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by stepstop 6y ago
There’s a long history of postmaster corruption
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by stepstop 6y ago
It’s only a loss if you’ve been invested for a short time. The market is up a ridiculous amount. It would need to drop close to 40% to be back around 2014 levels. You could still sell shares from 2010 that would be sold at a profit, if you
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by stepstop 6y ago
Alternate title “Astrophysicist Consultant makes grandiose comment about metallurgy”
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by stepstop 6y ago
What is an approachable book on Ramsey's theory for non-mathematicians ? (Graham's number applies to Ramsey's theory.)
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Anki post 3: Cloze deletion(ollielovell.com)
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Will Garmin Pay $10m Ransom to End Two-Day Outage?(forbes.com)
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University Network Enlight to Become “European University”(uni-goettingen.de)
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Scoubidou(en.wikipedia.org)
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by stepstop 6y ago
I’ve heard the phrase “history is stranger than fiction” before .. and you discovered that!
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by stepstop 6y ago
This comment chain appears to answer you: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23930812
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by stepstop 6y ago
The fake’s username shows up in green is a sufficient flag. What more do you want? I like the unverified functionality
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by stepstop 6y ago
Wow, thanks for sharing this. I’m going to close my Instacart account now. I haven’t used it in a while but I don’t want my data sitting on a platform that doesn’t care about security
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by stepstop 6y ago
It’s not only medical data that’s of concern, but also nation states Could try to use the data to identify embedded foreign agents/spies implanted in their country. Those are the ones without diplomatic cover
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by stepstop 6y ago
> I'm pretty sure in a skeptical sense they'll be trying to pay associate professors less for the same reason. and charging students more. From what I’ve seen, this has already been happening over the past decade already. I agr
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by stepstop 6y ago
Out of curiousity, how long is the commute and how much less would you the cost of living is? 25%?
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by stepstop 6y ago
Thank you. My mistake, not sure how I missed that word!
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by stepstop 6y ago
> The Fed's stated goal is to create jobs, not destroy them. That’s not true. Here’s the truth: https://www.federalreserve.gov/aboutthefed.htm
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Wormholes Reveal a Way to Manipulate Black Hole Information in the Lab(quantamagazine.org)
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A First Look at Quantum Probability, Part 1(math3ma.com)
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Why do U.S. coins seem to be in short supply?(federalreserve.gov)
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Lorem Ipsum(lipsum.com)
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Erlang/Elixir Syntax: A Crash Course(elixir-lang.org)
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by stepstop 6y ago
> This shouldn't be surprising to people. The NBA has a bigger fanbase in China than in the USA. I disagree. The size of the fanbase is surprising, and so is the implication of this behaviour
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Browsersync-saving synchronised browser testing(browsersync.io)
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How to Gradually Exit Twitter(balajis.com)
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by stepstop 6y ago
Yes, they were advertising for "AOL Keywords" to simplify discovery of content, along with other value-add services like "homework help" Perhaps "AOL Keywords" were the precursor to hashtags.
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by stepstop 6y ago
> To facilitate quick note taking I wrote a FUSE driver for it I didn't understand this part. Why can't you just write the file and then either manually/automatically trigger an import of the text into the SQLiteDB?
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Suicide Linux, Now on Docker(github.com)
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by stepstop 6y ago
> And the absence of serious, critical thought. Has trulia never heard of correlation vs causation? They probably don’t teach that in data science boot camps
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by stepstop 6y ago
I love your comments

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