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by manarth 4y ago
Which today would get you around US$72
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by manarth 5y ago
HP CP2025. Bought in 2009 – think I've replaced one toner cartridge since then? Still going strong!
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by manarth 5y ago
A steam turbine essentially _does_ use the motion of the water. In conventional hydroelectricity, gravity causes the motion through the energy differential of the waters' height. In a steam turbine, the potential energy is from the hig
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by manarth 5y ago
Given that the rental scooter market is concentrated in cities, and that the roads where they're used are typically limited to 30mph or less, unless the person is actively throwing the scooter at the car , the cause of a crash would b
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Storm Corrie: Plane Struggles to Land (London Heathrow) [video](bbc.co.uk)
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by manarth 5y ago
You could just pay someone actually in a location and proxy their signals That's technically detectable through round-trip timings (e.g. your apple watch needs to be close enough to your computer to unlock it – too far away and
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by manarth 5y ago
not counting upkeep and training (or an emergency chute) AND an emergency chute. All training/certification providers state a reserve chute as a requirement (more than one when engaged in acrobatic activity/drills).
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by manarth 5y ago
A time-series represents a "thing you're monitoring" – in this instance, it's aggregate egress, so $0.10 per month, regardless of the evaluation period. Monitoring CPU? Another $0.10 per month. Memory? Another $0.10. Tha
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by manarth 5y ago
Surely the premise for "smoking in the toilet" is the possibility of not getting caught (hence dedicated detectors in most airplane toilets). Smoking in the main cabin would make them much more easier to identify, stop, and convic
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by manarth 5y ago
> "how else do you define what a particular product is?" > "companies will just market it as something else that still hints it's the thing it's not" Through extraordinarily detailed discussions
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by manarth 5y ago
"And only for macintosh users! And only macintosh users who use safari! And only macintosh users who use safari who don't change the default search engine!" Rather more users than that: > to ensure that it rema
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by manarth 5y ago
A fractional share is a new financial instrument operated by the seller of the fractional share. If you take the example of Robinhood, here's the relevant section[1]. > "I understand that fractional shares within My Account
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by manarth 5y ago
Shares provide dividable benefits: fractional ownership and fractional dividend payments. They also provide indivisable benefits: the right to vote, and the right to inspect company documents. The solution to owning "a thousandth of a
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by manarth 5y ago
> "and operated for months" 3ish days: opened Friday evening, closed down on Monday. And gave away the coffee (OK, I'm sure there was a fair amount made from the TV show).
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by manarth 5y ago
As a diver descends, they have to add air to their BCD (Buoyancy Control Device) to maintain neutral buoyancy (and release air when they ascend). Without that compensation step, as a diver descends their buoyancy becomes increasingly negati
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by manarth 6y ago
> Federal Court Orders Man to Pay $572 Million > Reynolds solicited at least 22,190 bitcoin ₿22,190 × $57,916 ≈ $1,285 Million. Looks like crime does pay – pays around $713 Million. Not a bad return for around 6 months of wo
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by manarth 6y ago
> In the era of the gold standard, there were no great depressions Apart from this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression > "The gold standard was the primary transmission mechanism of the Great
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by manarth 9y ago
It's in the EULA–simply using the software is enough to be bound to that term. Sure, the benchmarks can be leaked, published anonymously, etc…but the term is enough to prevent an academic from publishing it as a peer-reviewed, credib
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by manarth 9y ago
Some interesting stats on average farm sizes in Europe (with most countries having an average size smaller than 80 acres): http://www.valtra.co.uk/1872.aspx 130 acres in the UK, compared to 430 in the USA. Just 7 in Romania
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by manarth 9y ago
Does the FT article give any details of how that fifth is broken down? I suspect they'd be predominantly buy-to-let; my understanding is that there are significant barriers to getting an interest-only residential mortgage.
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by manarth 9y ago
> can imagine the prices are the suggested retail prices, > which no retailer will actually end up charging. I bought my Switch directly from Nintendo (well, sounds like it's actually via the Hut Group), and paid the RR
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by manarth 9y ago
There are well-known ways to improve GPS accuracy, such as dGPS [1], inertial guidance, and beam-riding [2]. I think it unlikely that the US military has a secret second constellation of GPS-like satellites, operating on an undetectable se
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by manarth 9y ago
The feature is called "Selective Availability", and has been disabled since May 2000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Error_analysis_for_the_Global_...
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by manarth 9y ago
a normal taxi is about £5 for that trip; an Uber or similar must be cheaper Uber's fares are subsidised (59%) by their VC funding [1], so they make a poor long-term comparison. Expect them to either corner the market, at wh
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by manarth 9y ago
"Deliveroo seems like my best bet at the moment with flexible hours" "I probably wouldn't be making any more than minimum wage elsewhere" I wonder - and I'd be interested to hear your experience in th
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by manarth 9y ago
burglars will cut your internet connection to the outside How, exactly? OK, so the question is a little facetious, but most burglars won't know (or even know to consider) that they should cut a particular cable before breaking
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by manarth 9y ago
The same state rules require a breaker-switch on the solar panel feed, disconnecting it from the grid [1]. However, customers are not allowed to use that switch - it's for FPL use only. [1] http://www.zerohedge.com/ne
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by manarth 9y ago
Apologies, perhaps my post wasn't clear - I agree, the burden of proof is on the person making the claim (i.e. claiming that someone owes them a debt) , rather than the person supposedly in debt.
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by manarth 9y ago
> You have to actually get documents from them > (or from a court) saying that they have no claim. Naturally this varies in different jurisdictions, but generally speaking, the burden of proof is on the person making the cla
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by manarth 9y ago
forcing a binary state on an opinion. Shades are OK too. For example: "$4000 is grotesque, $400 is sketchy, anything above $100 could potentially be justified, and below $100 is safe territory". It doesn't have to be

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