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New comment by Basketb926 in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

Basketb926 — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:32:22 +0000

trash doesn't disappear, everything has to go somewhere

New comment by Basketb926 in "Just the Browser"

Basketb926 — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 14:52:44 +0000

Free and open-source browsers based on Chromium: Brave, Dooble, Falkon, Otter, qutebrowser, Supermium, ungoogled-chromium

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Free_an...

New comment by Basketb926 in "In the Land of Living Skies: Reacquainting ourselves with the night (2022)"

Basketb926 — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:37:21 +0000

Great Article! Fear of the dark is real and justified. I struggle to understand how Canada's darkest spot is 5 miles from the US border in Grasslands National Park and not somewhere in the vast Northern latitudes.

New comment by Basketb926 in "We've got to stop sending files to each other"

Basketb926 — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:31:53 +0000

No files, no ownership, all hail our cloud overlords

New comment by Basketb926 in "Living Computers Museum to permanently close, auction vintage items"

Basketb926 — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 18:34:11 +0000

Easy thing to do with Unwanted Stamps is Donate to Oxfam Canada. Address to mail your donation to is at this link: https://www.oxfam.ca/take-action/support-oxfam/stamp-out-pov...

New comment by Basketb926 in "Longevity, by Design [pdf]"

Basketb926 — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 17:46:27 +0000

Is this an advertisement from Apple's legal team to EU regulators?

New comment by Basketb926 in "How 16 Companies Are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results"

Basketb926 — Thu, 09 Mar 2023 02:53:53 +0000

https://millionshort.com/ can filter out the most common sites, take a look what the internet looks like then!

New comment by Basketb926 in "MacBook Pro 16" 2019 Teardown"

Basketb926 — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 21:35:19 +0000

Repairability 1/10

New comment by Basketb926 in "China Detains Former U.S. Air Force Pilot Flying for FedEx"

Basketb926 — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 22:46:58 +0000

That or maybe some of this other evidence about him easily findable on Google https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97WBHOXOSZU https://www.altus.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/619843...

New comment by Basketb926 in "WeWork considers IPO valuation of as low as $10B"

Basketb926 — Fri, 13 Sep 2019 16:22:07 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIPO "OpenIPO is a modified Dutch auction" "number of companies public including Morningstar, Interactive Brokers Group, Overstock.com, Ravenswood Winery, Clean Energy Fuels, Boston Beer Company"

WeWork is experiencing this type of auction but strangely in the media instead of in communications between actual investors

New comment by Basketb926 in "The Undertakers of Silicon Valley (2018)"

Basketb926 — Tue, 30 Jul 2019 12:58:58 +0000

Probably the funds from the acquisition did not even clear the debt on the cap table, and thereby did not leave any money for equity shareholders like you

New comment by Basketb926 in "Facebook has struggled to hire talent since the Cambridge Analytica scandal"

Basketb926 — Thu, 16 May 2019 21:08:08 +0000

source?

New comment by Basketb926 in "Life in the Spanish city that banned cars"

Basketb926 — Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:50:10 +0000

San Diego airport website does give some walking details that were not known by the people you met https://www.san.org/to-from/Walking-Biking

New comment by Basketb926 in "Norway’s Sovereign Wealth Fund Is the Size of the Mexico's Entire Economy"

Basketb926 — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 17:33:20 +0000

Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund has as much capital stock as the total flow of Mexico's Entire Economy. Obviously Mexico has a heck of a lot more capital stock which is required to create such a large economic flow.

New comment by Basketb926 in "Robinhood replaced “call” and “put” with “up” and “down”"

Basketb926 — Wed, 04 Apr 2018 19:07:20 +0000

According to Robinhood, "If you don’t have enough buying power to exercise your option, we’ll sell the contract in the market for you about 1 hour before it expires." https://support.robinhood.com/hc/en-us/articles/115005656423...

New comment by Basketb926 in "Paypal Patent Application: Expedited Virtual Currency Transaction System"

Basketb926 — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 23:21:51 +0000

Ebay was (and is until mid 2020) 13% of Paypal volume https://www.marketwatch.com/story/paypal-just-how-bad-is-the...

New comment by Basketb926 in "“Prince George Washington” at the Siamese Court (2016)"

Basketb926 — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 20:48:05 +0000

Review site that focuses on Public Domain works, nice!

New comment by Basketb926 in "German military kicks off heavy lift helicopter competition"

Basketb926 — Fri, 15 Dec 2017 15:21:55 +0000

$75-$100 million USD each