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kss238··on Hedge fund admits half its capital stuck on FTX exchange
https://archive.ph/Q26mN
kss238··on Tesla Model S Goes 752 Miles with a Startup's Prototype Battery
Curious to see what a more realistic 75mph highway driving test would show. Guessing around 600 miles which is very impressive. Seems like a nobrainer for Tesla to acquire them if their claims pan out.
kss238··on Ask HN: What is your favorite piece of entertainment of the last three years?
CS:GO 3200hrs in game over the past 3 years
kss238··on MIT college kids founded multibillion-dollar company Segment
Original Show HN for segment

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4912076

kss238··on Apple surpasses Saudi Aramco to become the most valuable company
This promotion happens every year before schools starts. I received a free pair of beats headphones with my iPad purchase in 2018.
kss238··on Alcohol breath tests are often unreliable
That's why I practice the alphabet backwards when I'm drunk.
kss238··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2019)
Any intern engineering positions?
kss238··on SoftBank to take control of WeWork: Sources
What about the 30x earnings multiple? Shouldn't it be $22B*30?

So WeWork "only" needs to capture ~3% of the US market to be worth $20B

kss238··on New ways to make vertical farming stack up
you can grow root vegetables (at least some) hydroponically
kss238··on Fake-branded bars slip dirty gold into world markets
Will those be able to differentiate between 99.99% and 99.90%? Because that's the difference in purity for these fakes.
kss238··on Secretly Public Domain: Most books published in the US before 1964
The article says 80%
kss238··on We can't get enough of audiobooks
I wish someone would make a netflix for audiobooks. I'm guessing licensing is an issue.
kss238··on Western intelligence hacked Yandex to spy on accounts
The article mentions, that sources could not confirm which nation launched the attack.
kss238··on How to Make Apple’s Mac Pro Holes
I would guess Electric Discharge Machining.
kss238··on Retirees Might Run Out of Money 10 Years Before They Die
To outperform 8% a year after a 90% drop, you would need to have made 35% for a decade. Are you actually earning that much?

Sp500 over the past decade has earned 14%. Would you stil be up? That means you earned 43% a year for a decade?

kss238··on Should Failing Phish Tests Be a Fireable Offense?
The issue isn't how much risk there is in opening it. The problem is that regardless of how much or little risk there is in opening the link, it wasn't op's job to examine it. It was unnecessary risk to open the link.
kss238··on IQ rates are dropping in many developed countries
The article discussed this but said that even within family's IQ is going down by generation so it cannot be entirely the effect you described.
kss238··on From Asylum Seeker to Fields Medal Winner at Cambridge
Paywall and outline does not work.
kss238··on Yield Curve Is More Inverted Than at This Point in Run-Up to Financial Crisis
If investors were putting more capital into short term bonds, wouldn't the yield of short term bonds drop, not rise?
kss238··on PG&E Files for Bankruptcy Following California Wildfires
https://outline.com/ZEdJEV
kss238··on Apple resumes selling iPhone SE at lower $249 price on its clearance store
cant really compare global edition prices to us phones, since the global editions don't pay qualcomm.
kss238··on Shutdown Will Be Worse for Economy Than First Thought, White House Says
Previously it was against the wall. What happened?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/59v7k3/border-pat...

kss238··on Illinois Bet on Video Gambling and Lost
Having used the IPass online payment system multiple times, it sounds like you did not read warnings on the website.

On the online website, it says the search feature does not show the violations immediately and you should not rely on it.

     "The optimal timeframe for a successful search is the second and third weeks following the missed toll. Many missed tolls will not appear until one week after they were incurred due to the need to review the images of the license plate."

 Instead you should select the tolls you missed manually and then paying them. I have done this numerous time, noting the toll and time I missed and have never received a violation after I paid it online. 
I have also used the search feature one week after I missed the toll and all of my missed tolls appeared.

It's unfortunate that you had to pay a fine but you shouldn't blame the state for your errors.

kss238··on Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams
You can purchase anything on Newegg with bitcoin directly
kss238··on Ethereum: A number of hard forks turn out to be scams
There is lots of things you can purchase directly with bitcoin.
kss238··on As Bitcoin Sinks, Industry Startups Are Forced to Cut Back
Any large miner will be profitable mining long before they have more dormant hashing power to 51% bitcoin.
kss238··on Cornell Graduate School Helped Make New York Appealing to Amazon
Not CMU, but Cornell's College of Engineering most recent class enrolled more women than men.
kss238··on Japan's cyber-security minister has 'never used a computer'
Lisa Su got her BS, MS, and PhD in EE from MIT, so I'm sure she is very knowledgeable on making cpus.
kss238··on Plane drops to 928 feet after autopilot set to 0 altitude
I mentioned this is another comment but

If you read the UK Government report that is not what happened. The plane was at 1500 ft when it began to descend. At 1300 ft the warning sounds activated and the pilot reacted but it took another 300 ft of descent before the pilot was able to fully recover from the descent.

kss238··on Plane drops to 928 feet after autopilot set to 0 altitude
>The commander stated that to save time before pushback he had set the autopilot Flight Director (FD) modes to Go‑Around (ga), Heading (hdg) and Altitude Select (alt sel) but without first setting a selected altitude.

Sounds like they were waiting on the ground and had time.

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