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Uber didn't originally have tips but the US Uber drivers wanted tips and pushed to implement it.
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I believe its a byproduct of stem cell transplant treatment for blood cancer combined with the luck that the matching donor having a mutation that protects against HIV.
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What other countries export security?
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2) Computer crashes cost lives. If e.g. your doctor's device has an issue mid-> surgery, you potentially pay. Given that software can also crash, I'd go with a different approach: Redundant Array of Inexpensive Computers. For m
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by pkaye 3y ago
I don't use KDE but recently came upon some wallpapers on store.kde.org that I really liked. Particularly the Ketsa Color ones. https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=299&ord=latest
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The Computer History Museum has a oral history of Frederico Faggin which is really interesting to read. https://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/10265802...
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Which laws are Mozilla using to get the data brokers to remove personal info in the US. I know there is such a law in California but is there also a federal law?
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What about the "right to try" option in the US? https://www.fda.gov/patients/learn-about-expanded-access-and...
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If someone wants to remove the old lines from the pole to the house, who would do that now? I don't use my landline anymore and trying to cleanup the clutter of old lines.
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> My understanding is that in a lot of countries, the perspective is backwards from what we have in the US. Which countries do it that way?
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I got the total employees for the past few years for a comparison: 2019: 118,899 2020: 135,301 2021: 156,500 2022: 190,234 2023: 182,502 https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/GOOG/alphabet/numb...
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I doubt there is advertising for generic drugs.
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Thanks for the feedback. I'll seriously consider the Canon because the my Brother 5900DW is causing me so much problems. I don't print a lot so not too concerned about 3rd party cartridges.
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Anyone have thoughts on Canon laser printer? My Brother laser printer keeps on having lines and dots despite changing the toner and fuser. I've kind of given up on them. Canon seems much lower price for a similar feature set so I'
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> The FDA approval was based on results from a multicenter clinical trial led by the Mayo Clinic involving over 1,000 patients across 22 clinics. Medical tech often requires clinical trials so there is some cost to that. And it can also
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There is also the lithium in the California Salton Sea which is further along in getting into production. https://www.energy.gov/eere/articles/us-department-energy-an...
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If you want to deal with luxury goods of the rich, go after Louis Vuitton. It has a market cap of $362B. The world doesn't need expensive handbags. Atleast SpaceX is lowering the cost of launching satellites into space.
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How is Framework power management in Linux? Does it need lot of tweaking in mainstream distributions/
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Alameda county has high sales rates actually.
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Is there active work being done on the DSA code recently?
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How many satellites does it have up in space?
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Majority owned by US companies.
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I'm curious how many cargo ships does the US have?
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US Navy Mechanical Computer training film from 1953. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1i-dnAH9Y4
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Yes I looked it up and it was one of those Amstrad PCW computers.
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My dad got me a Amstrad system here in the US when I was a teenager. It was sold as a word processer system with a high resolution green monitor and a nice printer. But it was not of use for anything else due to the nonstandard floppy form
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I looked it up and the eZ80 is instruction set compatible with Z80 so I think it could run old CP/M binaries. You would have to customize the BIOS to add support any IO devices.
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It would be Windows™ subsystem for CUPS.
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I wonder if Oliver Heaviside's house still remains. He rewrote Maxwell's equations in the form we used today.
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Based on some JPL documentary videos, I recall the engineers involved intentionally over-specced the components on the hopes that the mission would be later extended to go further out into the solar system. Check out the JPL channel on YouT

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