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by waterside81 7y ago
For anyone else wondering ... an ISA is an Income Share Agreement. Lots of comments here mentioning this but I didn’t know what it stood for
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by waterside81 7y ago
I use waveapps too and I'm pretty sure they're Mechanical Turking their receipt transcription. Sometimes it takes too long for it to be an automated process.
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by waterside81 7y ago
It’s up to the merchant to decide. You can ask for as little as card number and expiry. All up to the merchant based on how they configure their payment processor
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by waterside81 7y ago
> In 2014, Navy officials discovered a flaw in the IBNS. One component could not keep track of more than 150 ships at a time without malfunctioning, according to Navy investigators. The Navy’s solution? Sailors were told to delete tracke
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by waterside81 7y ago
Repustate | Toronto | Full Time | https://www.repustate.com We are looking for someone to create interesting applications using Repustate's own text analytics API for the purposes of demonstrating the API's capabilitie
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by waterside81 7y ago
Huh now I'm curious where you live that they don't do this? In Canada 50s and 100s come out of the ATMs. In Japan, you get 10,000 yen (~$100 USD) in ATMs.
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Space shuttles are related to Roman chariots(twitter.com)
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by waterside81 7y ago
Ha - I've never seen the word pissoir before. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pissoir Although you probably meant "urinal", I'm glad you used this word! Now I know what the things in Paris are called
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by waterside81 7y ago
Damn this opened my eyes to how luxury tax works on cars in Denmark. According to https://skat.dk/skat.aspx?oid=2244599 , there's a margin tax rate on these cars of "85% of the taxable value up to DKK 185,100 in 20
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by waterside81 7y ago
If it had happened in Canada the cost is zero. We don’t have deductibles or anything like that for these sorts of surgeries. Drugs yes, operations no.
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by waterside81 7y ago
Ontario isn't 100% fee-for-service. GPs are capitated, they are paid by how many patients are enrolled on their roster. It's the specialists who are paid fee-for-service - but yes your point stands, perhaps its not the best model
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by waterside81 7y ago
Did Jordan get wealthy from the initial release of Prince of Persia?
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by waterside81 7y ago
Yeah check out Eagle Alpha https://eaglealpha.com/
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by waterside81 7y ago
There's a whole marketplace where companies with so-called "Alternative-data" sell their datasets to quant traders. Satellite imagery of farms, passenger traffic through airports, all sorts of random, seemingly disparate data
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by waterside81 7y ago
The government of Ontario releases the salaries of all public employees every year if they make over 100k. So called sunshine list https://www.ontario.ca/page/public-sector-salary-disclosure
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by waterside81 7y ago
Hey Rich if you're still lurking - I really like the Tutorial layout (even on mobile!) and how that all works. Is this something you built yourself or is there a re-usable component that I can use?
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by waterside81 7y ago
I love his livestreams because of how normal he is. His meetings sound like any other meeting I've been. It's really a great watch.
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by waterside81 8y ago
For those like me who don't know what "Perkele" is: Perkele means evil spirit in Finnish and is a popular Finnish profanity.
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by waterside81 8y ago
Potentially stupid question but in instances of hacks, how do companies know for sure what was and wasn't taken?
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by waterside81 8y ago
Yeah it is ambiguous. As Vince McMahon would say "Pronouns, pal"
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by waterside81 8y ago
Haha- the drone not landing when you told it to is basically the beginning of every sci-fi movie where the robots turn on the people. Great job.
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by waterside81 8y ago
He works for a hedge fund in Toronto (or used to?). Pretty sure these are all his own words. And you’re right they’re great. Whenever there’s earnings reports from the big tech companies - his are the first comments I look for.
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by waterside81 8y ago
You're being hard on yourself - the site is perfect. Easy to read, clear & concise. Good job.
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by waterside81 8y ago
Boeing's primary assembly is in the Seattle area.
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by waterside81 8y ago
Airbus is European. Boeing's corporate HQ is in Chicago.
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by waterside81 8y ago
Makes this top comment from yesterday seem even more flippant and re-inforces the "trust us, we're smarter than you" mentality of certain regions of the country: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18673426
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by waterside81 8y ago
Are you thinking of Kazaa?
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by waterside81 8y ago
Adware Doctor is the app
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by waterside81 8y ago
To piggyback on this, MJ played in a very different NBA. Today's NBA is much more offense friendly. No hand-checking, much less physical play allowed. Jordan would be shooting 50 FTs a game if he played in today's NBA.
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by waterside81 8y ago
Hello fellow Canadian

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