stephengoodwin

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by stephengoodwin 5y ago
Welp, I specifically bought a Roku device a few months ago just to use YouTube. I ran into major issues using Fire TV's YouTube app. The app would fail to get past the initial loading screen and hang forever. It would typically require
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by stephengoodwin 7y ago
Correction: Should be Long Call for the first scenario: defined risk protection (for shorting), not Long Put.
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by stephengoodwin 7y ago
Not that I'm aware of. The only alternative would be to permit shorting if the user has a Long Put for defined risk protection. You could always to a synthetic short through buying a Long Put, but time (and often volatility) decay beco
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by stephengoodwin 7y ago
Seattle permits retailers to charge 5 cents per large paper bag.
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by stephengoodwin 9y ago
When you say that you clean with a steamer, do you mean something like a garment steamer?
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by stephengoodwin 9y ago
I tried to sign up for Coinbase back in July and kept running into problems during the id verification step (at some point, they thought I was under 18). I tried to work through their customer support, but only received automated messages.
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by stephengoodwin 10y ago
If you're looking for something new to listen to, 99% Invisible is also a fantastic podcast.
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by stephengoodwin 10y ago
There's the exclave Point Roberts, Washington ( http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0408/feature7/ ), which falls ever so slightly south of the 49th parallel.
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by stephengoodwin 10y ago
The YouTube channel WonderWhy has a video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLxZiiuaXs ) on complex international borders wrt enclaves and exclaves.
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by stephengoodwin 10y ago
I love Takeout. Given how much of our lives is invested into digital platform, I wish every Internet company had something similar to Takeout for user data.
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by stephengoodwin 10y ago
This is why I started giving businesses and retailers my Google Voice number, instead of my personal number.
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
Apple also started paying quarterly dividends in 2012[1]. Whereas, Google does not pay out dividends[2]. Apple's annualized dividend yield is 2.2% (for comparison, Microsoft's is 2.6%[3]). [1] http://www.streetinsider.c
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
> being subject to a wall of glowing bitten apples staring at you Remarkable imagery.
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
About 1/2 of the flights I've taken in the past 5 years have been on United or Continental. 11 flights on United and 4 flights on Continental[1] (I keep track of my airline travel in a spreadsheet). 2 of my United flights were int
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
The last time I checked in on Sails.js about 9 months ago, Mike McNeil, Cody Stoltman, and Scott Gress had just gotten back from YC for Treeline ( http://treeline.io ).[1] [1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organizatio
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
FYI, the trailsjs.io official site listed on Github is just a Namecheap landing page.
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for the "coverage"? Did it offer any kind of discount for minor or major dental work (e.g., cavity removal, wisdom tooth removal)? Or was this covered by your health insurance
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
Is this new? I've been using this for over a month now.
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
Call it a best practice for inexperienced artists and writers. If I, for instance, were to take up painting as a hobby, I would try to find some artistic formula or method to follow before branching out into a more unique style. I would con
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
Context: Firebase was bought by Google in 2014[1] [1] http://techcrunch.com/2014/10/21/google-acquires-firebase-to...
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
I would have loved to see that chart for the Red Wedding.
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
Side comment: Excellent use of the .bar domain extension.
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
> This was a major concern at the time, but wasn't publicized. Side question: Is there a good place to learn about major structural engineering fixes that were kept secret until the work was completed?
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
I always found it somewhat humorous that Cray invested so much effort into the look of it's supercomputers, considering very few people would actually see the inside of a super computing center.
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
On the reverse side, I've always wondered if being in a weightless environment makes your muscles feel great[0], since they aren't working against gravity. Over the years, gravity can create lots of problems for posture, which is
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
My biggest concern with lending my car out to strangers is many insurance policies don't give the replacement value of the car if it's totaled. Typically to purchase an equal vehicle (based on year, mileage, condition), you would
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
Has the State Department issued a Worldwide alert like this before?
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
As a consumer who ships packages every now and then, I'm impressed with how usable USPS's web site is compared to UPS or Fedex.
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
Considering Twitter is still the first go-to social platform for reactions to news, I doubt it. Nonetheless, I've had trouble convincing my parents why they should use Twitter.
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by stephengoodwin 11y ago
I've always wondered if that was a regional variance. Since I live in Texas, I assume the prices of our grocery store staples are cheaper than they would be in, say, downtown New York City. But if I lived in a more urban, city environm

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