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by bmelton 4y ago
You're exactly right, but perhaps missed that the trade route you're describing is China to Los Angeles, which alone accounts for $132 billion in trade every year, and perhaps that cargo vessels allegedly account for 20-25% of ant
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I was going to suggest using this package a friend built (a long time ago) but looking at it, it does seem to expect there to a hub, and it probably expects the lights to be associated to that hub https://github.com/issackel
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Radio Shack was a placeholder for the more complicated and technical explanation. In reality, replacing boat parts is done by manufacturers and marine shops that are usually located in or near marinas, much of the time requiring someone to
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Always interested in claims like this. I'm not remotely trying to falsify or even challenge the claim, but given modern times, a lot of what Facebook has built has now been offloaded to open source packages, some of which have sprung u
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They are only 'very slow' when compared to aircraft, which are kind of poor vehicles for transporting cargo in the first place. A dirigible flying with the jetstream is almost twice as fast as a cargo ship doing the same. I think
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Having actually sailed, I can attest to a couple of things: Commercial-grade sailboats are filled with gremlins, and the ocean is enormous. I can count on zero hands the number of times I've been on a sailboat where everything worked p
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Not quite as effective, but even easier is that you can get a back-flow preventer valve (approximately $10 worth of metal) that allows the hot water to push into your cold water (but not the reverse) As I understand it (and I am NOT a plumb
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Build / not build wasn't particularly what I was responding to. I think it's probably a good idea to build. Even if I didn't want to have it as part of my daily commute, there are still plenty of times it'd be usefu
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I'm sure that works splendidly for some, but I used to commute into "the city" and while the commute itself wasn't particularly bad (thanks, Kindle!) it's still time spent commuting that isn't spent with my wif
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So I just started on this a week and a half ago, but thanks to a recent layoff, I'm able to churn through it a little more quickly than I thought I might be able to, and I don't anticipate it ever making any real money, so I thi
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Marty Schwartz on Youtube is pretty decent for beginners. Having a visual reference is nice, and he goes at it super slow-paced. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNSaXAe8tyg
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By 'outdoor trousers' I assume you mean what hikers/backpackers/winter-folk would refer to as a 'hard shell?' Just came back from an exceptionally cold vacation to Iceland and realized that despite years of bac
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"Paid for" does not necessarily mean "good" just as "expensive" doesn't necessarily mean "bad." I'm not trying to opine on the Canadian health care system, as I've never experienced it
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> Well, if the shoe fits... It doesn't > venues are absolutely entitled to a cut on any ticket resales No I don't. Moreover, "in perpetuity" is a red herring. > you assume people reselling tickets is a problem N
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You have mistaken me for a crypto-absolutist, as well as your dismissals as real. Resales already happen now, so your "money forever and ever" counter-argument isn't particularly persuasive, and if there are going to be resal
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I listed the benefits in my previous message that you have apparently not read now. From another comment you've made "I stopped making an effort [appreciating a pro-blockchain point of view] five-seven years ago for many obvious r
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> And telling people "but it's blockchain so it's good actually" I did literally the opposite of that when I said "I don't know of any reason that a blockchain based offering couldn't find itself compet
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tbf, it's not "my" idea, there are just a couple of NFT-based ticket sales startups that exist and I am aware of them. The main benefit I would see from the venue's perspective is in both scalping prevention and achievin
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It makes sense for things that the contract can control. If the contact enforces that when $tokenAmount is sent to $address, $asset is sent to $depositor. If and when more things exist on the blockchain, and/or more physical institutio
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For Solidity-based tokens, learn Solidity to be able to know the syntax for creating your contract. After developing the contract, use something like Truffle Suite to validate that the contract is good, and add a testing suite around it.[1]
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I believe the courts have decided in error.
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Oh, that should have read "Maryland to Albany"
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I've yet to figure out how it's reasonable for the government to deny us our fourth amendment rights and then lease them back to us for $78, but I suppose I'm equally shocked at how inexpensive it is to violate those rights s
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It depends a ton on where and when. I had "The State of New York" as a client once, which required commuting from Maryland to Annapolis and staying for the week. It's about a 5 hour drive, vs a 1.5 hour flight, which seems li
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Bad race condition protection or trying to impose a sense of gravitas through loading times?
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Tickets are transferable. Not-banned persons can give them to banned persons.
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Apologies for failing to quote the entirety of relevance. My statement isn't that they aren't a non-profit, but that their status as a non-profit isn't particularly suitable for inclusion in a case of "dark corners"
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> US Football league NFL, are "non-profit" This is not true now, and arguably never was (at least not with the intention it's generally applied). The NFL relinquished its tax exempt status in 2015, but even before that the
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I'm still highly critical of what Musk is doing (again, without knowing the 'why') but something that seems important and is going unnoticed is that while the previous administration's actions were just as arbitrary and
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I'll take the hit here. I thought electric vehicles were a really dumb idea. Too many problems to be solved for. Range. Charging. Depreciation. Getting people to switch. All of the other infrastructure. Now it's what everyone does

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