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by thefj 5y ago
Another, less serious issue in the memoization example for JS: (cache[key] = cache[key] || fn(...args)); Will not memoize results that equal 0 or an empty string. I guess it goes to show that copying answers from stack overflow might
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by thefj 6y ago
Futures have to be settled physically, if carried to expiration, as far as I know
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by thefj 6y ago
There's much more silver owned by investors than there is physical silver in the world. It's the same idea: you have a synthetic version of an asset trading for the same price of the real asset. If people start demanding the real
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by thefj 6y ago
When Russia did it it was reported as "Move Seen as Part of Drive to Curtail Freedom of Information" https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-steps-up-new-law-to-cont...
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by thefj 6y ago
It goes both ways. The police unions should be outlawed, and police members should use democracy like everyone else. If they don't like something about the job conditions, they can vote democratically to change it. I can't form a
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by thefj 7y ago
Didn't the NFL had an issue with kneeling a while ago? Did they fire the players?
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by thefj 7y ago
Keep in mind that Stallman maintained that Bushnell stopped answering emails for two years, and that was the reason for firing him. Seems like he still holds a grudge.
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by thefj 7y ago
Cryptocurrencies are not a scam. Doubly double End. This is very simple. But seriously, sure some people just push blockchain stuff to get money from investors. But I can buy drugs using Bitcoin. I can't buy drugs using git. So there
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by thefj 7y ago
What happens in that scenario when it's just two people living in the same building? Why are colleges different?
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by thefj 7y ago
I always think of the story on HN about the guy who bought back his startup from the VCs for $1 after it "failed" and he went and ran it without the same expectations, and it is doing just fine. Agree with the general point, but
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by thefj 7y ago
He bought a falling company from himself and his cousins for almost 3 billion, plus the company had 3 billion in debt. The deal resulted in him getting half a billion more in tsla stock. Tesla's market cap in June 2016 was 35 billion.
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by thefj 7y ago
I wasn't implying it's your fault, just saying that it's weird to, say, get mad at Walmart when they put up extra security measures in places where they constantly get robbed.
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by thefj 7y ago
Colonialism? I understand your frustration, but the problem isn't that it's far away geographically, it's that your country is allowing criminals to use your IPs to do bad stuff.
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by thefj 7y ago
The people who at the top of the organization generally manage other people. No offence, but if you're not interested in people, or at least in learning to fake it, how do you expect to manage them?
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by thefj 7y ago
I must have missed the official announcement[0], module stability is a very welcome change. Swift 5.1 enables the creation of binary frameworks that can be shared with others leveraging the language’s added support for module stability.
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by thefj 7y ago
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21027657
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by thefj 7y ago
In recent years, the price of solar panel technology has been driven down, but the cost of labor and installation hasn’t. As the framework technologies go out of date within a 25-year period, individuals and companies are facing larger cos
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by thefj 7y ago
If you upgrade your reminders on your iPhone with iOS 13, your iPad and Mac using the same iCloud account can’t access your reminders until iPadOS and macOS 10.15 Catalina are available. You gotta love Applespeak. "Earlier versions&q
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by thefj 7y ago
Absolutely. Traditionally the move for a company in this situation might be to replace the CEO if they plan to raise public money and he has a history of bad behaviour. In WeWork's case it's probably impossible to remove him both
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by thefj 7y ago
There are millions of poorly run shady businesses, it's a problem that takes care of itself if you don't have infinite money coming in. Not sure that it's a problem now though. Like Matt Levine suggested[0], WeWork did a lot
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by thefj 7y ago
It's more complicated than that... They also have a different arm that buys the buildings. https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-the-workspace-giant-want...
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by thefj 7y ago
Does someone understand what's the strategy he's urging to develop? I've read the article but it's still unclear to me. The U.S. still has the edge in fundamental research, he said, but Chinese companies have easier ac
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by thefj 7y ago
Not OP, but it makes sense. A lot of investors hear about an asset going up and they want to join the party. A lot of the other investors try to predict where the emotional investors will go and buy the asset in anticipation.
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by thefj 7y ago
Could have been a very sophisticated false flag self sabotage for no visible reason. (Not that I believe that, or think that it shouldn't be called an attack)
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by thefj 7y ago
> “Most people can agree a beheading video or some kind of ISIS content should be proactively removed, but when we try to talk about the alt-right or white nationalism, we get into dangerous territory, where we’re talking about [Iowa Rep
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by thefj 7y ago
I guess we disagree, since to me, serving ads with my page is making my position about wanting to show ads with the page pretty clear. But even if it wasn't, Brave has special filters for sites that have anti-adblock measures, and it&#
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by thefj 7y ago
https://outline.com/mHkM2m
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by thefj 7y ago
Seems like the misleading description is from the article, not Google. After following the links I got to this tweet that agrees with your theory. They're trying to detect if the subdomaon content is independent of the main site. http
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by thefj 7y ago
Study: https://geneticsexbehavior.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/g... Seems like the researchers also created a website: https://geneticsexbehavior.info/
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by thefj 7y ago
Let's say I put out a cookie jar out with a sign that says "Take a cookie, leave a dollar". You come by and take a cookie and leave a piece of string. You're not improving my business model. The Brave thing is just a we

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