Stealthisbook

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by Stealthisbook 2mo ago
The North American bits are a little weird. Colorado has an entry for Bent's Fort but not for Fort Vasquez, though both are rebuilt tourist attractions. Then there's Bishop's Castle, an actual norman style castle built outsid
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by Stealthisbook 3mo ago
Sadly, my computer has apparently rebooted multiple times this week. I didn't do it, but Microsoft decided it was for the best. I remember when a restart was something you were asked to consent to, and before that you had to affirmativ
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by Stealthisbook 10mo ago
The justification for many of these stations is emergency preparedness. They're maintained for the ability to receive and transmit emergency alerts despite power outages or transmission line cuts. The daily programming is mostly incide
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by Stealthisbook 1y ago
I remember the exploration of alcohol consumption stats from one of Michael Hobbes' podcasts and how hard it is to untangle both self-reporting and confounding factors. Like, the population of reported non-drinkers is dominated by both
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by Stealthisbook 1y ago
The quoted number is awfully specific. Monthly active devices? Why not licenses since that's what they are theoretically in the business of selling? Active devices would be relevant to their ad revenue, so I'd be interested to kno
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by Stealthisbook 1y ago
The Copyright Office doesn't have much to do with copyright enforcement. That's almost entirely hashed out in court. If anything, the office provides one of the few streamlining mechanisms in an unwieldy system by maintaining regi
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by Stealthisbook 1y ago
Graham Hughes did that years ago. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hughes
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by Stealthisbook 1y ago
There are so many layers of fraud to make this scam work. Fake enrollment seems easy enough, but financial aid requires a valid identity with real tax info. If you've already stolen an identity to snag a tax refund, I guess might as we
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by Stealthisbook 1y ago
AI necessarily offers strategies that are already available, and at this point can't be expected to reason out if anything is especially effective. There are services like rocketmoney that can identify subscriptions that you may no lon
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
It's true that the top line tuition is generally discounted through financial aid, but that's been the case for decades. People aren't shocked at the absurd tuition, but at the rate of increase that vastly outstrips aid, maki
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
The sticking point isn't the value of the tax, it's having to individually generate the paperwork for each shipment.
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
YT Music is generally as good or better for casual listening. There's a potential deal breaking quirk in that some tracks are user uploads. You can find obscure stuff that's not easily available elsewhere, but I've found quit
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
The article outlines the research into how effective dazzle paint was in disguising ships from u-boats as they question the new dazzle paint jobs on Ukrainian ships. I doubt the Ukrainians are trying to fool Russian sailors so much as drone
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
The de minimas threshold allows for lots of things that would otherwise be difficult to document or not worth the effort, from grandma mailing a sweater for Christmas to getting a replacement part shipped directly.
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
I wonder how the accounting nets out when you consider quite a lot of the costs are likely billed internally for use of Amazon infrastructure. Charging market rate for AWS hosting, billing services, etc, could helpfully make a low margin pr
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
It helps that board members are often fellow CEOs or members of multiple other company boards. They have an incentive to negotiate high pay packages and shareholders in general get presented with a yes/no question
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
Houston is built mostly on swamp with a high water table and routine flooding. I doubt underground cabling would be significantly more reliable and would be much more expensive to install and maintain
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
More use? I'd challenge you to find that European freight is substantially diverted from rail to road. In most cases I'd suspect it's a matter of small or mixed loads over short distances, which in Europe might still be multi
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
These stories seem to always exaggerate the losses on these types of commercial properties. Inevitably, the buyer is paying off a big outstanding loan and possibly a tax bill, but the headline purchase amount is just the winning bid to pay
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
I haven't seen it mentioned about RTO yet, but I'm sure some managers really just want to be able to conduct certain conversations and behaviors in person, completely off the record. Working for these people would range in badness
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by Stealthisbook 2y ago
You have to wonder where they're finding contractors to competently build these and maintain them. Electrify America has a bad reputation for offline and broken stations, and Tesla might not bid on a contract like this. It would be coo
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by Stealthisbook 3y ago
Servicing the debt is an entirely political act. If the US government wants to pay its bills, it does. The alternative is unlikely, but interesting-what if the US just says no? What enforcement mechanism is there? The biggest trade partner,
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by Stealthisbook 3y ago
He doesn't seem to recognize that the government debt is backed by not only the entire productive capacity of the nation, but also the willingness of creditors to tank the world denominated currency. It's possible that some politi
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by Stealthisbook 3y ago
While there might not be much innovation available in the ad tech space, there's plenty to address in gaming (and ad tech may have lots of arbitrage given different legal regimes) If Unity made their engine just more usable, much less
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by Stealthisbook 3y ago
With the phrase 'throwing their toys out of the pram' I immediately knew there was a problem with this article. There might be overblown anxiety over uncertain outcomes related to fees or from developers that would never realistic
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by Stealthisbook 3y ago
In the same vein, the average car on US roads is 12 years old. So the average driver is dealing with the safety considerations of a vehicle that isn't a perfectly maintained current model. Maybe making the point of comparison with prof
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by Stealthisbook 3y ago
US government debt is mostly bought by Americans who might reasonably be expected to step up and take a loss for their country. The rest is countries like China who are looking safely stash some money or to get dollar currency to make purch
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by Stealthisbook 3y ago
I kept reading to try and find where the design innovation was that allowed containers on these traditional schooner sailing ships. It seems they're not meant for containerized cargo, and that's a big problem. Loading and unloadin
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by Stealthisbook 3y ago
I could see how this might be unpleasant. Making up to half the starch into something indigestible means it's still going somewhere...maybe unexpectedly and explosively.
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by Stealthisbook 4y ago
It would be helpful to look at import/export flows. I suspect that quite a large percentage of European beef consumption isn't locally sourced, with likely quite a bit coming from S. America.

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