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by shard 6y ago
If a C is what the average should be, then the A's would all get normalized to a C.
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by shard 6y ago
Don't forget that Apple is a multinational megacorp, and is user centric only when it suits them. Consider Tim Cook speaking at the conference used by the Chinese government to promote internet regulation, saying that the vision of the
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by shard 6y ago
> Generally, when hand washing dishes, hot water is used. Typically ~5-10 times more water is required when hand washing Ah, is that so? I've not had a hand washing experience where hot water was used, I thought everyone used cold w
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by shard 6y ago
Are there those types of apartments in the US? The apartment complexes in NYC and California that I recall are not like that. Also, I don't think the parent post by harimau777 was comparing specifically with suburban single family hous
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by shard 6y ago
In some regions of the world, multi-family homes are actually preferred compared with single family homes. In Korea, modern apartment highrises offer many benefits that make them a more popular choice, including: better energy efficiency, w
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by shard 6y ago
How does it balance out when electricity use is taken into account? Saving water might be better in water-poor locations, but saving electricity might be better in high-electric-rate locations. In water-poor locations, it might be more adva
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by shard 6y ago
Isn't that pretty much equivalent to eSIMs though?
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by shard 6y ago
I was wondering if the meme was too old for most people to recognize.
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by shard 6y ago
I wonder if this article from Kinfolk was found by the OP after reading the recent article posted here about the Three Bay Areas, which used Kinfolk as an example of a snobbish lifestyle magazine, and went to check it out. I for one have ne
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by shard 6y ago
I don't think it's about operating a machine per se, it's about the danger level of the machine. As others have pointed out, there's been no attempts to regulate operating a bicycle.
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by shard 6y ago
You just had your servers hacked into and all your database are belong to them. The black hats demand X number of BitCoins as ransom, but you cannot pay because it violates certain laws. So you hire an intermediary who pays for you, thereby
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The farmer who cornered the onions market (2016)(farmprogress.com)
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by shard 6y ago
There's no need to contort an analogy. It's just like as if McDonalds pays more for the best employees, such as real estate analysts, beef sourcing agents, taste scientists. Other burger joints are then denied the talent. Nobody w
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by shard 6y ago
I believe a better analogy would be that the 11th company comes and is willing to pay higher costs while still selling at the same price. That company gets the best ingredients at that cost, the suppliers prefer to sell to that company, and
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by shard 6y ago
The Libretto! I had completely forgotten about my Libretto 100, which I carried with me to class and took notes on, as well as used in the field to debug HW issues, using the small dock and connecting field HW to the serial port. I took tha
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by shard 6y ago
In a similar vein, recently there is a trend of comedians making it very clear at the beginning of their sets that their job is to tell jokes and push the boundary of what is acceptable, as this is what the audience is explicitly paying the
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by shard 6y ago
You are correct. Such earnings are above the median. Note that typical incomes are heavily based on salaries, and will not have the expenses of a business owner (such as the ones I listed earlier), and thus the $150k income of the business
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by shard 6y ago
It seems like you are assuming that the few millions used in the purchase are 1. liquid, and 2. all from the owner. Many owners take out a loan to purchase property, so they are paying monthly mortgage. Also, the millions are locked up in t
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by shard 6y ago
You are right about Neiman Marcus, as they occupy huge spaces in shopping malls. However, GNC stores are very small, and many are in strip malls, which can cost only a few million to purchase, not out of the range of small business owners w
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by shard 6y ago
Here is Apple asking for 50% rent reduction in the UK: https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-reportedly-trying-to-n...
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by shard 6y ago
I was referring to landlords, which many of mine have been just small time business owners who scrimp and save to make a living. One lived in the garage of the house he was renting out in order to make ends meet. Technically they have the p
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by shard 6y ago
I don't understand this attitude that someone who decides to invest their money into real estate instead of the stock market should be derided as a plague on society, as if it's not much more work to be a landlord than a stock mar
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by shard 6y ago
A few months ago I took a safety training course. In the course the instructor showed us a video of a voice fire alarm, which talked along with emitting a shrill sound. The reason was that some people, especially children, could not be awak
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by shard 6y ago
Lawyers have no sense of humor is one way to say that they are risk adverse. After all, part of their job is to help their clients avoid worst case scenarios. Therefore, the weird kind of ambiguity in that license, which has no precedence t
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by shard 6y ago
I think it's fine that different social media companies target different demographics. There's no need to apply a blanket rule to all companies as to what content should be promoted on its platform. For example, people go to Netfl
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by shard 6y ago
In my travels to about 8~9 cities in China, I don't recall seeing anything that was dirtier than, say, Amsterdam or New York or Busan. Not having lived in Medieval Europe, I can't say exactly how dirty it was, but saying China is
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by shard 6y ago
The parent is talking about intent, not result. The work a PhD does is meant to push the boundary of knowledge, not that a PhD is required to push the boundary of knowledge. Same for the work of a programmer in a company, it's meant to
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by shard 6y ago
I thought part of the problem was the commingling of stock, so that even if the seller seems legit, the product you receive could be from a counterfeit seller?
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by shard 6y ago
If you consider display/battery/cameras/mechanicals, then by weight/volume/cost, most of the phone is designed in Asia.
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by shard 6y ago
Note that for non-Pixel Android phones, the Android that it is running is only part of the picture, and is permeated with non-Google code. The hardware driver code (BSP, or Board Support Package) is an external part; custom frameworks or li

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