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stephengoodwin

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About stephengoodwin

Entrepreneur and engineer

www.stephengoodwin.net

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    Welp, I specifically bought a Roku device a few months ago just to use YouTube. I ran into major issues using Fire TV's YouTube app. The app would fail to get past the initial load…

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    Comment #20504570

    Correction: Should be Long Call for the first scenario: defined risk protection (for shorting), not Long Put.

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    Comment #20501370

    Not that I'm aware of. The only alternative would be to permit shorting if the user has a Long Put for defined risk protection. You could always to a synthetic short through buying…

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    Comment #19538562

    Seattle permits retailers to charge 5 cents per large paper bag.

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    Comment #16556092

    When you say that you clean with a steamer, do you mean something like a garment steamer?

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    Comment #15307832

    I tried to sign up for Coinbase back in July and kept running into problems during the id verification step (at some point, they thought I was under 18). I tried to work through th…

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    Comment #12331296

    If you're looking for something new to listen to, 99% Invisible is also a fantastic podcast.

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    Comment #12125503

    There's the exclave Point Roberts, Washington ( http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0408/feature7/ ), which falls ever so slightly south of the 49th parallel.

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    Comment #12125461

    The YouTube channel WonderWhy has a video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtLxZiiuaXs ) on complex international borders wrt enclaves and exclaves.

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    Comment #12101960

    I love Takeout. Given how much of our lives is invested into digital platform, I wish every Internet company had something similar to Takeout for user data.

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    Comment #11792973

    This is why I started giving businesses and retailers my Google Voice number, instead of my personal number.

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    Comment #11016361

    Apple also started paying quarterly dividends in 2012[1]. Whereas, Google does not pay out dividends[2]. Apple's annualized dividend yield is 2.2% (for comparison, Microsoft's is 2…

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    Comment #10996329

    > being subject to a wall of glowing bitten apples staring at you Remarkable imagery.

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    Comment #10927820

    About 1/2 of the flights I've taken in the past 5 years have been on United or Continental. 11 flights on United and 4 flights on Continental[1] (I keep track of my airline travel …

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    Comment #10825377

    The last time I checked in on Sails.js about 9 months ago, Mike McNeil, Cody Stoltman, and Scott Gress had just gotten back from YC for Treeline ( http://treeline.io ).[1] [1] http…

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    Comment #10825357

    FYI, the trailsjs.io official site listed on Github is just a Namecheap landing page.

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    Comment #10819560

    If you don't mind me asking, how much did you pay for the "coverage"? Did it offer any kind of discount for minor or major dental work (e.g., cavity removal, wisdom tooth removal)?…

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    Comment #10809178

    Is this new? I've been using this for over a month now.

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    Comment #10807621

    Call it a best practice for inexperienced artists and writers. If I, for instance, were to take up painting as a hobby, I would try to find some artistic formula or method to follo…