freefal

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by freefal 2y ago
The first syllable is stressed in the US
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by freefal 3y ago
I did this hike with some friends years ago. It can be wet, but it's a beautiful hike. You can camp on the beach and make fires every night. I highly recommend it if you're looking for a through hike with lots of terrain you can&#
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by freefal 4y ago
“removes the vast majority of the ME's software modules (including network stack, RTOS and Java VM)” There’s a Java VM on these things?!
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Chess Investigation Finds U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times(wsj.com)
326 points by freefal 4y ago|322 comments
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by freefal 4y ago
Update: This is wrong. Ignore it. The poison pill is not diluting any individual shareholder disproportionately. What it is doing is issuing the right to buy shares at a steep discount. For example, if shares of Company XYZ are currently t
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by freefal 4y ago
I believe Microsoft offered a cash option so not sure subsequent returns are relevant.
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by freefal 5y ago
When it came out, PageRank was a really innovative way to order search results that cut through most of the "SEO" at the time, which was webpages doing lots of unsophisticated things to range well for a given topic (e.g., putting
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by freefal 5y ago
A bit tangential, but New York City has an operating steam system that's still widely used by commercial customers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system
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by freefal 5y ago
Either reads fine to me.
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by freefal 5y ago
I wouldn’t use this because it just seems like a hassle but how are 4 interest-free installments worse than paying upfront? I’m unclear on Zip’s business model so appreciate I could be missing something here.
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Retirement Fund Giant Calpers Votes to Use Leverage, More Alternative Assets(wsj.com)
4 points by freefal 5y ago|0 comments
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by freefal 5y ago
No, but you can hit it via after-tax 401k contributions and then convert those to a Roth IRA (i.e., Mega Backdoor Roth)
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by freefal 5y ago
These are crude wells for which natural gas is just a byproduct. While crude can be stored in tanks near the wells and trucked intermittently to pipelines, the natural gas requires pipelines to the wellhead which may not be economic. Genera
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by freefal 5y ago
Here's a fun New Yorker article that takes this to an extreme: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w... A sample: "It had been a rough day, so when I walked into the part
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by freefal 5y ago
The big difference between typical pro races and the Olympics is that in the Olympics the riders don’t race with radios, which made this situation possible. In a typical pro race, the team director would be telling his riders there is still
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by freefal 5y ago
Imported from where?
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by freefal 6y ago
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is excellent.
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by freefal 6y ago
Indeed. It was actually a great system that sat somewhere between email and IM in its usage on campus. The Windows and Mac clients had notifier processes that would signal the client to poll if the server alerted them to new messages. It ma
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by freefal 6y ago
Back in '07, my school still used a custom email protocol called Blitzmail that verified the user by sending a random number, having the user encrypt the random number via DES using his password as the key and then send the result back
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by freefal 6y ago
The Post article is an op-ed, not something written by the editorial board. I’d prefer that newspapers feel free to publish a wide range of views without readers ascribing those views to the paper (I.e., the newsroom or editorial board).
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by freefal 6y ago
No, a gamma squeeze works in the opposite way. The retail investor gets long an option (let's say a put), and the dealer gets short that option. As the price goes down, the retail investor gets shorter (higher chance his put finishes i
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by freefal 6y ago
It could be that 825GB is the typical marketing GB (i.e., 1000^3) and the 667GB is the OS reported GB (i.e., 1024^3). That difference only reduces the 825 "marketing" GB to 768 "real" GB. So still a 100GB of OS/syst
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by freefal 6y ago
I was hoping for a cowsay for medical advice.
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by freefal 6y ago
Yes, I was ignoring the fact that an options contract represents 100 shares as it needless complicates the point I was trying to make.
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by freefal 6y ago
The Tour de France used this road in 1999 with predictable results: lots of crashes ( https://www.procyclinguk.com/flashback-1999-tour-de-france/ )
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by freefal 6y ago
In the context of options, delta is the change in the option price divided by the change in the price of the underlying stock (i.e., the first derivative w.r.t. the stock price). Gamma is how much the delta changes for a change in the under
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Google Play Music will begin shutting down in September(theverge.com)
13 points by freefal 6y ago|4 comments
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by freefal 6y ago
#9 is one of my favorite beers so I was bummed to see the title of this HN post. Reading the article it sounds like production is just being moved to Rochester though.
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by freefal 6y ago
Wow, the combination of those heavy metal blades and the sparsely placed safety bars definitely doesn't look finger friendly!
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by freefal 6y ago
Probably the same reason that <b> (bold) and <i> (italics) aren't used anymore. There's now a clearer delineation between document structure (described via tags) and style (described via CSS) than there was in the earl

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