really my cup of tea, but it looks _a lot_ better animated, on the page than the still. https://stripe.com/ , though I don't suppose anyone is going to have diffi
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Using a VPN may make you less secure(stu2b50.dev)
2 points by stu2b50 6y ago|2 comments
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by stu2b50 6y ago
They're not saying they have nothing to hide, they're saying they're not joting down quick notes of anything they have to hide.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I mean AFAIK Stripe's selling point is ease of developer use and stuff, not that they have looser risk assessment? It's fundamentally not really something payment processors can solve that if a company goes under with 100k in char
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I would blame the CC and banks. Charge backs are expensive, and if the merchant can't fulfill them the payment processor is suddenly on the hook for a lot of money out of nowhere. It's a defense mechanism to make sure the customer
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I mean given that it's a buffer it can't exactly be held as an illiquid asset. How much interest can you realistically get on this, and is it worth the risk if a bunch start going under and you need the liquidity now rather than l
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by stu2b50 6y ago
To be fair, I'm pretty sure the author has a vested interest in not mentioning if they have increased chargeback or refund volume. It's not exactly an unbiased source.
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The Many Meanings of Artificial Intelligence(stu2b50.dev)
1 points by stu2b50 6y ago|0 comments
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by stu2b50 6y ago
My best interviews are definitely when I was already happily employed or when I already had offers. The confidence boost is huge.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Why make them leave? This gives them a sudden 10 day window to pack their shit and gtfo. People have year long leases. People have commitments. Even if they choose to leave, no doubt they would prefer to do it on their time, not with ICE br
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by stu2b50 6y ago
The blunder was retracting the special exception made during Spring 2020 that allowed F and M visa students to take online classes. The pandemic is far from over, especially in the US, a fact which is obvious to everyone. The retraction is
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by stu2b50 6y ago
At some point people in the administration talked about potentially doing something to that effect. I highly doubt it will ever materialize.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
>Plus, our admins lock the whole MS Office 365 down so that there are no APIs or third-party plugins allowed. Data in it is just trapped. To be fair, that's a feature from team's perspective. If your admins are worried about
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Maybe, but >So in effect the government is already funding google docs Is just purely incorrect currently.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
While not open source, you can definitely use Google docs for free student or not.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
You're punishing people for intellectual curiosity. You can value it at 0, or at some large value, but it shouldn't be negative. This is like people who penalize people with 4.0 GPAs because "that meant you focused too much o
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I think you're not being fair to assume people who try out different technologies are looking to catch more buzzwords for their resume. Using cutting edge technology can be fun and interesting. It may not be optimal, but these are pers
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Yolo does bounding box detection on faces. Classifying those faces is something else's job.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
The advent of the smartphone really damaged Microsofts monopoly imo. Windows use to be the only way to do computery things for everyman, but now people browse, check email, and consume content on their smart phone/devices. The advent o
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by stu2b50 6y ago
Note that this FORCES Int students to come back to the US and attend at least some in person classes. Having your student visa revoked doesn't just mean you can't be in the US, you just can't be a student at a US institution
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by stu2b50 6y ago
They must still take an in person class, and risk having their visa revoked if not. That's just not about being in the US, you can't be a foreign student at a US university without a visa. You'd have to take academic leave un
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by stu2b50 6y ago
There are some metrics, and we are currently so far away from being close to the targets in SF that I can't imagine reopening until 2021 at the earliest. Even then, they'd probably have to adjust some of the goals.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
There's a difference between being relegated and being interested. He's saying that current business culture causes many women to work menial office jobs, not that the women themselves are not ambitious.
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by stu2b50 6y ago
They don't have the right to collectively bargain in Georgia (the state).
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by stu2b50 6y ago
I'd add that Georgia Tech is asking for Out-of-State and International Students to come in on July 24-26th, which is 2 weeks after the announcement was made (very recently). Which seems kinda absurd. >If you have secured, or expect

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