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4y ago
> It was nowhere close to an airport. Its less than 10 miles from the nearest airport (San Gabriel Valley Airport).
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4y ago
Are you comparing premade beyond meat patties to raw ground beef? Beyond meat burgers are preseasoned which is why the sodium is higher. You could eat unseasoned ground beef, but it wouldnt be very good.
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4y ago
Was that $300M number ever confirmed by Blizzard/Activation? Your article cites mobilegamer.biz which cites Appmagic - those third party estimates are never going to be fully accurate and could be wildly off. Anecdotally, I played the
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4y ago
The peak of player numbers or the peak or revenue? It strikes me as entirely possible that the former peaked before the latter.
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4y ago
It certainly has something to do with class and wealth. I am very comfortable saying that someone in the top 1% of income is in the upper class, regardless of the fact that the top 0.1% or top 0.01% of income may have vastly more assets.
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4y ago
Define "most". I would assume evaporation is directly correlated with the surface area the water is spread on. Spreading water on farmland as opposed letting the water flow naturally into the Great Salt Lake is going to increase t
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4y ago
> I would nitpick that it needs to be correctly orientated such that it's perpendicular to the horizon This is of course true! I wish it didnt need to be said, but I work in radio and I have absolutely seen people install antennas i
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4y ago
> For example, I want to be sure my local devices uses my local NTP server. With IPv4 it's trivial, I just add an option to the DHCP server. With IPv6 I can't do that with RA, I have to use DHCPv6. But Android doesn't supp
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4y ago
In this case, its not true though - the gain on this sort of FM broadcast antenna should be uniform in all horizontal directions. The gain is from reducing power in the vertical plane (that is, less energy radiated up into space and down in
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4y ago
> The gain listed on antennas is really just telling you how directional it is, any gain above 0 means it has directionality over a perfect omni and must be oriented properly to take advantage of it. This is generally correct, but for mo
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4y ago
Notice just how little has been said by other top FTX/Alameda people? Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, Caroline Ellison, Sam Trabucco, etc? Those people are trying to not go to jail. Sam seems to be taking an approach of "they cant indict
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4y ago
This might interest you: https://github.com/paulc/hcloud-freebsd
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4y ago
> The only thing that is preventing higher management in software consultencies to have started massive efforts on replacing most software developpers with chatgpg is that it has only been released a couple days ago, and they have not or
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4y ago
It should be noted this service is only available 10PM-530AM, and only in the less traffic-y areas of SF: no downtown/market, mission, etc. https://getcruise.com/rides/
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4y ago
> Much of the privacy benefit to Caymen shell corps is readily available in Delaware or e.g. Montana, so only more exotic tax schemes require international companies. FTX.com was unavailable to US persons or companies, so being legally b
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4y ago
They aren't "in the Cayman Islands" any more than a VPN user is in the country of their VPN server though. In this case, setting up a shell company in the Caribbean was a convenient way to get around US regulation (or taxes,
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4y ago
> The interesting thing is that FTX had almost no retail customers in the US[1] This is only true if you believe the massive amounts of customers in the Cayman Islands, Virgin Islands, etc were not just US persons' shell companies.
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4y ago
As someone who has used Linux on the Desktop for 20+ years, I can say with pretty high confidence that open source flash players could not run more than a trivial amount of real world flash content at the end of its life cycle ~10 years ago
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4y ago
> (Sugarless) Milk tea is a powerful tool to fend off hunger. Milk has a significant amount of sugar, and if you are drinking the whole fat version, has nearly as many calories as an equivalent amount of soda.
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4y ago
For reference: I looked up prices at a local grocery store just now and Beyond products are in the $12-16/lb range. I've never understood how something that is almost entirely pea/rice protein + vegetable oil can be so expens
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4y ago
Looks like a special rockchip boot mode for when there is no suitable boot environment installed on one of the storage devices. https://wiki.kobol.io/helios64/maskrom/
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4y ago
> the yearly revenue might be in the say 10+k range. So the business itself at "10 P/E" would be a roughly 100k dollar business That would be P/S (price to sales), not P/E (price to earnings/profits). Not su
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4y ago
Anecdotal, but: I have found opening windows to be very effective at reducing C02 (as measured with a good sensor) and not very effective at changing the temperature even when it is significantly colder outside than inside. I live in a sing
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4y ago
They could have used 100kHz spacing in 42-50 MHz instead of the 200kHz spacing they use for 88-108 MHz. Wouldn't have sounded quite as good most likely, but still a substantial improvement from AM's 10 kHz channels.
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4y ago
Assets that produce income aren't acquired for free, so you are doing something (exchanging money for assets). That is absolutely productive.
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4y ago
Crypto com is based in singapore
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4y ago
Stablecoins
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> It's not the biggest What crypto blowup was larger? The dust hasnt settled on FTX yet, but it seems likely that at least $10B was lost.
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4y ago
> How do you plan on solving the problem of eating the bits of soy plants that humans can't eat? Is this really a problem? No one is suggesting we stop eating fruit just because we cant eat the leaves, branches, and roots.
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> A career waiter in a major American city can make over 100k, Yeah, but this is counter service we are talking about. The person making your latte is not making $100k/year. When I worked at a coffee place ~20 years ago, tips were a
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