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by AmVess 8y ago
Often, just water. Chicken is sold by the pound. If you increase its weight by 5%, then you just got a close to free way of boosting profits by that amount. They don't even hide the fact that they do it; most of them print it right on
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by AmVess 8y ago
I am looking at the WGA contract...that's where I get my info from. Your average staff writer gets nowhere near $75k per episode. A bit above $4k which is a far cry from $75,000.
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by AmVess 8y ago
Writers get paid very little, too. There are outliers, but for the most part, scripts demand very little money even when they are turned into movies. Writing staff on hit tv shows also don't see the monetary gain that actors do unless
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by AmVess 8y ago
What a horrible test. They tested without hyperthreading turned on. Spectre and Meltdown are risks BECAUSE of hyperthreading. It makes zero sense to test the performance impact of the fixes with the major component of the problem turned off
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by AmVess 8y ago
GM was in a pretty bad spot for a long time. The car I had was in the junkyard by 80k miles, and it was well taken care of. I ended up in a same year Honda that never had a single malfunction in 120k + miles.
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by AmVess 8y ago
I wouldn't bet on that. I owned a vehicle that had the same engine and was lighter, and it was a complete slug. Also, the tech underneath these is almost 40 years old, and was bad when new. These have no AC, so imagine driving one all
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by AmVess 8y ago
I have a vintage fire plaque next to my front door. They were commonly issued long ago to show that insurance has been purchased. No plaque, no service.
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by AmVess 8y ago
Different groups define different age ranges for this group. The earliest would then put the age at 39 or even 40. The point remains, however, is that the span is too great for a single term to define them to any degree whatsoever.
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by AmVess 8y ago
25% is a steal. They handle all the financial transactions and host and distribute the game files on the most popular client on the planet. They also handle the security. Handling your own billing is expensive and time consuming. Setting up
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by AmVess 8y ago
The bailout cost tax payers $16 billion which has not been repaid. Nothing says gift louder than that. In the meantime, they have been offshoring production of parts and vehicles like no one's business. I looked at a new full size truc
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by AmVess 8y ago
Which is completely wrong. The top selling cars in the 90's had 4 and 6 cylinder engines.
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by AmVess 8y ago
Brick work and framing are two of the easiest and fastest steps in building a house. They are using an expensive system to do the cheapest steps. Essentially, they are answering a question no one asked. The expensive and time consuming part
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by AmVess 8y ago
I order direct from Apple. They get it to me faster than Amazon can, and no worries about it lobotomizing my hardware.
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by AmVess 8y ago
Stick shakers aren't a fix. The pilot in the Colgan air accident kept pulling back even though the plane activated the stick pusher; he kept pulling back until that disengaged. Even the best designed plane will eventually meet a pilot
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by AmVess 8y ago
The choice for a prefab dwelling is speed of construction and short time to inhabitance, and not really cost savings. Land is not plentiful and cheap like it once was. Then there are utility install and hookup costs which are quite large. A
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by AmVess 8y ago
Product segmentation. It's still available in the i9 CPU, which they charge a little over $100 more for the non-HT 8 core CPU.
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by AmVess 8y ago
Risk aversion and mitigation is exactly why they exist.
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The process has changed significantly. They are on their 4th iteration since 2012, and that has provided all their performance increases.
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by AmVess 8y ago
Same here. I'm going to wait for Zen2 before moving on. 8c/16t at 4.5+ GHz will be a compelling upgrade.
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by AmVess 8y ago
Intel isn't innovating outside of process. They've been on the same µarch for most of this decade. They've gotten rid of hyper-threading for most of their desktop parts with this "generation" and have taken the &quo
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by AmVess 8y ago
Exactly. My 2 day shipping is always 4-5 days. I am not including non shipping days in this, either. My last item was a small SSD that took 5 days to arrive.It was bubble packed and about the size and weight of a Blu ray movie case. I order
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by AmVess 8y ago
I am not exaggerating. Several years ago, a bird strike in Alaska resulted in a fatal crash of a 172. Does it happen often? Probably not, but a large heavy drone can easily take down a small civilian aircraft.
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by AmVess 8y ago
The drone penetrated the wing and broke spars. It is very easy for such an impact to also destroy control surface cabling, wiring, or hydraulics which certainly can cause a plane crash.
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by AmVess 8y ago
The long term issue is they are still two years away from a 10nm server chip while TSMC are already shipping 7nm parts (roughly equivalent to Intel 10nm). Further, a return to 22nm chipset production indicates a large disruption in their pr
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by AmVess 8y ago
Ibuprofen isn't harmful to your liver in ways that acetaminophen is. It will screw up your kidneys long before it ruins your liver. Acetaminophen can be dangerous, especially when taken on an abused liver.
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by AmVess 8y ago
49 top level execs have left this year. After a while, patterns begin to form that make us question their underlying causes.
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Your solution to small town newspapers dying off is to make people ride hundreds of miles a day on buses?
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There are many fixes. The employees at a company I used to work for funded their own pension, with company contributions up to some thousands a year per person. The plan was fully funded, too...meaning that it would never run out of money.
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by AmVess 8y ago
In a statement given to Ars Technica, Netflix described the change as follows: "We are testing whether surfacing recommendations between episodes helps members discover stories they will enjoy faster." The reasoning, Netflix&#x27
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by AmVess 8y ago
There are flight simulator packages available for many different planes, including the Q400. They feature fully functional cockpits. Here's a tutorial of the Q400's sim cockpit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl7m

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