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by v64 6y ago
> Of all the people who read that quote and nod along thinking, “yes this is me” how many are actually right? Those who actually fight their way through their creative difficulties as the quote suggests, as opposed to those who read the
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by v64 6y ago
To be fair, even Aaron Franklin's bad barbeque is some of the best BBQ you'll ever have.
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by v64 7y ago
I have a MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Mid 2014) and Mojave runs very well on it. I have no plans to upgrade to Catalina.
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by v64 7y ago
I agree with you, but I disagree that the solution for it is "You can only invest in these ventures if you have X net worth". Having more money does not necessarily imply one is less foolish, and it disqualifies those who are capa
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by v64 7y ago
> Unregulated securities are often a synonym for "scams" that is why you have to be a qualified investor. That's the point though, scams are scams whether they're run by a loan shark or Bernie Madoff. Anyone should be
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by v64 7y ago
Just wanna say I like this method of obfuscating your email. Wish HN would build something like this into the site.
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by v64 7y ago
> We can't really say that any individual point in time is "the" bottom, but it's obvious just looking at pricing data that we are at "a" bottom. I don't know if we can even say that. It's entirely
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by v64 7y ago
In my city, those meals are currently available for curbside pickup for students.
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by v64 7y ago
This was my initial reaction, but it seems that he came to this conclusion after analyzing the numbers in other countries as well. > He analyzed 78 countries with more than 50 reported cases of COVID-19 every day and sees “signs of recov
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by v64 7y ago
> Or I could have just been doing it wrong, there wasn't exactly a training class when visiting countries in which they are common. Haha exactly, that's the difficulty! You're taught these toilet habits at a young age and
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by v64 7y ago
Yes, this is how I feel about it as well, but apparently it's a norm. Individuals will have their own unshared bidet towel in the bathroom that they'll use afterwards.
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by v64 7y ago
At the risk of sounding naive, help me figure out what I'm missing then. I had the opportunity to use a built in style bidet when I visited Japan, and after a few days of trying, I could not figure out how to clean myself with it. Ther
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by v64 7y ago
That only works on people who aren't shameless and are willing to reevaluate their own behavior based on external criticism. Sometimes you have to pick your battles.
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by v64 7y ago
I agree with you generally, but believe this is a case where the two events have to occur one after the other. Putting UBI on the table today without already having a reformed regulatory framework in place from day one will result in a fail
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by v64 7y ago
> Instead, the companies are simply taking on debt and keeping it on their balance sheet. Yes, my example is an admitted oversimplification. I was directly answering the question "why would a company use debt to finance a buy back?&
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by v64 7y ago
> while at the same time assuming that the company can purchase and sell all the shares at a set price For large cap companies that trade tens of millions of shares a day, you can figure out how much you can buy without moving the market
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by v64 7y ago
Let's say a company trades at $100 and that they can get a loan of $1m for 2% interest (total payment due: $1m in principal plus $20k in interest.) They use the loan to buy 10,000 shares at $100. The company does so anticipating the pr
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by v64 7y ago
> That we shouldn't implement something because we currently don't have regulations for it? Why would we? We haven't implemented it. I mean with that kind of attitude we can't get anything done. I think before impleme
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by v64 7y ago
In America, this is the problem that has to be addressed before we can consider rolling out projects like UBI. I agree with you that regulations have to exist for this to work, and we simply don't have the regulations in place right no
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by v64 7y ago
It's part of the COVID-19 Emergency Amendment Act of 2020 [1] that was passed today. [1] http://www.icontact-archive.com/archive?c=653228&f=109&s=277...
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by v64 7y ago
> A person that couldn't afford a car can now. I person with a $1k beater car can now buy a $5k car. Wouldn't car dealers raise their prices some value up to $1k because they know anyone coming in that month to buy a car also j
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by v64 7y ago
> The thing is people would still shop around for the lowest price. The vendor with the lowest price gets the business. But we know economically this isn't necessarily true. Some industries are more monopolized than others. Some peo
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by v64 7y ago
My understanding is that if it's known that every American adult collects $1000 in addition to their regular income, prices will rise in an attempt to capture some of that known financial excess, so that the net result isn't that
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by v64 7y ago
The fear is that in order to reach feature parity, they'll cripple macOS, not enhance iPadOS
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by v64 7y ago
IIRC, Linux has also deviated from the Single UNIX Specification/POSIX in some respects that would make it fail certification even if they tried.
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by v64 7y ago
This is a point I see a lot of people miss about Bitcoin's power consumption. It doesn't have to use as much electricity as it does, as the difficulty is adjusted to mining capacity. The reason why so much electricity is being use
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by v64 7y ago
She wasn't fired. Rather, her term came to an end, and Trump chose to appoint Powell as chair rather than reappoint Yellen. Yellen would still have been on the board until 2024, but she chose to resign instead. Firing implies her term
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by v64 7y ago
Very interesting observation! "Comments on a number of StackOverflow questions have pointed out that a fault address of deadd00d indicates a deliberate VM abort." That ending up in the ciphertext multiple times seems to point to s
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by v64 7y ago
> Hal Finney (the creator of Bitcoin) To be clear, this isn't definitive, as he is one of many individuals suspected to be Satoshi Nakamoto.
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by v64 7y ago
One does not become a billionaire if one believes "I have plenty of money already" is a good reason to stop accumulating wealth.

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