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by ilamont 3y ago
It wasn't hard at all as long as the pond is deep enough per my earlier comments and the fish are not freshwater tropicals (we've had comets, shibunkin, and koi make it through without any issue, including deep freezes of 10F&#x2F
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Report claims China has 369 unicorns worth $1.4T(caixinglobal.com)
1 points by ilamont 3y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 3y ago
Here's a video I did three years ago showing how the small pond is set up. It's probably about 4 feet long (~130 cm) and with a deep spot of about 2 feet (~60 cm) ... if it's too shallow the fish would die, either from racoon
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by ilamont 3y ago
The taro plant is still in its original planter, with the same soil that was in there when we purchased it 15 years ago. I think we added a few small stones to the top (which now are covered with moss above the waterline). It's an incr
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Boston radio pirate faces $600k fine for staying on air even after earlier fines(universalhub.com)
4 points by ilamont 3y ago|2 comments
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by ilamont 3y ago
The article is correct in my experience. If you build a pond, wildlife will come. I would only add that having a simple pump to create a little flow and oxygenation really helps reduce algae and mosquitoes. If the pond is deep enough (18&qu
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The death of the 60/40 portfolio(lynalden.com)
48 points by ilamont 3y ago|55 comments
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by ilamont 3y ago
A big audience means publishing houses don’t have to spend money on marketing Only blockbuster authors get serious marketing support. For everyone else, big publishers want authors to shoulder marketing and publicity costs and responsibil
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Inside X's latest, desperate attempt to beguile advertisers(digiday.com)
3 points by ilamont 3y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 3y ago
There has been a lot of consolidation of village and town services as rural populations have declined. This started decades ago, when the national government announced plans to shrink from 3200 municipalities to 1000 by 2005: Small towns c
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Sellers are worried about the 'Amazon-ification' of Etsy(modernretail.co)
3 points by ilamont 3y ago|0 comments
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Yes, license plate scanners are recording your plates(universalhub.com)
2 points by ilamont 3y ago|1 comments
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by ilamont 3y ago
The video mentions the risk of "over G" breaking the airframe. I am wondering about the gap between the over G threshold for the pilot vs over G threshold for the airframe. Assuming the X-62 (or other AI aircraft) can stay below t
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by ilamont 3y ago
If the numbers Berliner revealed about audience losses are correct, the impact is surely being most felt at the local station level. If fewer people are tuning in, fundraising will suffer and cuts are inevitable. For instance, Boston has tw
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by ilamont 3y ago
They embezzle because they like it. They like the rush. They need money now, not in five years. They like being smarter than the drudges they figure are around them. And they embezzle, I am convinced, because they want to get caught sooner
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Hytera Drops Motorola Suit in China After Fined $1M per Day by U.S. Court(caixinglobal.com)
2 points by ilamont 3y ago|0 comments
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Study refutes Google GNoME's claim regarding new crystals discovered by AI(pubs.acs.org)
2 points by ilamont 3y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 3y ago
Distribution and wholesaling in this industry is a mess. A lot of these firms - SPD included - were living in the 20th century when it came to all areas of operations. I'm not surprised to hear the news that they are consolidating furt
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TikTok is pushing brands to post photos instead of videos(modernretail.co)
1 points by ilamont 3y ago|0 comments
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Ancestry pulls genealogy records after accusations of data theft(scottishgenes.blogspot.com)
4 points by ilamont 3y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 3y ago
In 2022 one of my kids wanted to take college classes online over the summer. We created a spreadsheet with the costs for each school, and what was surprising was the range of prices, from $900 per class for MassBay Community College and UC
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by ilamont 3y ago
Felt it too outside of Boston. Thought the heat pump upstairs was having a serious malfunction.
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by ilamont 3y ago
I wish that articles like this would talk about the fact that many people are living in vastly oversized houses for their needs, and incentives (beyond property tax) could be better aligned for older empty nesters to sell. The neighborhood
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China is betting on battery swaps to tackle EV chargers shortage(restofworld.org)
9 points by ilamont 3y ago|5 comments
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by ilamont 3y ago
I can't imagine any other mission-driven nonprofit entity with a real operating budget disregarding the law to such a degree that it threatens the very existence of its operations, including important services that have nothing to do w
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by ilamont 3y ago
Perhaps most disturbing of all, in just the past year, an industry trend appears to have kicked off in which a subset of SEO companies has begun to acquire the domain names and historical digital content archives of defunct small-town Amer
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Small Press Distribution ceases operations effective immediately(spdbooks.org)
1 points by ilamont 3y ago|0 comments
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by ilamont 3y ago
Something that's rarely talked about in startup circles is co-founder conflict. It's pervasive, and in many cases leaves a bitter taste for years afterwards. Part of the reason we never hear about it is legal liability/NDAs,
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Amazon Kindle Lock Screens Are Showing Ads for AI-Generated Books(futurism.com)
2 points by ilamont 3y ago|0 comments
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Some private universities will cost $90k this fall(bostonglobe.com)
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