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by mediaman 5y ago
It looks like it'll beat that today. Yesterday, it reached 130 at 23:54 GMT. But it's trending hotter today: the current hour peak temperature is 127.4, and the same hour peak temperature yesterday was only 124.4. There's abo
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by mediaman 5y ago
Who really copies stack overflow snippets verbatim? It's usually just easier to refer to it for help figuring out the right structure and then adapt it for your own needs. Usually it needs customization for your own application anyway
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by mediaman 5y ago
It's clear that the IRA system was created to encourage saving for retirement through tax deferral. It was not intended for billionaires, because for them it serves no purpose in encouraging them to save for retirement. (Financial secu
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by mediaman 5y ago
Plastic is recyclable. However, the cost of recycling it is generally more than the reclaimed value of the material, especially for mixed recyclables. So, we have to do one of two things: either subsidize the recycling of plastic (e.g.: tax
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by mediaman 5y ago
Wouldn't that leave a fairly obvious trail? You have to enter your credit card details to call an Uber...
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by mediaman 5y ago
As a manager, how would you feel about a hybrid setup with people in the office say two days a week? Would it recapture a substantial portion of the benefits, or do you think you find that the manager utility of each extra day in the office
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by mediaman 5y ago
Just checked - you're right! At first I thought it was because safe search was enabled, but disabling it gives the same results (zero). https://duckduckgo.com/?q=tank+man&t=h_&iar=images&iax=image... Their
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by mediaman 5y ago
What evidence is available that crypto is so essential to the national economy that it would cause financial ruin? Just last month, China banned the use of crypto by any financial institution. Are you suggesting this will ruin their economy
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by mediaman 5y ago
You can make it illegal to transact crypto. That would devastate the price and ruin it as a currency. The network would still exist, but it'd be useless as a medium for criminal payments due to the low value.
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by mediaman 5y ago
Co-terrestrial civilization is interesting, but it's difficult to understand how there would be no physical evidence. The ocean would be most likely (subterranean would be much more visible for any access points, by satellite and land-
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by mediaman 5y ago
10x sales isn't crazy for a growing, high margin recurring revenue SaaS business in today's environment.
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by mediaman 5y ago
That's his point: you can't see where revenue got hit, despite the functionality being replicated by Facebook.
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by mediaman 5y ago
There is no way you're building anything but a very small car factory for $110m. Maybe this involves a long of hand-work for low volume niche vehicles? Specialty government vehicles? Normal car factories run $500m for something smallis
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by mediaman 5y ago
No disrespect meant, but this sentiment is common among those without any experience with US manufacturing. Industrial maintenance mechanics make $25-35 an hour depending on skills. Machinists make $30-50/hr. Skilled machine operators
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by mediaman 5y ago
As of this writing, the majority of root-level comments are some mix of extreme cynicism and knee-jerk reactions. But you're right, at least they're downvoted. I think the reason is that most of HN is not very knowledgeable of ma
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by mediaman 5y ago
The 74% recovery rate was in reference to BC only, not all of Canada - I updated my comment which mistakenly referred to all of CA for that recovery rate. The reason to focus on BC is because they are the only province to have passed EPR th
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by mediaman 5y ago
We should absolutely push for even higher rates of recycling. High 90s would be fantastic. But even 74% is already much higher than we get with aluminum cans. You say aluminum cans are "100% recyclable", as if they are 100% recycl
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by mediaman 5y ago
There is a lot of misleading and false statements in this article. They claim plastic recycling doesn't work. It's true that most plastic isn't recycled, but that's because of lackluster government involvement, not some
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by mediaman 5y ago
About half of the plastic in oceans is from plastic netting used fishing. And that netting causes the vast majority of ecological damage by entangling marine animals or dragging along ocean beds. The real problem is excessive fishing and pl
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by mediaman 5y ago
It is true that most plastic is not recycled. It is not true that recycling does not work. California has 87% of its plastic beverage bottles recycled. British Columbia implemented an extended consumer responsibility policy that allows the
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by mediaman 5y ago
To say that the stock market is gambling is to say that all forms of putting money at risk are gambling. Buy a house as a rental investment? That's gambling. Loan money to someone to start their business? Gambling. Buy inventory of a p
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by mediaman 5y ago
Interestingly this came as a loss to Washington, where there is already a significant fab owned by TSMC called WaferTech. Their facility is on the WA side of the Portland suburbs. Many felt WA was in the running because of the talent alread
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by mediaman 5y ago
It uses BLE (I believe), and data upload can be combined with other requests on the iPhone's next cellular connection request. CPU use is going to be extremely minimal. BLE power usage for a low data rate transmission is very, very low
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by mediaman 5y ago
I've talked with several business owners in a major west coast metro. One has retail hospitality jobs open. Total take home pay is $80k annually. People won't even show up for interviews. He's never seen anything like it. Ano
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by mediaman 5y ago
One of the interesting things about advertising is that nobody really knows if it works, and there's a growing body of evidence that it largely doesn't work. We are sold on the idea that they work, because someone clicks this ad,
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Good for you! I can't stand the dismissive attitude toward unprotected rotating shafts.
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by mediaman 6y ago
This would just create an oblong orbit, which would still cause re-entry into thicker atmosphere for a portion of the orbit.
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Do they have upgraded plans available for purchase, and are they pretty expensive or reasonable?
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I don't think he's arguing that. Just that a simple stack that's boring can work well for a SaaS whose success is not contingent on huge traffic. For many successful SaaS companies, if their model is not monetizing huge traff
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by mediaman 6y ago
You're getting a lot of unsolicited advice here, from folks who mean well but all of us here can't know the particulars of your situation. That you're posting this on HN suggests that you would really like to have someone to

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