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by wnissen 7y ago
To save anyone the trouble, the book value (no pun intended) is only $474 million. You'd think the inventory alone would would be work more than the average $675K per store that you get if you assume their other assets (minus debt) are
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by wnissen 7y ago
Le Grand K is dead! Long live Le Grand K!
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by wnissen 7y ago
That's very helpful, I was not aware. Thank you.
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by wnissen 7y ago
This seems... lousy? I love the individual flight (and recently, hotel) searches, but the freeform text doesn't do what I want. I entered "SJC,OAK,SFO to PDX" thinking it would take me to flights, but instead it just googled
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by wnissen 7y ago
True, there is a lot of variety there. Around here everything is properly lined and the water table monitored for various poisons, but that's not true everywhere. The methane is a very potent greenhouse gas, and I see little progress o
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by wnissen 7y ago
I looked at your link under "Mismanaged plastic by region" and it says that East Asia and Pacific is 71%: https://ourworldindata.org/plastic-pollution#mismanaged-plas... North America, Europe, and Central Asia com
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by wnissen 7y ago
Sorry, must have been hungry when I posted that! Not autocorrect, just an old-fashioned spelling issue.
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by wnissen 7y ago
You're picturing plastic waste in the oceans wrong. Most of it comes from fishing gear that's abandoned or lost, not disposal of waste like plastic bags. In total 80-90% come from Asian and African countries with poor environmenta
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by wnissen 7y ago
I'm in your lane, the more a veggie burger embraces the vegetables, not being a meat simulacrum, the better it tastes. The more beany a black bean burger, the better. I like the "Chik'n" patties but they are deep fried s
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by wnissen 8y ago
Hmm, I always take the fat straight out of the fridge and cut it with a knife so my fingers don't warm it too much. I'm certain I didn't over-work it. If anything, maybe I should have worked it a bit longer to give it some st
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by wnissen 8y ago
That was the most interesting part of the Mother Jones article to me. If you compare people who average 43 hours a week (but claim they are averaging 50), the folks who think they are working 70 should be working about 20 hours more a week.
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by wnissen 8y ago
That's the brand I tried this Easter for a tart. It was very soft, too soft for a pie. Do you use all lard?
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by wnissen 8y ago
Subsidizing? They are forbidden, period. My city is a Bay Area suburb and the last apartment building of any kind was built in 1978. Even if you could get zoning permission, the fee per housing unit is about $100K. This is supposed to cove
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by wnissen 8y ago
If you click through it is listed for each image. Helmet 1 is 5kg, the others seem less, down to about 2.5 for the smallest I saw.
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by wnissen 8y ago
Yeah, for_each is a great idea and if you don't have C++'s complicated reference / copy object model it works very well. But it's not as nice as an actual for loop.
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by wnissen 8y ago
Do you have a recommendation for a map that integrates trams? Thanks.
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by wnissen 8y ago
There are 1.3 million Realtors(tm) in the U.S. Imagine what a productivity boon it would be if even half of them switched to gainful employment versus rent extraction via their cartel!
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by wnissen 8y ago
Even worse, the upgrades are insultingly overpriced. $100 for 32GB of flash to get a Fusion drive, and $700 (again, extra) to get a 1TB when you can get a nice Samsung for $350 in that size. Ridiculous.
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by wnissen 8y ago
Because the internet used to be unimaginably small. It really was just a couple of researchers talking to each other. They weren't co-located (the entire point of internetworking) so they had to mail stuff to each other, but it was mor
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by wnissen 8y ago
But Mellanox is making niche equipment. You don't need an Infiniband interconnect if 10-Gig Ethernet will do the job. Only densely "coupled" problems, where the answer calculated on one core affects the answer calculated ever
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by wnissen 8y ago
WAIT, just updated to the latest version and it's working great now. All I had to do was set my Airport to use the Pi-Hole for DNS and now every device on my home network is 99% ad-free. Very impressive.
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by wnissen 8y ago
I bought the Pi-Hole kit for ~$US100 but was never able to get it to work properly with SSL/TLS sites despite some (admittedly cursory) Googling. It's a great idea in theory. https://uk.pi-supply.com/products/
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by wnissen 8y ago
Specifically, Jackson et al. chose a 3D conversion company to do the coloring, because one of the steps in a conversion is to separate out the various parts of the frame. So much of the work was already done. I "liked" this movie,
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by wnissen 8y ago
7 Habits made me think about certain things differently, but I had many people tell me that it really changed their life. Didn't do that for me, but "change your life" is a really high bar. Definitely How to Win Friends did.
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by wnissen 8y ago
And it should be far easier to do so with a self-driving car. There will have to be a mechanism for it to pay tolls, parking meters, etc. without human intervention. It's always been funny to me that inside a building on 5th Avenue it
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by wnissen 8y ago
Napolitano pizza is really hard to replicate in a home oven so why try? However, NY-ish pizza is possible. I use this recipe, which uses ordinary AP flour and calls for a rise of several hours or overnight so you can make it without a big p
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by wnissen 8y ago
The process is simple, but not absent.
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by wnissen 8y ago
90% fail within a year. That's not even really long term yet. I think the 5-year numbers are 95%. Depends on your definition of impossible, but...
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by wnissen 8y ago
I'm loving the ability to buy articles a la carte on Blendle. No relationship with the company. https://blendle.com/i/wsj-com/a-decade-after-the-housing-cri...
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by wnissen 8y ago
But isn't a big part of the conservatism that there is so little that can be tested at a macroscopic level? The existence of the neutron can be demonstrated with some polonium and berylium.

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