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Now compare the those grid and device designs to those of iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S: https://imgur.com/a/mett6HD And remember that these are design patents. Here are the relevant ones: https://patents.goo
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If you make student debt dischargable, the cost of the loan must also include the cost of insuring against borrower default. I.e. students who don't default must pay for those who do, plus an additional amount to due to uncertainty in
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I wrote some code to replicate this in the console, overlaying A054521 (in colors) onto their triangle (using _ and #) for any N. The output from running ./prime-triangle.py 74 is included as x_output_74.png. It's not fan
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> the spread seems to be inflated (as they probably make money with it) The Order Protection Rule of Regulation NMS makes this illegal (during regular trading hours).
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How is it unregulated? People have been sent to jail in US for practicing veterinary medicine improperly.
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Could you please explain why positioning would be hard? Since trains only move on the edges of a fixed graph, you'd think positioning would be super easy compared to almost all other indoor positioning applications.
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A large part of the tax burden in Norway comes from VAT (25% of sales to consumers), and the employer's payroll tax (14.1% non-porgressive).
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The cost of the solar panels doesn't necessarily come out of the buyer's pocket. Instead, the cost could come out of the previous landowner's profits, if prices are mostly determined by what buyers can afford. In other word
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You're describing accrual accounting, as opposed to cash accounting, and all public companies in US do indeed use accrual accounting.
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I set a breakpoint at drawArrays to verify this, and it's indeed rendering 10,965,264 vertices. It's using neither indexing nor triangle strips, so it uses no post transform cache, and the vertex count is needlessly inflated by a
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For static geometry like this, the entire scene should be uploaded to the GPU in a few calls when you open the page, and then never again. Only the transformation matrix, a 4x4 matrix which transforms vectors from world space to display sp
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I can't understand your description, but if you can connect any number of nodes to all other nodes in a single plane, you may have a career in electronic circuit design.
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Despite all the links in this article, as far as I can tell only two studies are referenced: a 1968 study of 95 male undergraduate subjects, and a 1973 study of 144 female undergraduates.
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The first page I get when Googling "effects of minimum wage", [1], does not take a particularly simplistic view of the issue. The first paragraph says: > Recent research shows conflicting evidence on both sides of the issue. I
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I had a similar experience a couple of years ago, watching Drumming at Lincoln Center without knowing what I was in for. Through the entire thing I was convinced it was an elaborate prank. A person walked in halfway through, instantly fell
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Isn't all of this for friend suggestions? The people you text most often are more likely to be your friends. Other services ask you to give them your email username and password, so that they can scrape your inbox to discover your con
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Assuming there has always been 50% light balls and 50% heavy balls, the probability of picking 4/4 heavy balls from the earlier period and 4/4 light balls from the later period by chance is 0.4%. Although this statistic might be l
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Back in 2016 it meant fabricated news, usually about politics. Donald Trump started abusing the term not long after it was revealed that the fabricated news at the time was mostly successful in targeting his followers, presumably to dilute
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I, for one, want a Tinder-like interface. Photo, title, synopsis, production budget, main cast, etc on each page. Swipe right to add to favorites, swipe left to reject. Choices presented best first as determined by machine learning model
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> Experience suggests that the right to privacy is the first thing to go in the event of a newsworthy crash in a Tesla Isn't that usually because the owner lied about using Autopilot?
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The 12 month forward earnings yield of S&P 500 was 5.4% as of last Friday, with a minority of analysts having updated their earnings estimate to incorporate recent tax rate changes. That yield means there's still an equity premium
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The second link is a partial duplicate of the first link; it contains nothing not contained in the first link. Maybe that's why?
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They are only system calls when you need to wait or wake up processes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futex
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If no transfers are necessary, that basically means it stops making money when your long or short position is maxed out. A transfer would be used to allow bigger long and short positions to be entered.
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MP3 frames are all full frames, whereas a key frame is a full frame that is followed by incremental updates.
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Maybe USDT is used in cross exchange arbitrage, where USD would be a lot slower and thus not worth as much.
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US stock exchanges don't run websites on which you can trade. However, during the flash crash in 2015 I was unable to place trades on either of the two brokerage sites I used at the time (USAA and Vanguard), probably due to other peop
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If you wanted to bail out the home speculators individually, the analogous approach would be to buy their houses at below the prices the speculators had paid, essentially a short sale. Remember TARP bought the assets for close to their real
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You don't remember the 99.999% being offered unjustifiable mortgages? That was a big part of the financial crisis.
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But you can already get this service without a robot, for example with Cleanly. For dishes this is far less cost effective.
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