smoorman1024

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by smoorman1024 3y ago
> At the time of the acquisition Uber planned to integrate Drizly into Uber Eats, but never came did. "but never came did" Is this a grammar mistake or am I reading it incorrectly? Am I going out on a limb thinking that Techcru
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by smoorman1024 5y ago
There is a typo under A Better Way to Build Your Frontend. > Use page-level context without "worring" about concurrency and mutex Edit: here is a PR to fix that https://github.com/yuriizinets/kyoto/pul
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by smoorman1024 5y ago
Yes, I had a 15 month non-compete after leaving a high frequency trading firm. I got married and traveled 3 months around Asia (Japan, Korea, S.E. Asia, Australia). We came back and did some domestic travel then she went back to work and I
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by smoorman1024 6y ago
I believe the dark side of the moon would be more apt for radio astronomy. The obvious reason being that the Moon is blocking interference of artificial radio signals on Earth.
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by smoorman1024 6y ago
I've been working in golang professionally for about a year now coming from a long career in C++. Although there is some simplicity to golang that can be appreciated things like this below make me think that the premise of less is more
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by smoorman1024 6y ago
I would be really interested to no what the cost of this program is. Even if it's above a modest cost I think it's something the city should look into providing going forward. We should consider providing basic services to all our
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by smoorman1024 7y ago
I'm getting a 404 at your NYTimes link. I believe this is a correct link https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/15/health/medical-scans-butt...
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by smoorman1024 7y ago
I would be very interested to know what innovation allows them produce Lidar at this price point.
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by smoorman1024 7y ago
PBS Eons for Paleontology and Anthropology - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzR-rom72PHN9Zg7RML9EbA
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by smoorman1024 7y ago
Necessity is the mother of invention. I think a couple of these problems are overstated and if truly forced to create substitutes many non-US companies would step up to the challenge.
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by smoorman1024 8y ago
The panels must be old tech but that in itself would be a problem unless we see solar panels leveling off in their efficiency in the near future. Whatever you put into orbit is going to become outdated quickly. This is the source for the am
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by smoorman1024 8y ago
Can anyone comment on Bezo's claim that there will be so much more energy in Space via Solar Power. Based on what I'm reading the acre of solar power panels the ISS has generates less energy than what could equivalently be generat
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by smoorman1024 9y ago
Someone needs to figure out why the Grand Jury chose not to indict. This man was murdered in front of multiple witnesses. There must have been incredible extenuating circumstances if a Grand Jury chose not to indict. Edit: Come to think of
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by smoorman1024 9y ago
The population of Pittsburgh City proper peaked in the 1950's. It then depopulated significantly as people left the region and the city center. There is an abundance of extra housing at a reasonable rate close to the city center becaus
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by smoorman1024 10y ago
Not sure if anyone else has noticed this pattern but I've seen it in a number of NYT articles that I would like to aggregate. There are seemingly offhanded paragraphs that ignore the issue at hand and insert something pro-NSA/pro-
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
That must be related to the publicity of "Flash Boys" and the fact that some entities are rallying the public to send comment letters. BATS when it became an exchange was nothing but a vanilla competitor marketed as a Better Autom
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
Sounds like you are describing the NBBO (National Best Bid and Offer) which literally requires everyone to execute at the best price (or better) to buy or sell in the market. If you send an order to an exchange (say NYSE) and they don'
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
2008? Electronic Trading Firms were very active.
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
An instance of Fractal Lab you can play with: http://hirnsohle.de/test/fractalLab/
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
In my experience a lot of people don't realize you can get network TV in HD with an antenna. The cost of cable is just way too high to stomach given other available options, the best option being watching less TV.
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
You're right but regulatory approval is still difficult even for generics. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/09/gen...
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
This strategy only works because its so expensive and time consuming to bring a competitor drug to market. If it was a lot easier to get a competitor drug approved and to market then this strategy wouldn't work. Alex Tabarrok has some
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
Do you agree that this is their strategy? If you regulate us then we will leave.
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
It's not that they couldn't afford to do the additional background checks and insurance it's obviously a statement they are making and that statement fits right into the 'Randian' views that Travis Kalanick has alre
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
I wouldn't express my frustration like this if I didn't think the comment system on HN is completely broken. I have been on this site for many years. Just because I have never posted a runaway front page story doesn't mean I
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
Oh I see my other comment got down-voted before it was even visible. Is this because I didn't sacrifice 2 Amiga 1000's to the Gods of HN. I am 2 minutes from being done with this site forever. Both the submission and the comments
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
To anyone who has updated their twitter mobile client they recently got rid of discover and activity. Typically you would get to these screens by swiping left on the home screen. Activity was a straightforward summary of what your friends h
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
Even if you abolish cash there are still other ways to avoid negative interest rates with cash substitutes. If negative interest rates go too high then people would use their money to buy houses, gold, non perishable goods, anything that st
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
Relevant to discuss the viability of different fintech startup ideas: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9321019 https://medium.com/bull-market/a-cynic-s-guide-to-fintech-3c... I agree that there is
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by smoorman1024 11y ago
Yes. I would say watch what happens when the Fed definitively decides to raise rates. If there is no pullback in the big social companies then I'll be converted to the "This time is different" camp

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