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by cronix 5y ago
> Why aren't the shareholders flagging this? They probably agree that it's better to own the building you are currently leasing (as per the article) to reduce costs and get an additional gain from any appreciation. It's
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by cronix 5y ago
And fast food. McDonald's holds over $30B in real estate. https://www.business.com/articles/mcdonalds-business-model/
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by cronix 5y ago
> you just have to buy personal mortgage insurance if you're below 20% down. You end up paying more in the long run when you add on PMI. I think they are internally conflating "should be avoided" with "can't.&quo
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by cronix 5y ago
At least they won't be winning any lawsuits over coffee that is hot enough to cause burns.
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by cronix 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/me9u5s/official_w...
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by cronix 5y ago
I went to Oregon Institute of Technology, in Klamath Falls, OR., in the early 90's. Much of the campus was run on geothermal. From heating the water to heating the dorm rooms and campus buildings, which was great as KF experiences some
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by cronix 5y ago
It was really the Illudium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator that was Marvin's draw.
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by cronix 5y ago
How many Amazon Ring doorbells do you walk/drive past every day without realizing it?
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by cronix 5y ago
Visit in incognito mode and don't sign in. Brand new, fresh youtube, ready to be corrupted again.
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by cronix 5y ago
They censor/remove apps based on political viewpoints of whatever is currently en vogue all the time, even in the US. We have already accepted this slope while it was being used against one political faction in a recent election. Every
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by cronix 5y ago
After 8000 years of erosion, it's amazing they can even still find tool marks.
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by cronix 5y ago
I think the whole dream/goal of building a self driving car on top of a system completely designed for manual human interpretation and input is asinine, and that's before you even consider the complexity of adding other humans man
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by cronix 5y ago
Nike: https://travelswithelle.com/budgeting/nike-employee-store-be...
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by cronix 5y ago
The first ones are, if you go by the popular definition of those born between 1981 and 1996. Others are turning 25 and most somewhere in between. There's a 15 year difference between the start and end of the "generation." &gt
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by cronix 5y ago
You might look into Eric Weinstein and his Embedded Growth Obligation (EGO) hypothesis. Everything in modern society has been set up expecting and relying on exponential growth . Everything from attending college, to law firms, to doctors,
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by cronix 5y ago
Is recreational cannabis somehow different than medical cannabis? Why specifically mention "recreational" at all instead of just cannabis itself? If you're taking it medically and in a comparable quantity/frequency, some
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by cronix 5y ago
Swatting only has steps 2 and 3 to worry about.
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by cronix 5y ago
You're welcome. I'd highly recommend watching the interview I posted, as well as any interview you can find with him or Thomas Drake, who Binney mentions. Both of their handlings have been cited by Snowden as one of the main reaso
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by cronix 5y ago
Extremely out of my league here, but it seems logical to me that if there is a mutation, it only initially happens in a single organism. Like a single specific bear might mutate, but certainly not all of them at the same time. That organism
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by cronix 5y ago
Saying "he died" is kind of a curious way to frame things, too. "Died" offers a completely different connotation than "killed."
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by cronix 5y ago
Bill Binney (Tech Director/NSA) wasn't promoted. He quit just after 9/11 after He leaked that we had all of the intel to discover and piece together 9/11 in our systems, but the administration was prioritizing bulk colle
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by cronix 5y ago
> If a bunch of people end up moving out of the state over this then the TX GOP gets what they want. It would be more interesting to me to find out people who would actually quit/leave vs saying they will. I'd bet in actuality
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by cronix 5y ago
Absolutely, for people who do not know what they are doing. Anything with high voltage capacitors is dangerous unless you know how to safely discharge them, and the magnetron in microwaves specifically.
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by cronix 5y ago
Security is profitable. Very profitable. It's likely one of the reasons a lot of companies avoid it....it's very expensive and most don't see it as adding to the bottom line because it's largely invisible, but taking fro
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by cronix 5y ago
> None if these are aggregated by a central party, stored forever and mined. I imagine you're just against Amazon's Ring doorbells as well then? Or are they not storing the data, analyzing it, and monetizing it? > Several we
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by cronix 5y ago
I have 2 cameras in my car recording front/rear views all the time in 4k resolution while driving on public roads. I can upload them anywhere without anyone's permission because they were taken in public spaces. I pass x bank mach
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by cronix 5y ago
How is any of what you said not really going on now? People routinely take pictures with other people in the background and upload it to facebook without permission, and if facebook's facial recognition recognizes them it asks if you w
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by cronix 5y ago
It kind of reminds me of Intel's dismissive attitude throughout the tail end of the '90's and early 2000's about ARM and mobile processing. They completely misjudged it, got dethroned as the best chip manufacturer as a r
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by cronix 5y ago
> Without individualized suspicion That is an illusion, or just words on paper. Look into geofenced cell phone requests by law enforcement for everybody within x boundary at x time of a crime being committed. Look into law enforcement us
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by cronix 5y ago
Let's say that all Banana growers were shut down for 8 months and during that time all existing supply was bought up that were sitting on store shelves. After they were allowed to start growing again, how long until you see a Banana in

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