shin_lao

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by shin_lao 1mo ago
Canada has faced nearly a decade of weak per capita GDP growth and secular stagnation. Statistics Canada confirmed the country slipped into a technical recession after two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth in late 2025 and early 2
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by shin_lao 2mo ago
Oral phenylephrine is considered to be ineffective, phenylephrine in a nasal spray is considered effective.
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by shin_lao 3mo ago
Could you please read the resources above that debunk the points you just made?
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by shin_lao 4mo ago
This looks terrible. Ferrari sells dreams, not "safe choices".
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by shin_lao 4mo ago
I think it's a backward compatibility problem.
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by shin_lao 4mo ago
Windows 2000 is based on the NT kernel which is a complete different operation system. ME is Windows 3.x with a 32-bit hack on top of MS-DOS.
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by shin_lao 4mo ago
Windows 2000 was such a major improvement over NT4 and of course 9x that yes, you're right, it was awesome, but it still had issues and in terms of device drivers future versions brought a lot of things that improved overall stability.
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by shin_lao 5mo ago
We have evidence that Russia funded anti-fracking groups, and it's been long alleged that Greenpeace has been heavily funded by Russia. It's not clear if the Green Party is Russian funded, directly or indirectly. https:/&#x2
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by shin_lao 5mo ago
AI is a scapegoat. These companies are bloated. That's why they are laying off people en masse.
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by shin_lao 5mo ago
This article is poorly written. No new wealth was created. They monetized an existing accounting/revaluation gain by selling older, non-standard bars and replacing them with compliant bars, while keeping the overall gold quantity uncha
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by shin_lao 6mo ago
Look at the Ukraine war. Who is being drafted against their will?
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by shin_lao 6mo ago
You are correct, we don't know much. Could also have been a failure.
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by shin_lao 6mo ago
46 airplanes were shot down during the second Iraqi war, and there has been over 150 total aviation losses (mechanical failure). So far we have lost seven airplanes. There's no deep meaning behind one F-15e being shot down (if that&#x2
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by shin_lao 6mo ago
You will always find a report that goes in the way of the narrative you want to push. The goal of these reports is to poke holes and build scenarios. It doesn't mean it's going to happen. This article elevates a niche bottleneck i
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by shin_lao 7mo ago
Unclear if the SC ruling is retro active. But of course, lawyers will try to make money out of this...
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No 10 Am BTC Dump? Bitcoin Price Rallies as Jane Street Trading Draws Attention(ccn.com)
2 points by shin_lao 7mo ago|0 comments
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Jane Street Hit with Terra $40B Insider Trading Suit(disruptionbanking.com)
171 points by shin_lao 7mo ago|71 comments
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by shin_lao 7mo ago
See that as winning the "startup lottery", that doesn't mean what he did is rational or smart, he just had a great outcome. In trading it's the same, you can make stupid bets and make a lot of money, doesn't mean yo
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by shin_lao 8mo ago
In the US, you can just get a refund if you decide not to fly (by law) or a rebooking. Premium airlines usually offer you compensation: a meal, and a voucher for a hotel stay, depending on the cause of the delay. Very likely miles or vouche
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by shin_lao 8mo ago
EU market is by no mean easy, it's heavily fragmented requiring very often intense localization effort.
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by shin_lao 8mo ago
May be overblown, the IRS accesses this data all the time. Broadly speaking, the government knows your SSN. It was also my understanding many DOGE employees were Department of Treasury agents.
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by shin_lao 9mo ago
What is the core use case for this structure? Because it seems like a very heavy price to pay just to keep value stable, as opposed to make a copy of that value when you need it.
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by shin_lao 9mo ago
Because String Theory hasn't delivered falsifiable predictions, yet keeps expanding to accommodate failure.
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by shin_lao 1y ago
Seeing a lot of people shit on Paul, which I guess, why not, but it's not super useful or positive. I think this is a fairly good essay which can be boiled down to "don't do premature optimization" or "don't tr
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by shin_lao 1y ago
You may be underestimating the depth of scope of SAS. You can't just replace it with "a bunch of R and Python scripts".
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by shin_lao 1y ago
Doesn't mean we shouldn't do it.
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by shin_lao 1y ago
The EU has already been doing that with "fines".
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by shin_lao 2y ago
The argument is that it's better handled at the state level, and having a centralized federal authority for that is of little to no value.
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by shin_lao 2y ago
I'm just thinking about 6 to 7 figures software investment and trying to understand how you could do that without several meetings.
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by shin_lao 2y ago
What's the most expensive software you bought?

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