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Comment #48595191
The timeline lists "Sled tracks seen to broken bond ice, EMS called" at 16:44. He was pulled from the water at 18:57. The article text further clarifies: Parents discovered sled tr…
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Comment #48581532
Broadcom is publicly listed with a public float of about 98% (i.e. 98% of it's shares are listed publicly). You're right that most shares are held by institutions (~80%), but that …
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Comment #48288675
Intranasal Human NSC-Derived EVs Therapy Can Restrain Inflammatory Microglial Transcriptome, and NLRP3 and cGAS-STING Signalling, in Aged Hippocampus https://isevjournals.onlinelib…
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Comment #45872093
>Nintendo is a small privately-held company Nintendo is a TSE-listed public company with a market cap of about USD 110 billion.
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Comment #45277607
Just to add another data point, the co-CEO indicated on a podcast 18-months ago that the sensor package cost was "But saying, you know, picking an upper bound, $100,000 worth of eq…
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Comment #45276823
And GO in Tokyo. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(Japan)
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Comment #45276265
You're right, but it's not quite so black and white. They are certainly continuing to build out coal capacity, but they are building solar/hydro/nuclear/wind generation at a greate…
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Comment #45060032
Firefox via "Google Safe Browsing" also: >Firefox blocked this page because it may trick you into doing something dangerous like installing software or revealing personal informati…
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Comment #44668351
I think you meant capacitors. Resistors would just dissipate the energy as heat. edit: Thanks for the correction. They do indeed use resistors and just dump the energy as heat. Unf…
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Comment #44668338
Not sure about the US, but the Japanese didn't stop focusing on hybrid development. More than half of all sales in Japan are hybrids, whereas electric is only a few percent [1]. Ho…
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Comment #44419737
Chinese EVs are certainly strongly tariffed. The below Reuters article highlights how BYD are apparently shifting to plug-in hybrid sales to avoid the 27% tariff the EU imposes on …
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Comment #44375399
Just a reminder to ensure that you have brownout detection enabled on the CPU/MCU (assuming it's available) and are checking for it in your firmware. Supply drops can be very brief…
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Comment #44315359
>I’m trying to find the directive to force student social media profiles to be public but can’t find anything yet. It's on all the US embassy sites, although it says "are requested…
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Comment #44217509
True in many places, but in Hong Kong, the cost of an A&E visit or hospital admission for the author (presumably on a student visa) at that time was about USD15/day.
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Comment #44090218
It is, but they fill them with silicone when they remove it. The brackets I was referring to are about 70cm wide, so no chance of leaving them there.
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Comment #44083866
I find the single apartment scaffolding to be the most amazing. These guys turn up at the door of your 30th floor apartment with a bunch of bamboo poles and nylon strips and a coup…
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Comment #43690310
It's certainly possible. Tracing the MCUs IO lines to LEDs/buttons/relays etc on a PCB is usually pretty straightforward. I have just finished doing this and writing replacement fi…
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Comment #43619410
And Never Let Me Go , which was also made into a movie I believe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Let_Me_Go_(novel)
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Comment #42819540
Aqara is a bit of a mixed bag. A lot of their switches are not Zigbee certified and don't conform to the standard. Specifically, they won't bind directly with devices from other ma…
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Comment #41577744
I mean, it's not like it would be out of character. Calling such accusations propaganda is a bit much. China forcibly returned nearly 10,000 in overseas crackdown: report https://w…
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Comment #40282895
NASA released a very impressive 30-minute video of similar solar activity a few years based on images from their Solar Dynamics Observatory: NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In U…
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Comment #39354187
>Forbes really hates Bhargava, for no apparent reason. It's not Forbes, it's just a random contributor writing clickbaity articles for the $. Forbes is trash and is closer to Mediu…
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Comment #39353991
Surprisingly only 24% of Hong Kong is developed "built-up" area. The rest is mostly forested. This also means that despite the density being broadly equivalent to Singapore on that…
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Comment #39153323
Thanks, but unfortunately this doesn't work - for my issues at least. I have this (and conntimeout) set to 15 seconds, but it makes no difference. I tried those based on another us…