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fartzzzon Texas Records All Inmates Last Words Before Execution And Puts Them All Online

I really don’t understand why they include race in the list? It has nothing to do with their crime or lasts words? But the sex of the offender is not included in the list.

fartzzzon Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility

"Our core market infrastructure has proven resilient under the weight of this week’s extraordinary trading volumes"

Most of the retail investors couldn't buy specific stocks on most exchanges for some time (tastytrade, ib, rh etc). I wouldn't call that "resilient".

fartzzzon Denmark to cull millions of minks over mutated coronavirus

I cannot find anything online, but it was mentioned by Kåre mølbak in the press conference

fartzzzon Denmark to cull millions of minks over mutated coronavirus

Yes Denmark have similiar social services. The farms (and related companies that works in the industry) will get financial help and the State will help workers with re-education

fartzzzon Denmark to cull millions of minks over mutated coronavirus

It is believed that some of the cases (all?) didnt have any contact with minks and therefore was human-to-human

fartzzzon Linear Regression

This is a very good explanation! (And a great blog btw). I especially like the math symbols explanation. This is something I always have a hard time understanding/remembering. (It’s very hard to lookup math symbols om Google :P) and great that it is followed by a Python example!

fartzzzon US proposes barring tech companies from offering financial services

it seems that the US financial regulations are 1 big mess of patches. (For an uninformed outsider like me). For example are onion futures are made illegal, The Pattern day trading rule seems strange, gift cards etc. it seems problematic that there is a need for creating very specific regulations when it’s about financial services. This seems way too specific to be able to uphold and cause uncertainty for startups. It is not possible to create a more broad regulations?

fartzzzon Coinbase releases professional trading platform for institutional clients

I think the good thing about the crypto currency trading world is that everyone have more or less the same access as everyone else on the current exchanges (at least on GDAX). It would be great with more exchanges to fill the gap between the exchanges that wants to be 'traditional' (GDAX) and the ones who cannot be trusted (Maybe Bitfinex?)

fartzzzon Stingray: 3D Game Engine and Design Visualization

Autodesk acquired bitsquid (http://bitsquid.se/) last year. Btw their blog contains great ressources on game dev: http://bitsquid.blogspot.com