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10y ago
I wonder what 911 that was, the only million dollar ones that come to mind are either a rare racing version from the 70s or something like a 911GT1. As a daily driver a Ford GT would be way better than either, as a race car on a track I wou
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11y ago
Are there places that charge $30K for non Dom Perignon/Armand de Brignac champagne? I think at Marquee (NYC) you can get something larger than a jeroboam of Veuve for $30K. (Probably a methuselah or salmanzar since I think they keep on
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11y ago
Any info available about that? Most of the clubs I know of are affiliated with large corporate entities like Wynn or MGM. The highest grossing clubs are all run by the Tao Group. Also where can you get a jeroboam of Veuve Clicquot or Dom Pe
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11y ago
Where does that 20% number come from? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_shippi... indicates that up to 4% of climate change gasses come from ships. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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11y ago
If you had the outstanding shares and preferences in the options agreement wouldn't you have to have everyone resign every time someone exercised their options (changing the number of outstanding shares) or they raised money? However I
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11y ago
Seems like starting with something like FreeNAS would be easier and then they have no GPL exposure in the core OS.
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11y ago
Are any federal judges elected? I was under the impression they are all appointed and can't be removed without impeachment and conviction.
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11y ago
Was Aaron an academic at MIT? I was under the impression he was unknown to the administration.
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11y ago
Why not just put your SquareSpace site behind Cloudflare? Then you get free SSL.
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11y ago
Doesn't ZFS replication send a snapshot? So the underlying data changing doesn't have any impact on the snapshot's view of the world.
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11y ago
Hotels seem to have no problem doing business in corporate America and they are probably one of the largest independent distributors of porn.
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11y ago
> How can a hedge fund issue options until options are legally able to trade? Short answer, they can't. Couldn't a hedge fund call up their bank of choice and ask them to write a custom OTC option? Assuming of course the bank w
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11y ago
Wouldn't it be more like HaaS? Hardware as a service? Since they sell the terminals not just the software?
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11y ago
How much of the whiskey consumed is locally made? It seems like the US is by far the largest consumer of Scotch whisky. I would guess most of the whiskey imported is from either Japan or the US but that's mostly because I can't th
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11y ago
Why is 800 billion over the course of 57 years a big ask but 2 trillion over 10 years to invade Iraq isn't? Wouldn't that money be better left with the people that made it? I don't even think there have been a tiny handful of
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11y ago
What startups have won Nobel Prizes for their innovation? Or contributed materially to our fundamental knowledge of science? I can't think of any but Bell Labs, IBM Research and similar have. If there are some out there it would be gre
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11y ago
One of HP's allocations is from DEC I believe.
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11y ago
Is it even possible to be in a position to take care of someone's every need? Ignoring the realities of unknown diseases without cures, unless you have dynastic wealth it seems unlikely that you can, with 100% probability, have the res
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11y ago
Really? I routinely travel to US to Europe for between $600 and $800. Still not an airport meal but not that insane.
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11y ago
How are buildings in NYC designed with an expectation that they will flood? I haven't seen much of that, especially pre-Sandy. Post-Sandy there are some buildings with mounting brackets for walls/sandbags if there's another f
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11y ago
https://oneshallpass.com/ does that plus has a bunch of other options. It's by the founder of OkCupid and Keybase.io
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11y ago
How much do people drive where you are located? At least in the US, even if the car/engine only lasted 200K miles (~321k km) that would still be about 13 years of average use.
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11y ago
Wow, I had no idea that Google Apps were about 15% of Google's revenue. That is a way bigger than I would have guessed. (Hundreds of millions x 2 orders of magnitude is >= 10B, total revenue in 2014, 66B)
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11y ago
Can you provide any info on the requirements that the US placed upon Japanese companies to compete in the US? From the brief digging I did I was only able to find a lot of stuff that wishes the government had done so and most of the modern
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11y ago
Why can't mom-and-pop investors open an account at a place like Interactive Brokers and trade options on these events? The cost is pretty small per trade (maybe $1-2 for most stock and option trades) and the bid/ask spread isn
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11y ago
Even better if you run your own mail server, have it use . as the suffix character instead of + e.g. you+comcast@domain.com becomes you.comcast@domain.com This evades sites that filter on +'s and spammers that strip them out to anonymi
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11y ago
What is defined as explicit consent? Most terms of service and EULAs on websites and software do explicitly give the company the right to sell your data. Also aren't the FTC's Fair Information Practices just recommendations with n
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11y ago
Where does it say that in the article? Or that Rennaissance was found guilty?
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Really? That's pretty cool. I always thought that Hong Kong at least had the same transparency issues that the US and UK have with corporations and trusts. Generally it's that the people nominated as directors or who are named in
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11y ago
You can find out who's behind a corporation There's a lot of people who would love to know that trick. AFAIK there's no public disclosure of ownership of a corporation. In any case, I thought whois privacy services we
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