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Comment #49072930
At the risk of asking a really dumb question: Does this only work on PTFE or other flourine-compound surfaces?
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Comment #48269169
To be fair, good noise cancelling headphones nowadays have "transparent" or "ambient aware" modes that actually electronically pipe the outside noise in. (Whether the cyclists in q…
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Comment #47421859
I always assumed their free open weight models were either a prestige thing or else part of a poorly executed commoditize-your-complements strategy.
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Comment #46835173
If dollars were being repatriated, but as investment into financial instruments and real estate instead of purchases of goods and services, then that would not affect the trade def…
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Comment #46640907
Fracking. Before fracking people were worried about "peak oil", and being dependent on unfriendly governments for our basic energy needs. Then with fracking we realized we are actu…
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Comment #43176872
Did you need licensing / training to take on electrical work? Do you market yourself as an electrician or more just a handyman that does minor electric jobs?
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Comment #42059299
It would have been pretty silly for Harris to campaign on a Hope and Change™ platform, since that would imply she is doing a very poor job as incumbent.
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Comment #42059069
> From 2014 to 2020, migrants from outside Mexico and Central America — known as “extra-continentals” — accounted for 19 percent of immigration court cases. > In the last four year…
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Comment #41856067
The key difference here is whether your investment remains at risk. As long as the value of your investment is at risk, then the investment is considered unrealized. Once you cash …
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Comment #39767087
So does this mean that every sale of any building can take at least two months?
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Comment #38957392
Only $800,000? Hahaha I wish it were so affordable!
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Comment #38874065
It depends on what you think YouTube's product is. Are they a service that streams videos and recommendations to consumers, or a service that streams eyeballs and tracking data to …
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Comment #38490338
How is it different? Squandering typically means spending, which means the money is re-entering the economy, typically to people at lower rungs of the wealth ladder, and is not muc…
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Comment #35490671
Which brand / model? Please name and shame.
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Comment #34872771
> Eliminate the need to manage and inject API tokens into containers and servers and instead authorize containers and servers to perform those operations. What does this look like …
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Comment #34392799
What do you mean by M's and Z's?
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Comment #34291686
Can I ask, in places where showering that often is the norm, does one change into a new set of clean clothes each time? And does this basically triple the laundry chore burden?
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Comment #33606271
Of course, if you do warehouse products, and then try to take advantage of a squeeze, then you may get accused of price gouging.
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Comment #32991938
I understand deterrence. I am commenting on the doublespeak. "Holding a target at risk" here exactly means wielding a credible way to destroy said target. I would argue that replac…
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Comment #32989571
I love the phrasing used in this press release. > hypersonic weapon designed to hold high-value targets at risk We don't destroy targets anymore. We hold our targets at risk .
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Comment #31973870
In the US they are common at hardware stores. They are generally referred to as "star drive" screws and will cost more than standard phillips.
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Comment #31780916
Other
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Comment #31780915
Backup server regularly connects to production server to download data using simple unix tools
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Comment #31780914
Production servers connect to backup service using smart agent / client software