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by chiph 5y ago
I think there is a feedback loop involved. Someone wanting to sell their home will likely look at the Zestimate to help them set an asking price. And then tack on a few thousand for negotiating room. Zillow monitors the offer amounts by po
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by chiph 5y ago
Rent vs. buy back then is a lot tougher decision than it is now - If you turned your old rental unit in for the latest model because it was significantly faster, chances were you would have to rewrite all your software. Which was the big ad
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by chiph 5y ago
This couple used Leaf modules to create a 48v pack for their vintage bus. 3 years later their bus construction is done and they're on the road, and the batteries are doing fine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gHoNT3E6
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by chiph 5y ago
What I'm waiting on is for the Wall Street firms to decide that being a landlord isn't for them. Either because the margins aren't what were predicted, they don't want to be in the handyman business making repairs the te
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by chiph 5y ago
WoW player since 2008, and I unsubbed this year just before my 6 month subscription was about to be paid because of all the "shenanigans". I too am watching what happens at Blizzard carefully. I hope they get their act together. I
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by chiph 5y ago
We had one woman in my graduating comp-sci class. One. And she had been dating someone seriously for a few years. We guys had better luck dating Early Childhood Education majors, which is supported by their chart.
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by chiph 5y ago
This is one reason why I buy CDs from discogs.com - because I can specify which pressing to buy, and avoid the ones that have been remastered 2 or 3 times. I will also buy from Mobile Fidelity (mofi.com), who sell audiophile heavyweight vir
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by chiph 5y ago
> Another relevant factor is that the older technology used on the IBM keyboard's controller PCB requires more power to operate than newer keyboards. I ran into this problem with my original Model M. All the PS/2 to USB convert
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by chiph 5y ago
The other advantage to having some cash post-hurricane is in getting your roof repaired. Roofing contractors will put customers paying with cash at the top of their list.
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by chiph 5y ago
Hurricane season started in the southeastern US on June 1st. It's not uncommon for folks to have a few hundred in cash for when the power goes out and the credit card terminals aren't working.
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by chiph 5y ago
Put a flat section on top of the airship, and land helicopters (or tilt-rotors) on it. Take the passengers (and fuel + supplies) to the airship, don't take the airship to the passengers.
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by chiph 5y ago
I was there in the mid-80's. We had a 100m tall microwave tower on base. The Luftwaffe pilots from Flugplatz Pferdsfeld would fly loops around it in their F-4 Phantoms during joint exercises. The US pilots had been told they would rec
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by chiph 5y ago
Going that fast requires significantly more energy. You start to worry about things like the cross section of the aircraft (which is why fast plane commonly have knife-edge wings) and smooth airflow over the fuselage. One of the advantages
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by chiph 5y ago
Former USAFE member here. You weren't hearing a sonic boom, just the normal engine noise. If I recall correctly, we would do supersonic training off the coast of Spain. Flying supersonic over populated areas would do things like break
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by chiph 5y ago
One of the good details about the original B5 was how the Starfury fighters used thrust correctly to orient themselves.
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by chiph 5y ago
> Six hours to send a small image. Imagine the price of exclusive use of a transatlantic telex line for that length of time! Teleprinters back then commonly ran at 50 baud, so a 400x300 dot photo would take a little more than 40 minutes
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by chiph 5y ago
In the general case, maybe. Not in his specific case. There is probably a mortality study of filtered vs. unfiltered smoker preferences.
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by chiph 5y ago
Those smokers that live to 85 or 90? They're the edge cases. Most do not make it that far, like my grandfather. He smoked Chesterfields, just like the ad with Ronald Reagan in Cory's article, only the unfiltered kind.
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by chiph 5y ago
A good example of this was the recreation of Star Trek: The Next Generation in Blu-Ray resolution. The main scenes were still available on film and could be rescanned. But all the special effects (phaser beams, transporter sparkles, etc) h
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by chiph 5y ago
Or broadcasting. No pesky national rules regarding power output or content.
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by chiph 5y ago
As the saying goes - time in market beats timing the market. I have a friend with a wealthy father who has never bought even a single bond share. He has stayed invested in equities his entire career and into retirement. He was already reti
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by chiph 5y ago
Given what it costs to station troops outside the country (including an aircraft carrier with its air wing), there has to be a strong reason to keep them there for 70+ years. And it's not because we needed to maintain an occupying for
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by chiph 5y ago
Even so, the proportion of refunds paid because someone requested one, vs. the number of cards that were lost/destroyed in the laundry/fell through the cracks means that they could keep some fractional amount on hand for those pot
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by chiph 5y ago
That depends on if you're getting JSON data from someone you don't quite trust. For internal uses, sure. If a process sends you bad JSON you go talk to the team responsible. But if someone outside your organization is sending you
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by chiph 5y ago
I agree. I had 20TB extra space on my NAS, so I spent $100 on an entry-level SSD to do plotting. 200 plots later, it's well-used, but not close to dead. I'll probably put my FFIV game files on it to get faster load times. In the
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by chiph 5y ago
The Tesla gigafactory in Nevada is mostly run by Panasonic. I expect that there is little domestic production there because Toyota & Honda haven't fully embraced EVs yet. https://na.panasonic.com/us/whatmovesus
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by chiph 5y ago
This probably is their project management system. As someone else pointed out, a request for an internal tool is going to be sorted behind something that is revenue-generating.
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by chiph 5y ago
I've been impressed with Waymo from watching JJRicks videos. In this video the Waymo vehicle gets cut-off by a driver changing lanes in front of them, and it handled it correctly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO3DxyT
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by chiph 5y ago
Yes, relying on auto/default or cable-select was basically rolling the dice, so far as whether it would work reliably. The only way to get things to not-fall-over was to manually set the master/slave jumpers. And as was mentioned
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by chiph 5y ago
IH-35 has been under continuous construction since .. the 90's? Hindsight being what it is .. they should have built a new 8-lane highway a few miles to the West rather than attempting to widen it multiple times (with all the bridge re

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