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by sib 3y ago
Europe is approximately 7% of the land surface area of the world. We don't all live in small, densely populated places :)
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by sib 3y ago
How many days are between Sunday and Saturday of this week (I live in a place where weeks are generally seen to start on Sunday and end on Saturday)? Five, right? Would you say seven? Guess I must be a "math folk."
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by sib 3y ago
Well, there are times when you're not charging overnight (e.g., get home with low battery, realize you only have 3 hours before next outing) and you get 50% more charging done in the same time, without having to go out to a Supercharge
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by sib 3y ago
They will have a non-free (as in beer) version once they exit beta (per the website).
365.
by sib 3y ago
Sorta? Historically you typically bought shares in blocks of 100 and the transaction fees were also meaningful. You couldn't easily buy 1 share of a $20 stock. If you had to buy 100 shares @ $20, that's $2,000 - in 1970 that was a
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by sib 3y ago
Hypothesis: With Monday.com or other startups, while there is risk that the company will shut down and the tool that you are depending upon will go away, the typical assumption is that they are doing their best to stay in business and deliv
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by sib 3y ago
Local governments would love it if all hotel taxes were embedded into the price. Travel (hotels & car rentals) in the US are industries where the average tax rate is much, much, much higher than the standard sales tax rates for goods so
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by sib 3y ago
Unfortunately, this is - like so many stupid things - governmentally-driven. In some US States (e.g., California), there are requirements on how many hours of training on topic X must be done every year. So if you finish faster, they litera
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by sib 3y ago
"sib's Mom" (78 yo, retired Spanish professor) enters the chat. And no, she has no idea what GPT stands for.
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by sib 3y ago
The Arlo system generally does use its own dedicated APs.
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by sib 3y ago
You can't truly interoperate with products that don't support all the features in the "originating" product. For example, iMessages long had full-resolution media support, encryption for multi-party messaging, and with
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by sib 3y ago
I think you have your timeline wrong. Android phones were seen as "not cool" in the US before Blue Bubble was a thing. iPhones have been aspirational and cool since shortly after their launch. (Source, worked in mobile / mobi
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by sib 3y ago
"Only two million reported fraudulent transactions per year" :)
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by sib 3y ago
>> Propaganding incorrectness because someone with power did it first is surely a symptom of something negative. Is there a name for it? Did you mean "propagating"? (Only asking because your comment was about incorrectness..
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by sib 3y ago
In fact, there are, as in much of Big Box retail.
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by sib 3y ago
I've lived in many houses in the US (eight, some new, some older, in five states) and only one had a deadbolt on the door from the garage to the house interior. All have had normal locks and were exterior-door-quality. So, definitely n
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by sib 3y ago
Thanks - good pointer!
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by sib 3y ago
Congratulations - you just became a Sr Product Manager!
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by sib 3y ago
For which they kindly charge you a fee
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by sib 3y ago
(4) Eat wonderful food that Chinese mother-in-law has kindly cooked & packed into many different containers for you.
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by sib 3y ago
(1) Put rice & water in rice cooker, press start. (2) Leash dog, go outside for long walk to clear the head after day of Zoom / Google Meet. (3) Come home 60-90 minutes later to perfect rice and a non-smoke-filled kitchen.
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by sib 3y ago
We use our Zojirushi about 5x / week. The cord was definitely the weak point of the design, having failed about a year into our ownership. The rest of the product works great.
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by sib 3y ago
>> 7.4% of professors have a Ph.D. from the same university that they are teaching at. MIT in particular has a high rate of self-hires, with 36% of their professors having MIT Ph.D.s themselves. When you believe you're the best,
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by sib 3y ago
When I was in university, the state I lived in paid $0.50 / mile for travel to jury, in addition to some trivial daily rate. I was called for jury duty via email sent to my home when I was studying abroad for a semester, 4,500 miles aw
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by sib 3y ago
>> Gmail famously scans the user emails to sell the info to third parties and sell adds Please stop repeating falsehoods.
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by sib 3y ago
Well, sorta. The contract between the seller and their broker/agent definitely reserves (typically) 3% for the buyer side broker/agent. What happens to that 3% is definitely under the influence of the buyer. We negotiated a 50&#x2
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by sib 3y ago
The fact that you are right disgusts me (nothing personal intended!)
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by sib 3y ago
Why is it ridiculous to allow for tax-excluded display of pricing? You couldn't run a TV or newspaper ad with tax-included pricing in the US since there are so many different taxing jurisdictions here (more than 13,000, as of early 202
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by sib 3y ago
Mostly, yes, but not completely. A better generic term might be an ILC (interchangeable lens camera).
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by sib 3y ago
Well, you're the one talking about a friend who takes many lives into his hands by doing this, so it's not about "loud exhausts." It's about someone who thinks so little of his own and others' lives that he&#x2

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