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by xyzzy4 4y ago
Well isn’t it better to safeguard things in the British Museum than let them get lost forever?
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by xyzzy4 4y ago
Intentionally dressing and acting like a bum is a very American thing and it’s been a gradual descent towards that point. People used to dress up in suit and ties just to leave their house, a trend that began ending sometime in the 60s.
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by xyzzy4 6y ago
I learned about Bitcoin from HN in 2011.
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by xyzzy4 6y ago
I agree. This seems like illegal market manipulation on the part of Robinhood.
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by xyzzy4 6y ago
Parler*
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
Classic power law distribution.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
5% of the returns is the profit being reinvested (for example stock buybacks), 2% is inflation, 2% is real gdp growth.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
Well during fraud someone is being misled with false statements, so the victims don't know they will lose money until it's too late. In this case on the other hand, the guy knew he would die when he took his own life.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
I would have voted not guilty if I was on that jury. Seems like the First Amendment should protect your right to give advice.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
I disagree. The way you get experience is by trying things. If everyone followed that advice then nobody would learn anything.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
I wonder if they check the usage statistics before getting rid of it? Because surely there are millions of people using it every day. Don't they care about the users?
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
It's difficult to say if there will be a financial crisis, but multiple current economic indicators are not predicting one any time soon (meaning in the next 6 months). This isn't counted in those indicators, but also S&P 500
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Toronto man builds park stairs for $550, irking city after $65,000 estimate(ctvnews.ca)
5 points by xyzzy4 9y ago|1 comments
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
Why is gold worth $5 trillion market cap? If someone steals your gold, you can't even get it back easily.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
If you want to hear voices, just take 400-500mg of Benadryl. Enough to hallucinate, not enough to hospitalize you.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
Offices are much less natural than afternoon naps.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
Sets are just like hashes where the value is always "true" for each key.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
If A.I. can't fold my laundry, I wouldn't trust it with my car.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
>Taking breaks to play games, chat around coffee, or taking a few minutes to walk around the office is a non-existent element of life. An 8 hour work day is exactly that: 8 hours of pure work. I don't understand how some programm
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
Well there could potentially be bigger animals in the future.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
80% decrease isn't that much on a log scale. 99.99% decrease would be more worrying.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
It doesn't copy the null terminator because it's using memcpy. It's only copying the string without the null byte.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
Your code will only work if malloc() pads with 0s. Otherwise it will be missing the null character at the end of the out string. So I would switch it to calloc() which is guaranteed to pad with 0s. Or use memset to set it all to 0s.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
>I would be if I was asked to leave after getting on the plane but once the authorities get involved anyone beyond 10 years old should know it isn't time for a temper tantrum. So it's fine for police to beat up non-threatening
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
The biggest problem I see here is that employees can see eachother's screens. Give your employees more privacy and don't treat them like children. Measure them by their output.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
Why do you need sprint planning? Just always work on things that are high priority.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
Doesn't seem relevant to HN.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
It seems the Uber app was extremely over-engineered. Call me crazy but I don't think you need 100 engineers to recreate the front-end of Uber.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
>I think its your responsibility to keep reinvesting a portion of it in high growth startups. Well then it wouldn't be your money if you are obligated to spend it on certain things.
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by xyzzy4 9y ago
>Maslov's theory we have other needs as well So you think every hunter-gatherer is extremely unhappy?

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