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by kurthr 2y ago
You're forced to deal with it. If you've set an alarm, it's going to interrupt your work, or don't set the alarm. If every social media message is going to your watch, laptop, or phone you either learn to ignore them (ma
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by kurthr 2y ago
https://apnews.com/article/47-activists-explainer-national-s... Rule of law has been abandoned. More generally, all economic growth has been moved to mainland China. This started to be true around 2016, but was very cl
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Many website admins have yet to get memo to remove Polyfillio links(arstechnica.com)
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah, it also assume that the pile you're driving can be arbitrarily long and will last forever. They used to be made with trees, for which this is obviously false.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yeah, the problem is that different people/groups in a company have different long term goals and thus want different strategies. Since the CEO is often setting them, "line go up" and 3-4 years align pretty well with incentiv
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by kurthr 2y ago
The key point is that, if you were already at the laptop and could message (iMessage, Discord,Slack), would you switch to a phone to tap out the text with your thumbs or keep typing on the keyboard. We all know the answer. The only advantag
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by kurthr 2y ago
It's not about fooling. It's about the contract. The property can have met the debt service (cash flow) ratio, but still be in violation of the the rental price covenant. Those covenants require immediate repayment of the loan.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Exactly, came here to say this. For many that do operate the real estate there are loans to leverage the property and those loans come due if rental rates (or sale prices) fall below a limit stated in the loan. That's part of why you&#
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by kurthr 2y ago
To estimate this order of magnitude. A typical (non MERV) 1.2Mt B83 in the active US nuclear arsenal would likely vaporize ~100m diameter hemisphere to deflect a relatively large 3km asteroid. Assuming an asteroid at 1-10 km/sec relati
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by kurthr 2y ago
"In the Arizona case, prosecutors have accused two owners of wound care companies of accepting more than $330 million in kickbacks as part of a scheme to fraudulently bill Medicare for amniotic wound grafts, which are dressings to help
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by kurthr 2y ago
When Bimbo first changed Orowheat ingredients in their oat wheat bread (pre-pandemic) they didn't announce it. I searched the web to figure out what happened since even the weight of the bread was noticeably off (tried weighing it on a
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yes, but maintenance costs are very high. You can expect >$5k and typically another few $k for tires. That is true even if nothing breaks and milage is low (eg <5k mi/yr). Costs quickly go up once cars are past 20 years old due t
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by kurthr 2y ago
Well, except when they do. Can you really imagine a military that didn't have and celebrate heroes? If a large organization can't have those that sacrifice themselves and break rules to achieve the greater goal, then they're
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by kurthr 2y ago
It's not like MOND (or even dark matter) are even single theories with a fixed set of predictions. They are groups of competing ever evolving theories. I don't understand the need to believe one over the other as a predictive tool
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by kurthr 2y ago
Come on, it's Bloomberg, and besides it's not like it's an immediate deadly health risk... oh wait.
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by kurthr 2y ago
They key with many of these manipulative sales techniques is that they are on rare purchases for which the buyer has little knowledge. Most people don't buy homes, cars, mattresses, with any regularity so whatever badwill you generate
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by kurthr 2y ago
When you print the world's reserve currency, and currency can only be issued as debt, if the world economy grows faster than currency expansion, you'll have real goods/services deflation. It's a weird catch 22, the only
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by kurthr 2y ago
Thanks, I agree about the accessibility setting. I know the iPhone at least doesn't actually use sRGB so the numbers are bound to be a bit off, but I'm surprised it's that far off. Also, I'd note for modern iOS even just
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by kurthr 2y ago
Would you not be reprimanded for white text on a cyan background? That is the alternative on iMessage. The bubble is not blue. Edit: to be fair the text is also not "white" The approximate (sRGB) color codes are: "
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by kurthr 2y ago
I was just going to say, go to the beach. It's wind rather than steam providing the motion, but similar. Watch the waves roll up the sand slope!
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When stan became a verb (2017)(theoutline.com)
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by kurthr 2y ago
I love this history, but I can't help but add the more recent evolution of "stan". I feel like I saw this on HN, but I can't find it in algolia so I'll post it again. https://theoutline.com/post&#x2F
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by kurthr 2y ago
I'd also be suspicious of this. You can also get a lot of beating artifacts from having many amplifiers in close proximity. If the speakers were still larger "mid-range" horns as were seen in decades past, this also might be
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by kurthr 2y ago
Actually, California population (for example) has fallen by >400k over the last several years. The first falling year was 2019, 2020 saw a small rise (<50k), 2021 saw a fall of >300k, 2022 a fall of ~150k, and 2023 a fall of ~50k.
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by kurthr 2y ago
Ummm, who's going to make sure all the oil comes from the middle east? It's not like the US needs to import light sweet crude from there since the refineries are made for heavier oil than comes from Saudi or fracking.
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by kurthr 2y ago
One cheaper and easier thing to do is to shape foam which can be done with hot wire 3D cutters into fairly large sizes (like baby elephants) and then put mesh and concrete on the surface. They look heavy depending and can last outside for d
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by kurthr 2y ago
It's funny cuz Charbux has no problem pouring hot espresso into cold ice milk with caramel and cream on top. I think it's pretty clearly just "baristas" justifying not changing their process, which is fine if a bit lazy
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by kurthr 2y ago
I find it interesting that 100W for ~120 seconds is ~0.3kcal which for a 100ml cup is ~3C. They are right at the limit of power to flow rate. Much faster flow and presumably the cavitation wouldn't "brew" enough, while much s
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by kurthr 2y ago
Yep, just noticed exactly this.
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by kurthr 2y ago
From the article: Abrams, a frequent commentator about vaping in the news media, including CBS This Morning, CNN, and The New Yorker, coordinated extensively with Juul on public messaging in 2017 and 2018, according to company

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