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by yuan43 4y ago
> I find this fascinating. The exact sequence of his writing process for the song [Eleanor Rigby] is probably irrecoverable now but I’d love to know precisely when he decided on the song’s theme of loneliness, death, and worship, and whe
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by yuan43 4y ago
How did this article get the first word "How" through the HN filter? Why does this filter exist?
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by yuan43 4y ago
> I recently read mfiano's blog post about Common Lisp. He makes the point that the language attracts loners. ... That article by mfiano focuses on reasons the author switched from Lisp to Julia. As for the "loners" part
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Spam Became Cool Again(lite.cnn.com)
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by yuan43 4y ago
> If the United States adheres to these five rules, it can demonstrate to Russia that the costs and likelihood of losing are so high, the only winning move is not to play. Depressing to see that this is the kind of crap former US militar
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by yuan43 4y ago
The time to make a move into a bubble that has burst is when nobody cares anymore. CNBC has moved onto other things. Cramer has nothing to say. You can go for weeks without it even being a topic of regular conversation. All those house flip
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by yuan43 4y ago
> AUSTIN, Texas, & MENLO PARK, Calif. – September 30, 2022 – Vista Equity Partners (“Vista”), a leading global investment firm focused exclusively on enterprise software, data and technology-enabled businesses, and Evergreen Coast Ca
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Biden administration scales back student loan forgiveness plan as states sue(lite.cnn.com)
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by yuan43 4y ago
One of the listed reasons: > Credit card companies are anti-porn. You’ve probably heard how Pornhub can’t accept credit cards anymore. Or seen the new rules from Mastercard. Whatever crypto-utopia might come in the coming decades, today
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by yuan43 4y ago
> “I had hoped the economy would have more clearly stabilized by now, but from what we're seeing it doesn't yet seem like it has, so we want to plan somewhat conservatively,” Zuckerberg said. A Meta spokesperson declined to com
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by yuan43 4y ago
> With pressure building to clean up the crypto industry, Bitcoin is now an outlier when it comes to its environmental impact. Its closest rival, Ethereum, recently completed a major software update to drastically reduce its energy consu
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CarMax’s Earnings Miss Sends Warning Signal on US Consumer(finance.yahoo.com)
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The Global Dollar Short Squeeze(lynalden.com)
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by yuan43 4y ago
It's a move designed to affect market psychology mainly. Multiple central banks have concluded that QE at best contributes marginally to the reduction of long term interest rates. People want something to be done, and BoE delivers. It
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US Embassy warns Americans to leave Russia(lite.cnn.com)
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by yuan43 4y ago
The recipe for what Santa Cruz is experiencing seems to be: 1. Locate the city in a geographically isolated, but beautiful area close to a major employment hub. 2. Institute strong anti-growth policies. 3. Invite a UC into town. 4. Allow th
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by yuan43 4y ago
> ... do understand this is my fault, but it sucks because I've also let my family down big time by deciding to buy a house. I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but I believe around 500,000 people are in a similar position to m
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by yuan43 4y ago
> I [nvidia CEO] don’t think we could have seen it [massive effect of Ethereum merge on bottom line]. I don’t think I would’ve done anything different, but what I did learn from previous examples is that when it finally happens to you, j
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British pound plummets to record low against the dollar(lite.cnn.com)
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Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?(spectator.co.uk)
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by yuan43 4y ago
Zero direct evidence for the title's claim was provided in the article. All the Fed is doing is to normalize interest rates. Deeply negative real yields (5% or more) are aberrations that history has shown to ultimately lead to catastro
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by yuan43 4y ago
The bigger question is why isn't sobriety viewed as the default position rather than the exception? I mean, nobody would ask why young people are saying "no" to crack cocaine.
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by yuan43 4y ago
> Communicating effectively is a complex skill that takes years to develop, and an essential one if you want to program professionally. I suspect that a good chunk of the drive to send "aging" programmers into management is tha
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by yuan43 4y ago
Is it possible that you realize you're most comfortable being alone, but the external signals you receive, and have accepted as truth, say that's not ok? > I truly can not handle it anymore… You don't really say what &quot
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by yuan43 4y ago
> Lithium is the lightest of all metals. Soft and malleable with a high capacity to store energy, it is ideal material to make lightweight, rechargeable batteries. Demand for the metal for lithium-ion batteries to power mobile devices ha
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by yuan43 4y ago
I wonder to what extent this reflects desperation for foreign currency (especially dollars) given the recent intervention by BoJ to stop the yen's freefall. https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/boj-keep-ultra-
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HexoSynth – A Hexagonal Modular Synthesizer(github.com)
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by yuan43 4y ago
From this 2000 article: >The recent rise in margin credit has focused attention on the Federal Reserve’s margin requirements for purchasing equities with borrowed funds, which has been at 50% since 1974. In November and December of 1999,
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by yuan43 4y ago
> There is a LOT of money still sitting on the sidelines waiting to be deployed. And it WILL be deployed, that’s what investors do. Reminds me of the saying: "Venture Capital starts with too many good ideas chasing too little money,
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by yuan43 4y ago
> Among some Meta employees, the process of reapplying for jobs within a limited window internally is known as a sort of human-resources purgatory they call the “30 Day List.” > Meta, as of last year the name of Facebook’s parent comp

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