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by tekdude 6y ago
> The website is full of imo prominently displayed clickbait that I consider negative value. When checking the New York Times, I prefer to look at the "Today's Paper" list of headlines, it's much easier to parse and
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by tekdude 6y ago
> Except the squeeze failed at $400, and short interest was still above 100% It's likely that as the price rose, the funds and investors that were shorting at the pre-squeeze prices were forced to close their positions at a loss. Th
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by tekdude 6y ago
At my last position, everyone got an email in mid-December saying that the company would be giving each employee a holiday gift... just click the link to select one from the options. It seemed very out of character for the company, so I ign
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Zoom Is the Best Thing to Happen to Local Government in Years(slate.com)
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The First Rule for Sending a Science Experiment to Space(slate.com)
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The Soul-Killing, Wallet-Emptying Struggle to Buy a Video Card During a Pandemic(slate.com)
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Arrest of Florida Data Scientist Demonstrates a Weird Hole in Cybercrime Law(slate.com)
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Professional societies have grown less willing to use their sanction power(theatlantic.com)
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Is Remote Work Making Us Paranoid?(nytimes.com)
2 points by tekdude 6y ago|2 comments
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by tekdude 6y ago
I posted this in the Side Projects discussion about a week ago, but I'll post again here. Pulselyre: A touch-screen synthesizer app for live music production - https://www.pulselyre.com The concept is to create 'instru
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by tekdude 6y ago
Pulselyre: A touch-screen synthesizer app for live music production - https://www.pulselyre.com Spent a few years experimenting with touchscreen UI and audio synthesis in my free time on and off, and eventually settled on an eng
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Delivery Platform Algorithms Don't Work Without Drivers' Deep Local Knowledge(slate.com)
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Amazon Workers Near Vote on Joining Union at Alabama Warehouse(nytimes.com)
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by tekdude 6y ago
From John Carmack: http://number-none.com/blow/blog/programming/2014/09/26/carm...
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School Shooting Drills Have Gone Virtual(slate.com)
1 points by tekdude 6y ago|1 comments
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Kara Swisher: Facebook's Attack on Apple is Tone-Deaf(nytimes.com)
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Gamers allege EA uses dynamic difficulty adjustment so players spend more money(slate.com)
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Kara Swisher: Yes, Facebook Has Become a Menace(nytimes.com)
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How Will You Know When It’s Your Turn to Get the Covid-19 Vaccine?(slate.com)
1 points by tekdude 6y ago|0 comments
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We Need a Broadband Internet Pricing Equivalent of Nutrition Labels(slate.com)
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The End of the Facebook Crime Spree(mattstoller.substack.com)
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by tekdude 6y ago
Be careful about providing pharmaceutical advice over the internet. There may be some prescribed medications that people can safely self-ween from, but stopping psychiatric drugs should only be done with close medical guidance. There have b
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by tekdude 6y ago
I think one issue with this viewpoint is that while a successful company may be doing wonderful things for its users... not everyone is a user. Even the users themselves are not users 100% of the time. So, even if a company is not actively
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Can a Startup Mentality Save Small Businesses?(nytimes.com)
5 points by tekdude 6y ago|0 comments
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The engineering of Leap-The-Dips, the oldest operating roller coaster [video](youtube.com)
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by tekdude 6y ago
Pharmacies have to handle the possibility that a patient is collecting multiple prescriptions from multiple doctors to get more quantities than they need or can safely have.
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by tekdude 6y ago
Looks like it: 40.89342885813937, -73.62283409006555 https://goo.gl/maps/RKSrH21K1h9P9TaD6 The article says "just a few miles outside of the bustling heart of Times Square," but it's over 20 miles to the
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I Traced My Covid-19 Bubble and It's Enormous(nytimes.com)
5 points by tekdude 6y ago|0 comments
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The First Thing a Biden FTC Should Tackle Is the Right to Repair(slate.com)
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by tekdude 6y ago
Since there's a link to 'unvote' next to the option that I chose, I can only assume that this poll is not anonymous and that my choice is stored with my username somewhere on HN's server. It could also be cookie-based, b

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