throwaway9848

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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Leaving aside the bitcoin angle, this is actually a pretty good primer explanation of the market mechanics and psychology behind technical analysis.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
http://www.esquire.com/features/patient-zero-1213 gives a pretty good feel for the challenges in treating cancer.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
For the love of god, be sensible - sell half on Monday and put it back into a traditional retirement investment. You'll still do well if BTC goes up. There is no reason to put 100% of your retirement funds into any single asset.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
I do see where you're coming from. Maybe if I said I don't believe it's a _new_ wealth transfer? 30% of the population is not going without care today - they are getting ER care for non-emergent reasons or they're cove
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
The subsidies are to poor people. The poor people get medical care anyway, at ERs, where hospitals cannot refuse them. Or they forgo the care until mundane problems become chronic or acute problems (and they end up in the ER). ERs happen
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
I'm a safe driver. Why should I have to pay for auto insurance? It's a wealth transfer to bad drivers. ... And actually, I completely reject your characterization of it as a wealth transfer. It's insurance. You have no id
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
I would guess the user database is 11NF and has 1000 tables. The UML form of it cannot exist in our limited 4 dimensions of space and time :)
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
A gap in coverage is not as much a problem any more, thanks to the ACA. edit: Hey downvoter, let me educate you - the worst thing about a coverage gap used to be the potential to have an illness classified as a preexisting condition, and th
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
"Vegan diets do not result in heart disease. Many studies have shown that vegetarians seem to have a lower risk of obesity, coronary heart disease (which causes heart attack), high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus and some forms of c
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
The NEJM it ain't. Thanks for the links to the debunking articles.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
What a pile of first world problems. I suspect a lot fewer guys will quit sugar and lose weight instead of quitting soy after reading this. And diabetes makes soy estrogen mimicking hormones look like kids' play when it comes to erec
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Yes, it is, because the person with $1 and no access to credit was just made up for the purpose of convoluting a point about wealth inequality in America.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Somehow this idea always comes from libertarian quarters, too(please, no 'no true scotsmen responses' replies about how nobody but a single mute hermit living on a mountaintop in South Dakota is a _real_ libertarian). This seems l
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Makes the $1M+ target votes all the more absurd.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
None of that matters. They can read what they're posting and filter out personal information. Who cares what the detractors think, it's the right thing to do. "Two wrongs don't make a right" EDIT: people understan
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
No, I just was suggesting learning about any functional language, those two just came to mind first.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Languages I think you should know: C, Java, Bash, Javascript, one out of {Perl,Python,Ruby}, and perhaps a functional language like Lisp or Clojure. Each one will make your understanding of programming more comprehensive. What Java offers i
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Yes, I can apparently set up a website with instructions for doing so and get a nastygram from Canonical, too. I run Fedora, anyway. edit: I wish people wouldn't try to make a 1 size fits all desktop for mobile/tablet/desktop
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
s/misunderstanding/shrewd recognition of a budding PR disaster/ Canonical has really gone astray. Hell, the takedown order would never have been necessary in the first place without this shopping lens stupidity.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Surfly.com is not easy to use outside of a mobile device or tablet (anything without swipe navigation).
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
That's not always true.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Yes, government tyranny in action, giving federal funding to qualified after-school meal programs operated at a local level that provide free skim milk to hungry children.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
This is a billion or trillion dollar question, and there are many academics and industry analysts studying this and publishing results. It's just not in an area that the current HN audience is particularly competent in.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
That's a fair point with your qualifier. I think a lot of people are not honest with themselves about this, though.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Yeah, and if you're in a startup and you have a significant equity position then you are not working for free, you are directly monetarily motivated. Also, people act to maximize their utility, not necessarily compensation. The act of
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
"Tier 1 bonus bucket at a bulge bracket one year, Tier 2 the other year." He was at a bank, not at a startup. Since you are not familiar with bonus structures at banks, what he's talking about could roughly double a salary in
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
That's the joke.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
None of those is remotely in the realm of possibility, except maybe #2 and the difference in scale (at least in the US) between total tax receipts and the float of BC is so vast that it limits it to a very small percentage of the total. Al
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
Well, with every bit of respect that is due, you're off the frontpage in almost no time at all in spite of 45 upvotes. That means that you were heavily flagged, even though most people didn't waste the time to tell you.
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by throwaway9848 13y ago
I didn't and I flagged it.

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