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by metaphor 3y ago
> Meanwhile, if I go to the nearby independent indian grocery store I can get a cigarette-pack-sized box of the stuff for about ten bucks. Worth noting that saffron adulteration in India is common enough that the country's Food Sa
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My response was nothing more than a reflection of your remark echoed from a very different perspective. The money printer I'm alluding to is the US federal government. They own the proverbial money trees that $8.5B in grants will be pl
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I've been looking for TSMC within the domestic borders of CONUS for longer than you might imagine. Reiterating, the money printer doesn't give a flying fuck about stock price trends.
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How do you come off with a straight face attempting to compare a bunch of fabless design houses with a company that actually owns the infrastructure and processes to make tangible products, even if not the prevailing sexiest thing? You&#x27
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Derek Lowe's Things I Won't Work With (Index)(science.org)
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> optimizing the form of that carbon can only ever be a secondary goal. If I may be permitted to reiterate: 28x GWP impact factor . Cherry-picking CH4 is hardly premature optimization...it's pure low-hanging fruit! Consider this
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> So first you have the multiple times worse effect of CH4 and then you're left with CO2, which is still a greenhouse gas. In case anyone else was wondering, the EPA[1] puts a layman figure on that notional multiple: >> Met
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https://archive.is/j4AZG https://web.archive.org/web/20240302235627/https://fortune.c...
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HDMI adopter registration details here[1]; in general, $10k annual fee + royalties and of bunch of legalese. Prevailing list of 2451 adopters and affiliates here[2]; yes, AMD (listed as unabbreviated Advanced Micro Devices) has been a regis
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There's a $1.8T global textile market out there and the best cherry-pick you could come up with to whine about is the micro-plastic residual of a single woman's laundry day?
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Yes and yes. Briefly looked at the wife's side of the closest. First article that I stumbled upon with a Shein tag was a long sleeve blouse: neck tag labeled made in China, material tag (inner botton-left) labeled 5% elastane, 95% poly
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Partly conditional avoidance of referring to her in a possessive manner, but mostly just subtle figure of speech when attempting to convey myself as being in a position of otherwise harmless (and often convenient) deference, perhaps influen
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The paper doesn't appear to consider impact of the child's weight, whether the task at hand demands strength/endurance v. dexterity/control, and the related natural strength bias between men and women. The wife is right-
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Why merely compare ourselves to the most mismanaged places in the world when we can imitate them under everyones' nose [1] by directly importing the model into an oft forgotten small patch of American soil in the middle of the Pacific
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> same comcast plan as I signed up for in 2012 (80/5 for $78/mo total with modem rental then) > Only now I pay $106/mo (w/modem rental). The price you're paying today has merely tracked nominal inflation r
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The AP source is the original; recommend updating submission to this since it properly links to some critical cites that the original submission omits for some reason, e.g. > And in a March 2023 research paper, the economist Isabella We
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Seeing entries listed high in G3D/$ descending order as a consequence of "Condition: For parts or not working" driving listed price into far-left outlier territory relative to their operable equivalents. I suspect it would be
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To quote this article[1] mentioned in thread: > The crack appears to be a sudden shear in the nose bridge, which would be the weakest part of the glass mold. Those with the issue speaking to Apple Support have been told to pay the Apple
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> someone is going to think waves travel at different speeds That's a good thing, right[1]? Something about "the one thing all models have in common..." comes to mind. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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Well, that summarily rekt my sleeping schedule this evening. Truly a great story and glad I stumbled upon your remark. Thanks!
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Anyone have an idea of how existing solar farms in the Philippines have weathered typhoon season over the past decade? The country is a proverbial magnet for typhoons, and it seems like a major disaster strikes every year; wiki[1] claims ha
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> I am from the Philippines, we have only two types of seasons, sunny and rainy. There's a buried third in there: "typhoon season"[1]. I do wonder how they intend to both lean into and protect such a massive, fragile inv
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> Get a 43'' center monitor with two LG DualUP 16:18 ratio monitors on the sides. Sounds nice for the office, but find myself conflicted with the notional operating value prop of continuously juicing north of 200W less graphi
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by metaphor 3y ago
Sure enough, 17 new bot followers today after blocking 14 only a few days ago. There's precisely zero reason any legit person should be following my entirely passive, unengaged account. Twitter truly is a cesspool.
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Renesas to Acquire PCB Design Software Leader Altium(renesas.com)
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(2009)
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> I suspect that this is part of an effort to create more semi-conductor engineers to work at that plant. Not just at Intel's Ohio fab, but across the nation as part of a much broader onshoring movement[1]. [1] https://
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Noticed that distinct bias towards gardens and parks too, and after looking at my city, very quickly came to the conclusion that this was certifiably full of shit, i.e. - a park with heavy foot/vehicle traffic that's half a mile f
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https://archive.is/3BjRk https://web.archive.org/web/20240210070900/https://www.wired...
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Sci-Hub link[1] to the paper. I think it's safe to conclude that a cup here is in UK terms: > Individuals aged 37–73 years were recruited in 22 assessment centres across the United Kingdom, between 13 March 2006 and 1 October 2010.

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