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Another, less serious issue in the memoization example for JS: (cache[key] = cache[key] || fn(...args)); Will not memoize results that equal 0 or an empty string. I guess it goes t…

Futures have to be settled physically, if carried to expiration, as far as I know

There's much more silver owned by investors than there is physical silver in the world. It's the same idea: you have a synthetic version of an asset trading for the same price of t…

When Russia did it it was reported as "Move Seen as Part of Drive to Curtail Freedom of Information" https://www.wsj.com/articles/russia-steps-up-new-law-to-cont...

It goes both ways. The police unions should be outlawed, and police members should use democracy like everyone else. If they don't like something about the job conditions, they can…

Didn't the NFL had an issue with kneeling a while ago? Did they fire the players?

Keep in mind that Stallman maintained that Bushnell stopped answering emails for two years, and that was the reason for firing him. Seems like he still holds a grudge.

Cryptocurrencies are not a scam. Doubly double End. This is very simple. But seriously, sure some people just push blockchain stuff to get money from investors. But I can buy drugs…

What happens in that scenario when it's just two people living in the same building? Why are colleges different?

I always think of the story on HN about the guy who bought back his startup from the VCs for $1 after it "failed" and he went and ran it without the same expectations, and it is do…

He bought a falling company from himself and his cousins for almost 3 billion, plus the company had 3 billion in debt. The deal resulted in him getting half a billion more in tsla …

I wasn't implying it's your fault, just saying that it's weird to, say, get mad at Walmart when they put up extra security measures in places where they constantly get robbed.

Colonialism? I understand your frustration, but the problem isn't that it's far away geographically, it's that your country is allowing criminals to use your IPs to do bad stuff.

The people who at the top of the organization generally manage other people. No offence, but if you're not interested in people, or at least in learning to fake it, how do you expe…

I must have missed the official announcement[0], module stability is a very welcome change. Swift 5.1 enables the creation of binary frameworks that can be shared with others lever…

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21027657

In recent years, the price of solar panel technology has been driven down, but the cost of labor and installation hasn’t. As the framework technologies go out of date within a 25-y…

If you upgrade your reminders on your iPhone with iOS 13, your iPad and Mac using the same iCloud account can’t access your reminders until iPadOS and macOS 10.15 Catalina are avai…

Absolutely. Traditionally the move for a company in this situation might be to replace the CEO if they plan to raise public money and he has a history of bad behaviour. In WeWork's…

There are millions of poorly run shady businesses, it's a problem that takes care of itself if you don't have infinite money coming in. Not sure that it's a problem now though. Lik…

It's more complicated than that... They also have a different arm that buys the buildings. https://www.wsj.com/articles/wework-the-workspace-giant-want...

Does someone understand what's the strategy he's urging to develop? I've read the article but it's still unclear to me. The U.S. still has the edge in fundamental research, he said…

Not OP, but it makes sense. A lot of investors hear about an asset going up and they want to join the party. A lot of the other investors try to predict where the emotional investo…

Could have been a very sophisticated false flag self sabotage for no visible reason. (Not that I believe that, or think that it shouldn't be called an attack)

> “Most people can agree a beheading video or some kind of ISIS content should be proactively removed, but when we try to talk about the alt-right or white nationalism, we get into…