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    Comment #44813453

    This is pretty comprehensive. I work at a quant firm, and we don't even have some of this implemented in code. The tricky part is always going to be the integration. Nautilus has i…

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    Comment #43840796

    Items that contain multiple elements get the highest tariff rate of any of them - a glass window with aluminum frame gets the aluminum rate because it’s the highest one.

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    Comment #43373355

    Mobile Safari exists though. Chrome is #2 on iOS and that’s where the most valuable consumers are

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    Comment #43299452

    Except for crypto, losing your passwords is annoying but not irreversible

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    Comment #42499052

    1. To allow the merger, Congress imposed some pretty onerous restrictions on any collaboration between the two companies. There is a Lexmark board of former US generals who are sup…

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    Comment #42387924

    you need a lot more than 2 bidders for the theory to hold. Repeating the auction just seems pointless, but another avenue could be for the assets to not be sold, and the claimants …

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    Comment #41512979

    I am an investor in equifax. Let me clear up a misconception on where the data comes from. Half the data comes from large enterprise customers, who “sell” the data in exchange for …

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    Comment #41512907

    It’s still a Taco Bell with a few much better sit down places in the adjacent strip mall

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    Comment #40718678

    They might be both valid but will generate a different output (int or range) leading to a compile time error downstream

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    Comment #39846689

    They already put up the toll tag scanners, they are just turned off.

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    Comment #39480671

    Not to overcomplicate things, but anyone planning to save money for >12 months should be using the BOXX ETF ( https://etfsite.alphaarchitect.com/boxx/ ) to convert the interest inc…

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    Comment #39416936

    If a developer is replacing a 2 story, 20 unit building with 20 parking spots with a new 5 story, 50 unit building, they shouldn’t be able to have more than 25 parking spots, as th…

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    Comment #39366701

    This is in Rust? I was expecting Ed to be in C…

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    Comment #39191359

    Apple Health does a great job of integrating with EMR providers. I can see notes from every doctors visits, my blood test results, Covid tests, and so on all integrated into one ap…

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    Comment #38628676

    Hmm, I would like to see a citation on that second comment. You can look at Frontier's last earnings release, they spent $168M of build Capex to pass 332k homes, or $506/home passe…

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    Comment #38530380

    OP was referring to the Roman Republic, the system of government. The Roman Empire didn't begin until 27 BC, shortly after Caesar.

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    Comment #38255088

    The locks are filled with recycled water that is stored in water saving ponds [1], but this only reuses 60% of the water and it doesn't address the other issue that if the water le…

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    Comment #37237585

    WinRAR is (was?) developed in Russia, so it always seemed like a great way for the Russian FSB to hack foreign systems.

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    Comment #35727639

    Short of flooding our cities and towns in the valley, how does one replenish groundwater? My understanding is that's sort of like putting toothpaste back into the tube.

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    Comment #35077853

    when the gain shows up is irrelevant - IRS requires taxes to be paid on income in the quarter it is realized. Everyone needs to pay the estimated tax and then file the return for t…

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    Comment #34287513

    They don't. Remember that NASDAQ's clients are Jane Street, Goldman Sachs, i.e. not you or me. They don't onboard a client with doing due diligence. Then there is a clearing and se…

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    Comment #34058385

    Sort of related - the price of chimps has gone up 10x during COVID from $2k to $20k. Multiple factors, there was a corruption scandal in Cambodia (see ticker NOTV that is being inv…

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    Comment #33546628

    GDP grew +2% in Q3, after declining in Q1 and Q2. Gross Domestic Income (similar to GDP but measured differently) grew consistently the entire year. And unemployment rate has decli…

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    Comment #33412896

    The C suite has an incredible amount of influence to block a deal with a non-strategic acquirer like Elon. The threat of all executives resigning en masse can knee cap a business.

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    Comment #33344842

    All billboards are by definition untargeted ads, and they are not at all only for "megaa-corps and erection pills". You can still use context to target an ad at a particular audien…