Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Why is basic insurance for ordinary people a for-profit business at all, rather than something the collective... There are mutual insurance companies [1], including the largest insurance company in the US (State Farm). At the end of e
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> I only keep a FB/Insta account to stop somebody else squatting/stealing my name. There are probably thousands of people in the world with the same name as you.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Basically, anything that comes from a swift.org link is cross-platform and will run perfectly well just about anywhere. If you've got something coming from developer.apple.com it will be specific to the Apple ecosystem. And of course
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Toward the end of 2021, the Iowa-Illinois Memorial Bridge (I-74 Bridge) was completed, providing a new multimodal crossing of the Mississippi River between East Moline, Illinois, and Bettendorf, Iowa. Prior to this bridge completion, t
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Meanwhile, Kia, Hyundai, VW are producing EVs that just kinda look and drive like normal cars and the bulk of market prefer that. Kia.com -> View Inventory -> within 50 miles: EV9 = (263) 246 Available, 17 Arriving Soon EV6 = (15
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> the bank has said in the past that it has no intention of selling any of the bonds in the held-to-maturity, or HTM, portfolio and that the losses will melt away over time as bonds get paid off or mature. This is true, if they actually
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Museum of Science and Industry closed Wednesday to move military artifacts(chicago.suntimes.com)
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> He makes cider every year from the apples he collects from all the feral trees in his area. Are pests problematic when making cider? Do you have to throw away anything that has a bug in it?
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
“ We believe this project will lay the foundation for a new Silicon Heartland, a semiconductor ecosystem centered in the Midwest Triangle” Has anyone heard of the “Midwest Triangle” before? Some internet searching doesn’t come up with anyt
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Depending on where you sit on the political spectrum, you may like or dislike the culture war part of things. But unless you are mega rich, the costs are undeniably an issue. It's really not new, either. Years ago we spent a few mont
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Is that an up-to-date critique? Because iOS 17/MacOS Sonoma have the rewritten JSON decoder: > The code in our GitHub repository 20 has indeed shipped as part of iOS 17 and macOS Sonoma. That includes our new, dramatically faster i
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The Rivian S-1 document filed with the SEC said that Ford built all the non-electronic stuff for them until they could do it themselves.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
You can read the DMA yourself. In fact, you should read the DMA yourself and not rely on what EC commissioners say on their social media accounts. The EU court of justice can and will throw their rulings and fines out the window when (n
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Is there much demand for that power? Southwest Michigan has pretty well deindustrialized since the 1970s. A lot of vacation homes and agro-tourism these days. BTW, I still remember visiting the Cook nuclear plant on a school field trip as
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
According to The Internet, the average teacher salary in IL is $72k per year. No doubt that number is skewed by the Chicago region. School funding is dominated by property taxes; they are high in the Chicago area and significantly less in
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Instead of complaining about an American company releasing something that is useful to Americans, perhaps you should complain that companies in your country are not releasing things that are useful to people in your country.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The article (and articles linked in the article) says that issuance has skewed dramatically to short-term Treasuries, mainly due to demand from money market funds and hedge funds. The hedge funds are particularly worrisome because they are
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
https://openai.com/policies/business-terms Section 10 deals with the indemnification they are offering. There are a lot of limitations. It's definitely not terrible, but it's not remotely close to what a bu
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Historically, 140 years isn't that long for structures like this.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
If this is true it's an outlier. I just asked my kids, and yes, they are reading full novels in middle school English class. Just a plain old not-noteworthy suburban school district.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
That happens everywhere though. We had some tornadoes go through a few weeks ago. My house had some minor hail and 50-60 mph winds. No damage. Yet plenty of letters in the mail offering to handle getting me a new roof. The difference is
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Some of the links in the article go nowhere, and others seem to contradict what they claim to say. But follow the links in the links and you end up with contradictions on the contradictions. Very confusing. Maybe wait for a better source
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The property line would end at the railroad right of way. A passenger station would be built to provide service to the airport. The current talk is to build it as a cargo airport, but the original concept was a passenger airport to serve t
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Good point. The Livermore airport is pretty hemmed in already; it looks like it would be pretty difficult to do much expansion and you have all those houses that are already under the runway approaches. I'm guessing that when you say
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
As the article points out, expanding the two airports in Chicago are out of the question. And because it is more or less impossible to build a new airport, they are planning to build a "new" airport. Which means that this tiny li
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The lawsuit: https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/sites/default/files/at... It refers to 31 U.S. Code § 5103: > United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of F
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Direct link https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24492020/doj-apple-an...
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
These books, which are expensive because I don't think they're printed anymore, are going to be far more useful than GPT: https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Finance-Investment-Busines... And since the resale value
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> what’s the bear thesis here? Nvidia is ceding the low-end GPU market to anyone who wants it. Not only does it allow a competitor to establish a reliable source of revenue for their R&D department, but it could cut off the sale of
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The previous release was available to lowly consumers, MS just made it hard to find on their website. This one will probably also be like that. https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/microsoft-365/p/office-profe...

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