Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
New York already taxes parking spaces: > The services of parking, garaging and storing motor vehicles within New York City are subject to the 4% state tax, the 6% New York City local tax, and the ⅜% Metropolitan Commuter Transportation D
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Common Core would have been incredible if it weren't for the sellout state boards of education doing whatever the giant education corporations told (paid?) them to do. It would have finally given teachers the ability to manage individu
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I live in a very affluent area and the local public library has a very large section dedicated to DVDs and Blu-ray (and video games and music CDs). And given that all the libraries in the area are linked up, I can request discs from an abs
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Yes, that is most likely the cause.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Seriously though, make an appointment with a gastro doctor. They can review things with you. There's a few blood tests they can do, maybe an ultrasound. And then maybe a colonoscopy. These things are all pretty cheap from an Americ
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
That display is really hard to read. I would say that if you're going to use a 7-segment display, it would be helpful to add a "test/diagnostic" button that does a pattern in which all segments are lit up in a predictabl
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It could be worse. I was once at the Berlin Zoo and a group of tourists were harassing a tiger. So it turned around and squirted urine all over them.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> kind of similar as keeping a knife sharpened. Professional chefs get their knives sharpened once or twice a year, depending on how often they use them. They hone their knives before every use. The honing rod that comes with your knif
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> So if your in a household with two high income parents, someone needs to quit to get under the cap. This is already a thing that happens. You also see plenty of highly-educated parents working fairly menial jobs at highly-ranked unive
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I'm not sure that "scam" is the right word to use in this case, unless I am misconstruing what they are calling a scam. However... Did you train your own model? Fine tune it? Or did you just use some model that you had free
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> It's a useful and powerful shell that reminds me of VMS DCL and csh. I remember watching a video on one of the various Microsoft learning sites in which Snover and another guy were interviewed about the creation of PowerShell. On
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It's like someone thinking that they are SOOOO smart, they are going to get rich selling shovels in the gold rush. So they overpay for the land, they overpay for the factory, they overpay for their sales staff. And then someone else s
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Many of the winners haven't even been formed yet. And most of the losers have already lost, they just don't know it yet.
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Hurricane Beryl Tests Jamaica's $1.6B Disaster Safety Net(finance.yahoo.com)
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
What the modern world thinks of as Los Angeles has always been terrible, treeless land. You have to go inland, and up the mountains, to get to the good land. From the ~1830s: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4277 >
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
In the week leading up to this disclosure, they were quietly warning all "high value" targets to contact them and make sure that they were fully patched.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The S-series lawn tractors that you'll see at Home Depot and Lowes are noticeably less-well-built than the X-series lawn tractors that you see at the more specialized places as well as the actual John Deere dealers. They cost about $5
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Ah, thanks for the explanation. Unfortunately not something I can do.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> “However, the first quarter also saw an uptick in commercial sector performance. Shipment growth in small and medium businesses indicates that the anticipated refresh brought by the Windows 10 end-of-life is underway. With enterprise c
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Chicago has been on the verge of fiscal collapse since the 1800s. Maybe it will happen tomorrow, who knows. Articles like these aren't really about Chicago though; Chicago is just the convenient punching bag for the short period of ti
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I have locked in a 30 year 2.3% mortgage, which I use for leverage > but then I'm also making a margin on the leveraged capital. Do you mind expanding on this? I’d like to understand what you are doing, as a fellow ridiculous
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Rabidly is probably a good word to use. This whiz technology person is also going to discover, too late, that most libraries will refuse to touch it unless it can be proven that a patron's lending history is not recorded unless the pat
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Original discussion on the blog post that started it all? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7853786 (Blog post appear to exist anymore)
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
The Niketown stores in NYC and Chicago delivered shoes via pneumatic tube. You’d tell the sales associate the style/size/color, they’d type it into their handheld device, and a few minutes later the shoebox would appear at the ne
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Please tell me this is a real thing freaks overpay for With very few exceptions, hating your customers is not good for your business.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Land prices in Chicago are definitely cheaper than other large cities. But at the same time, the fire code and zoning make it pretty rare that a 6-floor building is the right economic choice. You might as well build it to be 10-15 floors.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Your local library should have a copy of this book [1]. It is fantastic (though I came really close to setting it down in disgust within the first two chapters). It’s an inside look at IT within government. [1] https://us.macmil
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Sounds great, except for the part where Apple is just going to appeal the decision and wait ~13 years for the appeal to be decided and pay whatever reduced fine is decided upon (further diminished by inflation). For example: https:/&
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
I've got a laptop that the kids spilled some milk on. For the first time ever (in my experience), removing the keyboard and cleaning it with isopropyl alcohol made things worse. But there are no spare keyboard assemblies available fr
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
You were just way ahead of the trend. Current iPhones allow you to decline a call with a text message response, and even include some pre-populated responses to choose from.

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