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by vghaisas 5y ago
Looks interesting! Quick bit of feedback: "Hover over text for description..." doesn't seem possible to do on a mobile device?
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by vghaisas 5y ago
Related, "Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)" are covered later in the thread: https://twitter.com/mold_time/status/1419814637588070404?s=2...
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Mysteries of obesity: wild animals are becoming more obese too(twitter.com)
20 points by vghaisas 5y ago|26 comments
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by vghaisas 5y ago
Hello! I'm a fan of Money Stuff and I wanted to see how the topics in it change over time, so I made a heatmap of the top topics. I also sent this to Matt Levine and he actually included it in an issue of the newsletter: https:/&
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What Matt Levine Writes about (Or, the Rise and Fall of WeWork and GameStop)(blog.vghaisas.com)
1 points by vghaisas 5y ago|1 comments
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by vghaisas 5y ago
Hello! I love Money Stuff and I decided to do some basic analysis of the top topics in Money Stuff and how they change over time. Source code here: https://github.com/polybuildr/money-stuff
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What Matt Levine Writes about (Or, the Rise and Fall of WeWork and GameStop)(blog.vghaisas.com)
4 points by vghaisas 5y ago|1 comments
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by vghaisas 5y ago
I have now added a plot for "fraud". There weren't as many mentions for specifically "securities fraud".
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by vghaisas 5y ago
Oh yes, good point! It currently only has "entities". There's one other graph with "insider trading" but I can definitely add one with "securities fraud".
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What Matt Levine Writes about (Or, the Rise and Fall of WeWork and GameStop)(blog.vghaisas.com)
3 points by vghaisas 5y ago|3 comments
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by vghaisas 6y ago
I didn't know and I'm sure others are wondering too: PA probably means Peano Arithmetic. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms and https://math.stackexchange.com/a/213264 .
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by vghaisas 6y ago
In college, I wrote something sort of like this to help students prepping for interviews in C++: https://vghaisas.com/code-quickref/cpp.html I quite like the format (though this post is much better than mine) of lots o
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by vghaisas 6y ago
Explanation in https://explainxkcd.com/2405/ : Copyright for The Great Gatsby ends ~today and so does support for Flash.
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Xkcd: Flash Gatsby(xkcd.com)
2 points by vghaisas 6y ago|1 comments
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by vghaisas 6y ago
Interesting technical article about API design, product debt and the complexity of payments.
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Stripe’s payments APIs: the first ten years(stripe.com)
22 points by vghaisas 6y ago|6 comments
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by vghaisas 6y ago
Indians use "crorepati" for someone with a crore rupees. Interestingly, the Indian equivalent of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire" is "Kaun Banega Crorepati" (who will become a crorepati). As for millionaire/billi
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by vghaisas 6y ago
I think it's also a bit of a chicken and egg problem: If no one uses Rust for web servers then its ecosystem won't ever mature. If there are people willing to deal with some rough edges, that's great and will help the ecosyst
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by vghaisas 6y ago
I don't think any Rust web framework provides as much as Rails does, but you can see the current state of them here: https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/frameworks/
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by vghaisas 6y ago
I think this was also the case with the old Edge on Windows. Not sure that's still the case with the new Edge, though.
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by vghaisas 6y ago
Yeah, it totally sounds like a thing you'd only expect in a "developer" version of browsers. Really curious to find out if anyone knows why that's not the case!
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Ask HN: Why do browsers include developer tools?
13 points by vghaisas 6y ago|14 comments
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Ask HN: Why do browsers include developer tools?
3 points by vghaisas 6y ago|7 comments
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Circular Dependencies in Software (and Lockdowns)(blog.vghaisas.com)
3 points by vghaisas 6y ago|0 comments
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A Problem with Circular Dependencies in Software Systems (and Lockdowns)(blog.vghaisas.com)
2 points by vghaisas 6y ago|0 comments