Kon-Peki

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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
At the high level, it made huge sense to create a Toronto - Ottawa - Montreal -QC route. Up until a few months ago, the plan was to create a new link between Toronto/Detroit/Chicago and upgrade the links between Toronto/New Y
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
> Small diesels could be an option but they're harder to pull start for a given size. I once needed to jump-start a small marine diesel, many miles from land... There was a small lever that cuts compression. You have to get it spin
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Vindication like what Ohioans would have felt when Charles Dickens visited America and said that St. Louis was a nice enough place, but “not likely ever to vie, in point of elegance or beauty, with Cincinnati”?
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
The Pacifica and Sienna (and probably Odyssey as well) are absolute garbage for hauling crap. If that is what you are looking for, get a used one from the prior generation.
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
You can buy and sell them just like stocks. But each one has a maturity date. If you still own it on that date, it goes away and you get your $1000 deposited into your account, which you can use to buy a new one. Or not. If all you own ar
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Related: > The Morris Operation … is the location of the only permanent de facto high-level radioactive waste storage site in the United States and holds 772 tons of spent nuclear fuel. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Sure, give it a shot! Reindeer are the only deer where the male and female both grow antlers, so it could help. But… antlers fall off and regrow the next year, so you’d have to keep repainting… Also, when the males rut, they tend to scrape
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Look, I am definitely NOT making any suggestions here. But you know that debt collectors are using these “lawyer gig worker” platforms to outsource their court appearances, and handing full authority to those outsourced lawyers to do the f
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
Wait, hold on. In that Wii Mario game players could “bubble themselves” to avoid death. And then shake their controller to bring their bubble closer to an active player, who could pop the bubble and turn the “bubbled” player back into an
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
A few weeks ago I saw an article in the WSJ about a documentary that DFA had commissioned and put on YouTube [1]. At around 30 or 35 minutes in, it says that Wells Fargo created the first index fund for the pension at Samsonite in 1971. T
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
> do they feel like they’re doing valuable work? They answered that question in the article ;) However, for many hundreds of years - longer than the US has had a navy - there has been a belief that allowing sailors to put their hands in
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
The shuttle wingspan is 78 feet, and the narrowest section of the Intracoastal Waterway is >100 feet. You simply wouldn’t have to disassemble the shuttle to make it work. There are existing rules for wide loads. They’d just use them. T
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by Kon-Peki 1y ago
It is a shameful exercise in grandstanding, but the article cited by Ars about the difficulty in transporting the shuttle is, in my opinion, wrong. When they needed to move the shuttle-sized Muon G-2 magnet ring from Brookhaven to Fermila
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Minneapolis is in a river valley (the Mississippi River). From an airplane at cruising altitude the area will look fairly flat, but down at ground level there is a ton of 50-100 foot undulation. The elevation of your antenna is probably f
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> for every 22 people I pass, either walking on the street or in a packed subway car, statistically one of them is a millionaire—although, if I was a millionaire I’d never deal with the MTA again! There are a lot of ways to become a mill
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It’s nice, I like it. PS if the next question is whether I’d pay for it, the answer is likely no ;) A suggestion: I forget the HTML tag off the top of my head, but there is something you can do that turns off the keyboard autocorrect. Sett
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> You can buy a tub of 200mg caffeine pills for $3 The vast majority of caffeine that is available to add to products is extracted from coffee arabica. Either from the creation of decaf coffee or from other plant matter. IE caffeine is
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
You can do this in many ways, but you can also do it like this: Start a goroutine and use channels to communicate and coordinate reading/writing. Use defer in the goroutine.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> I had thought it was dead. HP tried to kill it. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 10 years ago they announced the EOL. This company - VMS Software Inc (VSI) was formed specifically to buy the rights and maintain/port it. So you
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> At many elite US universities the students now enter at a struggle because they have never read a novel cover to cover. Meh, who cares? My son is a freshman at a large public high school in suburban Chicago. Yes, it’s “honors” Englis
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
Hard to know if you are joking or serious. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_agent
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> In 1946, President Harry Truman enlisted Herbert Hoover to tour dozens of countries and coordinate a massive famine relief effort. For background, it's worth understanding that Hoover founded and ran the Commission for Relief in B
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
It’s not like there is a huge pool of teenagers who would be out taking these jobs if the law allowed them to take them. It makes very little sense at all, unless the next step after this is to make government assistance conditioned on fam
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
That’s a little less than 3 Düsseldorfs, for people who prefer to use the metric system.
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> and before, Otto Lilienthal invented the glider, i.e. he made the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality The Wright brothers were very aware of Lilienthal and his contributions. Wilbur Wright, speaking to the Society of Western En
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
CTA never did that; I don’t think they could if the wanted to. Metra did it, I’m 99.9% sure they stopped years ago. But yeah, there would be a person at the platform when the train arrived downtown with a piece of paper saying that the tra
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> then what? I don’t know, how about holding on to our phones and computers a little longer, and not replacing perfectly good copper-laden objects just because there is a newer, shinier version on the market?
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
> Big tech has always driven me mad with how they leverage their monoplies once they reach a certain size. This book explains everything: https://store.hbr.org/product/information-rules-a-strategic-... I’ve never se
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More than 1600 sex assault cases vs. Uber merged in far-reaching court ruling(latimes.com)
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by Kon-Peki 2y ago
People with large holdings are required to file with the SEC and you can search those records online going back to the mid 1980s. Someone could download a dump of the whole thing (the SEC has a link and updates it every night) and assemble

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