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kaimaoion Show HN: Inflation-adjusted stock charts – Total Real Returns

Growth of $10K (growth of a hypothetical $10,000 investment) is a chart that is commonly-used to illustrate this. Your chart would then have VFINX, VBMFX, and USDOLLAR start with $10,000 on 1987-08-03 and go from there.

kaimaoion Ethiopia beats its goal and plants over 350M trees in 12 hours

For context, Ethiopia has a population of 105M, and the government's goal was 40 seedlings per 12 hours per participant. Not far fetched at all.

kaimaoion A rising sentiment that IBM’s Watson can’t deliver on its promises

That reminds me of this: https://twitter.com/iamdevloper/status/830070592611172357

kaimaoion Show HN: Mega Boilerplate

Great project. Thanks for sharing! Any plans to add hapi as one of the framework options?

kaimaoion Designing Ryanair’s Boarding Pass

I think he/she meant: "I always fold it into my passport"