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bretpiatt
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You don't: https://www.pontooners.com/solar-powered-pontoon-boats/
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Backblaze files S-1 for IPO
(sec.gov)
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Nice to see someone living their research in their own life[1]. On a personal anecdotal parallel I went in and out of public and private schools growing up. My parents had to drive me to local high school campus so I could take geometry in
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Here's actual data: https://mcbroken.com/ As of my posting: 9.73% overall Currently Broken (all locations), 28.57% in New York, 18.75% in Seattle, 17.95% in Philadelphia, 17.74% in Houston, 16.36% in Dallas, 13.79% in
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Amazon “may be the largest unregulated pawnshop on the face of the planet.”
(twitter.com)
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Even if all 700 million subscribers are $0.99/month it is still an $8.3 billion per year business. That's enough to be #362 on 2021 Fortune 500. If you really drill into all the different numbers they release over time as investme
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Kaseya VSA limited disclosure DIVD CSIRT
(csirt.divd.nl)
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What's even worse with NCAA compensation is that it is limited to a scholarship and the value of that scholarship is tied to the cost of a given college or university. If an athlete is given a scholarship to an in-state public universi
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To super oversimplify this for explanation, let's say our quantum computer runs today with a clock cycle of 50 megahertz. The quantum computer is able to do certain tasks in fewer clock cycles but since we measure time in seconds a reg
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Death by Pokémon Go: The costs of using apps while driving (2017)
(papers.ssrn.com)
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I encourage you to go take a look at the larger 501(c)3 non-profit "aka. charities" in your area. Here's a few from San Antonio where I live: Haven for Hope (transformational campus to combat homelessness) https://
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I'm not a civil or aerospace engineer so this could be built into the safety factor models already. Reading the post had me wondering: If safety factor adds mass and additional mass requires additional force to accelerate is a lower sa
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Investments to Fight Polarization
(about.fb.com)
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With the B2 target use case of backup and archive data I suspect it's actually a good time to do it for their customer base (and it also then happens to be good for their engineering team too, awake and alert!).
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Jack 1st tweet as NFT selling for $2.5m
(twitter.com)
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6y ago
Another MUD (and MUX) alumni here, used to play a lot of 3 Kingdoms ( still up at http://3k.org/ ) using TinTin ( https://tintin.mudhalla.net/ ) and TinyFugue ( http://tinyfugue.sourceforge.net&#
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6y ago
Not exactly a dupe, Annual Letter != Annual Report.
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Where is the quote on "going away" from? I don't see it in the Atlassian blog post now so if it was there they edited to remove. Edit: found ZDNet article stating it https://www.zdnet.com/article/atlassia
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To my knowledge they didn't shut it down, PS4 architecture moved to standard x86 PC so no longer advanced vector units available through PlayStation that you couldn't get separately in an easier to work with way. This led to the r
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"Running on more than 1,700 PS3s that were connected by five miles of wire, the Condor Cluster was huge, dwarfing Khanna’s project, and it used to process images from surveillance drones. During its heyday, it was the 35th fastest supe
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Here's screenshot of 15 min spot price page https://ibb.co/YTzsqdj
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Real-Time System Conditions Last Updated: Feb 20, 2021 16:51:26 Frequency Current Frequency 60.007 Instantaneous Time Error -24.595 Consecutive BAAL Clock-Minute Exceedances (min) 0 Real-Time Data Actual System Demand 33772 Total System Cap
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Here's raw table data to look at 15 min spot price per mWh http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/html/20210220_real_time_spp Here's overall grid conditions in real-time http://www.ercot.com&#x
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I've pointed so many folks over the years to your guide. Keep up the great work. P.S. Each time I do refer folks over or see a thread like this gives me fond memories of the O'Connell labs and the opportunities we had to enjoy net
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2% of traffic doesn't mean that 2% of users only have access to IE6. It may limit which computing device they can use but not supporting IE6 isn't blocking millions from your site, it is blocking them from using your site on all o
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Part of function is layout. It isn't any more difficult to grab Bootstrap or some other out of the box framework that'll give a good consistent look than it is to go "no style".
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Coding Education Platform for Schools
(codehs.com)
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There's a reason I put family office in "quotes", your view may be the Wikipedia definition of family office with $100M+ of investment assets, that isn't the view of many "family offices" out there and not matc
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At the lower end of asset value range families often end up with a "family office" because the previous generation ran a family business which was passed down and now it's jointly owned by a number of family members. The opti
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I'm down to using Chrome for Google Properties that I use (Gmail, Drive, Meet), then Edge for regular browsing on my PC, and Firefox for browsing on mobile. It's a reasonable amount of work to manage your privacy these days even f
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