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by tvaughan 6y ago
This was when the Republicans had majorities in both chambers of Congress, Newt Gingrich was Speaker of the House, and the Republican's Contract on America was passed, unfortunately. The Democrats shifted right because they thought tha
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by tvaughan 6y ago
> Imagine some incubating startup where you have an initial 4-week runway for development Who have been asked to build something that does X, Y, and Z. Without tests how do they know when they're done? How do they convince other peo
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by tvaughan 6y ago
> the wiretapping happened in Trump's offices in Trump Tower No, Trump was never wiretapped.
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by tvaughan 6y ago
> someone from his campaign was subject to wiretapping This isn't quite right. One or more people on Trump's campaign and/or transition team were heard on wiretapped calls that included Russian diplomats and other people w
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by tvaughan 6y ago
This is what sold me on an Apple Music subscription. Apple Music's human curated playlists introduced me to a lot of new music that I liked, and hadn't come across by any machine generated recommendation, e.g. Genius.
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by tvaughan 6y ago
This https://www.outsideonline.com/2413366/steelhead-fish-return-... was posted yesterday about dam removals in the Pacific Northwest, and the subsequent return of steelhead trout to the rivers.
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by tvaughan 6y ago
Could you please post it to https://www.reddit.com/r/iamverysmart/ ?
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by tvaughan 6y ago
As someone who has traveled and lived abroad the past 10 years, please, never ever use physical location to set the language. Yes, never ever. Why assume everyone at an internet cafe speaks the same language as determined by its physical lo
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by tvaughan 6y ago
Why seven percent is considered a good rate of return, I don’t know. The answer is partially in the question itself, because that’s been the rate of return of the stock market. That though isn’t exactly satisfactory
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by tvaughan 6y ago
Oh, and generally accepted as in one could cherry pick certain, short time periods and show that, say for three years in the early 80’s, the average return wasn’t seven percent. So, it’s generally accepted that “over some sufficiently long
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by tvaughan 6y ago
Sorry I wasn’t clear. Generally accepted as in “a good return,” or “the best anyone should expect.” There’s no doubt that seven percent is the historical average.
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by tvaughan 6y ago
Add to which, to be clear, I'm not defending an economic system that depends on continued growth, nor would I. GDP is and has always been a terrible metric by which to measure economic prosperity. I also do not believe that past perfor
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by tvaughan 6y ago
Seven percent is the historical return of the US stock market. Other markets have different historical returns. This "comes from" the historical data of US stock prices. Comparison to GDP or inflation rates don't apply.
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by tvaughan 6y ago
> "historic returns of 7% in s&p" Seven percent is generally accepted as the expected market return over a period of time sufficiently long enough to mitigate systemic risk, not that seven percent is the highest return in m
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by tvaughan 6y ago
> is that the stock price reflects global demand for ROI Says who? For which stock? I understand a company's stock price to represent the net present value of the expected future performance of that company alone. I don't see h
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by tvaughan 7y ago
Yes, we considered both reagent and re-frame together. Around the time om.next was announced myself and a handful of others built a commercial product based on reagent, re-frame, and om.next. I only have good things to say about them, but t
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by tvaughan 7y ago
We just re-evaluated our choices and selected Fulcro. Below is a slightly edited version of how we came to this conclusion. As a business building an extremely ambitious product on a tight budget, we want to be able to: * Focus as much time
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by tvaughan 7y ago
Flowdock did threads really well. It also did crashing several times a day really well too. Today, Twist https://twist.com seems to do everything right.
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Show HN: Easily Setup a Windows Virtual Machine for Remote Compilation over SSH(gitlab.com)
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by tvaughan 7y ago
https://www.emptywheel.net/ , though just the posts written by Marcy Wheeler, a.k.a. emptywheel, herself. > Marcy Wheeler is an independent journalist writing about national security and civil liberties. She writes as emp
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by tvaughan 7y ago
Cualquier recomendación para Chile?
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by tvaughan 7y ago
Chesa Boudin, San Francisco's new District Attorney and son of two former members of the Weather Underground, ran on a progressive platform that included ending cash bail. This is part of a broader movement of judicial reform advocates
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by tvaughan 7y ago
http://asciiflow.com
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by tvaughan 7y ago
And back when we had to read books to learn a language, the definitive guide on Perl was called "the camel book." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_Perl
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by tvaughan 7y ago
Another working example: https://gitlab.com/tvaughan/kibit-runner and https://clojars.org/tvaughan/kibit-runner (with publish to Clojars)
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by tvaughan 8y ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler_(1993)
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by tvaughan 8y ago
https://gitlab.com/tvaughan/docker-flask-starterkit
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by tvaughan 9y ago
See also: https://www.sumar.io
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by tvaughan 9y ago
The GDP is a poor measure of economic health. Even the IMF has its doubts https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2017/03/coyle.htm . The GDP doesn't consider natural resources like clea
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by tvaughan 9y ago
This.

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