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by ac29 4y ago
> It’s often much easier and more enjoyable to increase your pay 25% than it is to decrease your spending 25%. It should of course be noted that you need to increase your pay by 25%/(1-tax rate) to have the same effect as reducing s
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by ac29 4y ago
Just add ?useskin=timeless to the end of any wikipedia URL
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by ac29 4y ago
Just to clarify for people reading this comment: This: >10dbi / 12 dbd log periodics for 2.4ghz are available off the shelf [I assume this is actually talking about 12dBi and 10dBd which are equivalent] combined with this: >You’d
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by ac29 4y ago
The California Zephyr goes from the Bay Area to Chicago every day and its a ~2 day journey.
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by ac29 4y ago
> AMD is growing Growing market share maybe, but revenue and profits were down in the most recent quarter.
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by ac29 4y ago
> Intel made, what 10 billion in PROFITS last year? With a "B". And times have been semi-lean the last few years. There are multiple measures of profit, but none of them are $10B. Per the 10-K for 2022, Intel's operating i
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by ac29 4y ago
>The only reason I can see for restaurants to do this is that the minimum wage here is $15/hour, and if tips alone don't make that rate, the restaurant pays out of pocket because it is illegal for them to pay below minimum wage
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HiFive Pro P550(sifive.com)
6 points by ac29 4y ago|2 comments
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by ac29 4y ago
Its been illegal in California since 2008
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by ac29 4y ago
It is illegal for a tax preparer to share your tax data without consent. I have certainly used tax software in the past that asked for this consent, though.
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by ac29 4y ago
Take that with a huge grain of salt since LinkedIn claims to have significantly more than 100% of the US workforce using their site (191 million US LinkedIn members versus an official US workforce size of 165 million).
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by ac29 4y ago
While 28.9% sounds like a shocking number, it was only a few dozen additional deaths. A few additional concerns with the paper: -The authors made no effort to try and determine if any of the people who died had seen the show, or even had he
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by ac29 4y ago
~$73B, but profits, margins, and cash on hand decreased in the most recent quarter
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by ac29 4y ago
Not if the company is profitable. Even for unprofitable companies that sounds high.
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by ac29 4y ago
> While some economic indicators are bad already, the real issue is core inflation not giving up. Inflation was negative last month. Core CPI was above zero, though (0.3%). https://www.bls.gov/cpi/latest-numbers.htm
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by ac29 4y ago
> If you learn British English as a second language, that’s the accent you have. That doesnt seem to hold true for the ESL accents almost anywhere in the world, though. Most people's accents sound like their native tongue.
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Californians harvest water during historic storms(theguardian.com)
4 points by ac29 4y ago|0 comments
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by ac29 4y ago
Most of the carbon is going to end up as CO2 in the air, though.
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by ac29 4y ago
> I imagine a lot of the performance of the M1 and thereafter is a direct result of moving the memory closer to the die I'm not sure why this Apple marketing point gets repeated so often. The M2 has the same memory support as curren
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by ac29 4y ago
It should be noted that according to government estimates, 88% of new homes were already built with gigabit access prior to this law (which seems impressive as an American!). The new rule is expected to move that number to 98%.
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by ac29 4y ago
Silicon Valley is expensive, but not so expensive that $900k/year is only middle class. That's $40k/month or so after taxes.
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by ac29 4y ago
> In my wallet I currently have a couple hundred in US currency from years 2003 to 2014 Confusingly enough the year on US Bank Notes is not when they were printed. For example, the current series is "2017A", which started being
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by ac29 4y ago
The best greens I've had come from a vertical farm. Its too bad - I otherwise think its a wasteful, inefficient technology. I suspect the high quality didnt really have much to do with the vertical-ness of the farm though, and could li
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by ac29 4y ago
>The result is increasingly people facing the dilemma where the best economic option for their family is for them to spend 3+ hours of their day commuting to an urban core from an outlying area they can just barely afford to rent in. And
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by ac29 4y ago
> Nitrates are required of US manufacturers BY THE FDA for food safety Are you sure? I looked through the "uncured" bacons at a local grocery store online and while most of them have nitrates from celery powder, one of them is
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by ac29 4y ago
The credits also reference Pocket PC: CString theCredits[50]; theCredits[0] = "POPULOUS"; theCredits[1] = "FOR THE"; theCredits[2] = "POCKET PC";
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by ac29 4y ago
Considering VW owns Audi, Bentley, Porche, and Lamborghini they obviously do sell upmarket cars.
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by ac29 4y ago
Thats basically the goal of the postmarketOS project: https://postmarketos.org/
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by ac29 4y ago
The sort of person applying to work at FB probably has a rather better opinion of them than the average HN commenter.
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by ac29 4y ago
I have wondered about this myself - does keeping 2 copies of the same data on a single flash-based drive actually increase reliability? Or is the flash controller going to end up combining the two writes into the same block?

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