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It’s much simpler than this - the amount you save is the price of the small pie minus the price of the large pie. So if a small is $6 and a large is $9, you save negative-three dollars!

I’ve driven a rental Nissan with a CVT in serious mountains, and didn’t like it. It always seemed like compression braking over-revved the engine. Not actually above redline, but the audible feedback was a bit scary. For reference, I have a (non-Nissan) car with a CVT, and it is no problem in the mountains.

I’ve had a burger with an Impossible patty twice, and both times, it was very good. Without knowing what it was, I believe I wouldn’t have been able to tell it from real meat. My wife also really likes them. I have no experience with Boca or Beyond Meat.

It’s not legal for an employer to not let you quit or tell you when you can or can’t. There might be things in your contract that you waive if you do, but you *can* quit, and it is your decision as to the end date.

I use generic Claritin and Nasalchrom, a non-steroidal nasal spray. It works well for me.

What you are (and this article is) talking about is accuracy, not precision. With that pedantic nit-pick out of the way - I agree with your conclusion.

I had student loans - they were paid off years ago. It’s not a slap in the face to me. Klein is reaching.

Yet oddly enough, ocean-going ships regularly make ports of call there.

Ironically, the “Tank Man” photo was taken with a Nikon.

I haven’t used Apple News+, and don’t see myself with a need to do so, even if it were done well. I’m an enthusiastic user of Apple News (the one without the plus sign) and have also noticed its recent decline in quality.

No, of course not. Indeed, I think it’s pretty obvious that a lot of products, services, and other things in our society are loved by some and hated by others. So it’s not funny-peculiar, nor is it funny-haha.

1998? I hope so. I was writing ray tracing software in the mid-eighties. No, not for PCs - but even then, not real-time.

Then the title of your post is “Cash-back is the Best Use of digitalsandwich78's Credit Card Points”. And go for it.

Finding hidden transmitters is typically done by direction-finding (active-H antennas so watch your PIN diodes, folks), not field strength measurements. Indeed, that operation is usually referred to as “DFing”. Yes, I’ve done this a lot, mostly EPIRBs and ELTs.

No doubt. Mine (custom-made via a Podiatrist etc) only lasted me about six years, but they were well worth the $300.00 they cost. My newer ones cost $400.00 and I hope they last as long.

Are there really Dutch-based DigitalOcean droplets? DO is based in SOHO (the one in Manhattan, not the one in London).

No, at that scale 500 million isn’t all that much - Amazon already pays about half that in taxes to Seattle and to Washington State. Of course, they don’t pay Washington State income tax - nobody does since there isn’t any.

When I was laid off a few years ago, I didn’t get severance pay - but I got a large sum (roughly six months of salary) for signing the company’s “exit agreement”, which was basically a non-compete, non-disparagement agreement that lasted a year.

I have family that lives where there is municipal recycling, but it costs more than regular garbage pickup - so nobody recycles anything.