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Spinosaurus

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About Spinosaurus

caleb@foxcurve.com

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    Comment #33282660

    There isn't really much to learn when going from Java to Kotlin. Most Java devs with a bit of experience should be "fluent" in Kotlin within two or three days.

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    Ask HN: News scraping APIs – how are they legal?

    I had a project I was working on that required a sort of news feed. A quick google search turned up a few news apis. They seem to scrape news sites and turn them into JSON, then ch…

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    Comment #32727294

    What is "Seabed-mounted buoyancy"?

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    Ask HN: Help! Tech stack for web scraping and simple frontend graphs

    Hey all, starting to work on some of my own projects after a 5 year hiatus. My personal projects in the past have often utilized a Node.js backend (Express) that served a React fro…

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    Comment #32432149

    I'd really like to know the reasoning for that as well. I was in the market for a year and was interested in something outside of a city. I could afford the larger 5 bedroom homes,…

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    Ask HN: What's the best free, simple tool for tracking my money?

    I've looked into YNAB but that not free. I just want to track basic spending, income, and overall net worth.

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    Comment #32103965

    Many companies actually prohibit employees from selling shares to third party investors (including investors on marketplaces like EquityZen) without board approval.

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    Comment #32014508

    > Fundraising to improve the place and reduce burdens on residents dealing with but not profiting from tourism seems smart. That's absolutely fine, but I feel like a reservation/ti…

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    Comment #32009576

    Why not simply prohibit cruise ships in the nearby port? That seems like a far, far easier solution if that is in fact the root cause of the problem.

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    Comment #32009494

    On one hand, this may help reduce congestion in the city during peak tourism season. On the other hand, paying to visit an entire city (and literally having to book a visit ahead o…

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    Comment #31941540

    Have you had any lasting effects? I've been prescribed a "fairly serious" antibiotic for a skin condition that has been plaguing me for several years (I've gotten like 5 different …

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    Comment #31505289

    Would you mind providing a quick summary of the primary points of the book?

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    Comment #27209728

    I wonder how viable a sort of "micro PE" firm would be, basically a company that just buys many of these micro indie projects with positive cash flow with the goal of holding on to…

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    Ask HN: Where to find research papers in “layman's terms”?“

    I sometimes browse arxiv.org and other sites as I think research papers are a great way to get a feel for what's going on at the bleeding edge of some topic. However, I'm certainly…

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    Comment #23734942

    > 14 months ago, my co-founder Sankalp and I set out to build a business.. It sounds like you decided to build a business before coming up with an idea that could be a business. In…

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    Comment #23703677

    It doesn't, at all. I've heard suggestions that great news coming out of SpaceX does impact Tesla, but not the other way around. Plus, SpaceX isn't a public company.

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    Comment #23703658

    I wonder how many individuals received one of the recent stimulus checks and parked it right into Tesla stock.

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    Comment #23703569

    > Perhaps because Tesla is less bloated? Is that simply a perception you think many might investors have? Tesla has lost money every year, while Toyota has showed substantial profi…

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    Ask HN: How in the world is $TSLA worth more than $TM?

    Tesla is now worth more than Toyota, and yet has pretty much lost money every quarter. Toyota, on the other hand, has had billions in profit every quarter for years. https://www.ma…

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    Comment #22834981

    Air USA (Don Kirlin, president), along with a bunch of other companies were selected as contractors for the U.S. Air Force to provide "Red Air" (adversary training) services. This …

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    Comment #21527789

    Strange that the article does not mention lab grown diamonds. I would have assumed that the increases in production of lab grown diamonds combined with increasing consumer acceptan…

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    Comment #21527705

    Da Beers has their own lab grown direct to consumer subsidiary called Lightbox.