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Check the byline: Forbes "contributor" is a blogger, Forbes "staff" is a reporter.

Well – Craigslist and Wikipedia come to mind as counter-examples but it is rare.

Interesting that Asian countries, as a rule, learned from SARS lessons that we didn't. With a little luck, we will learn from this cluster….

And when you've got a respiratory infection, wear a mask.

Name one, please.

EDIT to add: with a link or screenshot.

See this link (previously at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9714417 on HN) for a different take on Herbalife (by a short seller who went long on Herbalife and made quite a bit of money).

http://brontecapital.blogspot.com/2015/06/herbalife-very-lon...

Recently I've found myself voting for Walmart, and Best Buy, and Newegg, rather than Amazon. Mostly based on price…

Totally ignores the likelihood that wealth tax will almost certainly be progressive: likely with a limit ignoring all wealth less than a few million.

Assuming that Google or Facebook or Github has implemented a library correctly, and that it will remain available as long as you want your app to function is dangerous.

>bucketloads of money

Uber has yet to make a profit. Some shareholders have made profits by selling stock, but the business is losing money hand over fist.

Note how they have ignored the Raspberry bleeping Pi.

A few months ago I heard about the concept "return on luck". It seems to me that Apple had the highest return on the luck they had of any of their contemporaries, with the possible exception of Microsoft.

Back in the '70s I worked on machines with head-per-track disks. SSDs begin to bring that responsiveness back.

Compared to the number of pixels * the number of video frames displayed by Tikki…

Actually, probably quite a few, only two (at least) of whom mentioned it on the internet.

And for someone with that big an ego, a remarkable willingness to change his mind.

So, let’s look at the numbers. What’s the ratio of people to police? I would bet that it’s a lot higher than 20:1. In other words, a black person meeting a polic officer is a whole lot more likely to get killed than a black person meeting another black person. That’s why fear of police is perfectly rational for blacks.

From the article:

What was the moment you realized the threat was real and that you had to take action to protect your residents and staff? “Right after President Trump said we had 15 cases and it would soon be down to zero.”

I dare not put words in a Baptist minister’s mouth, but it sounds like he listened to what the President of the United States had to say, then decided just the opposite would be true. “It does sound like that,” Reverend DeWitt agreed.

Most likely, none. Amazon would arguably be a better company, and long term more valuable.

Things tend to evolve - a system that worked on excel yesterday may well be a dangerous un maintainable monster next week.

My conspiracy theory is that there will be a dual-boot iPad Pro + Magic Keyboard combo for a few $K…

2.98 for me…

From the examples:

# A simple fizz buzz example

(loop [i :range [1 101] :let [fizz (zero? (% i 3)) buzz (zero? (% i 5))]] (print (cond (and fizz buzz) "fizzbuzz" fizz "fizz" buzz "buzz" i)))

Is this not lisp?

Of course, when there's a subtle bug in that wonderful, beautiful code, it's a real bear to understand and catch…

Three pairs of two mutuals: take one from each pair, that's a trio with no friendships. Five mutuals: take any three and there's a trio of mutuals.

You can buy a new iPhone 6s for $129 from Walmart, lccked for a year to one of their prepaid plans ($20/month). With a free year of Apple TV+, if you care.

Reminds me of the difficult time I had finding socks without elastic.

"Another amusing example occurred in an article by Charles Seif titled Not Every Vote Counts that appeared on the op-ed page of the New York Times on 4 December 2008. Seif proposed that elections be decided by a coin toss if the voting is very close, thereby avoiding litiginous disputes over the exact vote count."

Interestingly enough, A.A. does this, where "very close" is deemed to be "less than a 2/3 majority". (Although rather than a coin flip, a name is drawn at random, usually from a hat).

But when (if) they said those things about Obama, the Bushes, Clinton, and Reagan, those were lies like Trump's.