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Economics & Investing / The best deal on offer on Friday was $1.23 for one pound.
« on: December 14, 2018, 05:11:30 PM »
Ouch!

Tourist pound now down at close to just one dollar - BBC News

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46555314

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Web Development / Verizon cuts 10,000 jobs and admits its Yahoo/AOL division is a failure
« on: December 13, 2018, 11:45:06 PM »

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/12/verizon-cuts-10000-jobs-and-admits-its-yahooaol-division-is-a-failure/

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Water Cooler / Hell, I'm going with 22s
« on: December 06, 2018, 07:17:16 PM »
My 90s-early 2000s Grand Caravans got decent highway mileage -probably 21. They had 15-inch wheels.

My 2010 Grand Caravan has 16-inch wheels and gets 23mpg at 70mph. I'm impressed, given the frame size and load capacity.

Last year, I picked up a low-mileage 2015 GC with power-everything.  It has 17-inch wheels.  Six hours on the interstates averaging 75mph with a heavy-ish load and it's clocking in at 25.5mpg. I'm really impressed.

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Monetization / For-Profit College Closes Operations, Surprising Students
« on: December 06, 2018, 05:43:10 PM »
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Birmingham, Alabama-based Education Corp. of America said it was closing schools operating as Virginia College, Brightwood College, Brightwood Career Institute, Ecotech Institute and Golf Academy of America in more than 70 locations in 21 states. The company said in October that it had more than 20,000 students, although more recent documents indicate the number may be closer to 15,000.

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/mississippi/articles/2018-12-05/for-profit-college-closing-operations-surprising-students

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Marketing / Bwwwwahhahahah! Burger King geofences McDonald’s locations to sell penny Whopper
« on: December 05, 2018, 02:00:03 PM »
Burger King has a new penny Whopper deal – but you need to head to McDonald's first

https://amp.usatoday.com/amp/2197166002

Brilliant.

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Hardware & Technology / Peak Iphone?
« on: December 04, 2018, 04:13:35 PM »
Report: iPhone Sales Fail Triggered "Fire Drill" at Apple

https://www.thurrott.com/apple/194366/report-iphone-sales-fail-triggered-fire-drill-at-apple

For the last 2 or 3 weeks, the buzz in my feeds has been about Apple trying to redirect attention away from Iphone unit sales.  Debbie says she doesn't know of another blockbuster category in Apple's future to replace the Iproduct line.  Anecdotally, I just don't hear much from family/friends Iphone fanbois anymore.  After all, phones are so 20th century.

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Web Development / Tumblr will ban all adult content starting December 17th
« on: December 03, 2018, 11:45:34 PM »

https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/3/18123752/tumblr-adult-content-porn-ban-date-explicit-changes-why-safe-mode

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Water Cooler / Key fob relay attacks
« on: November 30, 2018, 03:44:37 PM »
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2018/11/30/driver-loses-his-car-to-hackers-twice/

Another reason to drive a beater.

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Monetization / Two Cheetah Mobile Apps Were Removed From The Play Store
« on: November 28, 2018, 12:15:55 AM »
.......After A BuzzFeed News Report About Ad Fraud

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/cheetah-mobile-apps-play-store-ad-fraud-stock-price

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Web Development / Over a third of online Black Friday purchases came from phones
« on: November 25, 2018, 11:42:20 PM »
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the data suggests that a growing number of people are comfortable leaving their PCs behind when they make big-ticket purchases.

https://www.engadget.com/2018/11/24/third-of-black-friday-sales-on-phones/

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Economics & Investing / Foxconn cutting costs citing 'very difficult and competitive' 2019 outlook
« on: November 21, 2018, 03:19:16 PM »
....amid iPhone sales fears - 9to5Mac

https://9to5mac.com/2018/11/21/foxconn-cut-costs-iphone-sales/


I wonder if Wisconsin is now joined at the hip to Iphone sales?

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Marketing / BuzzFeed Has a New Money Idea: You
« on: November 20, 2018, 06:30:51 PM »
I See Dead People.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/11/buzzfeed-has-a-new-money-idea-you.html

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Hardware & Technology / Everything Online Is Getting Bigger Except Your ISP’s Data Cap
« on: November 20, 2018, 06:01:45 PM »
Love the title.  This is one of the lesser reasons I went local for my smarthome stuff.

https://www.howtogeek.com/395940/everything-online-is-getting-bigger-except-your-isps-data-cap/

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Hardware & Technology / Pushover
« on: November 18, 2018, 04:05:25 PM »
Uses device notification systems for messages. $5 one-time charge per Android|IOS|Desktop platform.

https://pushover.net/

Just getting into it, but I already have it working for security notifications from Hubitat.

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Water Cooler / Years ago, DOD guy told me to research tungsten rod bombs from space
« on: November 12, 2018, 03:08:20 AM »
They've not shown up where I read.  ...Until now.

Orbital Kinetic Bombardment gets close to nuclear on damage and cost

https://www.nextbigfuture.com/2018/11/orbital-kinetic-bombardment-gets-close-to-nuclear-on-damage-and-cost.html

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