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This seems functionally pretty similar to the 'rope' [0] data structure used by GtkTextBuffer [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_(data_structure)

I think he's suggesting that only supporting a language thats not in top 25 languages today is their #1 problem

China owns a ton of US treasuries. It will sell some of those in exchange for dollars. It will then buy it's own currency, the Yuan, with those dollars. Selling treasuries will mak…

I heard a similar story from a Sony employee about the Sony hack. Was able to find it mentioned in a Vanity Fair article: >...this morning, as she began her day, she discovered tha…

Well, the article is wrong. Here's Microsoft's actual announcement: https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2015/08/05/the-employee-exp...

The third point here seems wrong to me: >The third reason for why individual options are probably worth less now than they used to be is that both employer and employee need to acc…

The problem is that almonds and watermelons are exported from California, exiting it's water cycle.

Most HFT players are market makers, not market takers. If you take a look at the fees in that link, the fees for liquidity taking are positive, i.e. $0.0027, whereas the fees for l…

"George R.R. Martin is not your bitch."

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/what-the-fox-knows/

"we personally match you with other lovely Dating Ring members (groups of 3 men and 3 women, or 4 members for gay groups) and act as your personal dating concierge" [0] [0] http://…

One question I think is worth considering: if the quality of STEM education increased, wouldn't that increase the number of vacancies in STEM jobs per year? Theoretically, more qua…

Having grown up in St. Louis, I will say that the statistics about violence are highly skewed. Yes, the rates of violent crime in East/North St. Louis are extremely high. However, …

"MIT was never involved in any plea negotiation, and was never asked by either the prosecution or the defense to approve or disapprove any plea agreement" http://swartz-report.mit.…

MIT's report on their involvement in the prosecution of Aaron Swartz: http://swartz-report.mit.edu/

Hey, that's not what the Palantir UI looks like!

I live in NYC and my net income is just under 60% of my gross income

To be fair, Houston had already dropped out of school from a year to start an SAT prep company, so he's not entirely a first time founder. [0] [0] https://www.linkedin.com/in/drewh…