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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
Too much cash chasing too few decent investment opportunities is exactly the problem. The more cautious end of institutional investors have nowhere to go. Blue chip shares are at incredibly high valuations and bonds are returning next to no
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
I have some questions about your figures: - You've included the fridge, that's not really "standby" power in the sense OP is meaning. That's active power consumption. Fridges don't have a standby mode. - As abo
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
Hi Ken. Just wanted to say I've always found your blog superb. The quality of your articles is excellent and the subjects always fascinating.
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
A more interesting thing I see on those stats is Android looks likely to beat iOS in tablets in the next couple of years. I don't know anyone at all with an Android tablet. I thought Apple had the tablet market pretty much conquered.
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
Never once seen a tax form here in the UK. Your employer deals with it. Every year they mail you a personalised table showing exactly how much each public service cost you (i.e. what they spent your taxes on).
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by IMSAI8080 4y ago
He does a lot of good stuff but that one was dumb. That one taints his series which was otherwise decent. It's a "prediction" that's so obviously wildly impossible it has to be a simple cheat and there's no other ex
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
The trick he mentions he used where he issues a floating-point divide for perspective correction followed by integer instructions allegedly killed Cyrix. Carmack figured out for Quake that the original Intel Pentium could execute a floating
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
"equipped with a passenger compartment providing basic comfort" You get a seat.
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
I used to have a personal laptop in the 2000s exactly for mindless web surfing in front of the TV. My mobile phone has now taken over that function though. So I just have a desktop for doing work and creative things and have never personall
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
When they talk about "GPS" jamming, do they also mean Europe's Galileo, Chinese BeiDou and Russian GLONASS as well? Do they jam their own navigation systems or do they risk upsetting the Chinese by jamming theirs?
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
I think the most important data that is difficult to obtain is a history of which links people click on for each search query term. I think that's really the special sauce that Google has that others do not. There is a catch-22 where y
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
> This is why we joked NTSC meant Never The Same Color. SECAM = System Essentially Contrary to the American Method PAL = Perfection At Last
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
I don't think he was suggesting a government regulated price, I think he was meaning not charging above the usual commercially offered price. Unlike other operators SpaceX launches have a retail price. They have a tool on their website
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Someone on HN complained Google stored their credit card after using it to verify their age for watching a YouTube video.
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Yes I'm using custom domains and yes I migrated from free Gsuite. I just use the email only on Zoho, which is totally fine for me. It does also include other services which I haven't investigated. Migration was fairly painless. Th
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
I migrated to Zoho back in January for email and opened a regular Google account for YouTube etc. Just waiting for them to kick me off now.
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Wow. That's just amazing work.
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
I heard the problem expressed as a good ideas shortage versus too much investment capital. Interest rates have been incredibly low since the 2008 banking crash, so where does the spare capital go? There's not enough innovative ideas ar
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Sometimes as short as 20 I believe, although 70 is common. They do own the building, but yes the land is always on leasehold terms I believe. Will the government renew it? They say yes, but ...
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
The author states they do not compare sanctions against military action. The author is assessing if sanctions achieved the goal of the sanctions. I think a way to think about sanctions is applying a tax to a country. It's not that the
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
A lot of it is tied in with local government. The central Chinese government inadequately funds local governments. The local governments close the funding gap by selling/leasing land to developers (often kicking citizens off their land
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Yes, I found articles on the first page of DDG results providing Putin's own reasoning in his own words. The author just doesn't like the analysis and commentary surrounding it. Take a look at who the author of this "comparis
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
I have extensions turned off in private browsing and then use this mode for banking etc.
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Any writing "about the criticism he receives" is to deflect it. The state run channels are never critical of Putin because he controls the channels.
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Exactly. Just before the war kicked off, the BBC was doing nothing but hammering the UK prime minister on various matters. How many Putin critical articles did RT or Sputnik news post?
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Tried just simply googling it (use several variations of the number format)? There's many online databases of bad phone numbers which usually all show up on regular search engines with a separate page for each number. I usually add the
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Yes, I think the tracker also uses the sun as I remember reading.
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Spacecraft often use stars to orient themselves. The Voyager spacecraft have star trackers to keep the antenna pointing at Earth. They look for the Canopus star.
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
Have you never noticed how the media in democratic countries regularly and robustly criticises their leaders and government? Leaders are even laughed at and publicly ridiculed. They are held to account. Do you never wonder why it is your st
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by IMSAI8080 5y ago
No, it is demonstrably you who is completely deluded. Try some reliable news sources instead of Putin controlled "media" for once.

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