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by ben1040 4y ago
$15,000 now.
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by ben1040 4y ago
It's been questioned whether that estimate is low, but the frequently cited LD50 for nicotine is 0.8-1 mg/kg, so by that metric a .7 mL Juul pod of pure nicotine would be more than a lethal dose. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by ben1040 4y ago
> Clearly the meaning of 'beta' has lost all meaningful definition I think that ship sailed when Gmail kept a “beta” label for five years.
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by ben1040 4y ago
I suppose to be precise, the new scanner is also a ScanSnap; the ScanSnap IX1600 (but ScanSnap is a Fujitsu brand name). https://www.fujitsu.com/global/products/computing/peripheral... I had been using the S1
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by ben1040 4y ago
I had a great workflow going on with Evernote and my ScanSnap. I'd scan mail and paperwork right away, and it'd be full text searchable in Evernote. Maybe once a week or so I'd go through the latest uploads and tag them or p
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by ben1040 4y ago
On that front, Google and iFixit are partnering, with iFixit selling OEM Pixel repair parts. https://www.ifixit.com/News/58542/working-with-google
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by ben1040 4y ago
>Hm, but in this concrete example Elon is also a shareholder, so he can buy for 25/share, right? Nope. The poison pill allows everyone but the one who triggered the provision to buy shares at a discount. From Twitter's press
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by ben1040 5y ago
Agree on this. My therapist had the list printed out and laminated. During sessions where I'd describe an anxious situation, they'd hand me the sheet and a dry-erase marker to check off all the distortions in play in that situati
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by ben1040 5y ago
>I think Scion did too, but could be wrong on that. Incidentally my first new car was a Scion and the sales process wasn’t nearly as smooth as they’d like you to think it was. The extent of the ”Pure Pricing” system was that a dealershi
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by ben1040 5y ago
>According to the complaint, the dealerships would often wait until the end of the hours-long negotiation process to sneak junk fees for add-on products and services into consumers’ purchase contracts, which often run as long as 60 pages
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by ben1040 5y ago
Site seems down. https://archive.ph/LmBlM
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by ben1040 5y ago
It explains exactly how it will work. They generate a tiny placeholder app package to replace the application itself on-device. This way it frees up the space used by the application data, without removing it altogether, so that the associa
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by ben1040 5y ago
This sounds like the continuation of Neverware, which they acquired at the end of 2020. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/12/google-acquired-neve...
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Missouri prosecutor declines to charge Post-Dispatch reporter(stltoday.com)
10 points by ben1040 5y ago|0 comments
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by ben1040 5y ago
>Sun, with Java, which hides SPARC vs x86 could have made the entire cloud happen a decade earlier. All they had to do was live their trademark tagline, "the network is the computer." Which I learned today was abandoned by Sun
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by ben1040 5y ago
This is the second time in as many days I've heard about this happening. Someone gets a new car, replaces the old one on their insurance, while accidentally retaining the prior car's coverages (or lack thereof). The other one I he
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by ben1040 5y ago
I worked for a vendor that charged $$$$$$$$$. The software itself was often not the biggest cost component, it was what it cost to get it working in accordance with federal/state/local labor laws, any relevant union contracts, an
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by ben1040 6y ago
Bought a Model Y last month. I did not opt for FSD. If the rumors come true and they offer it as a monthly subscription service, I might buy it for a few months at a time for summer road trips. Navigate on Autopilot would make a long drive
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by ben1040 6y ago
As someone who stands a decent chance of developing age related macular degeneration 30 years from now, I love any and all news like this.
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by ben1040 6y ago
Yep. It takes a sample every few hours, but you can also get a HRV measurement on demand by running a session in the Breathe app on the watch. It doesn't tell you anything about HRV in the Breathe app or that it took a new sample for y
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by ben1040 6y ago
Buying airline wine reminds me of how hotel chains have product catalogs; you could buy the Westin "Heavenly Bed" mattress or their branded soap/shampoo. I used to be on an 80% travel job for work and that stuff would've
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by ben1040 6y ago
Even Belkin is now a Foxconn brand at this point, but at least I have owned plenty of products built by Foxconn that haven’t burned my house down.
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by ben1040 6y ago
>There are apparently some DNA sequencer machines that only interface with older macs. I used to work in a Human Genome Project lab. Two of the 1990s workhorse DNA sequencing machines, the Applied Biosystems models 373 & 377, connec
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by ben1040 6y ago
During the recession in 2009, American Airlines needed liquidity and Citibank (who issued their cobrand credit card) came in. Part of the $2.9B package was Citibank buying $1B worth of air miles to give to their cardmembers. https:/&#
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by ben1040 6y ago
Was thinking the same. I pretty much destroyed a MacBook of mine when I was running to catch a train, tripped, and landed squarely on my backpack. I had bent the laptop slightly right in the middle from where I fell on it. That was a tier 4
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The Beauty Of Espresso In Slow Motion (1,000fps in 4K)(youtube.com)
1 points by ben1040 6y ago|0 comments
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by ben1040 6y ago
I’ve got two Aerons (one for my home office and one for my wife’s). One I bought new in 2012, and another I bought a year later for $300 from a used office furniture store. I found a manufacture date code sticker on the used chair and it wa
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by ben1040 6y ago
That’s really the kicker here. I blew two weeks running the two auctions, plus the time wasted in dealing with requesting a refund on eBay commissions because it was a fraudulent buyer. Ultimately I sold the iPad to a coworker for $75 less
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by ben1040 6y ago
I gave up on selling on eBay years ago when I listed an iPad, and twice in a row the auction was won by a scammer using a stolen eBay/PayPal account. My recollection of how the scam worked was that they messaged me after the sale to sa
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by ben1040 6y ago
I used to live in a neighborhood that had a few little spurs of discontinuous streets that were the same name as some half a mile away. So we’d get people lost in there all the time. I remember a Nextdoor post in my neighborhood where the a

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