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by beezle 2y ago
Hard to feel sympathy for industry that left to its own devices requires a 50% discount to sell in store, near 40% to get to Amazon/BN etc, and for bricks and mortar, requires you to accept returns that end up as a loss.
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by beezle 2y ago
Interesting article. I have a book still in print, very niche subject. First released in 2013, Amazon mysteriously stoppped stocking it last May, even with recent annual sales of 150-250/yr. Life time print sales are over 1,300 with
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by beezle 3y ago
From earlier response, the HOA I mentioned was along Long Island Sound so much more northerly. Our trees were a good 30+ years old. They were somewhat sheltered from high winds, especially when younger, by the nature of the buildings (two s
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by beezle 3y ago
Southern CT near the sound. Yes it would happen with some of the wide, low branches. Don't get me wrong, it wasn't like popcorn, maybe once every other year.
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by beezle 3y ago
Was on HOA board where we had a road with quite a few of these trees. They were a fortune to prune because of the numerous small branches at higher reaches. As a board, we actually hoped they would come down in storms so we could replace wi
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by beezle 3y ago
Maybe part of the problem is paying people 200-500K for this kind of job? Is it written in stone at all products require that kind of "skill" to function?
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by beezle 3y ago
Makes me wonder whether Google is scanning all photos for text and making use of the data found.
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by beezle 3y ago
"Amid higher costs throughout the economy, consumers have begun shifting to lower-margin goods compared with higher spending on discretionary items earlier in the post-pandemic period." If Family Dollar is not lower margin I'
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by beezle 3y ago
A better middle ground at this stage could have been requiring TikTok to daily display to users (and require they confirm/accept) a message stating the indirect CPC ownership, the risk to their personal info, and the serious risk of se
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by beezle 3y ago
Inspection station in my state made comment to me that EVs are failing inspection for rusted brake components because of their heavy use of regen. Add to cost of ownership.
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by beezle 3y ago
Funny story from today while briefly on hold for a support rep. Got the standard 'we'll call you back if you want blah blah' followed by - I kid not - "you're estimated wait time for the next representative is 0.58
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by beezle 3y ago
They offered the 80387 co-processor a few years after the 80386 came out ref https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X87#80387
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by beezle 3y ago
A better analogy might be if a tire company could only sell its tires through the Ford/GM "store"/dealership. Nobody would put up with that.
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by beezle 3y ago
A shame that is what constitutes "success" in the business world today.
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by beezle 3y ago
It really depends upon the dosage. If you get completely baked, of course you aren't going to be very productive. However, a lower end dosage can have a relaxing effect and sometimes stimulate ideas that might not be considered otherwi
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by beezle 3y ago
Likewise, high school football cheerleaders '2 bits, 4 bits, 6 bits a dollar all for XXXXX stand up and holler"
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by beezle 3y ago
I used talk on at TOPS-20 Decsystem 2060 back in the stone age
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by beezle 3y ago
From Vermont reporting - "Meanwhile, part of the money will be used to modernize the Essex Junction campus. Officials say the upgrades will enable the Vermont operation to become the first high-volume manufacturing facility capable of
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by beezle 3y ago
Put me in the camp of google and the rest are horrible for all but very specific/unique technical terms, ie weak neutral currents. Anything that is more "everyday life" is an exercise in futility sorting through trash, often
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by beezle 3y ago
Physical Review X is open access so you can get the original paper for no charge at https://journals.aps.org/prx/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevX.13.04... Though I have a physics background, this is niche stuff.
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by beezle 3y ago
Because I should not have to pay VAT
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by beezle 3y ago
I was just looking at the pricing... EUR 499 including vat and shipping.. but $520 to US, not including shipping?
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by beezle 3y ago
My mom was quite the seamstress back in the day. Clothes, drapes, slipcovers, whatevers. She had a Pfaff circa 1960. That thing was a tank and it stored in its own furniture cabinet when not in use.
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by beezle 3y ago
I'm working on a new build to replace my 11 yr old system. Monitors are a vexxing issue as I have competing needs - general/coding use and photo editing. As I'm working with 40+MP images, I'd like to have a screen with a
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by beezle 3y ago
Academia is usually the last to wake up and smell the coffee on any trend run too far. Marcy should fight back with legal action against both the journals and those making preposterous claims which defame him.
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by beezle 3y ago
Looks like somebody made a booboo
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by beezle 3y ago
"Once in its post-main sequence phase the Hawking star becomes fully convective and slowly swells over multiple Gyr to about 10 R⊙ and about 10 L⊙ causing them to appear as a sub-subgiant star, joining a relatively sparse population on
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Grad school number cruncher shakes up the world of bond quants(bloomberg.com)
1 points by beezle 3y ago|0 comments
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by beezle 3y ago
Well most in the market are now on the other side of that bet but even argument's sake and say it is true, there is a fairly good chance that the bond you buy today will be better than the one n months from now because the consensus wa
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by beezle 3y ago
Hmmm. 7yr auction today: 95.3B tendered, 39.0B accepted. 2yr auction yesterday: 136.9B tendered, 54.0B accepted 20yr auction on 11/20: 41.2B tendered, 16.0B accepted Seems like there is quite a bit of demand to me. (edit to add 20yr

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