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by jfim 4y ago
San Pellegrino without a qualifier typically refers to the sparkling water, not Aranciata; the sparkling water has zero calories. See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.Pellegrino
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by jfim 4y ago
You can ignore most of the specs that are irrelevant to your project on parametric searches. For example, here's how you'd find a generic through hole LED. Search for "through hole LED", pick a color, stocking option: in
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by jfim 4y ago
> in Boulder they tax the normal stuff like coke and sprite but will exempt for San Peligrino but then also tax Oceanspray juice Assuming they're taxing based on the sugar content, then that's the expected outcome. Coke, Sprite
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I'm glad they were actually, it allowed us to focus on learning the material instead of copying all the formulas from the textbook onto a notes sheet.
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by jfim 4y ago
There was a service that one could register for a couple of years ago (Paribus I believe) that would automatically scan your Amazon emails and request a price match from Amazon if the price dropped. I believe that's the primary reason
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> It's sad to me that "western" cooking is so focused on meat as the centerpiece to cooking. I wonder if that's for historical reasons. I'd assume that in previous centuries, only wealthy people would have the me
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by jfim 4y ago
> This got me thinking - as drone tech continues to improve and drop in price, I wonder if we could deploy a fleet of cheap autonomous fish-killing submersibles. The failure modes or evolutionary pressures might be problematic, but imagi
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by jfim 4y ago
Hopefully the availability of fast IP networks at sea will help with observers disappearing without a trace in the future.
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There are other reasons why people would be paid less, other than race and gender, but when aggregated might appear to show bias. Imagine that there is a company that is entirely fair and pays people solely based on their seniority at that
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by jfim 4y ago
There doesn't seem to be any kind of anonymization, so if there's only one person for a particular combination of race, ethnicity, sex, and job category, then their pay will effectively be reported directly. In theory, the state o
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by jfim 4y ago
> I'd like to figure up a way to reset my internet, because I access cameras, and it goes out sometimes. I'm very sure this can be done. Just get one of those controllable outlets that can be controlled locally, it'll allo
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by jfim 4y ago
Sure, but I would assume that the priorities for a private university are different than a public one. A private university might optimize for profitability and university ranking, while a public one might optimize for providing the most ac
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by jfim 4y ago
Or lack of a profit motive leading to not trying to game metrics as much. If an entity is ranked by some metric, and the better they are that metric, the more profitable they are, then they have an incentive to game it as much as possible.
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by jfim 4y ago
It's intentional. See https://customerservice.costco.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/7... The idea is that if you see something that interests you, you buy it now, and there's always something new
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by jfim 4y ago
They also only sell goods to members, and don't offer have a cloud service. I also trust Costco a lot more than Amazon, even though Costco is not as convenient to use due to their smaller number of SKUs.
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by jfim 4y ago
Did they ever announce that they'd have an AMD version? There doesn't seem to be that many AMD laptop options unfortunately.
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by jfim 4y ago
Having a place to eat at home is not a luxury feature, unless the city has a population density that is high enough to support having a broad array of dining options that are open for most of the day. Tokyo is one example of such a city, bu
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by jfim 4y ago
Reminds me of those yearly engineering competitions where students build canoes out of concrete and race them: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_canoe
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by jfim 4y ago
To the lay person, this sounds like "the scientists can't even figure out which ones were caused by climate change, how are we supposed to believe them." A better explanation is along the lines of "we haven't seen s
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by jfim 4y ago
It doesn't help, but I doubt he's single handedly responsible for the housing crisis in California though. There are many things that cause housing in California to be expensive (proposition 13, rent control, the excessively burea
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by jfim 4y ago
I don't think that's a very realistic scenario. Kid toys are already designed to have little to no small parts so that no part of the toy can be swallowed. A company that would put micro batteries in toys aimed at kids that are at
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by jfim 4y ago
There are issues with AB5 as it pertains to owner-operators (people who own their truck and drive it). Before AB5, a carrier company could hire an owner-operator to do some work without them being employees (eg. to handle excess work that t
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by jfim 4y ago
I had the same issue with an USB Ethernet adapter plugged into a powered USB hub, disconnecting the computer would make the network crap out. Kind of defeats the purpose of having a docked setup with wired Ethernet if one can't undock
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by jfim 4y ago
This NYT article elaborates on the "legal woes." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/technology/dan-price-resi...
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by jfim 4y ago
The idea is not to fully discharge it overnight, but to smooth out demand. During the daytime, solar power is plentiful, but not during the evening. However, during the evening, there is demand from residential customers so that they can co
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by jfim 4y ago
There's the net benefit that you'll be in better shape for the non biking hours.
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by jfim 4y ago
Air King makes one (9166F) that can be put in a window and will cool the air pretty quickly. I've barely ran the AC this year since I've started pulling in cold air at night and closing the windows in the morning. As another comme
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by jfim 4y ago
It's pretty interesting if you do the math too. The CAISO shows that their current power generation capacity is about 53000 MW. A Tesla model 3 has 60kWh of capacity. A million of those would allow generating 60000 MW for an hour if th
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by jfim 4y ago
Gotcha, makes sense. Thanks for sharing, it's good to see things from outside the SV bubble.
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by jfim 4y ago
Is it? I'm not in the demographic that would buy one, but it seems that for a contractor that doesn't tow tons of stuff or drive long distances it would work well, especially with the outlets. Maybe I'm missing something but

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