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Bell had a video telephone demo at the 1964 Worlds Fair in NY[0] some five years prior to this NYTimes story I think a lot of public ideas of the future sprung out from that I don't think the quote refers to a portable telephone but
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European center-right, it would be very different on the American spectrum
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released this year and great reads: * Bad Blood - mentioned tons of times * Billion Dollar Whale - story of the 1MDB scandal * Black Edge - chronicles insider trading on wall street * The Billionaire Raj - about India's income inequali
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I knew little about this topic until I just happen to catch Pewdiepie on a podcast. He spoke at length about the recent Swedish elections, how his mother cried when the Swedish Democrats (the new right-wing) party won, how he thinks young p
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Values aren't only the good - you want them to be only the good. It's like asking to judge the character of a person by only the good they do, not the bad
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Isn't that just a way of saying Judeo-Christian values are anything good Judeo-Christians have done, but none of the bad stuff?
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I wonder if it would be easier and/or possible (should be) to just write a filter in jq that strips output, prompt_number and execution_count in each cell
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I was a very active early Quora user and loved the site and network. It all seemed to go downhill when Charlie Cheever left. Not sure on cause/effect or if he exactly left because of it - but I don't think it was a coincidence tha
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I doubt they'd be able to 100% buy tbills at that maturity length (hence curiosity on what they're doing on the backend here), but even assuming 2.30~ average plus whatever Mastercard kickback is negative 50-70bp is still a hell o
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It's a brokerage account where you buy US Treasuries but also made liquid via a deal with Mastercard and branded as a chequing account It's kinda smart - but i'm curious how they settle some of the backend with daily transact
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YHOO was discounted on their BABA stake largely because nobody believed they could divest that holding without paying a huge tax bill Even after Yahoo! was spun out and the old corp was turned into AltBaba with only the BABA and Yahoo Japan
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That study makes no mention of age groups. People who vape know that flavors make it more attractive, and it's orders of magnitude better than smoking
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If you spend time in casinos you notice the counting money differences. There are also occupational differences, and differences in how wallets are used, back pocket vs front pocket vs top pocket, if money is taken out of a wallet or counte
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American VC money is distinct from American government money. The same cannot be said for Saudi, Qatar, UAE, Russia, the Central Asian kleptocracies, and to some extent - China, etc.
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It is shorthand for UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi - countries that are just a few of the handful remaining autocratic theocracies in the world with terrible human rights records
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they're sticking with the old reddit because the information density is much higher. it's a design problem.
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There was a campaign in Australia to remove the income tax deduction on investment properties as it was cited as the cause of high property prices What most people ignored is that it would spike rents and cause more short-term harm, especia
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That's it! Thank you
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Never understood how a company could do a product so well and then regress from there.
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I can't figure out what I've read up to on Twitter anymore since it shuffles tweets around and inserts random "your follower also follows this person" tweets which I didn't ask for
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I know - but that wasn't the argument being made
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Is South Africa's situation really that unique when most of the world isn't at war with a neighbour? If anything, the situation in Pakistan, North Korea, India, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Israel etc. are the unique cases - that is essent
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Air conditioning is an energy problem. There is no magic bullet to cooling 15+ cubic meters of air from 30+ degrees to 23 degrees
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Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Extreme – 64GM RAM and GTX 1050 in an Ultrabook(lenovo.com)
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$34B is a lot in company scales but not a lot when it is the vast majority of a government budget used to sustain a very plush lifestyle for millions of people. Saudi has been running huge deficits and have had to dig into their reserves to
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Troy's skill is taking security and privacy topics and translating them with practical tips to an IT enthusiast audience that is much broader than hn Look at his comments and replies to gauge the audience for his content - deploying mo
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I dumped that routine and just started pointing those video URLs at youtube-dl vlc is a better video viewing experience (and better on battery) than a browser and you can usually start playing a partially downloaded file
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They could easily do a diagnostics / analytics feature where user stats are posted back to developers
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Risky Biz infosec podcast - https://risky.biz/
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based on everything i've experienced and heard about Zoho i'd say this incident is a symptom of issues rather than a cause

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