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sertorius

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    Comment #33291062

    I think 30-year fixed mortgages are somewhat of an American phenomenon (perhaps due to the luxury of having the global reserve currency). They are not generally available in Canada…

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    Comment #31572344

    Not to pile on, but there's also a typo right on the first screen: "Lisitings". Also, inconsistent use of periods on bullet points.

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    Comment #31358583

    Coinbase has KYC ("Know your customer") policies explicitly to comply with anti-money laundering. https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/managing-my-account/up... Edit: besides that…

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    Comment #31356968

    It was the perfecting money laundering vehicle. "I made a picture of an ape and 'some random anonymous person' bought it for $1M!"

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    Comment #30363494

    3 parts oat bran, 1 part psyllium husk - mix and put through a flour mill. Add some baking powder. Store this mixture and then at breakfast time add 1 egg and milk and fry as a pan…

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    Comment #21872525

    Fair enough, but I doubt many individuals would be able to do much more than rein in the extremes - drilling in protected reserves, etc.

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    Comment #21872126

    Buying shares doesn't necessarily mean you "support the company". You can be an activist and vote against current management. In many cases, activist investors have a big impact. R…

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    Comment #21323339

    Private Doctor practices? How can they be vulnerable?

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    Comment #20653676

    Worth pointing out that at the time the article was written in 1980, it was the 100-year high in interest rates, possibly north of 20% in many countries.

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    Comment #19832090

    Are you sure you aren't thinking of "Noble House"? That's the one that takes place in the sixties. In it, Casey Tcholok tells her boss she's looking for "drop dead" money, which is…

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    Comment #18745758

    Thanks for this! Is there a suggested way to get a list of keys based on wildcard? I note that the infamous KEYS command is not listed as supported (and fair enough). Is there a su…

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    Comment #18284363

    > this browser does not have SharedArrayBuffer support enabled It was disabled for Spectre safety reasons, but it can be re-enabled by navigating to "about:config", searching for "…

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    Comment #17701264

    One would be the suspension of mark-to-market accounting procedures, where the requirement to value a bank's assets under current market conditions was suspended and they could val…

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    Comment #17182851

    Just wanted to affirm this - I saw the streams announcement last year on the same day that I was having issues with Kafka and I implemented it into production for processing IoT ti…

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    Comment #16563336

    > Your task is to create a lasting representation of the struggle and beauty and plight of the human race. > Your task is to bring meaningful, sustainable, and relevant hope and qu…

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    Comment #16316089

    The "Open Debug Prompt" in Pycharm is the best of both. Breakpoint at the point of interest, enter the REPL, and continue writing at the prompt. Also good in Matlab. I hope I can s…

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    Comment #16073399

    > If you are interested in learning a C++ like language, I would recommend Rust. If you are a C++ programmer, I highly recommend learning Rust. Also, if you are a Scala programmer,…

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    Comment #15914030

    I use the following lines in my .bashrc to search the history based on a half-typed command (taken from https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1030182/how-do-i-change-... ): if [[ $- …

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    Comment #15851841

    I believe he was referring to the general living-in-the-present attitude rather than the supported-by-your-child part.

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    Comment #15601913

    Redis has just announced a streaming function that will have components inspired by kafka (consumer groups). http://antirez.com/news/114 And there's always RabbitMQ.