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by ad 8mo ago
which tools?
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by ad 8mo ago
Saying “we gotta get Greenland” when the people in Greenland say they don’t want to join the US. Then refusing to rule out using force. If you want to say that no exact act of treachery has been committed, then substitute “treacherous wor
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by ad 8mo ago
The problem isn't using OneDrive. The problem is not using it. If you try to not use it, the dark patterns the article references appear.
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by ad 1y ago
Heads up on this media source: part of Hunterbrook's business model to give investment funds early access to the news, so they can trade ahead of it [1]. Now that is not to say that this story is false, or even that the business model
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by ad 2y ago
What information sources do you use to find the cheap + growing things?
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by ad 2y ago
Not the person you’re responding to, but my email is in my profile
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by ad 2y ago
I agree that it is not economics, or at least that their argument about economics does not suffice. This is not a challenge and I am genuinely curious to hear your perspective: in what way does Greece teach their youngest generation to not
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by ad 2y ago
Would you mind continuing your tangent? I have a set of friends who really like Oster and I don’t know much about her. Feel free to email me (address is in my profile) if you don’t want to discuss in these comments.
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by ad 3y ago
There’s some nuance/caveats, but here’s a study showing humans lost height during the switch from hunting/gathering to agriculture: https://modernfarmer.com/2022/04/farming-made-our-ancestors-...
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Mommy blogger Heather Armstrong, known as Dooce to fans, dead at 47(apnews.com)
7 points by ad 3y ago|0 comments
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by ad 4y ago
You have the best post on this thread. One question, since you seem pretty knowledgable: I thought margin accounts were covered under SIPC? Can you send me a link on how with a margin account we are unsecured creditors? I found this one
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by ad 4y ago
Good to point that out, although I was still surprised by how high the percentage was even taking that into account. List of public holdings, for the curious: https://whalewisdom.com/filer/berkshire-hathaway-inc
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by ad 4y ago
I'd be pretty interested to see how cash account is treated differently; I couldn't find a better reference either. But one advantage over the coinbase situation is at least the margin account falls under SIPC.
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by ad 4y ago
Did you ever get into Augur?
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by ad 5y ago
I can't download the paper. I'm sorry, but reading the abstract, I don't see how that paper supports your argument. "Highlights • Chronic Pb exposure could result in a lower weight gain in rats and a higher Pb content i
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by ad 5y ago
The paper picks 1980 as the start year…interesting because the recent HN article about obesity-caused-by-contamination post also picked 1980: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27936016 Perhaps spurious, but could be seen
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by ad 5y ago
“ In seven days, the over 100 nuclear power reactors run out of emergency power and go Fukushima, spreading radioactive plumes over the most populous half of the United States. ” I didn’t see in the article, but why can’t the nuclear power
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by ad 6y ago
I’ve never played here but this is what I’ve heard: https://www.playdiplomacy.com/
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by ad 7y ago
It is feasible, although I would be surprised if it something like this were at play. For one thing the other CEO Brown and Simons himself are on the opposite side of the political spectrum. That's not any guarantee but my point is
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by ad 7y ago
> their outsized gains are due to market manipulation, front running, or other insider activities (as in, illegal/unfair). as a former insider at a different, less successful-than-rentec-but-still-successful firm, I doubt it. They
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Open offices can lead to closed minds(economist.com)
49 points by ad 8y ago|7 comments
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by ad 10y ago
Seems like the "cure" comes when you get the sleep deprivation from waking up early, not staying up late. Well it's a little more complicated since they start with a day of total deprivation, but the days after are focused o
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How companies should treat their most enthusiastic customers(economist.com)
99 points by ad 10y ago|16 comments
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How companies should treat their most enthusiastic customers(economist.com)
1 points by ad 10y ago|0 comments
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by ad 13y ago
Yglesias' extreme language always gets me. >> It doesn't give China any leverage over the American government They get some leverage. China's bond buying lowers rates on everything from mortgages to student loans. I a
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by ad 13y ago
Very interesting stuff. "The Benchmark" is the SP500 I'm guessing? I couldn't find the answer after clicking around for a bit, sorry if I'm dumb. You might list the reference security in the chart, or do something like "SPY (benchmark)"
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by ad 14y ago
Your joke is even better since one of the Intrade contracts was "intrade will no longer exist in X years"
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by ad 14y ago
Agree with you on the 49ers example but Intrade had a few contracts that were closer to the ones regulated by the cftc: the price of oil, gold, the DOW, etc.
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Study: High Speed Trading Hurts Long-Term Investors(online.wsj.com)
48 points by ad 14y ago|35 comments
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by ad 15y ago
What do you like to use for your scraping? I used python/BeautifulSoup back in the day but there may be better options now. Did you spoof other browser headers or did people really not care?

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