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by mNovak 5y ago
Yes I do think it's an american thing to buy a separate engagement ring, having a prominent diamond, in addition to wedding rings (which often don't have diamonds). My family in Europe doesn't have the whole engagement ring c
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by mNovak 5y ago
If your partner offers to buy you a $5 McDonalds cheeseburger or a $50 McDonalds cheeseburger, which would you accept?
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by mNovak 5y ago
>> right now in most of the states law require it to be returned Is this true? That would be very surprising, as it is essentially a gift, or at the very least, joint property subject to divorce adjudication like anything else.
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by mNovak 5y ago
The amusing factor to all of this, is that 99% of people can't visually tell the difference between a $100 and $10,000 ring. As a status symbol, it effectively works on the honor code, or based on someone directly reporting its cost! S
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by mNovak 5y ago
Just chiming in to say that you can in fact be up front with your SO about your opinions on pretty rocks as a symbol of your relationship, and continue to have a happy, healthy relationship.
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by mNovak 5y ago
When the stakes are that high however, this is the definition of poor communication. No one's a mind reader, and how many other unspoken expectations are there?
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by mNovak 5y ago
The gold in a typical engagement ring is worth something like $50-100. Not sure what you spent, but the same people peddling mined diamonds are also massively up-charging on the band.
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by mNovak 5y ago
This is fun. I'd really like to see an easy js scripting environment for slightly more complex logic. Though I suppose this accomplishes that since everything is reevaluated upon editing. FYI If I highlight everything and delete, the r
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by mNovak 5y ago
Security and convenience are always a trade off. If you don't want the hilariously low security analog bypass, then you have to provide means for backup power. For an in-wall safe, mains power would seem reasonable.
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by mNovak 5y ago
The people who developed Chia hold a massive pre-mined collection, and plan to go public (as in stock, not ICO) later, so definitely seems like they could profit.
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by mNovak 5y ago
Can anyone clarify for me why/how this incentivizes SSDs over HDDs? Seems if it's really just about having "proof of space", whatever HDD is cheapest would make sense? How much data gets read back how fast during validat
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Abiy Ahmed’s Counterrevolution(thebaffler.com)
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by mNovak 5y ago
In the US at least, trucks are by far the dominant means of transport, at 5x more freight than trains (slightly out of date, and by value): [1] https://www.bts.gov/newsroom/2017-north-american-freight-num...
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by mNovak 5y ago
In the end this makes sense; an actual car company is much better positioned to actually profit from marginal improvements in self-driving (read: safety improvements) year over year, rather than wait for the windfall of FSD taxi service at
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by mNovak 5y ago
I seem to recall this in the Midwest as recently as the 90s
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by mNovak 5y ago
In the reverse case, I recall seeing some articles that thieves will use bluetooth sniffers to identify valuables (e.g. cellphones without the BT turned off) in cars, to steal. Seems feasible that having a sniffer for fancy apple trackers c
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by mNovak 5y ago
I like how the buttons flash before changing. Feels like a videogame
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by mNovak 6y ago
While I agree it's likely, 'common sense' is also not science and we shouldn't take as a given that they are an integral part of the food chain. Pest species do exist. Saving lives is generally a strong motivator, so it&
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by mNovak 6y ago
Odd that this one makes you sign up first, then apparently assigns you a technology. Normally these federal IP commercialization competitions let you pick the IP you're interested in.
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by mNovak 6y ago
A major difference here is that SAR uses phase information, whereas to my knowledge optical techniques are not doing that.
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by mNovak 6y ago
I'd be curious to see a comparison of the return on junk bonds of a given company against the actual stock return of the same company.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Warning, clicked link and computer was immediately hacked
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by mNovak 6y ago
Thanks for the suggestion this looks great; and with a free tier for hobby sites like mine.
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by mNovak 6y ago
I assume a huge quantity of TurboTax users are in the simplest scenarios. As others have said, once there's any level of complexity, there's likely an accountant involved anyway. I don't think this is much at all a technical
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by mNovak 6y ago
I think they mean improves performance on an unrelated skill/knowledge test, such as doing math problems. The benefit is realized either in introverts or extroverts apparently.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Where I see a tiny bit of room for competition against e.g. JLCPCB, especially for a US company, is in rapid low quantity PCB fab and assembly . The offshore fabs are rapidly dropping prices for PCBA, which is great, but if your parts aren
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by mNovak 6y ago
I agree it can be super convenient, though 'Sign in with Google' is totally broken for me, because I've accumulated a handful of google accounts. Every time I log in to a service, I have to guess which account it's assoc
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by mNovak 6y ago
Maybe I'm missing something here.. the interface is way out there, yet the precooked themes are all pretty much in line with current web design trends. Based on the homepage I was expecting to build a crazy Win95 style website
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by mNovak 6y ago
I'm more impressed by the cavity PCB construction--fill with epoxy and boom dead simple waterproofing! I've never encountered this before; wonder if it's available with the batch fabs.
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by mNovak 6y ago
Does anyone know if these types of keys and/or protocols can be made to work without a full USB bus? I'd love to have this kind of functionality in embedded systems, without running an OS.

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