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Right but the “certain regions” were affluent metro areas, the control group was rural counties, and the timeframe was the Great Recession. Even the study authors acknowledge the s…

No, arbitrary decisions would defeat the point of indexes. But they can and do add systematic protections, like only buying based on the free float to avoid a short squeeze.

Past discussion from 3 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47058219 (Anna's Archive moves, so you won't see it by looking at the domain history in this post.)

Thanks. Is it not annoying to play Civ with a touchpad vs a mouse? Or is this just a convenience for situations where you can’t use a mouse?

Can anyone share their experience enjoying the two pads they put on their controllers? I have a Steam Deck and love it, but the only experience I have with those pads is “dammit I …

The player-coach analogy is very common in role definitions, and it is real concept in sports: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Player-coach

It can both be true that (1) most of the revenue and operations focus is on the core airline and (2) most of the profit and valuation is driven by the loyalty program. This is true…

The other answer (staff who use Westlaw) is right, but critically this is the point of adversarial litigation. The justice system doesn't hang on that judge finding the precedent; …

That is common law, but many jurisdictions have specific regulations related to this. E.g.: https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/2017/04/28/US-Pr... I don't know whether "us…

I have never played it, but I could imagine a scoring mechanism that would make it interesting, and perhaps is implied by the rules: The score value starts at 1. Every additional "…

Perhaps also worth noting that you generally shake the die before releasing it. Thus even if you drop it straight down through a vacuum, you would have done the center-of-mass-impa…

...is that really the story? It feels like these are two related, but different things.

Yes but then I think they should leave the header at the top of the page. If I need it I'll scroll all the way back up! Don't make it randomly re-appear and cover the text I wanted…

Seems like a lot of people are dunking on this comment with anecdata. Thankfully there is real data if we want to know how microwaves are used. Survey below says they are used a bi…

I disagree. If you focus on holding the software creators to account in lieu of the humans in the loop, the we only reinforce the behavior of offloading thinking to the system. If …

I think the point is that we don't have evidence that this actually happened from anyone other than Codewall.

> ShadowBroker is a real-time, full-spectrum geospatial intelligence dashboard You might consider changing this to a more accurate headline, like "Air and Space domain awareness." …

I would say it's more like enjoying a song so much that you choose to listen to a cover of that song.

What a time to be alive: Companies post roles that don't exist to interview candidates who don't plan to switch.

There are tons of examples of this. Heck, even Tetris has procedural generation. I think this argument was a mistake.

The “gambled his life savings” framing in the article is very hyperbolic. He gambled $300K from his extra savings outside his retirement accounts, and he hedged significantly to re…

> there is no single correct answer I think we all mostly agree that there is a single correct answer, and that is why this discussion exists in the first place.

How did the question become “which corporate device can I install OpenClaw on?” Who is doing that?

It seems like the model became paranoid. For the past few hours, it has been classifying almost all inbound mail as "hackmyclaw attack."[0] Messages that earlier in the process wou…

He has said this before: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/palantir-ceo-makes-another-co... It’s a weirdly specific thing to say multiple times.