Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I’m pretty certain that the battery lawsuit happened before the 3g shutdown. So while I totally believe this is killing batteries, I also believe that these cars have more electrical problems than just this.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
If the DCM is in the headunit, that seems plausible. What one did you get?
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Fair enough, but if this Lake City company (of whom I have zero knowledge) is capable of manufacturing some "big stuff" that is small enough to be considered "small arms", and they've decided to dedicate their entir
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> Kind of a clueless article. The problem isn't small-caliber ammo, which is what Lake City makes. It's the big stuff. In DoD purchasing lingo, small arms means anything less than 30mm in diameter. Most people would consider t
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The best career advice I can give anyone is to know what's going to happen before the boss does. It has gotten a lot easier in the last decade or so since most managers think that Agile means "don't have to do any planning&q
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I agree. We were supposed to go back after 1 month, then 3 months, than 1 year, than 18 months, and then it was "we give up, work wherever you want - but for taxes and insurance purposes you MUST stay inside the state". And now o
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Ford F150 hybrid (or even the full-electric version) can provide all the electricity needed to charge the spare batteries in the trailer while the crew is working with the main batteries. Sound is barely above truck idle, way way below the
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Cost basis is not so cut and dry. In fact, the IRS (federal law?) allows you to use almost any reasonable method for determining it as long as you are consistent. An example of where the brokerage wouldn't know: You buy 5 shares of st
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
LIBOR was a thing where banks would estimate how much they would have to pay to borrow money at a fixed rate (in London) for a short period of time. All the banks made their estimate and the average of that fixed interest rate was publishe
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
They don’t know enough to know how much you owe them, but they do know that you got $xx,xxx from a brokerage account and that the tax would be $7,000 unless there were some things unknown to them that would make it a lower amount. You didn
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
It is probably dependent on what type of product you are asking about. But you don't necessarily need to go to a store. Just call their customer service number and ask them. It has worked for me ;)
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Thanks! I will pass those on
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Since you work at Desmos: is there any way to have animated variables start/stop based on the value of some other variable? Or functions that graph different formulas based on a conditional? Etc. For example, variable X is continuous
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> There's also the slight difference that the military has socialized health care. When your kid is sick you take them to the doctor and that's that Reminds me of a past vacation. Had a friend that was a pediatrician in the Ar
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> cleanly divide a minute or an hour into 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 equal parts Lawyers bill their time in tenths of an hour - exactly 6 minute increments.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
That's probably why nobody wants to volunteer themselves. But the survey results sure seem to indicate that this is where victory would be found.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I've been reading a book that was highly recommended here on HN a few months ago: "Nature's Metropolis", and just finished a chapter that explains this. Back in 1868, there were essentially just two rail networks in the
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Third parties, as of late, are all on the "left" side of the political spectrum. The article states that support for third parties by Democrats is 46% while Republicans support for third parties is 58% and "independents&quot
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
My local Walmart has about 100 different breads in the bread section - too much for a single aisle. Even the Aldi, known for having just a single option for everything, has about 15 different breads. I'm sorry if your options are bad
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
I'm not saying that, in this scenario, putting all of your money into a 401k fund for 20 years is a good idea either. In fact I think it should be fairly obvious that asking the question implies that "standard investment advice&q
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Make the penalties very harsh, and allow whistleblowers to collect a percentage of the fines.
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
If one were to accept the premise that it will eventually reach some unsustainable level, then it makes sense to start wondering what course of action an individual person/household can take to best prepare for such an event. Putting a
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Yes, for sure. At least in the US, it will be in the spice aisle at your local generic grocery store (Safeway, Kroger, Walmart, Meijer, etc), although keep in mind that it is a very small container - on a cost-per-weight basis you are goin
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The Wright brothers were involved members of an international “glider” community and, yes, they won the race to be the first to successfully strap an engine to one and fly it. But remember that the Wright brothers didn’t even try to patent
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Not sure if it was before or after this article was originally published, but Lego now has the habit of rereleasing sets if the secondhand price gets too high. It might still be a good investment, but you'd better sell if anything you
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
> using molds that cost $650,000, at a specialty machine shop Just because the mold was really expensive doesn't mean that the marginal cost of each unit created by it is more than a unit produced by a cheap mold. In many cases, th
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
Ha, the Motorola Museum tour should have been a mandatory annual event for all executives and high-level managers. “We build new things, we create entirely new product segments, but when markets start to mature we sell the division to someo
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
My understanding (from things I’ve read years ago and this may not be 100% correct) is that early on in the steam era, cartels were formed in the UK, with the help of royal charters. Mining, transportation, distribution, etc were all contr
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
THERE IS NO WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. EXCEPT WHEN OTHERWISE STATED IN WRITING THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND/OR OTHER PARTIES PROVIDE THE PROGRAM “AS IS” WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EITHER EXPRES
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by Kon-Peki 3y ago
The law very clearly allows the executive branch to forgive student loan debt for a variety of reasons, and has since the 1960s. In 2001, the Republican Congress (along with the Republican president) expanded the circumstances in which stu

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