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iakh

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    Comment #38892431

    IP addresses are not people

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    Comment #38797830

    I'm assuming you agree the FDA shouldn't allow somebody to sell deadly nightshade to somebody that doesn't know that nightshade is deadly, but then how do you tell the person that …

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    Comment #37942301

    I majored in EE and only ever had math and engineering classes. I had one class in philosophy that I took for fun but dropped after a week after realizing it's not for me. It didn'…

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    Comment #37798003

    I can see value in tracking offers to see how negotiations are going. so if there's standard fields for this, then that's a way he could track comp data without requiring, and even…

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    Comment #37441389

    Does that really buy you anything though? If they're willing to rescind offers, they'll be happy to lay you-off a few days into your employment too.

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    Comment #36544772

    I'd be careful using ChatGPT for this. I tried the same recently to bootstrap spot yields from par, which is a fairly common code problem with hundreds of examples online. ChatGPT …

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    Comment #36529751

    interest rates have been falling for over 700 years [1]. I wouldn't bet against that over a single unprecedented year 1. https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/working-paper/2020/eight-ce…

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    Comment #36372684

    Should probably replace the address in the sample postcard. While most here will probably get it's intent, I imagine your target audience will not appreciate any associations to "h…

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    Comment #36190720

    Right. "both sides" have engaged in $787MM worth of fake news.

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    Comment #35613219

    I recently decided to move our cash into money market funds and built https://moneymarket.fun/ to help find the highest yielding ones. Right now WMPXX is 4.9% on WellsTrade with no…

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    Comment #35486073

    But allegedly that happened 6 weeks after she was told she had consented

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    Comment #35121231

    Next story will be much more interesting about how he shorted SVB before he started a bank run.

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    Comment #35050574

    My four year old that's just learning to read had a great time trying to figure each out. This could be great as an early reader game

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    Comment #34586885

    The shares are borrowed, but not always with the knowledge of the original shareholder. So should one owner get excluded from the fine just because their broker happened to loan ou…

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    Comment #34554864

    https://boxtrades.com is my latest project. Got into box spreads for earning greater than Treasury yields more or less risk free and wanted a way to see what the current trading ra…

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    Comment #34186202

    Reminds me of a project I made several years ago to translate different proper nouns into multiple languages: http://adamhwang.github.io/wikitranslator/ Simple open source all clie…

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    Comment #34028983

    I know you're right, but I never could figure out why they'd sell singles for less than wholesale. what's the point?

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    Comment #34011258

    That's quite the generous interpretation even if the OP wasn't a posting about mastodon, a social network that directly competes with Twitter, and had nothing to do with any of the…

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    Comment #33951560

    This isn't accurate. Options are discounted by their expected dividend payout. Unless a company is issuing either 0 dte or decades out expiration options, no options are giving any…

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    Comment #33758567

    We use ours everyday in nearly every room, but they all are technically collecting dust as well. So may not be the best measure in this instance.

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    Comment #33570636

    Is it really that surprising people would rather keep their money in a bank that has hired professional security guards rather than at home under their mattress?

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    Comment #32350878

    Why should it matter if a website is marked up on the server side or client side to a search engine?

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    Comment #31972799

    You've never done iPhone development it seems where there's neverending new or deprecated versions of iOS and "kits". I've had clients that try this without a dedicated team, and e…

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    Comment #31919479

    What was the reasoning for pursuing a 14m offer from Microsoft over multiple others at 18m?