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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
Of course. In the news today, there's FTX (we won't even talk about something like Mt. Gox). https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/11/11/ftx-files-for-ban... Recently, Insteon's entire IoT
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Originally, mobile phone services were only available post-pay for individuals who could pass a credit check, and were structured as per-minute or per-text plans where someone would be billed after the fact. Pre-paid plans, when they came o
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
In my many decades on Earth, I have never, ever heard of anyone, anywhere, experiencing any illness borne specifically from a water cooler that didn't get used enough or from contamination of the short water line from a residential pip
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It is pungent, and the natural flavor is unappetizing. Through a filter, either a Brita or a Glacier/Primo machine, it's fine. It is remarkable to me, an actual person who lives an actual life in America, that anyone might questio
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In my community, it is technically safe for consumption and not under a boil order, but also not easily drinkable.
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Wow, lots of anti-water people coming out in the comments. Bizarre. Our family goes through a 5 gallon jug in less than a week. I have a few jugs, which I'll refill a few times, and then the local grocery store or Walmart has a thing w
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
A practical thing that I've had, for years and years, and of which I know literally zero other people who have such thing, is a water cooler. Yes, in my house, in the kitchen. Like in an office. A big 5 gallon bottle of purified water
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
What's up with all of these articles about the dangers of gas stoves? Did everyone suddenly forget that people used to commit suicide by "putting their head inside an oven" or the danger of leaving the gas on? The practical d
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
It's still baffling that the Threadripper 1950X isn't supported by Windows 11, not just because it's still a fast, modern CPU that supports all the newer Secure Boot and TPM 2.0 requirements, but because it's also identi
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
So, television captions were terrible until the dawn of streaming. One could argue that DVDs (circa late '90s) were OK, but the captions were cartoonish, pixelated nightmare captions that nobody wanted on their TV, just as bad as the t
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
The issue here is that the way very large people can lose weight in a healthy manner is deadly for TV. Everyone can agree that the trick is to eat just enough nutritionally balanced food each day to fulfill the most basic need for vitamins,
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... and what I've learned from this is that half of cancer deaths have absolutely nothing to do with smoking, alcohol or obesity. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
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This happened around the same time mechanical keyboards and floppies were being phased out in favor of cheap membrane keyboards and liquid-impervious CDs. This was a progression throughout the '90s starting with the end of the IBM PCs
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
Back in the 70s and 80s, it was common to buy a new American car with a double-digit number of serious defects right off the line; Japanese cars had their initial success in the States when they were generally fine at purchase. Overall qual
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
macOS 12.x supports the 2015 (and 2017) iMacs.
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Hang on, what mid-sized independent software companies have been around with the same corporate ownership since 1992? In today's world of corporate growth via acquisition, having a modestly successful job with a modestly successful mid
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
I think the thing that baffles me here is that based on the basic math - 180 minutes, 6000 orders per minute, $15 credit per order - this would seem to be a ~$16M promotion. That's, like, two or three Superbowl ads. For, what? To creat
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
Vanguard has their own Vanguard-branded self-directed 401(k), but your employer has to support the option.
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Vanguard and Schwab both do 401(k)s.
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Bandcamp ( https://bandcamp.com ) provides DRM-free MP3 downloads, as does Amazon Digital Music ( https://www.amazon.com/MP3-Music-Download/ ).
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by iwanttocomment 4y ago
I had it in my mind during the Great Recession that quantitative easing was going to create a ton of inflation in the 2010s, so I started putting money in I-Bonds each year. That inflation never came, and I did pull some funds out of the I-
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by iwanttocomment 5y ago
Spices make cheaply made, bland food taste better, news at 11.
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by iwanttocomment 5y ago
I think the mistake listening to Pet Sounds is to expect audio pyrotechnics, some sort of forcefulness or "wow" factor that separates it from the rest of the albums of its time. It's almost the exact opposite. Instead of musi
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by iwanttocomment 5y ago
Who on earth has ever ordered just a "large pizza for pickup"? Without specifying ingredients, type of crust, anything. This is like ordering a chair by phone from a furniture store by dialing the number, saying "Armchair for
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by iwanttocomment 5y ago
Because: 1) Electric cars can ultimately be powered directly by solar or hydro solutions which do not require a conversion into another element and back, even if they are largely not powered in that way today. 2) Establishing a hydrogen dis
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by iwanttocomment 5y ago
The nice thing about streaming that nobody seems to remember is just how hard it was to cancel subscriptions added to a cable service. You had to call the cable company! Wait on hold for an hour! Be embarrassed talking about what you were c