sertorius

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by sertorius 4y ago
I think 30-year fixed mortgages are somewhat of an American phenomenon (perhaps due to the luxury of having the global reserve currency). They are not generally available in Canada or UK, where 5-year fixed rates are the norm.
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by sertorius 4y ago
Not to pile on, but there's also a typo right on the first screen: "Lisitings". Also, inconsistent use of periods on bullet points.
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by sertorius 4y ago
Coinbase has KYC ("Know your customer") policies explicitly to comply with anti-money laundering. https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/managing-my-account/up... Edit: besides that, the point of &#x
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by sertorius 4y ago
It was the perfecting money laundering vehicle. "I made a picture of an ape and 'some random anonymous person' bought it for $1M!"
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by sertorius 5y ago
3 parts oat bran, 1 part psyllium husk - mix and put through a flour mill. Add some baking powder. Store this mixture and then at breakfast time add 1 egg and milk and fry as a pancake. I eat it with honey and butter. You'll probably w
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by sertorius 7y ago
Fair enough, but I doubt many individuals would be able to do much more than rein in the extremes - drilling in protected reserves, etc.
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by sertorius 7y ago
Buying shares doesn't necessarily mean you "support the company". You can be an activist and vote against current management. In many cases, activist investors have a big impact. Realistically, it won't matter either way
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by sertorius 7y ago
Private Doctor practices? How can they be vulnerable?
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by sertorius 7y ago
Worth pointing out that at the time the article was written in 1980, it was the 100-year high in interest rates, possibly north of 20% in many countries.
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by sertorius 7y ago
Are you sure you aren't thinking of "Noble House"? That's the one that takes place in the sixties. In it, Casey Tcholok tells her boss she's looking for "drop dead" money, which is once also referred to as
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by sertorius 8y ago
Thanks for this! Is there a suggested way to get a list of keys based on wildcard? I note that the infamous KEYS command is not listed as supported (and fair enough). Is there a suitable non-Redis backend command that can get this info?
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by sertorius 8y ago
> this browser does not have SharedArrayBuffer support enabled It was disabled for Spectre safety reasons, but it can be re-enabled by navigating to "about:config", searching for "javascript.options.shared_memory" and
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by sertorius 8y ago
One would be the suspension of mark-to-market accounting procedures, where the requirement to value a bank's assets under current market conditions was suspended and they could value them under "ideal market conditions", whic
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by sertorius 8y ago
Just wanted to affirm this - I saw the streams announcement last year on the same day that I was having issues with Kafka and I implemented it into production for processing IoT time series data right away. It was probably a bit too early f
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by sertorius 9y ago
> Your task is to create a lasting representation of the struggle and beauty and plight of the human race. > Your task is to bring meaningful, sustainable, and relevant hope and quality of life improvement to society. I'd be curi
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by sertorius 9y ago
The "Open Debug Prompt" in Pycharm is the best of both. Breakpoint at the point of interest, enter the REPL, and continue writing at the prompt. Also good in Matlab. I hope I can see this feature in Rust someday, although it seems
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by sertorius 9y ago
> If you are interested in learning a C++ like language, I would recommend Rust. If you are a C++ programmer, I highly recommend learning Rust. Also, if you are a Scala programmer, I highly recommend learning Rust. There are major simila
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by sertorius 9y ago
I use the following lines in my .bashrc to search the history based on a half-typed command (taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1030182/how-do-i-change-... ): if [[ $- == *i* ]] then b
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by sertorius 9y ago
I believe he was referring to the general living-in-the-present attitude rather than the supported-by-your-child part.