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by vpribish 7y ago
has anyone here ever used prolog in production - like real world, making money, production? How about in real world research where it produced no-kidding actual value? From what I can tell it is only useful these days as a academic exa
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by vpribish 7y ago
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/mone... last item, heading is "Reserve Requirements" "... the Board has reduced reserve requirement ratios to zero percent effective on March
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by vpribish 7y ago
paranoid much? this is a super-easy, helpful thing to be aware of and you're just here to disparage? why did you even bother commenting? go for a walk or something because this is not a healthy way to act
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by vpribish 7y ago
point and speak?
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by vpribish 7y ago
fwiw: I've moved to Trio over asyncio (I did plain old async for a couple years and Trio makes a ton of sense) Quart-trio over Flask (just to get a Trio-friendly flask-a-like server) - plain old aiohttp worked really well too. It takes
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by vpribish 7y ago
we're trying to have an intelligent discussion here and you bring religious garbage
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by vpribish 7y ago
it takes one growing season for the rice, wheat, sugar cane, and soybean they were using.
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by vpribish 7y ago
clickbait-styled headlines are repulsive
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by vpribish 7y ago
of course it's fixable - be realistic. It's the more a problem of increasing lift from the forward-mounted engines, not CG. Active control systems are just fine. The airframe is not inherently unstable. armchair aerospace engin
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by vpribish 7y ago
Forbes is worthless, post from another source
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by vpribish 7y ago
forbes is shit, the headline is a lie. https://www.cnet.com/news/koalas-are-not-functionally-extinc...
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by vpribish 7y ago
yeah, what the fuck. Maybe they are counting on the inevitable lawsuit to raise their profile before changing their name or something?
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by vpribish 7y ago
yeah, right - the telegraph is going to break this news to world.
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by vpribish 7y ago
"The cost of a TBM doesn’t get much higher as you increase its diameter." This is the key assertion, and it is unsupported. - heat extraction will become a bigger problem - debris extraction too - cost of parts, cost and speed of
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by vpribish 7y ago
looks sketchy as fuck - it's a marketing piece put out by the company. Don't bother.
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by vpribish 7y ago
What a worthless site! The UI is awkward, the data very shallow, the visualization provides no insight or understanding. It all could have been a static graph. Why did you even post this, moigonz?
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by vpribish 7y ago
dude. use some critical thinking, please. a quick glance at the contents of that page shows that it is a lunatic fringe right-wing propaganda site. "@AlGore to launch climate brainwashing campaign for students" "Asians Bet
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by vpribish 7y ago
I think you are absolutely correct. and i'm disappointed again at the broader HN downvoters who lack any sense of perspective. It's like the hackers all turned into fuzzy-headed luddites here.
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by vpribish 7y ago
feedback instead of anonymous downvotes? crazy!
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by vpribish 7y ago
Forbes is garbage, don't post their articles here. This is a fawning, analysis-free piece that reads like a long-form press release
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by vpribish 7y ago
citing bad works of fiction does not help make the point
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by vpribish 7y ago
see The Economist - they are doing great. subscription based (and not cheap), extremely high quality, multi-media (print, app, web, audio). free news? it'll all be run by comedy organizations
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by vpribish 7y ago
They were counting on a big chunk of cash from the IPO that they could use to pay the interest on their massive debts and keep expanding and developing to keep the growth/valuation story alive. This was all undone when outside invest
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by vpribish 7y ago
that response doesn't mean anything. are you missing some words?
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by vpribish 7y ago
my goodness, yes. My background is aerospace engineering, software engineering, and finance. Here on hacker news, the software discussion is good, aerospace is terrible, and finance/investing is teeth-gnashingly, garment-rendingly
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by vpribish 7y ago
i wasn't kidding either.
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by vpribish 7y ago
I personally think we should send in the Marines to disconnect scam operations
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by vpribish 7y ago
my vote is for scam, or scam through culpable negligence. bet they loved all the attention though.
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by vpribish 7y ago
much worse than 2008 how? Global debt markets nearly collapsed and the single largest investment of american consumers crashed. You are making a really bold claim there and it looks like cheap catastrophizing.
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by vpribish 7y ago
shh! in this timeline, isb power doesn't come into use until 2026. study the damn opsec dossier, sam.

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