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by pkaye 9mo ago
Yes it can be done on the state level. California passes consumer protection laws all the time. Some of the recent ones are listed here. The problems is people are waiting for Congress or the President to do something when it could be enact
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by pkaye 9mo ago
My podiatrist also recommended New Balance and it made a huge difference for my foot pain and various issues.
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by pkaye 10mo ago
Its hard to locate anything in their stores these days and its even harder to find any staff. So what I do is order for pickup and let them do the work.
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by pkaye 10mo ago
Craigslist killed off the classified section which was a big income source for newspapers. People didn't mind because Craigslist was free for most users.
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by pkaye 10mo ago
So how do other countries other than US define autism?
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by pkaye 10mo ago
I've writing one myself in Go the past few months just to learn the way CAS internals work. Got about 300 symbols working to varying degree. Complex numbers almost working. Basic rule system. Various algebra simplifications. Still tryi
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by pkaye 10mo ago
Maxima is based on the DOE (Department of Energy) fork of MACSYMA.
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by pkaye 10mo ago
Doesn't Denmark allow to move your mortgage rate to another house? That is even better than the US.
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by pkaye 11mo ago
I worked on SSD firmware for more than a decade from the early days of SLC memory to TLC memory. SLC memory was so rock solid that you hardly needed any ECC protection. You could go months of use without any errors. And the most common erro
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by pkaye 11mo ago
Doesn't Google use mostly C++?
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by pkaye 11mo ago
From what I can lookup in the US the order it is: 1. Secure creditors (like liens on specific assets) 2. Administrative expensive post bankruptcy 3. Priority unsecured claims like employee wages 4. General unsecured creditors like suppliers
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by pkaye 11mo ago
Isn't this just a patent application? Also what are the actual patent claims? I was not able to find a link to the application.
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by pkaye 11mo ago
FYI there is an 2 year old Asianometry video on this topic. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaEhNTpvEN8
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by pkaye 1y ago
I think its a heat dissipation issue. I have some overhead LED lights that replaced some halogen bulbs and they have huge metal heat sinks on the back and have all lasted 10+ years. Unfortunately they are no longer sold but I did buy a few
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by pkaye 1y ago
You can see a simulation of an 6502 CPU running here. http://www.visual6502.org/JSSim/expert.html Also this person has some simple tutorial on how a toy CPUs work. He even made a simulator so you can make your own usin
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by pkaye 1y ago
FSA does have the concept of rollover of up to $600 but its up to the employer to decide. I imagine that full rollover is not allowed because otherwise people would use the FSA to defer some tax payments to end of year. But there are ways t
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by pkaye 1y ago
It can get even more complicated here because you can have a county and/or city sales tax add-on so sales tax can vary from city to city.. Doesn't matter to much until you get into big purchases like cars that people starting buyi
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by pkaye 1y ago
Yes as the sales tax rules vary from state to state. The interesting thing is historically I think sales tax was only for physical goods if you download the software there is no sales tax but if you get a physical CD then its taxed. Some st
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by pkaye 1y ago
I came upon the Harrods 1912 catalog. Its interesting browse the catalog for what was available back then. https://archive.org/details/harrods-for-everything-images/mo...
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by pkaye 1y ago
Is there a lot of power generation in Tasmania? That is the main criteria for AI data centers from what I heard. Latency is less critical than cost of power.
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by pkaye 1y ago
This actually goes even further back to the Obama era in 2011. https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/text-of-spe... > Indeed, if current trends in the decline of European defense capabilities are not
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by pkaye 1y ago
Amazon basics is a private label just like Costco and the Kirkland Brand. Same thing with Walmart, Target, Trader Joes, etc. And if these SMBs don't have to deal with Amazon, they will have to deal with a dozen copycats from China for
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by pkaye 1y ago
This poll is also interesting. Business executives are rated higher than members of congress and slightly below TV reporters. https://news.gallup.com/poll/655106/americans-ratings-profes...
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by pkaye 1y ago
The article says it was largely self funded so maybe she would lose the most.
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by pkaye 1y ago
I've a kidney transplant patient and also have been on dialysis previously. The pain can come from fluid removal and electrolyte imbalances during the dialysis. The fluid removal is important because if you kidney fails, at some point
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by pkaye 1y ago
When Red Hat went public, they gave those who submitted a bug report or fixes a chance to buy pre-IPO shares. I got a chance despite just a minor bug report and bought some shares and despite some poor timing of selling, eventually made eno
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by pkaye 1y ago
> “I’m getting the shaft, on top of the shaft,” said John Wyllie, 60, from Bellingham, Wash., who won $5,000 a week for life from Publishers Clearing House in 2012. > Mr. Wyllie had been receiving an annual check for $260,000 every Ja
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by pkaye 1y ago
There is an Veritasium video where they visit that lab. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0amdIcZt5I
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by pkaye 1y ago
Its not clear what your point is? Both USPS and Amazon got heavily customized vehicles made for them. In the US the USPS is a government agency so any kind of government contracts get heavily securitized by the public but nobody cares what
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by pkaye 1y ago
The USPS is an US federal agency. At one time it even had a cabinet level position though not so any more. Its not private like in most countries. At the scale they buy these vehicles, it probably makes sense to get a custom one. Even Amaz

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