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baccredited

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    Comment #38634008

    Love it! I like the bash implementation for bare minimum on the dependencies

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    Comment #38628998

    "pw" a simple perl script that prints a random password. default length is 16 chars but if I do "pw 8" it will return an 8 char password I use it all the time, at least a few times…

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    Comment #36493330

    there are some TDCS treatments for tinnitus that seem to work https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30359234/ But I'm pretty sure they are only available in the EU for now, not the USA

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    Comment #33674690

    I wrote the code that puts headers on USA federal court documents (PDFs). I see them all the time in the real world and still get a kick out of them

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    Comment #26385242

    Goldman Banker Nick Giovanni to Join Instacart as CFO Ahead of IPO https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-07/goldman-b...

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    Comment #26385225

    This year Instacart hired Goldman Sachs banker Nick Giovanni to be their CFO. He led multiple companies through a direct listing IPO, all from the banker side. Interesting, right? …

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    Comment #25632029

    tradier.com API is free if you keep an account there. I do this and it is handy for many things.

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    Comment #25406636

    I've used pushover for this as well. Nice perk: on iOS at least you can easily define a custom image and sound to go along with your message. This is FUN to use.

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    Comment #25219939

    My company spent precious developer hours this week 'fixing' old intranet websites that recently started giving Chrome 'insecure' warnings on internal links. HTTP is definitely not…

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    Comment #25136318

    One way to do so via a public company is to invest in: TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. (TPVG) They make late stage investments in private companies. Read a few of their quarte…

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    Comment #24848760

    One way to do so via a public company is to invest in: TriplePoint Venture Growth BDC Corp. (TPVG) They make late stage investments in private companies. Read a few of their quarte…

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    Comment #24422996

    Many private companies are staying private for longer, with an average time from launch to IPO creeping up toward 10 years or more. Most unaccredited investors are missing all of t…

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    Comment #24382907

    To clarify on the FundersClub recommendation: don't do individual YC company deals, do the rollup funds like this: Accelerate FC XIX: Y Combinator W18 Fund targeting investments in…

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    Comment #24382892

    With a few hundred thousand to invest I'd probably do a 3-way split between: https://www.thesyndicate.com/ - back Jason's next 50 deals at 2K each Put 25K each into the next 4 YCom…

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    Comment #24197540

    >Are there any specific banks that I should avoid? I like to avoid all of the bailout banks. These guys invested customer money irresponsibly and had to be rescued by the federal g…

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    Comment #24091268

    Wow - would love an RSS feed feature to subscribe to a search

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    Comment #23501059

    Hey - I like the telegram choice for this. I know you are getting some questions about it but I prefer it actually. Not everything needs to be on the web, indexed, and archived for…

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    Comment #23059017

    The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins

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    Comment #22803313

    I have access to analytics for a big government site. 11% of all traffic in March 2020 was IE11.

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    Comment #22762474

    Chamath Palihapitiya spent an hour answering all your questions. Worth a listen! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/chamath-palihapitiya-i...

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    Comment #22045104

    I'd go with web server logfiles plus https://goaccess.io/ Start with the simplest thing that could possibly work and expand to other solutions only if needed.

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    Comment #21595761

    I've had luck with https://goaccess.io/ example: goaccess logfile.log -o report.html --log-format=COMBINED

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    Comment #21481887

    There is a product here, and I'm a happy customer: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/captio-email-yourself-with-1-t... I use it daily.

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    Comment #20917632

    Cool! Have you thought about doing RAM prices too?

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    Comment #20885943

    >any decent online bachelors programs for fields like CS Are you looking for a degree or a job? If looking for a job, take a look at: https://lambdaschool.com/