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by positr0n 2y ago
How does the height affect the energy captured? Or are you meaning the steepness of the roof?
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by positr0n 2y ago
> we have not had a plane blow up into buildings since, so something must be working Yeah, 10 minutes after the event every person on earth now knows the best strategy is to rush the cockpit, not sit calmly and wait for the hijackers to
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by positr0n 2y ago
Same thing as Java. You could use this to run python in your clojure JVM process.
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by positr0n 2y ago
I can't find any of my neighbors' courts in here, but I do see one or two backyard courts in my city.
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by positr0n 2y ago
I can easily carry a week's worth of groceries (21 meals plus snacks) for my family of five in my old sedan. Even if the trunk is half full of junk just throw grocery bags in the back seat. I even managed to fit enough lumber for three
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by positr0n 2y ago
As a shareholder, dividends are income. Cash going in to your account that is taxed immediately. A stock buyback of 1000 shares means that your one share now represents 1/999,000th of the company, not 1/1,000,000th. Thus the share
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by positr0n 2y ago
> It's unclear if the planet will be habitable for the remainder of my lifetime Wow, can you share some studies that led you to that conclusion?
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by positr0n 2y ago
Uh. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1 Yes they are one launch platform, and the only launch platform capable of some of the things they do!
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by positr0n 2y ago
> It never gets a chance to say "man I should clear up some space cause I'm running out". To add to everything you said, depending on the type of framework you are using sometimes you don't even want it to do that. Th
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by positr0n 2y ago
Every time I get a new mortgage (in the US) I get a bunch of spam physical mail hawking this type of insurance. So it's a thing here too.
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by positr0n 2y ago
What engagement? The artist and the streams were all faked by one person. That's going to convince 100M more people to sign up?
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by positr0n 2y ago
Oh ok I thought that's what OP was referring to.
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by positr0n 2y ago
Wow bummer, do you have a good link about that? Screw worms are controlled very successfully this way, although they are sterilized via radiation not genetic modification. I wonder if that makes a difference. Sorry to ask you for a link and
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by positr0n 2y ago
Makes sense, but weren't you just saying that the desire for constant growth/capital gains is a bad thing?
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by positr0n 2y ago
Where are you that has office buildings that are too warm? Everywhere I've ever worked I bring a sweatshirt to the office because it's always freezing. And usually summer is even colder than winter!
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by positr0n 2y ago
We don't collectively contribute to save shareholders. When a bank goes under the depositors are made whole through government insurance programs. Shareholders get nothing. In 2008 I believe bailouts did go to companies to keep them af
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by positr0n 2y ago
What different effects do stock buybacks have on corporate governance compared to dividends? My understanding is both return $X/share of capital to shareholders, buybacks are just more tax efficient, flexible, and a little more difficu
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by positr0n 2y ago
That is a myth. From a recent HN comment: Previous studies have revealed some differences between canine and feline scavenging. Dogs tend to eat the face and throats of humans, then break the ribs and chew on bones. Cats, on the other hand,
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by positr0n 2y ago
I'd argue the opposite. You need to be a monopoly and have basically every eyeball in the country on your website for it to be worth spending the engineering hours optimizing a browser that only delivers a fraction of a percent of your
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by positr0n 2y ago
> a huuuge benefit is that outside of Delaware you can relitigate cases and argue for the exact opposite outcome as to whatever case law Delaware judges are bound by. How come this is a benefit? Unless you know ahead of time what conflic
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by positr0n 2y ago
I'm interested in what APIs he used to build this.
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by positr0n 2y ago
Wow that's my new favorite Texas geography fact. My old one is that Amarillo is closer to Chicago than Brownsville, at the southern tip of Texas.
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by positr0n 2y ago
Ally checking account with overdraft protection transfer-from-savings turned on and less than 5 bills a month :-P
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by positr0n 2y ago
I do the opposite and rename the current branch `thing-im-doing-borked` then fix it and reuse the old name with `git checkout -B thing-im-doing`.
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by positr0n 2y ago
A lot of their products are relatively far into the long tail of hardware projects. Enough demand in the market that it makes sense for a company to design and build them, but not so many units sold that all those design costs are easily am
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by positr0n 2y ago
Fun NI archeology story. When I was there in the early 2010s, I met a greybeard hardware engineer with a big chip mask poster on his cube wall. He told me they lost the schematics and all documentation to one of their first timing chips tha
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by positr0n 2y ago
Is this really true? Any sane person buying a business or evaluating creditworthiness looks at revenue and expenses, not just "mmm ok 400x rent" and call it a day.
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by positr0n 2y ago
> that can hold a few hundred gallons of water I was curious with all the talk of drywells in the comments, so I had to calculate it. Here in Texas my roof produces 68 gallons per minute of runoff during a typical heavy thunderstorm. No
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by positr0n 2y ago
While the rest of the allopathic information seems right to me, this is a common gardening myth: > Pine Needles: Their acidity can alter soil PH. The soil near pine trees is usually acidic, but the causality is reversed. Pine trees grow
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by positr0n 2y ago
How hot does it get where you live? In Texas no one I know has ever had their tomatoes survive into August. Blight and the heat kill the plants usually by mid July. You can plant new ones around this time for a fall harvest if you want, but

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