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Re:Starship Prototype Unveiled on Sunday September 29, 2019 @05:18PM (#21109674)
Aren't there some pretty serious health and ecological problems with such large-scale microwave transmission?
Buy mid-range Motorola phones. This G4 play is the best $150 I've ever spent.
Re:Nasdaq Acquires Quandl to Advance the Use of Alternative Data on Thursday December 06, 2018 @02:04PM (#18621013)
Any advice on where an individual could purchase (even limited) access to CRSP data?

I'm working on a data-driven financial analysis blog and can't seem to find decent time-series fundamentals data now that yahoo and google have taken down their api's. Everything I find seems to be a $1000+ yearly subscription.

Re:Leaving NYC for Nashville on Thursday December 06, 2018 @06:52AM (#18617209)
What does one do in the winter?
Re:Ask HN: Have you ever regretted working on a product? on Wednesday November 21, 2018 @09:26AM (#18502858)
Many of them got to live in really big mcmansions they should not have been allowed to 'afford' for about 10 years. The labor spent building those houses could have been spent building twice as many small houses.
I'm pretty sure the labor theory of value was more central to Adam Smith's work than the Invisible Hand.

Blog on proprietary FAANG protocols taking over the internet

Around the time that Pai and the FCC rolled back net neutrality rules, I recall someone here linking a well-written blog post predicting that it'll ultimately be irrelevant, the way things are going.The outline was a bit like:1. Up to now, internet infrastructure has been designed and built around open protocols like HTTP that anyone can use 2. FAANGs already represent most traffic on the...

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Re:Can Hong Kong Sell Its Residents on Watery Graves? on Tuesday November 06, 2018 @11:54AM (#18392672)
This looks really cool, but I'm extremely suspicious of it. "We put you in a bin with wood chips" is about as detailed as the site gets about their process. It gets much more detailed about the facility and cultural implications.

Also, they turn you into soil, not a tree. When my dad dies, why would this be better than me simply burying his naked body in the forest somewhere?

I'm going to be replacing a taurus soon. $3k is my budget. I took highschool auto, but would absolutely not feel comfortable buying a used focus.

Where are the resources to learn what I 'need to look out for'?

I'm a manager in a US restaurant. I've run the numbers and, given the maximum price increases our market could bear, the upper 3/4ths of our wait staff would make ~$1-2 less an hour than they do now.

I was also a waiter in the restaurant. I hated the stress, but could find no jobs with comparable schedule flexibility/required qualifications that paid as well.

Over 10 sheets and 20mb what should one switch to? Start a database?

Ask HN: What are your favorite statistics and probability textbooks?

I took stats in undergrad, but it was a very rudimentary "push x sequence of buttons on your calculator in y situation" ordeal and left me with less applicable knowledge than I'd like.Since sometime after graduation, I've taken up serious study of higher-level maths as a hobby. I think it will be most useful in my career if I also have a strong grasp on probability and statistics.[edit] The...

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Re:A look back: The Bloomberg Keyboard (2017) on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @11:28AM (#17083165)
No, us righties just tape stuff from stack overflow together. I don't think that counts.
Re:We’re Going to Need More Lithium on Wednesday December 27, 2017 @04:27PM (#16018175)
GXY if you're in AUS.

GALXF (otc adr) if you're in US.

Last I checked, it's the only pure-play lithium miner that is producing and delivering.