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Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Thursday September 24, 2026 @07:59PM (#49838408)
No but he’s also not borrowing against his 401k? You and I can also go and borrow against stocks held in regular accounts? https://us.etrade.com/bank/line-of-credit
Re:California is chasing wealth that has feet on Thursday September 24, 2026 @06:35PM (#49837693)
Incredibly terrible example because you are allowed to borrow money against a 401k, up to $50000 with no penalties as long as you pay yourself back at whatever schedule you have determined for yourself
As others have mentioned, Silicon Valley Power charges about half of PGE, and SF actually already has a power provider for businesses via Hetch Hetchy. It’s probably true that overall they might be a generation shortage but it doesn’t have to be true on a local scale. Plus PGE also needs to pay a lot of money for all the fires they started…which of course just goes back to the rate payers.
I guess they’ll just have to put the weights into a book format and publish the physical copies
Re:OBS Studio Gets a New Renderer on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @08:42PM (#46308006)
Re:Cow vs. Water Buffalo Mozzarella on Tuesday August 05, 2025 @08:40PM (#44806328)
These days its pretty easy to get from Whole Foods or Eataly if you have one nearby. Definitely worth, especially if you're making Caprese.
Re:The Ski Rental Problem on Sunday August 03, 2025 @12:09PM (#44777528)
If you put around 200-300k into IBKR (not affiliated) you can get portfolio margin which will give you just shy of $2,000,000 in buying power. Access to leverage isn’t really an issue, but forced liquidation definitely is. The bank will not liquidate your mortgage if you end up underwater.
Re:Timescale Is Now TigerData on Tuesday June 17, 2025 @11:09PM (#44306342)
Which has nothing to do with WiredTiger I guess?
My back of the envelope math says velocity of about 28 m/s — call it an even 100km/h. Yeah seems kinda tough.
I’ve used Moonlight before https://github.com/moonlight-stream

You can just follow that thread no write up needed tbh

Most recently I think Baldurs Gate 3. People have also been enjoying Balatro a lot
Re:DOGE has 'god mode' access to government data on Thursday February 20, 2025 @01:39PM (#43118395)
I think a lot of people on hacker news were equally if not more outraged about Snowden leaks. Not sure what you’re trying to say.
Re:Therac-25 Simulator on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @10:30PM (#42800404)
RBMK Reactors Do Not Explode
Re:China Completes Green Belt Around Taklamakan Desert on Sunday December 08, 2024 @04:05PM (#42360438)
Have you actually looked into "bailing out banks" (which is called Troubled Asset Relief Program), because if you have you would have learned that the US Government actually made ~$15 billion in profit after selling off the toxic assets 6 years later. Not to mention the money the government made thru preferred stock repurchase by corporations and other things (interest etc) the US Treasury booked a total profit of ~$121 billion.

Sorry for calling you out but I'm just very tired of purely emotional responses to this topic because people actually just refuse to go thru the facts of how events transpired and their consequences.

EDIT: You can see this for yourself from ProPublica https://projects.propublica.org/bailout/

While that statement has a grain of truth (NED having being created as a result of Reagan's NSDD-77 directive) I would rather eat democratic / neoliberal propaganda slop rather than what Russia / China (and their allies) are pushing. This comment kind of reeks of a particular kind of odour that is not quite whataboutism but is very similar to FSB demoralization propaganda. Given your account's relatively young age and other comments I somewhat feel you might have an ulterior motive?
In general this isn’t true (i guess it is in this specific context). For example I believe it’s totally expected to specialize std hash
Yeah sorry I was specifically referring to Christchurch Greyfriars. Basically it was as the article said, I was staying in the area (near uh a pub Samuel Pepys I believe) and was walking around and that was definitely one of the things that caught my eye. Maybe such things aren’t as common as I thought
You don’t have to struggle. There are plenty of videos and photos of that time that you can check out. Also if you visit London you can go around and see a bunch of buildings they haven’t rebuilt and just left them in semi destroyed state as monuments
Oh glad to know I’m not the only the with the 5950x MCE errors. I probably haven’t seen one in a year though, so maybe it was finally fixed
Not sure if this is still the case but I thought you could get a free version of Wolfram Mathematica for RPI for free
Re:The CompCert C Compiler on Monday May 27, 2024 @12:46PM (#40492421)
Maybe not the C community at large, but companies / teams / projects that care about security have done this. For example, iBoot uses Firebloom which is basically C with fat pointers and bounds checking.
Huh? Are you claiming convection doesn’t exist?
If you live in Santa Clara your rate will be around $0.166 per kWh.

I think a lot of folks there have solar. And by 2026 they say they will have 50% of electricity sourced via sustainable means.

Tbh on macOS you should probably use xpc / Mach and that will probably let you do more than a generic ipc library. Of course caveat emptor it’s not portable
I think that’s not entirely correct either, for example Nvidia had to file a 13F for its holdings after their value of ARM shares exceeded 100M. And the requirement I believe is not for investment advisors (which is its own thing, see Register Investment Advisors from the SEC), but broadly extends to institutional investment managers which is a lot looser of a definition that can certainly include private companies like broker-dealers, in addition to hedge funds, RIC, etc as well as public corporation like Nvidia depending on the types of activities they are involved in.

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