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by vba616 4y ago
Does anyone track all the legit weather balloons? I feel like pretty soon now someone is going to realize there are hundreds or thousands of innocuous civilian owned objects that the Pentagon doesn't have real-time knowledge of and sho
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by vba616 4y ago
Presumably it has digested the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Shop_sketch and probably many similar things.
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by vba616 4y ago
The argument that nobody can take personal credit for any purported virtue or accomplishment is logically airtight, and was laid out much more entertainingly and in more detail by Mark Twain a long time ago. https://en.wikipedia.
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by vba616 4y ago
Electric motors seem like the best way to combine huge amounts of torque and silence, which is what Rolls Royce is traditionally known for. Environmental consciousness or not. Some say the most famous automotive ad tagline of all time is &q
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by vba616 4y ago
Programming hasn't been a thing for about 60 years now, since they figured out how to make computers program themselves. I have somewhere a report from an engineer at GE in the 1950s, about how programming was about to become obsolete
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by vba616 4y ago
I went to a grocery store today, and they had a sign saying they want to hire pharmacy technicians...for $20/hr... with experience. Here is apparently what being a pharmacy tech involves in NY: https://ptcbtestprep.com&#x2F
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by vba616 4y ago
UFOs can be anything, by definition. The interesting thing here is the social phenomenon of suddenly shooting them all down. Coincidentally, I was just reading about MH17.
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by vba616 4y ago
By definition, almost nobody goes to "elite" colleges, so 99.999% don't know what this is like.
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by vba616 4y ago
Who called the F-22 a failure? Are you thinking of the F-35? And anyway, isn't the F-22 due to be retired before the end of the decade, so wouldn't debating its merits be beating a dead horse?
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by vba616 4y ago
You can't divine the value of experience, except from experience.
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by vba616 4y ago
My point was that (at least some) standard US tax software rounds to dollars on intermediate results, apparently permitted and required by the IRS. ...while financial institutions send reports to clients and the IRS that have the totals rou
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by vba616 4y ago
I was wondering why the article adds nothing to the title. Then I clicked on the doi.org link and I realized what the answer probably is: it was most likely written from the abstract by someone without access to the whole article.
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by vba616 4y ago
By "match gasoline cars on price", they mean match a 50 mpg hybrid on TCO...right?
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by vba616 4y ago
Nonalcoholic wine, on the other hand, exists but doesn't taste at all like real wine...they just thin it with grape juice.
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by vba616 4y ago
> If you design software that works with money amounts, always use fixed point decimals. Don't use floats, it's just wrong! I find it funny the gap between what computer people think finance requires and actual practice. The ta
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by vba616 4y ago
Interface design is not about specific APIs. Old books about Windows or Mac programming have all sorts of information that has apparently been mostly lost. Two books I remember, perhaps not the best, but definitely with information that tra
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by vba616 4y ago
I don't have any particular argument with the sentences you wrote, taken one at a time, but #s 1 & 2 seem to me to be in conflict with 3. If buybacks are primarily a tax dodge, then any fringe benefits will be lessened as companies
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by vba616 4y ago
If you tuned out of current events, financial and otherwise, five years ago - in early 2018 - and your 401k was entirely on autopilot in an S&P 500 fund, it looks like your average annual return would've been about 11.5%, annual US
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by vba616 4y ago
I can donate money to the US government. I'm sure Ukraine is different, but there's no particular reason I'd be skeptical of the existence of some means to send money directly. See for example: https://www.pay.gov&
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by vba616 4y ago
Anarchy always falls apart. I don't know why anyone would think that's a historical accident rather than a logical inevitability.
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by vba616 4y ago
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo"
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by vba616 4y ago
I would pay to read Bloomberg. But when I tried, I found that I only got access to a fraction of the articles. People used to say that the public gets what we deserve for not being willing to pay for quality journalism. But sometime in the
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by vba616 4y ago
On the rare occasion I need to roll my own sort, I go for Heapsort, even though it isn't stable, because it's the simplest n log n worst case option I know.
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by vba616 4y ago
I'd be like: Step 1: Enumerate all possible inputs. <--- this is the important part Step 2: Map each input to something in the output domain. Step 3: Are you using Ada??? C++ is *right out*. ...it looks like the proper
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by vba616 4y ago
It's obvious it's not exactly the same product. The definition of arbitrage is what's not mutually understood. Like the "is Pluto a planet" argument. Say that your position is that only arbitraging between GBTC and
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by vba616 4y ago
>No, they don't get to blame this on the SEC. Then why are there ETFs anyway?
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by vba616 4y ago
I think if it were an ETF, which it isn't, then a "redemption" would mean someone could buy a large amount of bitcoin and trade it for a set amount of GBTC shares. I'm not sure why someone would frame "not having a
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by vba616 4y ago
If it's a permanent profit source, then it can't be an arbitrage either, can it? If two things are theoretically supposed to be the same, and they never converge, then the claim that they are the same seems dubious.
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by vba616 4y ago
Prime′, Prime″, Prime‴, Prime⁗
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by vba616 4y ago
>if no-one’s labour is needed, do we need to retain money? If everything that people do to maintain society is called something other than "labour", then I guess it would equally make sense to call the accounting concept that t

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