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by __coaxialcabal 5mo ago
SS Central America, sunk in 1857 with 14,000 kg of gold.."the old insurance companies who’d paid out when the original ship demanded, and were rewarded, in court a substantial amount of the gold recovered." https://www.
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by __coaxialcabal 5mo ago
Are there open source examples of this? I'm not treasure hunting, just curious what sort of data they use, etc.
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by __coaxialcabal 2y ago
lots of ads on this site that does seem to contain any unique content
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by __coaxialcabal 2y ago
From 4o… In ancient times, such as during the period of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, full-grown cows were significantly smaller than modern cattle. Based on archaeological evidence (bones and remains), historians and archaeozoologists e
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by __coaxialcabal 2y ago
Have you had any success using LLMs to rewrite Python to rust?
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by __coaxialcabal 2y ago
It's surprising the extent to which the tech community overfits towards classifying intelligent individuals as either exclusively technical or nontechnical. Recruiters are especially weak in this regard, e.g., if you've ever been
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by __coaxialcabal 3y ago
Can you recommend some favorites?
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by __coaxialcabal 3y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/netoperatingloss.asp
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by __coaxialcabal 3y ago
Thank you so much for the detailed response. This makes perfect sense.
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by __coaxialcabal 3y ago
1.1B in NOLs. How does this not become a $200MM acquihire by UPS pre-bankruptcy? I’m asking because I would assume that the tax mitigation could be an asset and feel like I am missing something. I am not an accountant, but would love for on
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by __coaxialcabal 3y ago
This…not to mention NOLs, contracts, MSAs, etc. At some level there is a market price for these “assets”. Maybe we need an eBay for near bankrupt startups? The bankers aren’t getting it done.
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by __coaxialcabal 4y ago
translated from latin literally means "here are (pl.) lions"
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by __coaxialcabal 4y ago
https://content.fortune.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Adapt...
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by __coaxialcabal 4y ago
TIL about Aphex Twin's Windowlicker face spectrogram.... https://www.wired.com/2002/05/hey-whos-that-face-in-my-song/
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by __coaxialcabal 4y ago
I have paid for a subscription to the economist for most of my adult life and the authentication scheme for the website is garbage.
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by __coaxialcabal 5y ago
ID.me does not have a monopoly on former military in the IDV space. Understand that lots of former military have clearance, relationships, etc., but does not explain the success of such a low quality solution being this ubiquitous in govern
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by __coaxialcabal 5y ago
What was the vendor selection process for ID.me? Their UX, privacy, and security practices seem terrible. What’s the real story on how ID.me became so pervasive in the public sector with such a terrible product?
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by __coaxialcabal 5y ago
A hagiography (/ˌhæɡiˈɒɡrəfi/; from Ancient Greek ἅγιος, hagios 'holy', and -γραφία, -graphia 'writing') or vita (from Latin vita, life, which begins the title of most medieval biographies) is a biography of a
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by __coaxialcabal 5y ago
Mostly to the bottom, but some remains suspended in a saline dihydrogen monoxide solution.
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by __coaxialcabal 5y ago
Specialized non-consumer accessible hardware is a huge stumbling block for these types of solutions.
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by __coaxialcabal 5y ago
Privacy issues aside, identity is a huge problem in financial services. Not surprised that investments in this space are going far afield to meet this need. The most problematic aspect here: "crypto startup has one of the more comicall
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by __coaxialcabal 5y ago
who are they using for ID verification?
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by __coaxialcabal 5y ago
At one point Miles asked Apotheker why he hadn't read Autonomy's most recent financial results around the time of the deal, asking incredulously: "You didn't have 30 minutes?" Apotheker responded: "I was runnin
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by __coaxialcabal 5y ago
This is the subject of a painting by artist Hernan Bas, "The Ornamental Hermit". https://thelonelyonedotnet.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/bas17... The concept raises questions about power, class, voyeurism
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by __coaxialcabal 6y ago
Not that I've used it in several years, but Teradata and AsterData used to run on SUSE. It was extremely stable in my experience.
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by __coaxialcabal 7y ago
Barry Ritholtz has a great business and finance podcast called “Masters in Business” and frequently discusses favorite books and book recommendations in context of the dialogue. “MiB was originally conceived by its creator, Barry Ritholtz,
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by __coaxialcabal 7y ago
The notation for the indefinite integral was introduced by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz in 1675 (Burton 1988, p. 359; Leibniz 1899, p. 154). He adapted the integral symbol, ∫, from the letter ſ (long s), standing for summa (written as ſumma; L
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by __coaxialcabal 7y ago
Semantics, but “negative cash conversion cycle”, not “negative cash flow cycle”.
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by __coaxialcabal 7y ago
What tools do you find useful?
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by __coaxialcabal 7y ago
It’s been a while, but Looker provides LookML, something akin to an ORM for dynamically integrating relations, measures, aggregations, etc. into SQL queries on demand as well as a variety of visualization options for the result set. This is

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