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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.

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.

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.