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Comment · 4 years ago
Is that the right way to view it? If you believe Listerine isn't going anywhere, at that price you're making a reliable 7.5% return that should track with inflation. On something you presumably could sell just as easily as you bought. Doesn't sound that bad!
Comment · 4 years ago
Question in what way?

There are plenty of people opting to die every year by refusing blood transfusions and transplants already.

Comment · 4 years ago
There is some threshold where it absolutely impacts productivity. If you haven't seen this in action, you're lucky, I've ran into more than one Engineer who is otherwise very smart but somehow never learned to type.
Comment · 4 years ago
If it helps (not that ITV has anything _worth_ watching), I think TV stations recognize this - both ITV and Channel 4 have ad-free on demand options for a few pounds a month
Comment · 5 years ago
It's going to depend on the country, and exactly what you dig up (bones is going to be different than gold coins). But in the US, dig up a gold bowl in your backyard? You'd do well to contact a museum or something, but it's yours.
Comment · 5 years ago
Good luck catching 2 Michael Phelps in the river
Comment · 5 years ago
Requirements for "Goldfish" and "Tropical Fish" are listed under the "Small, Harmless, Cold–Blooded Animals" section
Comment · 5 years ago
Speaking as someone who really doesn't know how long these things take, is this accurate?

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT59YOdch8M

> Typically this type of project would take a team months to complete and weeks to render.

Comment · 5 years ago
If there's a chance there's any kind of life over there, don't rush into touching it - something could potentially wipe the whole place out.
Comment · 5 years ago
Comment · 5 years ago
I think that changed a while ago - regular lambda functions being billed per millisecond? This is Lambda@Edge catching up.
Comment · 5 years ago

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