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by pge 4y ago
in whitewater at least, 45 deg became the norm 25 years ago (except for slalom where closer to 90 was normal). Then it shifted further and now 30 is pretty much standard though 0 and 45 are not unusual.
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by pge 4y ago
first gen SE is smallest, and both it and the 2nd/3rd gen SE are smaller than the 11 pro (though the latter is closer, only 0.2" smaller in both length and width). The iphone 12 mini and 13 mini are both smaller than the 2nd/
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by pge 4y ago
a water turbine like this one - https://www.waterlilyturbine.com/ - is probably more reliable in an environment like that if there is a flowing stream.
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by pge 4y ago
Not OP, but I have convinced a surgeon not to use a general for shoulder surgery. I was fortunate to have had a previous surgery with a doctor that avoided general when he could, so I knew it could be done and that it worked well for me. To
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by pge 4y ago
Bit of relevant trivia - in a number of languages other than English, "canoe" means both the style of boat we call a canoe in English and the thing we call a kayak. To distinguish the two, the one we call simply a "canoe&quot
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by pge 5y ago
In the US, fines for moving violations identified by camera are the responsibility of the car owner, regardless of who was driving at the time of the infraction. The inability to identify the driver just means that the owner is not convicte
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by pge 5y ago
or “off the road” by neal cassady’s wife (Neal is the real Dean Moriarty of On the Road)
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by pge 5y ago
Zillow wasn't pursuing the strategy of a traditional iBuyer, which as you note is to lowball. Zillow thought they were providing a service of market-making and didn't consider the risks (I still don't see why it wasn't o
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by pge 5y ago
I am working through this right now with a house that I recently bought. No way around the restrictions, but we did find one loophole. Two related families (eg two families in which the respective fathers are brothers) can live in the sam
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by pge 5y ago
These kinds of regulations are extremely common (I might even go so far as to say they are the norm) in many US suburbs. Such restrictions are intended to prevent single-famiy homes from being used as large group houses. A probably intentio
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by pge 5y ago
The author of this paper is Ed Purcell - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Mills_Purcell If you studied physics in college, you may have used the textbook he wrote, Electricity & Magnetism.
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by pge 5y ago
The issue is battery life. Apple has figured that out for small phones, but no one has figured out how to make a small android phone with similar battery life to an iphone se.
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by pge 5y ago
More King Harald trivia: a story about King Harald making a boastful soldier shoot an apple off of his son’s head is the original source for the later legend of William Tell in Switzerland
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by pge 5y ago
I am actually surprised how high the price is given this. Hard for me to imagine Wordle is still popular a year from now.NYT must be counting on converting x% of Wordle users into subscribers so the acquisition price is effectively advertis
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by pge 5y ago
Not yet - if you look on pages 5 and 6 of that report, you see that births still exceed deaths in the US. Without immigration, though, population will stop growing in the next two decades (but it hasnt stopped yet).
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by pge 5y ago
I think what the previous poster was referring to is that the filings for the SPAC (acquisition company) are the same as any other IPO, but there's nothing in the SPAC (just money and a management team). For the company that gets acqui
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by pge 5y ago
We, the Navigators by David Lewis is another good book on the topic
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by pge 5y ago
As an American, I pronounce buoy as a two- syllable word: boo-ee. I have only heard buoy pronounced as “boy” in the northeast, not at all universal across the country.
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by pge 5y ago
much less so in the anglican church (which doesn’t really send anyone anywhere) than in the catholic church where priests are assigned to positions
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by pge 5y ago
I still remember the first time I used google maps. It was the first example I ever saw of what was then called AJAX, and it blew my mind. Without javascript, google maps would have been the same as mapquest (or any other mapping sites from
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by pge 5y ago
In some cases, the advantage of a SPAC is that it has a senior management team that will take over the acquired company (not unlike a PE deal). For some investors, this makes the target company more attractive than it would have been going
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by pge 5y ago
The cap table is not an official record, merely a presentation of data. The stock certificates themselves and the purchase agreements (or notes/safes) are the official record. So, edits or errors in cap tables (which happen a lot) are
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by pge 5y ago
Isn't is also true that the original pricing algorithm was built for a very different purpose? It was useful for getting a ball park estimate of value, but it was hardly accurate in the underwriting sense (for the reasons you point out
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by pge 5y ago
Incompleteness by Rebecca Goldstein is also a fantastic bio of Gödel that captures the historical context and significance of his work
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by pge 5y ago
The down round situation was probably the result of anti-dilution protection, meaning it was baked into the previous rounds documents, not something that was renegotiated. Anti-dilution protection basically says that if the company closes a
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by pge 5y ago
When I worked at a DoD lab in the 90s, there were PhD students that were essentially employees. Their thesis work was directly tied to the lab’s work, and they were at the lab every day. I do not known the compensation arrangement, but it c
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by pge 5y ago
impossible without cap tables, as it depends on how much capital has been raised an and at what valuation
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by pge 5y ago
some very large companies have been created in verticals that were already crowded, rather than wide open markets. In these cases, you don’t have to educate the customers, and you don’t have to create new budget line items. You can just rep
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by pge 5y ago
a previous book, Ryan Holaday’s “Conspiracy”, is also a really fascinating book about Peter Thiel and his take down of Gawker (a brilliantly executed multiyear plan).
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by pge 5y ago
Satellites were great during the cold war when the targets were consistent, and the satellites could be put in orbits with good coverage of those areas (eg Russian military bases). Spy planes like the SR71 and U2 that fly high and fast to e

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