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by tdhoot 6y ago
Thanks for the heads up! We just pushed a fix.
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by tdhoot 6y ago
C-SPAN being known for its large audience glued to the TV screen all 24 hours?
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by tdhoot 6y ago
Amazon and Apple don't really have a social media presence either.
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by tdhoot 6y ago
That can be prevented by restricting the software that can be installed on employee machines.
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by tdhoot 6y ago
This sucks for everyone in S&P 500 funds who didn't jump on the Tesla bandwagon because they thought it was overvalued. Now you got none of the upside but you get to hold the bag.
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by tdhoot 6y ago
Wow, that sounds identical to the DC Solar fraud that happened just a few years ago in the US, except with solar generators. Guess history repeats itself in this case: https://pv-magazine-usa.com/2020/01/25/dc
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by tdhoot 6y ago
Paternalistic is thinking you are in a position to define C and measure it.
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by tdhoot 6y ago
My point still applies.
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by tdhoot 6y ago
Do you have any sources that retail trades are being front run? When I looked into it a while back it seemed they would sell your order flow but you had to be guaranteed best execution prices.
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by tdhoot 6y ago
I buy from Amazon instead of other retailers because Amazon has almost-always free shipping for Prime members, a consistent (and fast) website experience I know how to use, and great customer service. Some retailers have good websites (most
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by tdhoot 6y ago
Can I go from my house to my friends house using only rails? My house to the supermarket? Not all pairwise points are connected by rails, while they generally are by roads.
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by tdhoot 6y ago
I don't see how this is relevant to my comment at all. And politicians are free to and often should disagree with their constituents. We have a representative democracy and you're free to not vote for them the next election but th
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by tdhoot 6y ago
I'm not saying health officials are wrong, but they're rightfully focused primarily on health implications. Politicians should be responsible for determining policy -- balancing economic, legal, and health considerations after li
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The San Francisco Bay Area shelter-in-place order is being extended through May(sfmayor.org)
349 points by tdhoot 6y ago|854 comments
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by tdhoot 6y ago
Me too! Relevant How It's Made I found interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ElKE-qeKYY
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by tdhoot 6y ago
I think it's inconclusive if Russia and Saudia Arabia are actually working together to drive US shale out of business or whether that's just a convenient side-effect of their own dispute. But yes, what you describe is known as dum
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by tdhoot 6y ago
Oil companies may benefit from keeping oil expensive, but other parts of the economy that depend on oil do not. For them, tariffs are an extra tax on them and ultimately consumers.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
On last year/quarter's profits, which they might need for opex now.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
> It's batshit insane! We should be doubling, tripling taxes in the short term on those that can pay it to make up the funding gap for testing, treatment, and surge capacity Taking money out of the economy by dramatically hiking tax
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by tdhoot 7y ago
You can't get around it by going through the UK. It applies whether you've been to the countries affected at any point in the last 14 days, even if it's not your immediate origin port.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
It's about whether you've been to Europe at all in the 14 days preceding, not about whether your immediate origin was European.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
> Do we also owe it to the immunocompromised? Yes? For example, get your vaccines so those who cannot get them have herd immunity.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
On the website it says: > NAB has been monitoring the evolving situation on coronavirus both in the U.S. and around the globe. Due to the public health emergency we are currently facing, we believe that it is not possible to move forward
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Something like this? https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-09-30/everyone-...
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by tdhoot 7y ago
There are multiple presumptive cases of students with COVID-19 on campus. They have been quarantined. An email was sent out about this.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
> The silver lining is by this time next year, we should have ~20% less throwaway accounts being created for comments like these. I'm trying to be charitable here...am I reading this correctly?
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by tdhoot 7y ago
Currently working on a Masters degree from Stanford through the Stanford Center for Professional Development [0]. I like it. It's a lot of work on top of your normal day job, but the instructors and community are unparalleled IMO. It i
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by tdhoot 7y ago
When I saw this at Google, the employee had 60-90 paid days to find something new within the company. Some people waited til the last few weeks to find something because they essentially got two months paid vacation.
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by tdhoot 7y ago
The DOJ sued to stop the merger of AT&T and Time Warner (DOJ lost). The DOJ sued to stop the merger of T-Mobile and AT&T when they tried a few years back (AT&T backed down). It also sued to stop the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint
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by tdhoot 7y ago
I don't think they were wrong. Sirius or XM may not have survived on their own. XM was on the verge of bankruptcy as it is.

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