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First Covid-19 vaccine tested in US poised for final testing(apnews.com)
2 points by therealrootuser 6y ago|0 comments
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by therealrootuser 6y ago
I was suddenly struck with an image of Trump angrily posting his updates on Hacker News.
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Free TurboTax alternative now belongs to TurboTax(vox.com)
2 points by therealrootuser 7y ago|0 comments
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
I think the real lesson here is to choose the language that works best for your team. On my team we use Python and Scala. For network critical I/O stuff in Python, asyncio has worked out just fine for our needs. For massive CPU paralle
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
This. I just went through every picture in the latest available Congressional Pictorial Directory, and I wasn't able to make a 100% sure identification, but my best guess was Rep. Andy Barr (Kentucky).
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
Upvoting entirely for the phrase "clown fiesta".
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Cole, unbeaten since May, transformed by Astros analytics(apnews.com)
2 points by therealrootuser 7y ago|0 comments
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
Vanguard has gotten rid of a lot of their investor-share classes of mutual funds. VTSAX used to have a $10k minimum. Now it has a $3k minimum, which used to be the amount to get the equivalent investor shares fund. https://pres
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
Yep, the advent of ETFs has made it a lot easier to get started. I hadn't thought about the target date funds, that is a good thought.
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
This, exactly. The only "flaw" of Vanguard's admiral funds is the $3000 minimum. For many of my friends, that is a bit of a high hill to climb to get started. Then again, those same friends seem to think nothing about spec
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
Just this morning when I woke up, I opened the Vanguard app, bought some shares of VTI, then got out of bed and went on with my day. You can do the same exact thing with the Schwab app (I have accounts at both). One reason I dislike Robinh
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
I don't know that I personally would use the adjective "ethical" to describe Schwab---that word can be taken so many different ways. They are certainly a much better company to do business with than, say, Wells Fargo, and hav
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
There was the little known, but powerful combo called "GROUP" and "ARCHIVE". GROUP allowed you to package together a set of programs. Archive would allow you to take that group and store it in the long term memory of t
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
The problem isn't with 2FA, the problem is with SMS-based 2FA.
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by therealrootuser 7y ago
I would also look at the IIHS test results. Take the Model S for instance---it only gets an "acceptable" rating on the front driver side small overlap test, a test which many other cars are earning a "good" rating on. S
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Truth and Lies: Ensuring the Integrity of Our Data Warehouse(lucidchart.com)
2 points by therealrootuser 7y ago|0 comments
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Usability in Software Design(msdn.microsoft.com)
2 points by therealrootuser 9y ago|0 comments
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Understanding the Aesthetic Evolution of Websites [pdf](vision.soic.indiana.edu)
1 points by therealrootuser 9y ago|0 comments
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How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf](pages.cs.wisc.edu)
281 points by therealrootuser 9y ago|41 comments