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by volkl48 6y ago
Apple generally ships parts overnight to shops. I've worked somewhere that had an AASP as part of it. Occasionally there's a delay but around 90% of the time our guys could order up to about 4PM EST and have it come in for the mid
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by volkl48 6y ago
(far) Northern New England. And you would be right, that's an important consideration if there isn't an appropriate backstop. The topography up here has granted plenty of appropriate natural backstops, however. (And some not so na
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by volkl48 6y ago
For a similarly opposite perspective as someone who's currently in a rural area: I can go out back, set up target(s) and plink away basically anytime I want. Might even do it this evening if the ammo I ordered finally gets delivered to
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by volkl48 6y ago
You are probably already aware, but if you want cheap, dependable cables, that's basically Monoprice's primary business.
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by volkl48 6y ago
The UC system has a budget of ~$35 billion, an endowment of ~$21 billion, ~225k staff, and ~300k students. I'll also remind that the UC system isn't just "education", so it's difficult to draw direct comparisons fro
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by volkl48 6y ago
There's only about 10 countries in the world which have enforced mandatory voting, and a couple more where it's on the books but never enforced. And plenty of those are not exactly examples of good governance or non-extreme politi
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by volkl48 6y ago
Trackpad cables are liable to fail about every 1-3 years on the 13", and the 15" had the battery issues. Not the end of the world, but not perfect devices from a hardware quality standpoint.
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by volkl48 6y ago
In Boston, there's an outdoor public market (Haymarket) that operates Friday/Saturday and basically sells dirt cheap produce (and some fish/other food). The catch, is that it's whatever the wholesalers couldn't sell
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by volkl48 6y ago
Have your replaced the actual dimmers, though? I'm sure there's someone who can explain it in more depth than I can, but even "dimmable" LED bulbs likely won't work correctly (flicker, not dimming as low as they sho
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by volkl48 6y ago
Not generally in the short term, but over the longer term increased heat is going to make it more likely that the chip fails prematurely. Of course, if you do something like not attaching the heatsink at all, it's plausible that heat c
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by volkl48 7y ago
Here in the US, Metro-North (one of the 3 major NYC-area commuter rail systems) was running bar cars until 2014. You can bring your own alcohol on all 3 of the NYC-area commuter rail systems and drink if you want with the exception of some
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by volkl48 7y ago
The Supreme Court (and other courts) have held mandatory quarantines to be legal, including of entire areas and not just persons known to be infected. It would logically follow that if the quarantine is legal, penalties for violating it are
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by volkl48 7y ago
(I was also there, had a great time as usual). PAX East basically only happened IMO because it was already in motion by the time the COVID-19 concerns really blew up. Ironically, the early date that no one was happy with probably saved the
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by volkl48 7y ago
From what I've been reading, it's looking like the most obvious immediate impact is a supply-side crunch, not demand-side. Things are not getting made/made at normal rates, and that's starting to ripple up through supply
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by volkl48 7y ago
This was actually addressed in one of Levine's columns last week (scroll to the second heading, titled "Efficiency") https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/opinion/articles/2020-02-20/mo... Worth a
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by volkl48 7y ago
> I'm currently paying the minimum premium that they'll charge for any renter's insurance policy; $125/year Unless that number varies by state, someone may not be being honest with you. I have a renter's policy w
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by volkl48 7y ago
You are comparing the entire metro area population to housing units under construction only within the NYC city limits (and the population within NYC city limits is ~8.4 million). I agree there needs to be a far faster rate of housing devel
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by volkl48 7y ago
Yes, at least indirectly. The majority of people using Excel in a business environment at least sometimes use those functions, even if most don't actually understand them. There is just about always someone in the office/departmen
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by volkl48 7y ago
I will point out that HGST is owned by Western Digital and all their products are being rebranded to WD.
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by volkl48 7y ago
So, I have been professional staff at two different major universities in the past. It's easy to point at certain areas of staff growth as excessive (cue someone quoting the number of "diversity" administrators at college X)
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by volkl48 7y ago
I'm not sure I agree with the notion that the sole reason for continued urbanization is employment access. I think we've reached a point where a large and growing portion of the population wants a level of amenities/services
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by volkl48 7y ago
Regarding point 2: The developed world birthrates are well below replacement rate and likely staying that way, but that's not new. (Also, East Asia has the lowest birthrates in the world, not the US/Europe). The world news story i
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by volkl48 7y ago
Not really, no. If you work in a smoke-filled bar for 20 years or something, second-hand smoke is probably bad for you although the evidence for even that is much weaker than originally claimed. Second-hand smoke outdoors in open air has ve
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by volkl48 7y ago
> 1. Weight change, either bulking on muscle or fat can change your optimal dose for medication... And it's my opinion (and totally just my opinion) that starting to treat ADHD usually leads to a weight gain, either by getting you m
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by volkl48 7y ago
Yes, it does. It's commonly done for things like this/events and almost certainly what Tiffany did here. (PDF) - http://www.nyc.gov/html/nypd/downloads/pdf/public_informatio...
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by volkl48 7y ago
I think I generally agree with you there. But I don't expect to be seeing ski areas becoming generally untenable operations in the Eastern US until many decades in the future, other than maybe some of the southernmost areas (there&#x27
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So, no climate skepticism here, but I'll push back on the idea that (to date) things have changed that drastically on the East Coast (USA). East Coast skiing has always been a pretty marginal operation, especially when we aren't t
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by volkl48 7y ago
A skeptic might suggest that a major plane crash (a very uncommon event), occurring in Iran at the moment of maximum military tension (after Iran had launched missiles at US bases and could be expecting a response), is a pretty unlikely coi
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by volkl48 7y ago
As far as I can tell there's still no actual mechanism in existence to enforce GDPR against an entity which has no significant operations in/financial exposure to the EU. The GDPR text basically says "we'll ask other cou
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by volkl48 7y ago
Tinkersphere Electronics, 152 Allen St (Manhattan) - as the name indicates, hobbyist focused. Allstate Electronics - Jamaica Queens - Old school distributor, has basically every electronic component under the sun. If you head out to NJ, the

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