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LiamMcCalloway

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    Comment #40874639

    you can add the sailing frenchman -- great mix of caribean sailing, singlehanded racing, pretty down to earth: https://www.youtube.com/@TheSailingFrenchman

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    Comment #40679122

    I suppose it's time to share my dream excel functionality: Turbo F2. F2 should enable the user to trace calculations back to the original data, not only the current calculation ste…

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    Comment #39560471

    The meritocracy trap, David markovits.

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    Comment #38890514

    Super nice. A feature request: for each time zone, show the offset to sun time. Helps with the question: will 8am be like I expect it to be ? Useful for outdoors activities.

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    Comment #38629706

    I'll take this opportunity to ask for help: What's a good open source transcription and diarization app or work flow? I looked at https://github.com/thomasmol/cog-whisper-diarizati…

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    Comment #37188074

    Step 1 for all sailing outings. Super well integrated with most forecast providers… and for everyone else, better radar than the Weather app on IOS.

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    Comment #37060809

    But the typical choice is between disability and unemployment benefits, not disability and work. How do they compare ? The UK has an order of magnitude more people it considers dis…

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    Comment #37059350

    When reading these stats, two useful things to do: - ask yourself how people in similar situations would be categorized in other countries - whether there are benefits to self sele…

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    Comment #35613126

    92£/MWh in 2012 £, and indexed in inflation - on mobile and can’t adjust but we’re talking 120-130 now.

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    Comment #34865427

    Looks like sampling on the dependent variable.

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    Comment #34760796

    Aka the screwdriver’s turn policy.

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    Comment #32349140

    I'm a glass half full kinda of kind, but for excel, the glass is Feb 1st. Please, types would really help. Maybe as a property of named ranges ?

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    Comment #32015669

    I just set up zrepl yesterday and this was going to be my next task. Super glad to find this here. I already have a borg-enabled account with you: Is it possible for a single accou…

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    Comment #29918136

    Concurring with Tailscale's ease of use, though for mobile clients I found it was more reliable to have a wireguard accessible tailscale peer rather than rely on Tailscale's app.

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    Comment #25498709

    How about adding a 'most favored nation' clause in all options contracts?

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    Comment #21069695

    No new decisions to build nuclear 10 years prior to three mile island.

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    Comment #21069658

    EDF's latest non-EPR design in France took over 10 years to build, in the 1990's. The safety requirements to protect against nuclear releases and the inherent complexity are the ke…

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    Comment #21069646

    In the 70s.

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    Comment #21069610

    92.50 GBP in 2012 pounds -- it's higher now.

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    Comment #20897206

    An interesting read and resource going forward, thank you.

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    Comment #20896554

    Can you point us to official U.S. policy that leads to differentiated outcomes of immigration processing speed between nationalities?

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    Comment #20750233

    > are there any real use case? Writing Bloomberg's "market wrap" articles.

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    Comment #20285157

    I don't know enough - merely rephrasing a blog post here - but it sounds fair to say that this reduces the primary benefit of network effects of market activity, higher liquidity/l…

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    Comment #20283738

    Let me see if I can rephrase. Robinhood solves a collective action problem for its users. Unbeknownst to some people, they are unsophisticated and cheap to provide liquidity to: ma…

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    Comment #20279596

    "tighter spread" is a description of the benefit for the retail buyer/seller. Can you elaborate on the benefits to the buyer of order flows?