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> hot water tanks should be purged yearly (to get rid of the debris collecting on the bottom) Note that this is only the case if you have been doing this already from when it was n…

There are still some Taco Bells that sell the Chili Cheese burrito (at least in the Mid-West US)! Unfortunately not as cheap as it used to be (its ~$3 here), but any time I go to a…

I believe they view the file order as a feature. It forces a certain style/thought process in how you design your project. It's also part of the ocaml legacy (I believe file order …

Isn't docx technically an open file format? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_Open_XML

Just guessing, but based on context, I think they meant their daily usage results in 2000kWh per month.

I don't think his point was directly related to people's religious views today, but the type of people who originally came to the US and how their views and norms have impacted the…

Unless Michael Schur was sugar coating it, The Good Place wasn't cancelled. They had reached the end of the story they wanted to tell and ended it. Here's an article about it: http…

Ehh Nevermind. I hadn't made it through all the comments and I see other people are seeing these ads on the Shield.

Nvidia Shield (I think it's considered an AndroidTV). It isn't as cheap as a chromecast and it isn't plain Linux but my wife and I are thinking about getting one for our TV because…

Space itself is expanding. At small scales, it isn't really that "fast" (gravity can/does overcome the effects within our galaxy and the Local Group). However, at large scales, it …

| and it seems unlikely that the earth was the exact center of the Big Bang. Wouldn't it be more accurate to say that everything was at the exact center of the Big Bang? Assuming i…

Here is where I first saw this image: https://old.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8gyou7/really_give...

I don't think that is quite true. I believe with UDP there is no promise of packets being received in order. I think this article is saying that you still get the benefits of proce…

The 1st amendment only applies to government control of speech. You may have the right to your speech, but the company doesn't have to employ you [0], especially in an at-will stat…

In American English, the correct form is "Company X is" where the company is considered singular. However, in British English, the correct form is/can be "Company X are" where the …

Sometimes what I think will be a quick search turns into multiple tabs so its really easy to pull a tree into a new window and then save it using Session manager.

I've been using Tree Style Tabs[0] with Firefox for a long time. Being able to nest tabs and then collapse them is awesome. It is hard to live without it when using Chrome (I know …

Isn't that the point of advertisements for OTA broadcasts?

The U.K. also has the UK Bribery Act which is appears to be more expansive than the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (the U.S. counter-part). Like the FCPA, it applies to acts globall…

I'm not sure if it was just a CM7 widget or not, but before I got my Galaxy Nexus, there was a widget available to do that. When you place the widget, you put in the address it sho…

When a company buys back shares, it can either cancel them or hold them as treasury stock. Treasury stock can then be reissued at a later date at the then market price.

It's not actually a liability; it's an account with a credit balance. Sales flows into retained earnings which is an equity account, which has a credit balance per the accounting e…

Fines or penalties paid by a company for violation of a law are not deductible for federal taxes. Section 162(f) -> http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/usc_sec_26_00000162----... …

Yeah, I remember watching a video in an accounting class about internal controls of a bar in Texas which would weigh bottles every night and dispensed drinks through a soda gun. Fo…