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by quickthrowman 19d ago
It’s not a foolish question, you got to learn about Cantor’s diagonal argument!
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by quickthrowman 19d ago
I checked for an official PKK YouTube channel. I found that they don’t have one as they’re a designated foreign terrorist organization* and Google complies with that designation by not allowing them an official presence. Unsure about the ot
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by quickthrowman 20d ago
> Revenue, not profit, is your income. If this was implemented, it would destroy almost all companies. Grocery store net profit margins are 2-4%, if they sell $1B and make $40M and you tax them on 25% of $1B, their loss for the year woul
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by quickthrowman 20d ago
Yeah, I’m convinced this is the case. Accurately conveying something like that (the qualia of mental imagery) to another person using words is more or less impossible, in my opinion. People like to label themselves and feel special, this
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by quickthrowman 21d ago
Haha, I had a similar thought. EXT DAYTIME - SUNNY An athletic man wearing a thin leather tunic crouches behind a leopard, facing the camera. “Hi, I’m Mörêk, welcome to Jackass!” Mörêk leaps forward and grabs onto the leopard, the leopard t
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by quickthrowman 21d ago
> I'll never let a chiropractor touch me. I have no idea why anyone ever does. It was invented before medical science was a thing by a guy with a 5th grade education and has been thoroughly debunked.
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by quickthrowman 21d ago
Most (70%) gasoline sold in MN comes from the (Koch) Pine Bend Refinery in Rosemount/Inver Grove Heights. The remainder comes from the (Husky) Superior Refinery in Superior, WI (NE and Northern MN) and the (Marathon) Mandan Refinery in
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by quickthrowman 21d ago
If you only accept cash, you can report whatever you feel like as income* and avoid paying taxes on the rest. * As long as you don’t raise any red flags in your accounting, which can be difficult.
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by quickthrowman 21d ago
You only need electricity if you want heated water, I’d guess that a bidet comes with a tee fitting with a valve on the T side that goes in between the supply valve and toilet supply line, allowing the supply valve to provide water to both
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
I figured that’s what it was, TAM numbers in S-1 filings are always hyperbolic. AirBNB’s claimed TAM in their S-1 was over $3T. AirBNB TTM revenue (7/25-6/26) is $13.5B, which is 0.45% of $3T.
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
> I’m not even a commercial builder. A bag of Portland cement concrete is $5/bag. You don’t need to pay $2k for such a small foundation. An 8x10 6” slab has 1.5 cubic yards of concrete. Making concrete takes more than a bag of Portl
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
Businesses accept less money when someone pays with BNPL. They also accept less money when someone pays with a credit card. The reason is rather obvious, people spend more money with credit than they would’ve with cash. Accepting 95 cents o
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
> It feels like a weird situation, those that stand to gain the most from credit cards are also the ones that should feel a difference of under $100 in rewards the least. It’s expensive to be poor. Higher interest rates, no credit card r
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
> Agreed, which makes the picture even worse for those low income people. Even poor people are guaranteed to occasionally pay the "rich person tax" included in the prices of some of the products and services. Credit card fees a
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
I just fill up when I’m low on gas at the nearest gas station. It’s not worth my time to save $1.50 a fill up when I fill up ~50 times a year, that’s only $75. Spending any amount of time to save 20.5 cents per day is not worth it to me.
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
> But 8x10 for $20,000 just goes to show how expensive USA is for construction. Labor is expensive. You could probably close to double the size for an additional $10,000, you’d need another yard and a half of concrete for the foundation
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
> I jumped to the end and saw $2.3k for the mini split and couldn't believe it. I've installed mini splits on two homes and the quotes were always in the $15-25k range for 3-5 head units, so $2.3k for a head + outdoor condenser
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
What if it’s in an area where there is abundant surface water and 40” of precipitation per year? Not every data center pumps groundwater.
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
> They are a way for airlines to create value out of thin air with their own fiat currency. For the average consumer the miles create less of a pure economic efficient benefit and more of a psychic benefit - funny money bucket that accum
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by quickthrowman 22d ago
Assuming you have sufficient income, paying your balance off in full every month and instantly redeeming the rewards each month doesn’t take a whole lot of time. I just use a card that gives 1.5% cash back.
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by quickthrowman 23d ago
Explosion resistant trash receptacles do exist but they’re pricey so it makes sense London didn’t replace theirs. The most common place to see them is in airports.
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by quickthrowman 23d ago
> surely at boat speeds making some strange double-pantograph system for shipping could be strung up alongside most of the canals, maybe electric tugs could be used as well as normal shipping? I like it, very similar to how mules used to
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by quickthrowman 23d ago
> Running "wires" would be ambitious. It’s definitely possible, I don’t have an in depth knowledge of ships connected to shore power with cables, but if the distance isn’t too great, it seems possible. Raising voltage lowers th
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by quickthrowman 24d ago
Hopefully ‘X-ray the pressure vessel to inspect for cracks’ comes before attempting to fire the boiler.
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by quickthrowman 24d ago
Pre-terminated direct burial fiber, a trencher, and two media converters.
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by quickthrowman 25d ago
I’m much more interested in seeing a robot with excellent fine motor control. A robot folding a piece of tissue paper without ripping it would be more impressive to me than this robot or the backflip robot.
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by quickthrowman 26d ago
> I remember seeing some very strange, deliberately creepy images that were generated to accompany a two-paragraph creepypasta about a 19th Century Belgian expedition into the jungle. I can’t think of anything more unsettling than the ac
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by quickthrowman 26d ago
There was an entire generation that grew up in Japan that used Japan-only cell phones that were used nowhere else. The same thing would’ve happened with this OS, it would be used in Japan but nowhere else.
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by quickthrowman 26d ago
A Japanese OS never had any chance of being adopted by any place that isn’t Japan due (mostly) their non-alphabetic writing system. Japan is full of weird Japan only technologies that were adopted nowhere else. https://en.wikipe
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by quickthrowman 26d ago
Would it be permissible to wipe your phone before going through customs to get back into the US? If they ask to search your already wiped phone, you aren’t destroying any evidence.

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