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by yardie 4y ago
This site is great and I'm so glad I found it. Car shopping has been challenging and this is an invaluable service you've created.
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by yardie 4y ago
Our problem was we had a less than 24 hours to transition to work from home. Someone came down with COVID symptoms and spread it to the office and no one wanted to come in. We didn't have enough laptops for 250+ employees. Developer eq
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Let me take you back to March, 2020. When millions of Americans woke up to find out there was a pandemic and they would be working from home now. Not a problem, I'll just call up our cloud provider and request more cloud compute. You j
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There is a website, https://markups.org/ , dedicated to listing which dealers are marking up and which are not as reported by users. So far, south Florida is a basket case and almost every dealer is charging huge markups. h
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> the circumstances involved are emergencies and not just routine LE requests. Fine, every routine LE request is now an emergency. Because one thing US LEOs are known for is their reserve in only requesting just the absolute minimum to
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> I have no interest in sitting atop of a napalm bomb while zipping around town. This is ironic considering ICE cars have a large reservoir of the primary ingredient in napalm. And with every new technology there is always a ramping pha
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by yardie 4y ago
I've hung onto my old MBP 2015 for way too long simply for the keyboard. If I could upgrade just the CPU I would, but it has rarely been the limiting factor. I've already changed the original SSD to a faster 1TB.
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by yardie 4y ago
> At least in the 2000s a 4x8 sheet of plywood will not fit in a compact pickup but lays flat in a fullsize. I hate to break it to you but the F150 XLT Crew Cab tops out at 6.5ft. Your 4x8 plywood won't fit with the gate up. And if
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by yardie 4y ago
They operate at 100s of bits per second not fast enough to transmit live video so your back to line of sight.
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Please point them out. All the UUVs/AUVs I've found are either tethered to a buoy or completely autonomous and only transmit when the surface. In all practicality there is no completely untethered ROV on the market. Acoustic contr
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by yardie 4y ago
Doesn’t work on any unlicensed frequencies. 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz are absorbed by water. Militeary submarines use VLF frequencies. With a mile long antenna. So tether is the only real practical method.
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> They hold our childrens’ futures hostage and get paid out by politicians buying votes, who pass the bill to the next generation. Are you confusing the school board with the teachers union? One sets curriculum, class size, and budget. T
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> By signing a card or filling out an online authorization form, you are authorizing the ALU to speak on your behalf. Yeah, they were great at listening before. Also, where are these unions where the people in it aren't the people i
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by yardie 4y ago
There are a few studies done. Here is one carried out by the NIH around NC. [0] In summary they are noticeably elevated but not as high as, an example, Flint Michigan. Lead blood levels do fall off precipitously after ~2km. [0] https:&#x2F
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by yardie 4y ago
This seems like such a cop-out excuse. We'd rather harm potentially millions of people with toxic materials rather than inconvenience a few dozen aviation enthusiasts. Progress moves forward, if these old engines can't function in
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I actually go to the dealership (VW) for routine maintenance and I have a local, specialized Euro/VW mechanic for more expensive repairs. Dealership service centers are the training grounds for specialized mechanics. So it's bette
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> Amazon told the judge in Bryson’s case that it could not meet NLRB demands in a subpoena to provide the thousands of disciplinary notices it delivered to employees that year, calling the requirement “unduly burdensome.” For a company n
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by yardie 4y ago
I love those little interruptions. Like when a guest is speaking on a topic and they bring up a name or company of the past. And that segues into another bit of SV lore.
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by yardie 4y ago
Iridium Go is designed to hit a price point. Whats the cheapest way to get data out in the middle of the Atlantic and is basically plug and play. It has leapfrogged SSB packet radio as the preferred, low cost data service. Also data is not
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You can already get these speeds on Ku-band satellites, just higher latency, with real global coverage.
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by yardie 4y ago
"$5,000/mo with a one-time hardware cost of $10,000 for two high performance terminals." Definitely aimed at the champagne caviar, St Barts crowd rather than the hard scrabble, cruiser on a fixed income. In other terms, Iridi
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by yardie 4y ago
The arenas were smart and got their money up front, in dollars. If crypto.com goes under the naming rights becomes collateral and can be auctioned off. And it’s in LA no shortage of buyers willing to take over that name.
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by yardie 4y ago
Last summer when options were limited we had kids flying in for our summer programs. It’s not intense but you will qualify to join a school or club team in the fall. This summer because of pent up travel demand for the last 2 years even our
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by yardie 4y ago
Youth sailing. We had kids flying in from all over the world to learn and compete. Other youth sports such as basketball, soccer, football were effectively shutdown.
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I volunteer as a coach and we’re facing an enrollment drop due to the pandemic being over. When schools were closed we were considered one of the safer sports due to social distancing. Now, we’re losing kids to indoor online gaming and cont
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by yardie 4y ago
The GPU makers aren’t exactly making fans in-house. There is probably a seller on AX with the exact part needed. I’ve had great luck in finding replacement parts for pretty niche hardware.
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Yes, not only do they offer it but some insurers will give you credit card gift cards to help pay for treatment. That is how dysfunctional our medical system is at this moment. Providers will lock insurers at one rate, negotiate a different
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by yardie 4y ago
Because country music is also black music. And there have been Black, country musicians as long as country music has existed. But you wouldn’t know them because of the racist history of Nashville music industry.
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For those that don't understand the implication of this: Criminals get guns through burgling and robbery. By included such detailed information on who's a registered gun owner, where they live, etc. It makes the gun owner a lucrat
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I'm on a few non-profit boards and one of the things I don't see the author mention at all or specifically is the primary directive of the board is the financials. The CEO/Director is in charge of the day to day operations. T

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