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by jws 9y ago
Capital gains tax in the US is lower than income from labor, but it is also worth considering the effects of inflation on the investments. Your 4% return is not really a 4% increase in wealth, you need to also take out the 1.7% your investm
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by jws 9y ago
Sure, they are outdated. But if you sat a user down in front of a current Mac Mini and one using one of Intel's equivalent wattage and price point parts which shipped in volume in the past six months, would a user notice the difference
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by jws 9y ago
The mini has special challenges. It is a low volume product compared to the the iPhones, iPads, and iMacs. There are probably 100 iPhones sold for each mini. Simultaneously, it is a cost sensitive product, sitting at the bottom of the Apple
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by jws 9y ago
A quick, non-biologist's googling suggests that nitrate and ammonium are the limiting factors for most oceanic algae. I recall there being experiments for areas are iron limited, so they spread iron sulfate and created algae blooms. I
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by jws 9y ago
A standards process is frequently about documenting what already exists in common implementations so that there is a specification for future implementations. POSIX was very much one of these processes.
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by jws 9y ago
Maybe I'll finally be able to buy a Mac Mini that is faster than the 2012 model I use for grinding up data. Edit: maybe not. Looks like the Mini is about a 45 watt CPU and these are the 15 watt line. Oh well, it's been 1040 days s
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by jws 9y ago
My doctor had 16 payments in 2016. Mostly in the $10-$13 range for food and drink. Looks like a rep paying for lunch at the medical center cafeteria. Sounds a lot like "ok, I want to hear about your product, but I'm not giving up
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by jws 9y ago
Careful there. In some models if your battery goes totally flat the only way to unlock the BIOS to boot boot Linux involved a restore to defaults which erases your Linux partition. Been there. Lost a couple days of work over it. Gave away t
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by jws 9y ago
It was a more mundane horror. The melamine acts as a filler but also tests as protein. In the body it causes kidney trouble. In the end, 0.001% of the babies fed the adulterated formula died. (3 out of 300000). That makes being fed the tain
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by jws 9y ago
I suspect "safely" here applies to the device, not the technician, though a short on a pair of unfused battery leads will still be exciting for the technician. Imperceptible static is a silent killer for the device.
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by jws 9y ago
Tiny Phillips screws are not optimal for assembly. The Phillips head is designed to cam out before a screw can be twisted off, which is great of you are screwing boards together, but not really any sort of criteria you care about for automa
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by jws 9y ago
It is not uncommon for factory workers to prefer 12 hour shifts and working alternating 3 and 4 day work weeks. That staffs a 24x7 operation with four crews of workers.
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by jws 9y ago
Do any places accept digital pay? I stopped in Klamath Falls, Oregon to do three weeks worth of filthy clothes while out traveling this summer and found a spectacular new laundromat which accepted Apple Pay! That's now my first line
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by jws 9y ago
We'll know after the tobacco companies' first lawsuit gets to the Supreme Court.
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by jws 9y ago
It may be time to legislate the concept of "tunnel space". This would be similar to air space. In the US a property owner doesn't control the air above their land (subject to details). Maybe Congress should declare the Earth
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by jws 9y ago
The devices used in better RVs are a solenoid which combines the batteries but only when the vehicle battery is above a certain voltage, typically set for a mostly full battery with surplus alternator energy available. This avoids the volta
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by jws 9y ago
Hospital systems and HMOs turn their inventory fast enough that inventory control can probably handle their problem. Small hospitals and pharmacies probably suffer more from expirations.
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by jws 9y ago
Presumably you would keep-alive your DNS over HTTPS connection. That would keep the packet turns the same.
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by jws 9y ago
It is "certbot" in Debian 9. Maybe 8 too.
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by jws 9y ago
press REC on your VCR and … make a worse copy of the already pretty bad copy you received over the air. Subsequent generation copies would be really bad. Sharing your copy with a friend involved physically transferring it and possibly not
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by jws 9y ago
It is just low on helium. It had ascended above its pressure altitude and vented helium, then descended again.
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by jws 9y ago
Interesting implications for fixed location energy storage. A palette sized tote of water is about 1000 liters, so 1.45MWh/tote. That is roughly a month of US household electrical consumption. I'm not finding numbers for efficienc
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by jws 9y ago
Making up a name "Hydrozine" instead of just calling it "formic acid" makes this quite confusing. Maybe it works for marketing.
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by jws 9y ago
Dynamite is not required. In the 1970s in Minnesota angry farmers destroyed about a dozen transmission towers with nothing but wrenches. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU_project_controversy
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by jws 9y ago
Does "used in critique" apply? If the critique was of the photos themselves that would seem to be in the spirit, but the photos are just lifted in order to critique the house.
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by jws 9y ago
Looking from the other direction, say an elevator can handle 60 cars an hour, so given staggered commutes it might serve the needs of 100 drivers. If having elevator access let you cover most of your commute at 100mph, what would that be wo
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by jws 10y ago
A quick search of the US trademarks does not show "Googlebot" as a trademark.
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by jws 10y ago
A book series with compelling characters, an interesting world, and "things that happen" is perfect for driving. I don't mind a 10 hour day of driving with a good book or even my regular 2000 mile drives with a good series. I
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by jws 10y ago
For computers I create an unprivileged "apple" account when it goes in to service. For iOS devices I just wipe them before service, but if you are sending to a third party repair house you might make a new throw away account, othe
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by jws 10y ago
I'm not sure if you are hung up on syntax or strategy, but you can use "fr" other than at the end.

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