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>At $3/coffee (black, nothing fancy) purchased on average four times per week across 4.5 years of school, the total came to roughly $1,700 $3 x 2 people x 365 days = ~$2K A decent …

Sadly, this is not very practical. A lithium cell in itself is a chemical time bomb: if it gets mechanically damaged or short-circuited, it has enough oomph to burn your device, sk…

I find it rather worrying in the long term. Russia has been an extremely inefficient and corrupt state for the past 2 decades. Export oil & gas, import everything else, let the cro…

The quality of the political leadership is a direct consequence of what average people want from their leadership. For the past decade or so the modus operandi has been: 1. Print m…

The best time was at the peak. The second best time is now (*) * - not an investment advice.

It's from a press-release that is intended to minimize the fears among investors. So the number likely includes part-time youtube moderators, cafeteria staff, and a lot of other mi…

May I humbly ask for an example? In my personal experience, trying to rush a short-term solution while ignoring the long-term implications always makes situation worse. Like eating…

>You don't get anything "for free", and cutting supports like this will inevitably doom a sputtering economy, when the actual solution was almost certainly more government spending…

Like it or not, the mainstream liberal arts education has devolved into a religion of its own. For instance, we treat climate change not as an engineering problem worth solving (ho…

I also remember Air Canada or WestJet doing the same to some small air company offering cheap flights from Kelowna (?), but I cannot find the news piece. Does anybody here have a b…

The utterly inefficient and overpriced Canadian telecoms exist only because we allow one specific behavior: 1. A new local player comes to town, builds their own infrastructure (e.…

Heat keeps leaking out. The amount of stored heat is proportional to the cube of the linear size, the leak rate is proportional to the surface area (square of the linear size). Hen…

Don't blame the VCs, blame the public. Extra headcount absolutely increases your perceived credibility at an IPO, so they are growing this metric. In defense of the public, if 10 d…

They can and will use legal means to go after anyone trying to use the network this way in order to make the content less discoverable and discourage others from following suit. Be…

Curiosity question: has anyone done any work on reverse-engineering the Sony Mega Bass feature they used to have on old analog players (and ported to some early MP3 ones)? It sound…

That would paint a huge red target mark on filecoin's back, given that they raised over a quarter-billion. They would take it down faster than you can have an 8TB HDD shipped to yo…

More like an ad company driven by dark patterns that needs to pretend being good and nice and innovative as otherwise it will lose goodwill just like Facebook did.

>I can't think of a way to do things like proving that a particular debit happened. Prove to whom? Banks have multiple layers of redundancy (including internal logs, paper/PDF stat…

>For example, who wouldn't want a system that forces banks to track customer balances in a secure, private, and auditable data structure? Crypto doesn't force banks to do that. Als…

It's not that easy. Lots of Amazon's profits come from countless unprofitable startups blowing VC money on AWS. Google is swimming in money because numerous companies have generous…

IANAL, but I think what they are trying to say here is "We are not a bank. Dear SEC, please don't treat us like one - go ask Metropolitan for all your regulatory cravings". "Theref…

>So does that mean anyone with less than $250k is guaranteed their money? Is there any legal backing? No, it means that up to $250K of Voyager's USD is protected by FDIC in case th…