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by metaphor 3y ago
> Hurricane Ike was a cat2 in 2008, which did significant damage to the Houston coast because of its large storm surge. > Harvey in 2017 was damaging due to its consistent rain over the area as it stalled. The outsider impression
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It's obvious you're not just seeking feature parity...you're being a contrarian for its own sake. Keyword bookmarks have been a thing in Firefox since 1.0.x days and well before Chrome was officially released. It's an op
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For Firefox Desktop, just create a bookmark with your search URL and assign a keyword to it, e.g. URL: https://api.hackertarget.com/geoip/?q=%s Keyword: @geoip ...then Alt+D and queue off the keyword directly fr
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Reminds me of SAE AS83519/1 series shield terminators, which contain a Sn63 solder ring preform and flux in the middle of a translucent PVDF heat shrink insulation that seals on both ends on application. For conductors with robust enou
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> This is a plastic straw ban kind of issue, visible to people but pointless because the actual problem is elsewhere. Curious, would you mind expanding on where you think the actual problem is?
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Spidey sense is picking up all sorts of Minority Report x JBIG2 vibes on this one.
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https://archive.is/5kXrh https://web.archive.org/web/20240125142841/https://www.wired...
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Indeed, an apt agentless response in defense of parasitic excess that so readily cannibalizes its host for a quick buck just before collapse...which is doubly curious given the Fed has been telling us for well over a year now that not exe
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> US real estate is literally the best investment real estate in the entire world, and it's availabile to the entire world. Apparently, we haven't learned shit from the Great Financial Crisis on what happens when we take a ba
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> I suspect its just a tax break related policy 1. What publicly-traded companies report to investors and what they report to the IRS are more different than you might initially suspect. 2. This $73.2B figure was pulled directly from t
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> I understand Wawa stations in the eastern U.S. are known for their food; can anyone here comment? The only thing that Wawa food has going for it is that it's prepared hot at any hour; the quality of the food itself is quite medi
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by metaphor 3y ago
On a related note, an equivalent site[1] for select Taco Bell products. [1] https://taconomical.com/
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by metaphor 3y ago
The GAO report[1] referenced in the lecture notes. [1] https://www.gao.gov/assets/imtec-92-26.pdf
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CLRS remains canon.
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> This is not the 90s or 80s anymore when dropping $10k on a watch was a big move. To be fair, you're disconnected from economic reality if you think dropping $10k on a watch today isn't a big financial move.
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> In China, there was a case of baby formula execs knowingly selling product that was harmful and led to tens of thousands of hospitalizations and a handful of deaths. They were executed. To be sure, a dairy farmer (Zhang Yujun) and mi
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by metaphor 3y ago
This article[1] may be contextually useful. [1] https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ram/new-incredibl...
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by metaphor 3y ago
Recently mindblown that a single crunchy taco at a local Taco Bell costs $2.19 a pop. Wondered if anyone was using Taco Bell prices as inflation proxy similar to the Big Mac, which led to stumbling upon this.
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Price of tacos and more at every Taco Bell across the US(taconomical.com)
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The parent's remark suggests Tesla management was responsible and at fault; OSHA's disposition begged to differ, and that part was conveniently omitted from context.
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by metaphor 3y ago
You left out the kicker: > OSHA inspected this incident and fined the contractors.
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Italian citizens are quite capable of tax evasion without the aid of Web 3.0 services; it's apparently a "cultural" thing[1]: > The results show that the propensity to evade taxes is greater among households whose heads h
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by metaphor 3y ago
This. With respect to SolarWinds, we need only defer to their proxy statement to discover who the real shotcalling directors[1] and executives[2] are. [1] https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1739942/0
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This struck me as so absurdly anti-social with a pinch of blatant dismissal for why certain rules in public spaces exist to begin with that it reads like you're intentionally trolling the parent in bad faith. You know what also doesn&#
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by metaphor 3y ago
I understand it to be a matter of pragmatism over formalism, i.e. given an appropriate system, if you could probabilistically kick the can so far down the road that the chances of system failure become overwhelmingly dominated by factors ot
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It seems the author started with a notional combinational subcircuit presumably operating in a single clock domain, then summarily unloaded a foot shotgun by deciding an initial behavioral fix was to infer a flip flop clocked by an input si
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The 2016 epoch annotated in Figure 1 and language of Finding #1 are curious. +/- 1 year circa that time, there was also the Swiss Leaks...and Panama Papers...and Bahamas Papers...and Paradise Papers. Perhaps there's an argument in
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> How is what you want different from pressing delete? Compact and laptop keyboards; sometimes excluded, often poorly/inconsistently sized/positioned. There's a much better chance of Ctrl+Backspace being a consistent mov
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> AZ, CA, FL, TX, NY alone gets you to about 120m people. Not quite; ~71.8 million constrained to just individual income tax filings based on 2022 stats[1]. Excludes estate, corps, gift, tax-exempt orgs and excise, but includes both pa
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First off, the article is about Comcast and what they're pushing on largely existing infra, while my criticism was directed towards a remark which struck me as uncritically dismissing the value prop of deployed tech just because it m

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