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There are of course potential failures, but not quite as violent as oceans gate. There is 1 atm of pressure difference between the inside and outside of the ISS. At titanic depths …

These funds don’t invest actively (picking individual stocks). Instead they invest in indexes that track larger portions of the market. So they’ll automatically buy once the compan…

If you play game theory optimal (GTO) then you by definition can not be exploited. For poker a GTO strategy is extremely complex where each decision you make depends on the exact s…

Veritasium did a great video on the opposite direction turning. They even show a bike that prevents you from turning the wheel one way to show that its essential. https://www.youtu…

"Im in! Wait! $8/month?! Go get mom's credit card"

> They didn’t really acknowledge that the majority of cancels are just normal people who post stupid Tweets that then lose their jobs and get radicalized. Can you provide any examp…

Usually its not easy to tell. There are often less ports and other obvious features, but who knows whats inside. I dont think anyone has ever done a component level breakdown like …

The newest ipad Air has touch id in the power/lock button on the side. I know production timelines probably made it impossible to do in reaction to COVID, but can you imagine if th…

The frame weighs 3 lbs, not the whole bike. The bike weighs 16.5 lbs which is a normal lightweight bike weight. Their e-bike supposedly weighs 24 lbs.

If you meant the older supra then that makes more sense. The Supra wasn't produced for many years and was recently re-released with this BMW partnership. Many old school Supra fans…

This is a funny comparison since BMW actually builds the Supra. Its basically a rebranded Z4. https://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/comparison-test/a310046...

You cant buy kindle books via the amazon app for exactly this reason. You can only download a sample. If you open the website in a browser though, you can.

Its more about the somewhat likely probability that a single launch provider will have a failure that necessitates a lengthy investigation during which they are grounded. Its nice …

As a UF CS grad, I bet less than 100 students will get hands on this computer each year. Maybe way less than 100. Although I wasn't a graduate student so maybe way more of them hav…

Its a $70M effort "anchored" by $25M cash donation and $25M in hardware. I've heard anchored used to indicate an initial "getting us started" donation at the beginning of a fund ra…

The vast majority of the criticism Rowling has received was not death or rape threats. Why do you ascribe that behavior to the entire "woke-left" (I'm assuming thats who you meant …

It already is. Its called theft of services. Never seen it applied to a conventional employee though, but why shouldn't it be? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theft_of_services#:~:te…

Are they actually focusing on problematic areas or just areas that they previously focused on? Wherever the most police resources are spent, you will have the most crime. That then…

My older Epson 8350 projector has a feature they call "Lens shift." When setting it up you make sure that it is perpendicular to the screen surface. Then it has two mechanical adju…

They will stay for 1 to 4 months. Its apparently partially dependent on whether they are prepared to launch the first actual crew mission on Aug 30. A crew swap would require astro…

That was about DoorDash (corporate) keeping tips intended for DoorDash drivers. The person you are replying to wants to tip the restaurant not DoorDash or their driver.

How certain would the experts have to be to get such coordinated action? With close approaches, it seems (as a layman) that there are always pretty large ranges of just how close t…

These same people also are less likely to have health insurance. The US is particularly vulnerable to something like this.

Its pretty in between as far as size goes. But it shares many parts with the 3 and most importantly is much closer to the 3 on price. The 3 Dual Motor Long Range is about $48k and …

Does imessage work to send and receive? I had previously seen a build where they said that not working was the only flaw.