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Americans read/watch the news and every news article about this I've read so far ₁₂₃₄ correctly pointed out the Soviet connection. ₁ https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/cars/2018/05/23
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now." I agree with you that it's too little too late, but at least they're trying.
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>Fortress Investment Group, the parent company of the Brightline, is hedging that its investment in new transit hubs will increase property values surrounding stations as well as revenue generated by real estate development. Forrest Inve
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8y ago
Check your employment contract. If you have real money riding on your side gig, then it might make sense to have a lawyer go over your employment contract as well. Worst case scenario, you find the we-own-everything-you-produce-period claus
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>Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) are heavier than air, so how do scientists suppose that these chemicals reach the altitude of the ozone layer to adversely affect it? >Although the CFC molecules are indeed several times heavier than air, t
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It's easy to spot this Catfish even without any personal connections at Acme Corp. When Catfish provides Jim @ Acme Corp as a reference, but with a non-Acme Corp address for Jim, then that's a huge red flag. You either: 1. Reply w
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8y ago
Very, very cool. Section 7 of the manual[0] gives some hints on how this black magic works: > 7. Workload Requirements > To obtain benefit from the current version of Dynimizer, all of the following workload conditions must be met: &g
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>China should have done this 5-8 years ago. They did. Beijing handed out massive subsidies, companies started building fabs, and now those fabs are starting to come online in 2018[0]. Fabs take time to build. [0] https://epsne
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This article seems to suggest it's mandatory for public companies: >As Congress chips away at bank regulations established by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law, another part of the measure is exposing the extreme income inequality between bos
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9y ago
The video description links to this repo: https://github.com/ubports/unity8-desktop-install-tools which basically does "apt install unity8-desktop-session". So the default desktop environment is GNOME, and th
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Yep, you're right: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=python#GEO_MAP https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=java#GEO_MAP https://trends.google.com/trends/expl
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9y ago
To save you guys a Google: >Boeing Field, officially King County International Airport (IATA: BFI), is a public airport owned and operated by King County, five miles south of downtown Seattle, Washington.
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9y ago
Registration, licenses, and tolls combined make up for less than 3% of the marginal cost per mile of the trucking industry. Registration, licenses, and tolls combined cost roughly the same amount as tire wear. [0] Table 7: average marginal
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>The reason, as it was explained to me, was that in 2015 I had broken Chinese law when I failed to present myself to authorities in Beijing when I had visited and stayed at an Airbnb residence on two different trips. Unbeknownst to me at
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I noticed that you posted two ads, one for each position. There's an informal rule about one hiring post per company that even GooFaceAmaMicro follows. I'm not asking you to remove one of your posts, but please try to keep it in m
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9y ago
I Googled around and found this: >Giga International: 9 € - including 20 GB data valid for 28 days. The activation fee is 5 € and the SIM card is 9 €, making the total cost 25 € for the first month and 9 € for subsequent months. This off
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<img class="emoji" title=":feelsgood:" alt=":feelsgood:" src="https://assets-cdn.github.com/images/icons/emoji/feelsgood.png" width="20" height="
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9y ago
I stand corrected. Thanks for the correction.
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>So? Loss leaders are by their nature unprofitable and thus will go away as soon as they're not required. Suppose if Vanguard disappears, then Fidelity will hike their rates up. On the other hand, if Fidelity disappears, Vanguard wo
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EDIT: I was wrong. Please ignore the below incorrect content. >In most cases, it wouldn't make sense to switch existing funds to another provider in a taxable account if switching would result in a large capital gain. As long as the
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I read it as: HTC will continue to develop HTC's next flagship phone. Google will continue to use the HTC Pixel team they just brought to develop Google's next Pixel flagship phone.
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>Apple’s deal with Iowa, which includes about $20 million in a state investment tax credit and a 20-year tax abatement from the city of Waukee worth nearly $190 million, underscores all these elements. Dumb question: how do these deals n
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9y ago
The idea of a "clean" IP range is great, but it won't help little guys like us. Amazon can either: 1. Make it available only to Fortune 500s or AWS accounts with a monthly spent >$X million; heavy penalties and even legal
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https://voip.ms blocks access from AWS IP ranges. It's a shame because they're a one of the best VoIP providers I've ever used.
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It's fine if the user throws it out. The whole scheme is optional and the code is never activated until the user types it in first. The user can either: 1. Throw it away. Then nothing happens; no 2FA is set up. 2. Type in the code in f
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9y ago
Please critique this wild-ass idea of mine: When the user makes their first purchase, print out five identical business cards and send it to them by snail-mail. (If you're selling physical products then obviously ship it with the produ
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I just buy my domain from AWS since I'm already using them for hosting. One less account to deal with and one less attack surface.
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They do that to prevent account farming. Google is one of the very few companies that refuses to accept my VoIP DID number for 2FA, because they know it's not a "real" number. A wise move, considering that SMS-capable DID n
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>Zerodium could just offer 2x as much as Apples bounty, and Apple can never win on price. I'm a die-hard Android fan, but even I'm forced to admit that iPhone has much better security. And security is a big selling point. Rais
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