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by wycy 6y ago
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1014267515696922624.html I hate Twitter threads too. I think this site does a nice job of pulling them together, and looks cleaner than nitter since it doesn't make each tweet lo
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by wycy 6y ago
Further, it's just a random FB page with only a couple hundred followers. The actual antifa symbol is completely different.
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by wycy 6y ago
The last time I looked into OpenWRT/DD-WRT (years ago), it seemed disadvantageous to switch to them because they would be slower than stock firmware due to missing some kind of hardware support. Is this still the case these days? EDIT:
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by wycy 6y ago
My takeaway from the NYT article[0] was that Sweden's approach to coronavirus hasn't left them totally overwhelmed primarily because Swedes willingly self-lockdowned and distanced almost as much as people under government-mandated
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by wycy 6y ago
I personally know 2 people, a healthcare (non-COVID) worker and an architect, who've had salaries cut about 20% as well. Still anecdata, of course, but throwing it onto the pile.
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by wycy 6y ago
I think x(3) would more commonly imply a function of 3, since you'd virtually always otherwise just write 3x.
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by wycy 7y ago
True that economies generally grow with time, but that doesn't mean the prices of stocks match reality. Prior to corona, the Dow Jones was nearly double it's value from 2016. Did the US economy really nearly double in value since
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by wycy 7y ago
Question for people who have emails at their own domain: what do you pick as your email address? Do you typically use first@firstlast.com? firstlast@firstlast.com? first@last.com? me@firstlast.com? Do you typically use multiple accounts?
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by wycy 7y ago
This is exactly my take as well. I'm shocked the market hasn't tanked much more. I would think that anyone should prefer the economy of 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014...as compared to projections of unemployment as high as 30% and t
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by wycy 7y ago
> (last year it survived a move without rebooting) How? UPS?
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by wycy 7y ago
Considering the fed is warning about the possibility of 30% unemployment [0], an additional 7M could come next week. [0] https://www.usnews.com/news/economy/articles/2020-03-23/fed-...
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by wycy 7y ago
This is painfully true. This is pretty well captured by the completely out of touch sentiments in [0], written by the folks at Crooked Media (generally Democratic establishment people). The wealthy upper middle class sees the coronavirus qu
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by wycy 7y ago
Interesting, I wasn’t aware immunity works this way. Thanks
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by wycy 7y ago
The entire theory of the solution to coronavirus hinges on an assumption that it will eventually pass once a critical mass of people have been infected and developed immunity. The handful of stories like this trickling out might imply that
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by wycy 7y ago
Doesn't this example contradict your point? The assassination of Franz Ferdinand is widely seen as what started WW1 by the general public.
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by wycy 7y ago
Increasing the access to credit really only helps if there's a belief that businesses will take out credit in order to continue operations despite the lack of business, but it's hard to imagine they would do that. The problem is t
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by wycy 7y ago
If the Fed had done nothing at all, it's conceivable that the markets would still be in exactly the same shape they are now (or even possibly better), except we'd still have those tools at our disposal. To an extent, that the Fed
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by wycy 7y ago
We have a virus problem, not a credit problem. The Fed is whipping out all the financial tools and it's totally ineffectual at best, and disastrous at worst as now those tools are used up (as it were). Trying to address this pandemic
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by wycy 7y ago
Would this indicate that the mortality rate is actually much higher percentage-wise, since the denominator is actually artificially inflated?
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by wycy 7y ago
Why does fragmentation have to be so bad on Android? Windows runs on millions of different hardware configurations, including custom home-built machines, and all Windows machines receive software updates at the same time.
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by wycy 7y ago
Can anyone say why gold (GLD) is dropping so much too? I would've thought it would be a rough inverse of the market. It's still up over the last month (just barely), but down over the past several days.
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by wycy 7y ago
Perhaps I should've said "actual value" rather than "actual price", but my point otherwise still stands.
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by wycy 7y ago
Aren't we also free to trade amongst ourselves during a market circuit breaker event?
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by wycy 7y ago
When you think about it, the whole market sort of follows these arbitrary-seeming rules. The actual prices of stocks are constantly changing 24/7/365, but the market is only open from 9:30am-4:00pm on weekdays excluding holidays.
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by wycy 7y ago
Agreed. I tried it a few times over the years and found the results to be pretty poor, but I tried again recently and found the results to be good enough to fully switch both my computer and phone to DDG. Although I'm fully switched ov
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by wycy 7y ago
It seems like spotting drowning children could be a good use case for computer vision, at least as a backup. The heuristics for a drowning child are pretty marked, but they're hard to spot for humans distracted by lots of other stimuli
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by wycy 7y ago
The Washington, DC metro still has many cars with carpets. They're pretty disgusting, but probably not quite as disgusting as you might think.
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by wycy 7y ago
Both house numbers and street numbers can be a fraction. Washington, DC has both.
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by wycy 7y ago
FWIW, my main mattress is also foam (Leesa) and seems to have good edge support. But the Leesa was a lot more expensive than the Amazon mattress, and I wanted to spend less since it was a guest room.
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by wycy 7y ago
I have the AmazonBasics mattress: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07C49ZPQG/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b... It's my guest room mattress but I do sleep in the guest room occasionally, and when I do I sleep better t

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