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by velodrome 9y ago
> A large part of the reason my country (Denmark) is as rich as it is because of education No, it is because they have marketable (in demand) skill(s). If the whole country received a degree in history, would Denmark be as rich as it i
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by velodrome 9y ago
This technology, if viable, could help solve our current nuclear waste problem. Valuable materials could be recycled (by separation) for additional use. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_reprocessing#Pyroproce...
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by velodrome 9y ago
* > One of the commenters on the original article ( https://medium.com/@tarthedark/did-a-custom-bench-between-ht... ) changed a few lines of the C# to use some different ASP.NET facilities which more than doubled the
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Are Index Funds Evil?(theatlantic.com)
8 points by velodrome 9y ago|1 comments
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by velodrome 9y ago
Sayeret Matkal, like all elite units, is closed to women. [1] But it’s difficult to claim that women are equals in the IDF (even the IDF admits that less than 4 percent of women are in combat positions). Many are in “combat-support” posi
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by velodrome 9y ago
> Bitcoin is legitimately seen as an alternative to gold. Bitcoin may be an alternative to gold but it is not the same. 1) Gold has intrinsic value. 2) Gold is a tangible asset.
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by velodrome 9y ago
Yahoo was in "the ditch" long before Mayer. They had the opportunity to buy Google for $1M, they passed on it... https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CoNYEe0WEAAGC0P.jpg:large
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You can teach yourself to be a risk-taker(bbc.com)
2 points by velodrome 9y ago|0 comments
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by velodrome 9y ago
Texas and California are diversified economies. Texas is more exposed to the oil & gas industry. However, it is still not a petrostate. Which state is the closest to being a petrostate? Alaska (25% exposure). It is very easy to validate
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by velodrome 9y ago
> I think Texas' situation is too unique. They're effectively a petrostate right now. Conveniently ignoring the fact that California is ALSO a petrostate. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/busines
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NASA discovered a bizarre bubble around Earth, humans accidentally created it(bgr.com)
1 points by velodrome 9y ago|0 comments
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by velodrome 9y ago
> Let people default on their student debt with 5 years of bad credit, and colleges will fix themselves. How can the colleges fix themselves? They are not the one's giving out the loans. Maybe that's how it should be... It fo
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by velodrome 9y ago
> So they stole it They bought it.
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by velodrome 9y ago
From the FAQ: Q: Why is Google Cloud Platform no longer supporting Cloud Prediction API? A: As we've expanded our Cloud Machine Learning services, many of the use-cases supported by Cloud Prediction API can be better served by Cloud M
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Amazon trounces rivals in battle of the shopping 'bots'(reuters.com)
1 points by velodrome 9y ago|0 comments
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by velodrome 9y ago
According to Navajo tradition, frybread was created in 1864 using the flour, sugar, salt and lard that was given to them by the United States government when the Navajo, who were living in Arizona, were forced to make the 300-mile journey
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by velodrome 9y ago
Yes, the US has the home business deduction. https://www.irs.gov/publications/p587/index.html
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Visualizing Concurrency in Go (2016)(divan.github.io)
282 points by velodrome 9y ago|21 comments
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by velodrome 9y ago
I think you correctly identified the symbiotic relationship. If seniors expect their benefits to be fulfilled, they need to invest (jobs, education, etc.) in very people who are paying their entitlement. Stan Druckenmiller gave a talk about
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by velodrome 9y ago
> The fact that Ballmer is purposefully not setting an agenda makes this more powerful. Yes, I agree. > Otherwise people tend to accumulate their own set of convenient facts. I think people will do this anyway...are we not human?
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by velodrome 9y ago
I find PerotCharts more useful (with commentary), than this particular site. Too bad it has not been updated in a while. http://perotcharts.website/ Yes, its that Perot: Ross Perot.
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by velodrome 9y ago
> Technically someone can have complete ability to pay back their credit card debt, yet they might miss a credit card payment (like I did last year because I was out of the country due to a personal reason), yet that is counted against
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by velodrome 10y ago
Many are looking to churn (cash in and leave)...The rest are doing it for utility and/or status. Read the SlickDeals thread: https://slickdeals.net/f/9036199-chase-sapphire-reserve-100k...
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by velodrome 10y ago
FYI, Bob Iger (Chairman and CEO of The Walt Disney Company) sits on the Apple board. https://www.apple.com/pr/bios/
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by velodrome 10y ago
> FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome) http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html It's based on webkit.
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by velodrome 10y ago
The article doesn't mention it but it is probably for deduplication. This processor supports RAM 128GB+. ZFS dedup uses a lot of ram.
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by velodrome 10y ago
Yes, it is back to 1600. http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/05/living/sat-test-changes-school... The test will shift from its current score scale of 2400 back to 1600, with a separate score for the essay. No lo
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by velodrome 10y ago
Why Unions Exempt Themselves from Hard-Fought Minimum Wage Hikes https://economics21.org/html/why-unions-exempt-themselves-ha...
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by velodrome 10y ago
1) Germany did not have a minimum wage until recently. They just enacted a minimum wage in 2015. Minimum wage erodes the strength and bargaining power of trade unions. Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Sweden do not have a minimum
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by velodrome 10y ago
> Employers were not willing to give those concessions without a fight. Today, they don't have to fight. They can offshore, outsource, or automate your job. There are a lot more options these days then there were back then...

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