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by anamax 4y ago
They're going to pick the wrong connector. USB-C has a very fragile piece in the equipment (the tongue) while the wire-side is quite robust. Lightning is very robust equipment-side and the wire-side is less fragile than the fragile pi
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by anamax 4y ago
If those things happen, Guatemala will not be better off than "poor in the US". More to the point, those are unlikely possibilities (in a given lifetime), while the negative effects of unlimited immigration on US poor are pretty m
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by anamax 4y ago
> I worked for a midsize company that required the CEO be named on all patent applications. Unless the CEO actually was one of the inventors, that is grounds to invalidate the patents and there may be other consequences.
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by anamax 4y ago
> The benefits of immigration have been addressed many places. Are immigrants fungible? If not, then why is it wrong to discriminate? > In any case, everything would reach an equilibrium in the end. Which is down for some people. &qu
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by anamax 4y ago
>> That said, it's important in any moral discussion to attribute immorality to someone with whom you disagree. > This kind of comment does not belong here. It's okay to call people racist and stupid but what I said is in
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by anamax 4y ago
The in-car GPS systems are a disaster (because the car manufacturers see them as "cash after sale") but the separate/dedicated GPS units are pretty good. The updates and traffic information is, or at least was, free.
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by anamax 4y ago
Better yet, ask about those things WITHOUT being judgmental.
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by anamax 4y ago
> Many people in the US are reluctant to have open borders because of racism. Or, because they understand lifeboats. Or, because they know that open borders screw people on the bottom of the economic ladder. Or, because they ask "wh
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by anamax 4y ago
Rick Beato claims that there are thousands of unreleased albums where the artist couldn't afford distribution. Or, the artist couldn't afford to pay the engineer or producer and the master is held hostage, waiting for a payment t
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by anamax 4y ago
Your link points to an argument for mask INeffectiveness. There is a comment that there's another way to look at the data that might show mask effectiveness, but the relevant analysis wasn't done.
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by anamax 4y ago
> This would be only true if businesses weren't posting record profits. But they mostly are. Mostly? Source needed. I ask because a lot of businesses are going under, which is inconsistent with "record profits."
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by anamax 4y ago
My problem is a bit different. I have a healthy amount of solar but don't want to buy batteries (even in truck form). The solar needs AC from the mains for some reason. Is there some way to hookup a small generator to make the solar ha
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by anamax 4y ago
My problem is a bit different. I have a healthy amount of solar but don't want to buy batteries (even in truck form). The solar needs AC from the mains for some reason. Is there some way to hookup a small generator to make the solar ha
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by anamax 4y ago
States also charge tax on gas. For example, California charges both $0.539 per gallon AND sales tax. The latter varies based on city/county/district and is charged on the "after per-gallon tax" price. The total sales ta
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by anamax 4y ago
The hard part is NOT building such a site. The hard part is getting users. It's almost impossible to get funding for something like this without first demonstrating that you can get users where "demonstrating" means "al
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by anamax 4y ago
> The requirement I have is that it needs to be production-ready. At what scale?
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by anamax 4y ago
> requiring people to throw out their cigarette lighters. When they could buy cigarette lighters once they pass through security. I thought that the reason for banning outside cigarette lighters was that the TSA folk could not distinguis
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by anamax 4y ago
> a 26-week old fetus is considered to be a bundle of cell "For 26 weeks of gestation, the percentages were significantly higher with a survival rate of 81.4% and survival without impairment rate of 75.6%." https://w
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by anamax 4y ago
> The secret to America's success has always been immigration, Actually, no. Every few decades, American has mostly shut-down immigration for a few decades. The last opening was in 1965.
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by anamax 4y ago
A secret ballot is NOT the only means. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_check
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by anamax 4y ago
> I get to pay even higher taxes because my locality actually provides things like sound education. Which your area benefits from....
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by anamax 4y ago
Is there still the dead-zone just north of Sand Hill Road on 280? (I "remember" a dead-zone in Portola Valley and/or Woodside.) For those of you outside Silicon Valley, yes, that Sand Hill Road. Interstate 280 is the best a
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by anamax 4y ago
Why would you expect to see a profitable bot? Look at it from the other side. Suppose that I have a consistently profitable bot. What good does it do me to let you know about it? If I sell it to you, the version that you run will cut into
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by anamax 4y ago
Prop 13 keeps California's property tax revenues stable. This is especially true/important when property values crash, as they do every 10 years or so. (It's starting now as people start to realize that mortgages are going u
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by anamax 4y ago
Okay, so maybe # of characters and index of the word that starts and ends with the specified character and has that many letters. That reduces almost every English word to 4 bytes. However, it might be possible to do the same trick with pai
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by anamax 4y ago
Did he say that he faced discrimination by whites? As to your assumption that Hispanics don't discriminate, you haven't spent much time with them. (They aren't as racist as Indians or Chinese, but that's a low bar.)
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by anamax 4y ago
A majority of construction workers in San Jose, CA are Hispanic, as are the construction companies. Maybe they discriminate against Blacks. Maybe they also discriminate against folks whose ancestors came from a diferent country. (Do Mexic
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by anamax 4y ago
Futures is just how farmers could pay to produce this extra 10%, assuming that everyone involved believes that farmers could deliver at less than the "raised" amount. Futures doesn't address any of the "how do they actua
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by anamax 4y ago
The same can be said about chemical, civil, and mechanical engineering, yet ...
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by anamax 4y ago
Binance.US didn't list UST until fairly recently. Before then, Binance.US had several other "stable coins", the most popular being Binance USD and Tether. (Binance.US also has a dollar asset which is supposedly FDIC insured.

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