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by rbritton 8y ago
I would posit that BluRay has been less successful for two other reasons: 1. DVD video quality is good enough for most. 2. The Combination of DRM, unskippable portions, and similar is enough of a barrier to discourage the upgrade. Personall
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I wouldn’t expect anyone to maintain something unprofitable indefinitely, but Google’s reputation is to offer something free long enough to destroy any existing market and then kill it when there’s no one left to fill the void. It’d general
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There's also no guarantee on the duration of this program. From their FAQ, it appears that it's renewed annually, so it would be very easy to dig in roots only to find out the program has been ended shortly after. At the risk of g
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Are coal mines hot like deep metal mines? In The Deep Dark [0], it started that many of the miners skimped on safety devices even when available because of the extreme temperature and humidity if nothing else. [0]: https://www.am
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Netflix blocks virtually all VPS provider IP ranges, so you can’t even host your own VPN to work around it.
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I purchase a decent amount of digital-only content, and I always strip the DRM off of it. It's relatively easy to do this with content purchased in iTunes.
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I absolutely hate their charity solicitation. If I’m going to donate to anything, it’s going to be a charity of my own choice after a thorough vetting with no middlemen. Next time I go there, I’m tempted to request they round down my total
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Down on my end.
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This category of issue is surfacing more and more in marketing of a variety of products and services. Advertisers are using terms that traditionally meant one thing and then redefining them via fine print legalese. Further, they're als
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Don’t always assume the full tip goes to the employees. At a place I used to work, the employer took 50% of the gratuity charge for all banquets. If you want the employee to get it, tip in cash.
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Vegas has discovered that it doesn't really matter what they charge. People will pay it. Gone are the days where they subsidized food costs with gambling revenue -- I really wouldn't be surprised if the casino floor cocktailers di
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The worst part of this situation is that it really accomplishes nothing while opening up avenues for potential abuse. Access to the guest floors did not require any proof of occupancy despite the elevators being equipped with keycard reader
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One member in our group had a fairly rude encounter with two Caesar’s security personnel late at night because housekeeping had failed to record a cleaning.
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Many projectile options are likely to only be legal in more rural areas. For example, our local municipal code states: "No Shooting" means any shotgun, fowling piece, rifle, BB gun, air compression rifle, pellet gun, revolve
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Having just done similar at a smaller scale, that's plausible. A solar charge controller for that capacity is $600-1000 on its own, and the Victron control panel mentioned is north of $500.
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I went the Victron route on my setup, primarily because they make whole systems that can talk with each other. I had originally been looking at the Magnum, though.
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Air conditioning is incredibly power-hungry when powered from an inverter. My solar experience is with an RV, but even with that lower-powered AC unit, you can realistically expect only 30-60 minutes with the batteries an RV can carry. A ho
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I was a professional photographer for about ten years, and it definitely had a big negative impact on enjoying it as a hobby. The biggest factor contributing to that without question were the problem customers that came along. I enjoy creat
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Coins seem largely used anymore for tax. How common would any coin smaller than a quarter be without a percentage-based sales tax? Virtually every price is close to either the $.50 or the $.00 mark -- it's the tax that creates the need
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I don't find that to be a valid excuse. If a law is worded in such a way that companies or individuals will frequently get it wrong, it's probably a bad law. Call me paranoid, but that seems like it just sets a person up with an e
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Something like ten years ago now, Washington State changed their sales tax requirements in a way that required the seller to look up the four-digit rate code of the buyer, both for determining the rate to charge and later for remitting to t
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Washington State has a line item on the report for over-collected sales tax. I don't know what happens to that number, though.
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You need the address to charge them the _correct_ sales tax. In Washington State, the rate is based on the address where the product is delivered, so in the case of your example sandwich, that's the address of the deli.
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Mac? I like Shuttle for SSH organization: https://github.com/fitztrev/shuttle
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Not necessarily. I used to get the newest model every other year. Following the discontinuation of the 17" laptop, I held onto that until it died, only then buying the newest MBA. On the desktop side, my Mac Pro is eight years old now,
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If it’s anything like here you probably would. In Washington state, most power is generated by dams [0]. For whatever reason, most (all?) renewable energy laws in this state do not consider hydro to be renewable. [0]: https://ww
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I did this for a while, and it was a decent headache to maintain. I had pfSense running at the Comcast edge and configured it to route all but specifically whitelisted traffic through a VPN I controlled. Speed was slower than max but accept
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To add one other note, HP ammo has the additional (generally beneficial) property of penetrating significantly less than something like FMJ. Through its design it imparts the bulk of its kinetic energy on the first obstacle it hits, which g
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That ignores the psychological factor and assumes those soldiers will just follow the order. I don't think that would be the case, particularly as they're the type of people that typically own multiple firearms personally.
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You're comparing two different numbers. The parent is referring to net firearm crimes while the data you cited is "mass shooting deaths". If you check CDC data through 2016 ( https://wonder.cdc.gov ), the non-suicid

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