Kon-Peki

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2071.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
My experience is that a large number of gas stations east of the Mississippi have an $8ish car wash that includes an underbody spray when you drive into the wash bay. Just get a few of those every winter, drive slowly when entering the was
2072.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
Motorola developed and launched Iridium. They may have lost their $X investment, but they also went out and sold mobile network infrastructure equipment in the developing world for $(X * Y).
2073.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
That might be interesting, but it might not. I've heard that digital thermometers intended for taking human temperatures are calibrated for a very narrow temperature range. And you can't really check them at home for accuracy wi
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
Every single digital infrared thermometer I've ever used thinks I'm dead. I once asked my doctor about it and she shrugged and said that I'm not dead.
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
Very informative article. I have two questions: 1. Is the multistep personal identification process listed in the court papers the same for all geofencing warrants? 2. How successful are these things in actual use? The process described s
2076.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
I'm glad you enjoyed it ;) I was just amusing myself; I moved to a semi-rural small town and bought a house that was twice the size for less money and can work remotely with gigabit internet. There's an Amazon cargo airport less
2077.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
> Massive perfect roads > easy access to freeways Come live here, it's easy to go elsewhere
2078.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
The publishers that sued them are asking for a seriously large amount of money and the deletion of all the books they've ever scanned. That's a pretty big deal, don't you think?
2079.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
IA is fighting a lawsuit over its pandemic digital book lending service - where they begged for a lawsuit by deliberately offering unlimited lending of scanned books. This is obviously something they must win, so it's going to get rea
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
There's no such thing as too old. Convincing other people of that fact gets harder and harder the older you get. I don't know what to tell you, it's a high-risk change you are contemplating. You can strike out on your own, b
2081.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
A state-wide system is a really nice thing. You are lucky!
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
That makes a big difference. It's almost like a Python 2 vs 3 situation. When I was using Foxy (2) last year, just about all of the material I found online was for 1 - and it doesn't work. It was the classic community shooting
2083.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
You have to "prove" that you live within a geographic boundary to use library services beyond the basic "come inside, browse and read" - because all property within that boundary is paying taxes. Most libraries are relat
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
> It's growth rate is 50%+ per year, by 2030 it should be selling 15-20 million vehicles per year. I can't wait until 2040, when Tesla is selling 5 billion vehicles per year! </snark> Really though, I don't thin
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
That would be the Dirksen Courthouse and Federal Plaza https://www.gsa.gov/historic-buildings/everett-m-dirksen-us-... You can see right through it: https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8784431,-87.6293
2086.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
I definitely have not driven one, let alone after 15-25k miles. But you know that the standard warranty for a Ferrari is 3 years with unlimited miles along with 7 years of free maintenance, right? And the extended warranty you can buy is
2087.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
I'm up in the north central US. People around here have started putting solar in an east-west orientation rather than due south. They are trading peak power generation for peak usefulness.
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
One feature of Swift Playgrounds that really doesn't get as much attention as it deserves is the Swift Playground Book [1] subscription: > You create content for the Swift Playgrounds app by writing playground books. Like traditiona
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
I think it is clear that desirability was already there. What they did was create a reward for jumping to the front of a line that you were already in. As everyone knows, the people most able to do this kind of thing are the people with th
2090.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
The point of a subsidy is to encourage behavior that wouldn't otherwise happen. If the subsidy is used up within 30 minutes, then no behavior was changed. Demand was pulled forward by a few weeks or a few months, which is not a good
2091.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
This article suggests that the US should issue as much 30-year debt as it can at current interest rates and to disfavor issuing short-term debt. The intent is for this move to act as an inexpensive insurance policy that will give the US so
2092.
by Kon-Peki 5y ago
Do you mean like solar-powered nighttime lighting where the "battery" is just a big rock and the "photocell" is a temperature drop because the sun went down? That might take a bit of engineering to work well, but it&#x27
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
Financial data is expensive because it is valuable. People make billions using it. No VC-backed Silicon Valley firm is going to leave that amount of consumer surplus on the table by selling cheap data.
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
Hello all, it appears that a large portion of this article is based on this study: https://www.clevelandfed.org/newsroom-and-events/publication... There is a lot of data and a lot of charts. This study has a data table
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
> We really, really need legislation that says advertised features can't require an ongoing subscription I recently bought a new car. All of the things on the window sticker that required a subscription said "(subscription req
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by Kon-Peki 5y ago
Financial support is absolutely a must-have. If the furnace/boiler goes out, most people can't "afford it", but do what they must to make do. So proactively replacing their equipment is not really viable without financ