guan

If you look at the last two pages of this classic paper (admittedly almost 20 years old now), you’ll see a list of some names they used in the field experiment.

https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w9873/w9873...

You could consider the Keyboard FeatherWing. It contains only the screen and keyboard part. You are meant to add a Feather format board that has a microcontroller and Wi-Fi, for example Adafruit’s ESP32 Feather board.

https://www.tindie.com/products/arturo182/keyboard-featherwi... https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-huzzah32-esp32-feather

What’s a little frustrating with the Xilinx parts listed on Digi-Key, and to some extent other FPGA vendors, is the lack of any price breaks.

I looked up a random i.MX6 processor from NXP. It’s $32.08 for one of them, and $20.95 per part when you get a reel of 500. If you need a few thousand units made, it’s perfectly reasonable to order parts from Digi-Key. You might be overpaying compared to what a good purchasing person can get you, but it’s fine for a few thousand parts, and quick and easy.

Look up any Xilinx part on Digi-Key, and there’s just a single price break at 1 unit. Even Lattice parts only go up to price breaks of 100.

I am not aware of countries that test completely randomly. But many countries have so-called sentinel surveillance, where 1-5% of family doctors (general practitioners) send in samples to a lab from patients who appear with influenza-like or respiratory symptoms. This is how they monitor the spread of different kinds of influenza strain. In principle, if there’s enough testing capacity and it’s judged worthwhile, this could be expanded to also test these samples for SARS-CoV-2.

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/seasonal-influenza/surveillanc...

This makes it sound like at least one German state has tested for coronavirus as part of their sentinel surveillance, but I’m not sure if that test was completely random:

https://twitter.com/MSI_BW/status/1233333090896039936

In the US, the most common ACH debit and credit transfers can be “returned,” which is similar to a chargeback. This is covered by Subpart A of Regulation E of the Federal Reserve. Only “wire transfers” such as Fedwire and SWIFT transfers, which consumers rarely make here, offer final, irrevocable* payments the way many other countries’ normal domestic transfer systems do.

* Meaning they can’t be undone through the payment system. Sometimes it’s possible to sue the recipient or recover the money in other ways.

When there’s not too much traffic, Ocean Parkway in Brooklyn also has a green wave.

I tried it, and it appears to be freemium. The basic level is WARP, and then there’s WARP+ which costs $4.99/month.

The difference isn’t entirely clear though. It says that WARP+ will “route your internet requests to avoid Internet traffic jams.”

In the case of Ouigo, I believe it’s in part because the station and track owner charges less to use peripheral stations than for central stations, and in part for price discrimination, so less price-sensitive business travelers and wealthier travelers aren’t tempted to go for the cheaper option.

The French state railway company SNCF has a low-cost service high speed TGV service called Ouigo that also uses stations on the periphery of some cities (while regular TGV goes into central stations), just like low-cost airlines.

For land producing minerals, there is a special tax rule called “percentage depletion” available to some taxpayers. With percentage depletion, the owner can deduct a fixed percentage (15%) of gross income every year. This can add up to more than the original amount invested in an oil field.

Normally, the depreciation allowance for capital investment over a period of years can only add up to the amount originally invested.

There is a neighborhood community ISP in Copenhagen called Bryggenet. They used to make it very clear how much overprovisioning was going on, and have two different options each subscriber could pick with different levels of overprovisioning. I understand from some people who were involved that it caused some initial confusion and complaints, especially when comparing to advertised speeds of commercial offerings, but people understood eventually.

They now seem to have moved away from that model, based on a quick look at their website.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryggenet

It’s pretty common. If you pay a lot of household bills—for electricity, water, insurance, rent, tuition, etc.—many of those will accept credit cards, but most will also allow ACH direct debit as a payment option and a few will only allow direct debit and check. Or sometimes there is a credit card option, but it is run by a third party and comes with a surcharge.

On the other hand, direct debit is often not an option at all for “online” subscriptions such as news sites or streaming services, or for newspaper or magazine subscriptions.

Network address, gateway, one usable IP address, broadcast address :-)

Due to the size of the relevant column in the fixed-width format files used for ACH, there is a limit of $99,999,999.99 for ACH transactions.

So it turns out that if you turn the volume all the way down to zero, it pauses playback. And if you turn it up again, it starts playing. I didn’t test whether navigation messages from Maps can still be heard. Not perfect as it takes a few seconds to do when you might need an immediate pause to avoid distraction, but it’s probably good enough for me.

Thanks; I’ll double-check but I think pushing the volume button turns the whole infotainment system off. Which does pause whatever’s playing, but also turns off navigation or whatever else I had on the CarPlay screen.

Did the car you rented have a Play/Pause button on the steering wheel? That’s what I am missing the most: being able to quickly pause (and later resume) whatever I’m listening to through CarPlay because I need to pay attention to something that’s happening inside or outside the car. Reading the CarPlay documentation, it seems that it supports such a button, but it’s hard to find a list of cars that have one.

Buying something for $100 using eBay’s credit card service does technically imply paying $100 to eBay, but eBay would not recognize $100 in revenue. eBay’s revenue from that transaction would only be the fees they collect, mainly the final value fee which is 10% in most categories plus 2.7% in payment processing, and any other fees they charge.

Similarly, Stripe does not recognize the full value of every transaction as revenue, only their fees.

It would cause some practical difficulties if the corporation owned all its shares. For example, in the case of a Delaware corporation, shares owned by the corporation itself can’t vote, so it would not be possible to elect board members. Some jurisdictions might have legal limits on how much stock can be bought back as a percentage of the outstanding shares.

It’s not that unusual to have entities that essentially own themselves, in the sense that nobody is entitled to the profits and the board or managers elect their own successors. This is the case for foundations and trusts in many countries, usually with some kind of charitable purpose. Some of them even operate businesses. It might be possible for a company to take on some debt, buy out all its shareholders, and reorganize into a charity.

The traditional rule against perpetuities is the life of someone alive when the trust is created plus 21 years. That is also the rule in New York, in section 9-1.1 of the Estates, Powers and Trusts Law. SPY’s lawyers probably chose 20 years to be on the safe side.

Mærsk’s Triple E-class, some of the largest container ships in the world, do use the Suez Canal to transport goods between Europe and Asia, but are slower than previous classes, with a design speed of 19 knots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_steaming

Presumably all residents, including those from other EU/EEA countries, would be allowed to buy. I believe discrimination against nonresidents is allowed under EU law in many contexts, for example for social benefits. (But not allowed in other contexts, for example discrimination against nonresidents can restrict the free movement of capital.)

I think they are implying that it could be fraud, but since there are birth certificates available, you couldn’t commit this fraud by simply making up a birth date. So a fraudulent supercentenarian would likely have assumed the identity of someone older, perhaps to claim a pension earlier.

As for the correlations, low incomes would provide a motive for age pension fraud. Short life expectancy being correlated with more supercentenarians suggests it’s not because people in those areas are naturally healthier.

Many of the major services also allow the conference do dial out to a regular phone number. Depending on the relationship with the client, it might be possible to just ask them to dial out to your phone. The cost is usually not that great, and while the client might think it’s odd, it should not be too much hassle.

There is a setting for “Suppress save warning for unsaved documents”. Would this address your need, or do you only want to suppress the modal when the document is blank?

I have the setting left on because I am also annoyed by this, and I rarely need to save my Soulver documents.

This is the form for ESTA, the travel authorization one must obtain if entering the US under the visa waiver program by air or sea. On the visa application forms, the social media questions are not optional, though still limited to a particular list of social media sites. The visa form is used people from countries who are not in the visa waiver program as well as who are not entering under the VWP (for example workers, students, journalists, tourists/business travelers staying longer than 90 days, and immigrants).

Not quite in his head, but Ken Shirriff did SHA-256 with pencil and paper:

http://www.righto.com/2014/09/mining-bitcoin-with-pencil-and...

They use CVS, not git. The repository that’s on GitHub is a mirror of the CVS repository; I don’t know what tool is used to do the mirroring.

Here is the original change in authfd.c in cvsweb:

https://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/au...

How about a version of this that just uses a’s (or A’s), based on the number of a’s in the URL?

For long calls I often alternate them, charging one while I talk on the other one.

If you’re playing music or podcasts, removing one from the ear will pause the playback by default, and you have to tap play again. But with phone calls, the call just continues if you remove one for charging.