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901.
by berbec 8y ago
The percentage of that profit staying in the local area is smaller at a Starbucks.
902.
by berbec 8y ago
Starbucks is the giant profit machine it is because of the high percentage of customers who don't order a $3 coffee. Their lifeblood is the venti soy, extra whipped cream, Chai flavor shot, double expresso Frappuccino. The article spec
903.
by berbec 8y ago
This gets me every time I go. It staggers me the time spent per cup. My wife gets a venti soy frappa latte double expresso flavor shot monstrosity and I just want a coffee. My rebeliousness makes me order in a certain way, refusing to speak
904.
by berbec 8y ago
Mostly, yes. But market saturation isn't a hard cap on sales. I owned a few fast food restaurants. To gain sales you either added new customers (the market saturation cap), increase order frequency or increase order size. Obvious, but
905.
Nindendo Switch Anti-Piracy Measures(reddit.com)
2 points by berbec 8y ago|0 comments
906.
by berbec 8y ago
This changed with 8th-gen Intel. The low-powers are now dual-HT/quad/quad-HT i3/i5/i7 [1]/[2]/[3] 1: https://ark.intel.com/products/137977/Intel-Core-i3-8130U-Pr... 2: https:/&#
907.
by berbec 8y ago
You should tell Bezos that.
908.
by berbec 8y ago
> And it comes at the cost of having to process all of those pixels. Totally agree. I wish they had stopped at 200ppi phones. I don't understand the logic to spend cpu/gpu horsepower and mwh on a mobile display. I like my phone
909.
by berbec 8y ago
One can argue that some of the hosts on Fox already are Disney characters. Hannity/Malificant?
910.
by berbec 8y ago
1. Where's Manrick's wife??!!!11one1!!!?
911.
by berbec 8y ago
The price/performance of a couple 860 Evos in raid0 is hard to beat
912.
by berbec 8y ago
It should not be. Society should rightly shun you for it, but government should not make it illegal.
913.
by berbec 8y ago
Devil's advocate here: They believe the Palistinians are mistreated by Isreal. The USA has a (selective) history of not supporting oppressive regimes and there seems to be some hypocrisy here. That said, no one in that conflict is on t
914.
by berbec 8y ago
And fraudulently sell a service designed to secure said network from future intrusions. And when you were short on money, went back and set up a situation where they needed to give you more money. How are you rationalizing this as "kid
915.
by berbec 8y ago
"share cropper" "separate yet equal" "civic union" All label the upper/dominant class uses to show they are giving those below them everything they are entitled to, except actual equality, while firmly ke
916.
by berbec 8y ago
Same argument was made for homosexual "civil unions". If you can't call it marriage, the group denied that right is second class, full stop.
917.
by berbec 8y ago
My first hard drive upgrade was a 80MB HardCard - an ISA hard disk for my PC XT 286. I recall it cost clost to $1,000. There's always going to be the top tier storage that costs an arm and a leg - that just means two steps down gets af
918.
by berbec 8y ago
I think you have a misunderstanding of what you did. > the illegal nature of it all Fixed that for you.
919.
by berbec 8y ago
Cause that's what we need: Shiny, slow computers! Sign me up for a bakers dozen. I don't understand the fanboy defence of everything apple does, even the obviously stupid stuff. Upgrade the hardware is such a no brainer every hard
920.
by berbec 8y ago
Only in the right parts of Manhattan. I live on 78th street between 1st & York (0th) avenues. I am in a one square block fiber dead zone. :(
921.
by berbec 8y ago
It's hard to beat a $50 craigslist dual+ core box, a second nic and pfSense. I have a dell optiplex 780. I paid $15 for a second nic. It's great.
922.
by berbec 8y ago
Former franchisee here - absolutely not true. The vast majority of Domino's are owned by individual franchisees and almost none of them had a corporate car.
923.
by berbec 8y ago
No, plants crave Mountain Dew
924.
by berbec 8y ago
> it was ultimately Netscape's failure to respond to Internet Explorer 4, 5, and 6's speed, relative stability, and superior (though still poor) standards compliance that won the browser war The monoploist practice of bundling
925.
by berbec 8y ago
There's a reason we aren't discussing a shortage of plastic molders, but glass blowers. The article specifically mentions the important qualities of glass to research that plastics do not solve.
926.
by berbec 8y ago
More government research grants was likely a large part of it. The article mentions the heyday after WWII, referencing a flood of capital into the sciences.
927.
by berbec 8y ago
I think the confusion comes from not typing TPTB
928.
by berbec 8y ago
Hell, Windows is ad-supported now. Ever updated and get your free "gift" of Bubble Witch Saga 2: Electric Boogalo? I would pay double for an enterprise version of Win10 without that crap.
929.
by berbec 8y ago
My dad's version of Meltdown :)
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Udoo Bolt: Ryzen 4C/8T Maker Single Board Computer(kickstarter.com)
3 points by berbec 8y ago|0 comments

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