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by positr0n 3y ago
Can you expand on the mechanism behind this other justice system? If it takes more money than rent, why do it. If it takes less money than rent, then everyone could not pay rent then have access to the money to access the separate justice s
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by positr0n 3y ago
Cleaning dryer lint does massively spike PM 2.5. As far as we know, any PM 2.5 probably is bad for you and could reduce your lifespan. https://dynomight.net/humidifiers/ That being said I have no idea if it's wort
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by positr0n 4y ago
I recall a few Falcon 9 launches that ended up with 8 engines. It is definitely designed to handle that (although maybe not for the extreme performance cases? Not sure) At least once they lost the booster when they were planning on recoveri
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by positr0n 4y ago
Illiquid and insolvent play off each other to the point that one implies the other at this state. The only way to make back the $100 they spent on a 1.25% 10 year $100 treasury was to wait 8 more years. Those 8 years they'd either have
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by positr0n 4y ago
Where is this area? 1 acre lots 30 miles N/NE of Dallas in desirable areas with good school districts are well over $200k these days.
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by positr0n 4y ago
I believe one of the regulations there were able to skip because of the $250B change is submitting to a stress test.
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by positr0n 4y ago
Worse case, imho, is your company has trouble making the next payroll since most of it's funds are temporarily inaccessible. And after the dust settles they take a ~10% haircut on all the cash they had in the bank. SVB still has lots o
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by positr0n 4y ago
Because you don't care about the number in your bank account, you care about what you can buy with that number. Park your cash in a 5% instrument for a year and you can still afford 3-4% less stuff than you could at the beginning of th
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by positr0n 4y ago
Another reason I've seen given is that notifications for replies can lead to long back and forth flamewars between users.
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by positr0n 4y ago
Plus, most insects lay thousands and thousands of eggs. Whatever the carrying capacity of the local environment is, insects will fill it quickly. Pesticide use and loss of habitat make that carrying capacity smaller. Smashing bugs on your c
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by positr0n 4y ago
It's business. They aren't going to lose goodwill for selling their product to the highest bidder unless they are reneging on contracts or something crazy like that.
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by positr0n 4y ago
I and several other programmers I know use a 43" monitor an arms distance away. I run it at native resolution, like it's 4 1080p monitors glued together with no bezel. I can definitely tell reading text is exactly like reading fro
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by positr0n 4y ago
Surely you could make a far greater environment impact by donating $50 to a conservation or carbon credit charity instead of spending $100 on $50 worth of groceries that have less plastic in their supply chain.
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by positr0n 4y ago
I thought babies would breast feed for 3 to 6 years. Even today the WHO recommends 2+ years.
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by positr0n 4y ago
I read a comment here years ago saying that in ancient times the average woman would have only a few dozen menstrual cycles in her life. Most the time between puberty and menopause you were either pregnant or breastfeeding. Does the book di
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by positr0n 4y ago
Given the poorer efficiency, wouldn't it be better use of limited money and resources to put regular tiles on houses and normal solar panels somewhere else? (Honest question. I've always wondered why residential rooftop solar, esp
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by positr0n 4y ago
Surely after 4 years you'd know if they were worth it and convert to an employee if that was your only concern.
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by positr0n 4y ago
And of the 4 above the US, 2 are smaller oil producing nations, one is Switzerland, and the other is Luxemburg.
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by positr0n 4y ago
My intuition says, due to the speeds and sizes of the two vehicles and latency of communications there'd be no way to figure out if the interceptor will successfully hit the nuke until it's too late. If the interceptor misses the
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by positr0n 4y ago
Probably the juxtaposition of terms New and "Relic" when relics are supposed to be ancient objects.
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by positr0n 4y ago
> Plenty of low-income folks would be eager to get an extra $500 a month for doing nothing. If this hypothetical low income person owned the LLC so that others could operate it, nothing is stopping them from cleaning out the LLC's b
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by positr0n 4y ago
What would be the benefit of the telescope orbiting other planets than earth?
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by positr0n 4y ago
Ooh boy, I bet you could do an entire sociology PhD on this topic if you wanted. We just built a house with the very opposite. Kitchen is the center of the home. I want to be able to cook and converse with people in the dining room or the l
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by positr0n 4y ago
Private gifts are not taxed until it is over $12 million dollars (the estate tax limit). The IRS does require you to report it if it goes over $16k from one individual to another . This is solely to keep track of that $12M lifetime gift lim
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by positr0n 4y ago
What was your schedule that it didn't work with your spouse? I know couples where one does IF and they just eat dinner together, but that's the only meal most couples/families eat together anyway.
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by positr0n 4y ago
What is stopping the server from processing them in parallel when using H3? What OP said seems accurate to me.
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by positr0n 4y ago
> It’s been a while, but I remember most of those “National Merit” type things to be not very important or relevant. That's what I thought when I was a kid, but it turns out that the important college ranking system uses "numbe
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by positr0n 4y ago
In addition to the storage, which was a big reason, the UI was miles ahead of the competition at the time. Remember this was in the IE 6 days. I remember reading a Google blog post about how they reverse engineered some aspects of the IE Ja
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by positr0n 4y ago
Interesting. I just asked the builder that built my house* and he said his business hasn't slowed down at all. His primary location since I'm sure that matters a lot: suburbs north of Dallas. * We got the land right before the boo
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by positr0n 4y ago
Which is for non-average Joes too :-) That is the only place you can buy I Bonds. They aren't marketable securities you can buy and sell anywhere else.

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