OrangeMango

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by OrangeMango 7y ago
It would be interesting to overlay a map of high service levels on top of railroads and universities. Naturally, the backbone of the Internet has to travel through rural areas to reach urban centers, but universities (especially research u
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http://www.crsp.com/files/Big_Picture_2019.pdf Look at that. US Stocks with dividends reinvested: 6 million dollars. US Stocks without dividends reinvested: 200 thousand dollars.
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There were reports a few years ago that Google Translate had gotten very bad and the speculation was that the training input data was culled from Internet sites that themselves had used Google Translate to do translation.
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
If you use your home computer to RDP into your work computer, what would be the correct answer to the question? The "work" occurs on the company-owned computer, but you are typing on the keyboard of your personally-owned computer
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Yes, that is what I had meant. I should have been more clear. I should also point out that if you have to fly through Chicago frequently, you must know that disruptions anywhere in the US can have a ripple effect and cause problems at O&#x
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
Couple of years ago there was a professional football player that took an Uber from O'Hare to Buffalo, NY for just under $1000 to make it practice on time. Anyway, this guy could have taken a Megabus to from Chicago to Cincinnati for $
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
I watched the Apollo 11 documentary from this year that was made with the recently recovered audio and video (it was great!). I had no idea that Armstrong was talking to mission control the entire time he was exiting the lunar module and c
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
> I imagine some revenue sharing scheme could entice some of the states to send some water. No need, there is a loophole. Bottled water companies are allowed to pull as much water from the watershed as they want and export it. Michigan
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But they do offer a small education discount ($50 or so on the cheaper hardware) and almost always have a "Back to School" promotion in which they also throw in some sort of accessory for free. For the last two years (at least), t
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
The price is very important, but so is the act of minimizing electronic waste. I've personally collected so many gadgets and their associated accessories that I don't know what to do with them. It is a fair criticism to say that
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
> Just spitballing here but it makes me think there should just be an option to rent a dinged up, scratched up car for cheaper. Here you go https://www.rentawreck.com/
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
But then it's a $50, $60, $70 computer. (This has always been my complaint anyway. The Pi Zero works great with any of the USB chargers you already own too many of, but the rest of the Pi line needs higher-spec chargers that most peop
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
I got a series 4 watch as a father's day gift and went swimming the following weekend. My watch went insane (it tried to dial 911 about 5 times and wouldn't accept any input to try to stop it) and then died. I took it to my loca
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
I wonder about the actual workability of this scheme. The cities mentioned cover a large area and have things like buildings and airports. Due to the airports, you can't fly too high without air traffic clearance. You can't fly
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
What else can you get for $3k per year? I was seriously thinking about revisiting the days of my old G5 cheesegrater, but once I saw the price... I just can't justify it. EDIT - I just thought about it some more. Apple is saying this
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by OrangeMango 7y ago
> Consider: Texas permits homeschooling and has effectively zero oversight. My children are homeschooled in a major metro area not in Texas. We also have effectively zero oversight. But what does it signify? We have an interest in the
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That's exactly what the IRS used to do (I used it for my after-school job in high school in the 1990s): > The IRS may be saving money as a result of its decision to shut down its free TeleFile program for filing taxes returns by pho