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Uhh the 5090 alone is double the cost of their quoted PC prices.

I still can't enter a corvid thread without looking for some Unidan copypasta.

I really hope to see the evaporative cooling make a comeback but it seems unnecessary when it’s returning to earth right now. It would also be interesting to see them do shallower …

It looks like the ships software did a phenomenal job compensating by adding that much longer Second stage burn time. It was also very cool to see the sea levels vector to compensa…

It was also noticeably wayyy faster off the launch mount. These V3 raptors are pretty fierce. It took off so fast it seems destined to be stretched imminently.

Just visited two nights ago and was pleasantly surprised to see domains active with fresh magnets. The people are returning to nature.

They have also been having audio issues...that are very very VERYY reminiscent of Microsoft audio driver issues I run into all the time while gaming...

I would be very against individual investors not being allowed to buy property for investment. I think most people can agree that corporations like blackstone/rock shouldn't be man…

Are asylum cases from Venezuela legitimate or not? One cannot support asylum claims while simultaneously believing Maduro didn't deserve to be arrested.

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China gets Taiwan without any US intervention as soon as our chip foundries have been built state side. Xi is patient.

Might makes right.

Billions of people will not die from climate change, if anything they would simply not be born. That is already happening in almost every western democracy as fertility rates have …

ICE must cast a wide net in blue cities because they are not sharing data on the criminal undocumented residents. They are shielding the illegal migrants who are already in jail or…

This is a top tier super power. Ublock on Firefox and AdGuard on iPhone are pretty effective. When I actually see an ad it physically hurts.

I would hope so. The temptation to strap unknown sensors to map and analyze the customers they fly over will be impossible for them to ignore. Let the drone hunting season commence…

It is so the manager has a policy to fall back on to say no. It is just the second round of negotiation. I am not saying everyone will play ball, but managers whose pay is a functi…

That is not what we were talking about though. We were talking about how much discount you can force out of a retailer via price matching which is a function of its Gross Margin. a…

You are 100% correct about the quality of the resources in a local library. That’s an artificial barrier to learning though. Aaron Swartz died because of this. JSTOR is a crime aga…

Consider the case of a business operating at excessive margins with huge room to discount but doesn’t. Their fixed costs must then be spread over few transactions and lower their n…

Because net profit margin is different from gross margin. The products are still marked up way higher than that bottom line number. PMn is the margin after you add in all the over …

Just ask for their sticker and promise you will put it on your purchase. If another approaches just show them the sticker, they get it.

Retailers will absolutely budge on this technicality, this is to disarm those that aren’t aggressive. Everyone’s retail margins are wayyyyyy higher than they want the consumer to b…

I will make stores price match anything and everything. I also look at every item on my grocery check out to make sure the price is exactly what the shelf said. I concede no ground…

In exchange for 100k in debt? Library is free.