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xx789

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    Comment #27401181

    "Apparently"

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    Comment #27298003

    I think that does make sense.

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    Comment #27260808

    Often PSUs will have different wattage sets but seem otherwise identical eg 550/650. Are they binned like CPUs? Or are there higher rated components

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    Comment #27260436

    Yeah that 7% is likely an illusion. If we kept up 7% a year forever just about every professional could retire at 50. But its unlikely to continue, we've had a 50 year bull market …

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    Comment #27251691

    As someone with a 12 year old Nissan, and buys the cheapest beer beer I'm sympathetic. But what's the point of being a millionaire if you aren't spending? You can just do that on a…

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    Comment #27179224

    I believe Trump is famous for discovering this and they were going to try how drinking or injecting bleach could be used?

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    Comment #27179190

    So basically they're all bad except for SV? 1 Gallon of gas makes 2.4 kg emissions, so instead of swiping a card its burning a few gallons of gas, or 50 gallons for BTC.

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    Comment #27149909

    Looks good but how does it compare to matrix/element?

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    Comment #27113554

    > Employers are looking at your education, companies you worked at, years of experience, and maybe a vague idea of what your work area was before this. Isn't this what a resume is?…

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    Comment #27113029

    Performance isnt that important for most people. A 6 year old laptop is plenty fast enough, just weight and battery life suck.

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    Comment #26233818

    Its quite amazing to leave North America, go to a restaurant, order a meal that's $10 on the menu and pay $10. Incredible.

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    Comment #26233677

    https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-chicken-reshipped/

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    Comment #26175898

    > If you're on a variable rate, the rate will be much higher than normal for the next few months Wont it be normal in a few days when temperatures get back to warm?

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    Comment #26175827

    Looks around 1k right now. http://www.ercot.com/content/cdr/contours/rtmLmp.html There must be lots of generators making bank.

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    Comment #26150659

    I dont need menus or dialogs, just something simple like top. Would this be the right library to use?

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    Comment #26120890

    I find I have a limit to the number of hours I can code per week. Sometimes I'll spend a weekend on a side project or fixing some bug. When I go back to work the next week I just h…

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    Comment #25555014

    15k could be cost to the company, which also looks at employment taxes, office space, health insurance, benefits, hr/support overhead, interviewing, training and managing. A new de…

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    Comment #25482957

    Trade on the close is not just for commodities, FX is the same - big clients would rather get the same official price than pay a bit extra commission for trader to get a good price…

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    Comment #25482949

    source? yeah I know its fashionable to say that wall street keeps ripping people off, but banks are so crippled by regulations most hedge funds and small trading firms run circles …

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    Comment #25403935

    yeah OK its probably the definition of repl.

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    Comment #25402227

    At work I regularly have to support 500+ line scripts written by random developers, I 'n hate them.

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    Comment #25401988

    Sign me up for someone who hates the shell. I've always tried to write scripts in Python or even C++ is so much easier than bash, awk, etc. Bash has no repl, no unit tests not debu…