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The first syllable is stressed in the US

I did this hike with some friends years ago. It can be wet, but it's a beautiful hike. You can camp on the beach and make fires every night. I highly recommend it if you're looking…

“removes the vast majority of the ME's software modules (including network stack, RTOS and Java VM)” There’s a Java VM on these things?!

Update: This is wrong. Ignore it. The poison pill is not diluting any individual shareholder disproportionately. What it is doing is issuing the right to buy shares at a steep disc…

I believe Microsoft offered a cash option so not sure subsequent returns are relevant.

When it came out, PageRank was a really innovative way to order search results that cut through most of the "SEO" at the time, which was webpages doing lots of unsophisticated thin…

A bit tangential, but New York City has an operating steam system that's still widely used by commercial customers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City_steam_system

Either reads fine to me.

I wouldn’t use this because it just seems like a hassle but how are 4 interest-free installments worse than paying upfront? I’m unclear on Zip’s business model so appreciate I coul…

No, but you can hit it via after-tax 401k contributions and then convert those to a Roth IRA (i.e., Mega Backdoor Roth)

These are crude wells for which natural gas is just a byproduct. While crude can be stored in tanks near the wells and trucked intermittently to pipelines, the natural gas requires…

Here's a fun New Yorker article that takes this to an extreme: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1994/07/25/how-i-met-my-w... A sample: "It had been a rough day, so when I walked …

The big difference between typical pro races and the Olympics is that in the Olympics the riders don’t race with radios, which made this situation possible. In a typical pro race, …

Imported from where?

The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt is excellent.

Indeed. It was actually a great system that sat somewhere between email and IM in its usage on campus. The Windows and Mac clients had notifier processes that would signal the clie…

Back in '07, my school still used a custom email protocol called Blitzmail that verified the user by sending a random number, having the user encrypt the random number via DES usin…

The Post article is an op-ed, not something written by the editorial board. I’d prefer that newspapers feel free to publish a wide range of views without readers ascribing those vi…

No, a gamma squeeze works in the opposite way. The retail investor gets long an option (let's say a put), and the dealer gets short that option. As the price goes down, the retail …

It could be that 825GB is the typical marketing GB (i.e., 1000^3) and the 667GB is the OS reported GB (i.e., 1024^3). That difference only reduces the 825 "marketing" GB to 768 "re…