WilliamSt

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by WilliamSt 7y ago
How can an individual investor profit from the coming sovereign debt crisis?
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by WilliamSt 7y ago
Sometimes when I go to hacker news, I feel really poor.
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by WilliamSt 8y ago
I did the math on this a while ago and calculated I could travel my normal commute back and forth on the battery of a plug-in hybrid. I would only need the petrol engine on longer trips. I'd probably spend 80% of the driving in electri
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by WilliamSt 8y ago
The spinning wheel has kinetic energy, not potential energy, right?
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by WilliamSt 8y ago
Any tips on finding a good mentor?
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by WilliamSt 9y ago
Which startups are trying to build a launch loop or space towers? I'd love to keep track of those startups.
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Nobody understands debt(nytimes.com)
3 points by WilliamSt 9y ago|0 comments
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by WilliamSt 9y ago
If you haven't already, read: Tripping Over the Truth: The Return of the Metabolic Theory of Cancer Illuminates a New and Hopeful Path to a Cure (ISBN: 9781603587303). It is a great review of the history of Cancer. It concludes that th
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by WilliamSt 9y ago
I think it's a cultural thing. A lot of people in europe think skyscrapers destroy the skylines of cities. They really dislike any changes though. For example, in Stockholm, there was a fire recently in a rather ugly building (where th
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by WilliamSt 9y ago
Of course. I'd much rather trust the anecdotes of a stranger on the internet
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by WilliamSt 9y ago
mirror?
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by WilliamSt 9y ago
I really wish people could make it a habit to define acronyms.
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by WilliamSt 9y ago
Please do not take advice about your health from hacker news. Type 1 diabetes is a serious condition. Consult a medical professional about your diet and medication.
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by WilliamSt 9y ago
Assuming the market keep on growing over time as it has done for a very long time, all time highs aren't something spectacular or unusual in the stock market, in fact it occurs almost on a daily basis. As an analogy; if you go to a gro
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by WilliamSt 11y ago
awesome, thanks!
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by WilliamSt 11y ago
You should try to add some sort of tracking of when people start to write a message to you. If that's in any way possible. It would be really stalkery if you knew whenever someone started writing a message and perhaps decided not to se
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by WilliamSt 11y ago
Aren't non-compete clauses banned in California?
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by WilliamSt 11y ago
Ships going from (for example) Europe to Asia switch to the cheaper sulfur bunker when exiting the EU. This could be easily fixed with international regulations so people wouldn't be able to use that misleading argument.
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by WilliamSt 12y ago
Don't focus on placing every tile perfect, just get them evenly placed across the hexagon. The game seems to slow down after a while as well. I got 17800 points after a few trials..
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by WilliamSt 13y ago
I live in the same city but I can't find a pizza near me that's cheaper than ~90 SEK - 14.01 USD
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by WilliamSt 13y ago
It would seem to me a much simpler solution would be for airlines to offer earplugs on all flights. That way, babies can cry and businessmen don't whine.
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by WilliamSt 13y ago
Yep, I thought I was going to find my own domain here.
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Facebook just changed the design of the graph search box
1 points by WilliamSt 13y ago|1 comments
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by WilliamSt 13y ago
You can bet Facebook is storing that data though. And who knows what the future holds, perhaps Facebook will be forced to sell that data to its users in order to increase revenue and make stock holders content?
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by WilliamSt 13y ago
I signed up for path a couple of months ago, with facebook. When I realised how much private photos (they didn't seem to care about the privacy settings on facebook) they took from me, I deactivated my account and sent an email asking them
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by WilliamSt 13y ago
Correlation does not imply causataion.
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by WilliamSt 14y ago
How do you get it before everyone else?
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by WilliamSt 14y ago
It seems like you are able to "remove" searches but you have to click on all of them manually, there's no "remove all search history"-functionality, at least that I was able to find. Searches seems to go back to september this year for me.
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by WilliamSt 14y ago
Try to search for a friend using the search bar on your newsfeed. Then go back and look again.
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Facebook now shows you your own search history
16 points by WilliamSt 14y ago|10 comments

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