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by jussij 6y ago
The thing that moved the share price up was simple supply and demand. From what I've read the short sellers had taken a short interest that exceeded 100% of the available GameStop shares. But remember these are short sellers are sellin
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> I've never used history to solve business problems. As Knuth was trying to point out, history should be more than tables and time lines. It should provide details of how important advances where made and how solutions to big probl
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This page suggests that cost can be as low as $750 installed: https://homeguide.com/costs/electric-car-charging-stations-c... So in comparison most other typical annual car cost (i.e. repairs, service, running costs et
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I also think from the driver's perspective the usage will be totally different. Today's driver generally goes to the gas station only when the tank is empty. That leads to a 'big bang' event in that the tank will be clos
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Here in Australia firearms have been highly restricted since 1996 and that move has certainly seen a reduction in the homicide rate: https://knoema.com/atlas/Australia/Number-of-homicides
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Since some of the biggest Biden supporting areas of the USA are also some of the most densely populated, I suspect this would backfire very quickly. States targeted by these food blockades might feel some pain at first, but if that pain p
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You have basically described the Zeus Lite editor. However it only runs on Windows :(
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Based on the video found on the Energy Vault web site they seem to be doing some serious engineering in building their prototype: https://energyvault.com/commercial-demonstration-unit/ As to whether it works, I guess t
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Some of the controls allow you to change their colors, but that is not true for all controls. As an example consider the Win32 based wxWidgets library. The developers state it can't be made to support 'dark mode' only because
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I can't see this being anything more than superficial, only because Win32 applications will still look totally out of place when run on Windows. A simple example of this is Notepad. With Windows setup for 'dark mode', Windows
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Except for the fact the current pandemic has nothing to do with the flu.
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> So what good has been achieved by banning a private market on top of government allocation? Public health should never be left in the hands of the private sector. On top of the poor response by government, I think the disaster now unfo
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While Sweden did adopt the 'do nothing' approach, their results so far have hardly been a success story. Currently Swedish deaths sit at 837 deaths per million: https://epidemic-stats.com/coronavirus/sweden B
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Since the OP offers a relative comparison in saying COBOL jobs pay three times more than a Java jobs, the currency or any currency conversion to $USD really doesn't matter.
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> So if you get a 3% dividend a year, the stock price is dropping by the same amount. Here is the reason the stock price drops by the dividend amount. Dividends are issued to the person holding the stock at the date the dividend is issue
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> I probably won't spend $15k for electricity for all of my life Living in a two bedroom unit in Sydney my last quarterly electricity bill was over $500.00 which comes to over $2000.00 a year. Basically here in Sydney we have high e
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FWIW the Zeus Lite is another Windows based free text editor with good support for HTML. It does the standard syntax highlighting, code folding etc and it also has built-in support for ftp and sftp editing.
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Consider how trucks are used in the mining industry. Go back five years and these trucks would have be driven by a human driver. Today any new mine will be designed to use autonomous trucks and many of the older mines are being retro fitted
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> Now with Project Reunion, for those that don't know, is basically merging the Win32 and UWP worlds From what I have read of project Reunion, my prediction would be this technology will be a flop. From what I can tell the parts of
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I stand corrected. As you point out the moth species I quoted uses this 'bad experience' signal as it's sonic defense. However, this study found: The moths’ ultrasound production clearly confused the bats, according to resea
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The Hawk moth has evolved to emit ultrasonic clicks that jam the bat sonar: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/01/moths-avoid-capture-... Just more examples of the power of evolution.
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The concept of defunding the police is not an attempt to eliminating the police force. It is just a name that tries to capture the fact many US police forces look more like an army than a typical police force found in other parts of the w
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> But when the vast majority of polls in Florida showed Biden in the lead, and then Biden lost there by a few percentage points, that’s a polling error. What went wrong in Florida shows up clearly in the results for Miami-Dade county. Th
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Humans don't seem to require much in the way of a push before racist tendencies emerge: https://exploringyourmind.com/blue-eyes-and-brown-eyes-the-j...
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I was very surprised to read your quote attributed to the U.S. Surgeon General, as it doe sound like a rather stupid thing to be saying. So I Goggle it and sure enough he did say as much. However, you did not post the full statement which m
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You are of course referring to the School of the Air : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_the_Air That remote learning system actually started back in the early 50s, a time well before the age of the internet.
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This quote from the article says this work was being done be a developer(s) and if that is the case they should have know better. The problem is that PHE's own developers picked an old file format to do this - known as XLS.
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> The Great Barrier Reef is already de-bleaching How I wish this was the true picture, but unfortunately science paints a picture that is much worse: Apr 7, 2020 'The scale of bleaching is enormous during global bleaching events,&#
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Microsoft is pushing hard with it's .Net Core offerings and that effort is designed to make C# a more universal language. Whether that effort pays off, only time will tell.
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> Reports of vigilante activity in rural Oregon have multiplied as first responders struggle to keep up with the wildfire emergency, and baseless rumors that “antifa” arsonists are to blame spread rapidly on social media. It is amazing t

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