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The claim that's made in this blog - that Kagi 'owns a t-shirt factory' seems disingenuous, or lazy at best. Kagi's own blog says that instead of going with a major branded merch manufacturer/distributor, they chose to work with a small print shop instead. Nothing about blowing funds on an actual factory/print shop. "Owning a merch operation end to end" just means they're not paying some manufacturer to do production, warehousing, order fulfillment/drop shipping, etc.

>the deals they allow through credit cards are more like loss leaders

Au contraire, it's more and more common for airlines' sales of milage/point blocks to CC-issuing banks to be the most important bottom-line contributor, with the value for milage program deals exceeding the rest of the airline's operations and assets altogether: [1] https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/09/airlines-b... [2]https://airlinegeeks.com/2021/12/17/here-s-why-airline-loyal... [3]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-31/airlines-...

Most of those platforms seem to require the patient to pay for a virtual visit for every refill, or require some kind of a monthly fee.

As someone that’s been forced to reluctantly wear the ‘Windows sysadmin’ on and off for the past ~15 years due to circumstances beyond my control…this just sounds like the complaint of someone too lazy to learn PowerShell.

>middlemen who deals with these kind of employment

The term of art you're looking for is an 'employer of record' service.

That was the era of rainbow-colored iMacs. Seeing folks use the default wallpaper that matched the case accent color was fairly typical.

Houston, Texas also has an extensive underground tunnel system connecting large parts of the downtown business district and government buildings. It's a godsend during hot, swampy summers when commuting by foot at street level guarantees being soaked in sweat within a block or two, and is probably the most popular spot to head for lunch in the downtown area.

One interesting factor here is that aside from the portions serving government buildings, the tunnel system has grown organically as each piece is constructed and maintained by the owner of the building above. Direct tunnel access from a building is considered a major perk for employees and drives up commercial rent prices in each section's associated building.

https://downtownhouston.org/experience/downtown-tunnels

LTO: tape drive. Linear Tape-Open format.

Not sure it qualifies as “nasty”, but performing does seem to somewhat impede expected benefits from exercise: https://peterattiamd.com/metformin-and-exercise-deja-vu-all-...

It also seems to upregulate cortisol in some cases, which is undesirable: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27459533/

Can't speak for how things are operated now that Broadcom has taken over, but when I was at VMware (departed in 2020), it was an open secret that there were job roles posted to fish for 'good candidates' that there was no immediate intention of hiring for unless a particularly valuable candidate showed up in the pipeline.

The vast majority of food demands in urban population centers cannot be met by small farm operators, for scalability and price reasons. There are also a number of foodstuffs that can either never be provided by local farmers, or can only occasionally produced due to climate reasons. This is as true of "nice to have" goods as it is staple crops like wheat or rice. Resorting to sources that are further away and require extra measures to preserve freshness and ensure the items survive transport is something we will never escape from given global population size, the bias towards city settlement, and diet preferences.

There isn't a 'competitive alternative platform' that achieves feature or performance parity with ESXi.

That's probably a fine trade-off for the other advantages of living in Sweden, but restricting off-road vehicle use on private property seems excessive.

Banning electric bikes also seems like obnoxious oldster nanny-state behavior.

The problem with this idea is that it will just be abused for SEO spam junk, and you'll have to default to hiding all content with the 'non notable' bit from discovery by default lest the entire ecosystem get dragged down by the pollution. At this point, you might as well delete the content entirely, because it's just taking up space and not contributing to the experience for the vast majority of users.

You can wipe a generic PC and reinstall the OS, which will deal with all but the most nefarious malware.

No such luck with these random Android devices, generally. You are generally obligated to use the system image provided by the untrustworthy vendor.

Found it very amusing that the article begins: "WHEN YOU BUY a TV streaming box, there are certain things you wouldn’t expect it to do. It shouldn’t secretly be laced with malware or start communicating with servers in China when it’s powered up. It definitely should not be acting as a node in an organized crime scheme making millions of dollars through fraud."

These things have been the default expectation for Android devices of unknown provenance for quite some time, at least among the technically savvy.

This finding seems to account for SSRIs rather than other classes of antidepressant. It’s difficult to believe that classes like NDRIs (which behave similarly to an amphetamine) would show such low superiority to a placebo.

I think a lot of westerners are going to be unpleasantly surprised if they select items based on typical western sizing categories for S/M/L/XL, which seems to be how they're categorizing the available wardrobe kits. Japanese sizing seems to usually be significantly smaller than EU sizes, and outrageously smaller than US sizes. I've even found that you can't really trust off-the-shelf items with specific dimensions to align to what you'd buy in the west either (neck/sleeve/inseam etc.), as Japanese brands tend to be more accurate here than western brands that include 'vanity' allowances in dimension measurements.

Some of these selections seem goofy too. Wardrobe #122 has a pair of pants that are comically mismatched in terms of inseam length. One pair either has to be absurdly long, or the other is way beyond fashionably short.

Sounds like a lot of effort and expense for something that’ll quickly be spotted by even amateur enthusiasts somewhat quickly.

>The changes could result in merchants paying an additional $502 million annually in fees

Considering the global reach of the two processing networks...that seems small enough to be a rounding error. Hardly surprising considering the costs of everything seem to be on the rise.

The closest thing I've seen to 'Plex for ebooks' is limited to manga/comics in .cbz/.cbr format: https://github.com/faldez/tanoshi . It's works reasonably well. Probably could be forked to add support for more general purpose reading use cases.

Relatively small differences in dissolved salts are enough to cause halocline barriers that don't really mix well and still pose a hazard to local flora/fauna.

The ideal solution is to separate and capture useful minerals and metals from the waste, but the current (lack of) cost effectiveness is presently a steep barrier to adoption.

The concentrated minerals and metals in the waste, as well as the chemical additives used during the desalination process, are incredibly difficult to contain given their solubility in water.

It's not as easy as 'dilute and spread' -- highly concentrated brine doesn't really mix readily (halocline effect) when released back into the sea.

Because this isn't cost-competitive on a per-gallon basis versus continuing to do business as usual, and the environmental impact of any kind of desalinization can be shockingly negative depending on how the waste output is managed. The process produces a hyper-concentrated sludge of minerals/metals/whatever else was in the water that's toxic to basically anything living. You don't want to just drop it in landfills to leach into ground water / spread on the surface, and piping it out to sea ends up creating a massive dead zone around the outlet.

>"the water is treated and diluted to levels that are safer than international standards, and so far, testing by TEPCO and government agencies has found no detectable radioactivity in seawater and fish samples taken after the release."

Releasing contaminated water at a rate slow enough that it doesn't seem to raise ambient radioactivity levels certainly seems preferable to hoarding contaminated water that could be released en-masse due to another earthquake, weather event, containment failure, etc.

That's basically my use case, and I'm quite happy. Battery life for me usually is somewhere between 6-7 hours. The keyboard is pretty decent - not quite as good as a Macbook keyboard or similar low-profile keyboards (e.g. Logitech MX Keys line), but good enough, though the oddball arrow key configuration and sizing for the right-hand Shift and Fn keys is a frequent annoyance. Sleep and wifi auto-connect work well for me on Ubuntu 22.04 w/ KDE Plasma. Can't vouch for bluetooth headphone usage, because I don't really use bluetooth with this device.

Star Labs is trustworthy (typing this on a Star Labs StarLike Mk IV right now), but small hardware brand. They're based in the UK.

I'm not sure I buy your claim that rum was ever used to 'disinfect' fresh water on British Navy ships. The 'grog' mix they used was not of sufficient ABV to disinfect the water, as it was handed out at a 4:1 ratio of water:rum. It was moreso about making the daily rum ration difficult to hoard, and much more efficient to transport than beer or wine.