Let's take (over) 65,000 starts distributed since 2000 on the Carl's friends site[1] - and call it 65k for rounding.
That's 65k starters, with your negative unhelpful comment assuming $0.05 / 5¢ "profit" per starter.
That's 325,000¢ - or $3250 USD "made" in nearly a quarter of a century.
That "profit" discounts 24 years of:
- PO Box rental
- web hosting
- domain fees
- labels and bags for starters to go out in
- envelopes, if the one provided isn't suitable or sufficient
- electricity for refrigeration and freezing of starters
- ingredients for feeding and maintaining the starters
$3250 over 24 years gives a mean of $135 per year -- obviously this will fluctuate from year to year, and costs have risen since the early 00's -- likewise there have probably been more requests as the internet has grown more popular, and the word of Carl's friend spread further.
If you think ~$135 (or even ~$100 on a slow year) is sufficient for everything above -- never mind the time and work donated by the growers and keeper of the mail box -- then you're very much mistaken.
Furthermore, if you think they're being "paid" for their work out of that, your misanthropic and "negative nancy" response, is sorely mistaken.
Of course, all of this presumes that every item is international shipping, and paid for in the "substituted" two $1 bills, or IRC.
1. For US domestic shipping, they just ask for a 63¢ self-addressed and stamped envelope [2]
2. For your profit-implying "they want you to pay them" comment, see:
"Requests sent outside the US require $1.55 US postage *or* substitute two U.S. one-dollar bills or an IRC (International Reply Coupon)" [2]
Note the "or" part -- it's a choice, not a mandate.
Firstly, you can send them what it costs, $1.55, as you like - via PayPal, cash in an envelope, whatever. Their "two $1 bills" option is handy for places like Canada which may have US note currency -- and the IRC is useful in places that don't have US currency in regular circulation.
Secondly, many places don't actually sell international reply coupons any more. While the UPU mandates their acceptance and swapping for postage, they don't mandate the sale of IRCs [3]. For example, Royal Mail (in the UK) hasn't sold them since December 2011 -- therefore requiring the use of PayPal, finding $2 in bills somehow, or sending the $1.95 in change.
If you think Carl's friends have somehow become massively rich over the past quarter-century by checks notes mailing out carefully-maintained 1847 sourdough starter, likely at a loss... please let us know how you've worked that one out.
While what could well be the panel used in this is cheaper[1], there's obviously consideration due regarding whatever device is driving the panel, making the frame/mount, and coding the software to drive it, etc.
You may be able to get a larger panel for the same sort of price[2], but there's something to be said for having a finished product that's fundamentally plug-and-play... which is arguably a different market to a "buy the components and make one yourself" crowd.
Thank you, this is exactly the information I was looking for.
If it would be a nicely built frame with a display and a microcontroller (flashable with a custom firmware, or with a simple and sane local API where I can upload a full bitmap via USB and/or WiFi, with no cloud requirements) I'd buy this in an instant.
I have a Waveshare 7.5" display for some Grafana dashboards, but I'm all thumbs when it comes to building a physical case for it, so the circuit board just dangles on a wire in an ugly cardboard box.
A shame, indeed. I have no use for a display that can't even show what I want (or needs a third-party service and Internet connectivity for this). I guess, it's most likely hackable if the case can be opened, but I'm not exactly willing to fight it for $150.
Yes, and if person A and B are white American and African American, the AA smoker is much more likely to be actually arrested, rather than given a warning, etc. at the officer's discretion.
Dog whistles about unknowns like previous convictions or criminal history, and fictitious scenarios attempting to justify your point, don't actually help you the way you think they do.
If you're ignorant enough to think there isn't a disproportionately racist response in the WoD and the application of anti-cannabis laws on the citizenry, you need to open your eyes.
Attempting to claim "the prior convictions are known and are a factor" without admitting the disproportionate affect race has on such convictions being sought in the first place, is ignorant.
"Arrests don't occur in a vacuum." - If you deliberately and willfully ignore the existence of racism in the policing and justice systems, then you're not considering all the factors - and are being misinformed at best, and deliberately disingenuous at worst.
For example, see https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-67214409 - a world championship medallist and Olympian sprinter were arrested on entirely fictitious charges of having suspected drugs and weapons - with no basis, and with no evidence of such items being found.
If you can't see how the factor of race fits into the application of these laws against certain citizens more, that's your failure - it's nothing new.
None of what you say counters their point. At the end of the day African Americans commit a disproportionate amount of crime, it would be a miracle if they didn't have more prior convictions on average.
All the stats we have focus around arrests, charges, convictions, so any systemic racism in enforcement is included.
African Americans being arrested more per capita for a crime is not inherently the same as committing more crime per capita.
I have a hard time figuring how you could ever prove your claim, because how do you show who committed crimes that were either not suspects, or crimes that weren’t discovered or reported?
They're trying to denounce the racial aspect of likelihood of being targeted/prosecuted, by going "African Americans are more likely to be involved in crime already" - which is also inherent on racial biases and profiling in the police and criminal justice systems.
The point is that they can't jump to racist dog-whistles and then pretend like race isn't a factor in targeting to begin with.
When a number of the very same companies that use X/Twitter have settings that ensure only Verified (i.e. Subscription) users can message them, it fails to be useful for regular customer support like it was.
That aside, scammers and fakes have only gotten worse on the platform post-takeover.
Initially, yes. It later came to be available for notable accounts, or ones Twitter deemed of public interest. That isn't a mark of authenticity, per se.
None of the accounts I followed were blue checks for anything other than the purpose of verifying they statements made were legit from the source, which would be a mark of authenticity, what accounts were just given checks for whatever it is you're insinuating? (pre elon drama)
Because (a) video chat doesn't work brilliantly with sign language (signing can be rather quick, so any latency or artefacts could results in words or expressions being missed, and (b) not every Apple CSA knows how to sign ASL -- most don't.
Most places don't have ASL interpreters on-call or even to any degree among their staff, and often rely on external companies to provide (often pre-booked) ASL interpreter sessions to D/deaf clients.
It's really nice that Apple is making this available so easily and accessibly, and in-house. Just being able to click and connect to an Interpreter is a great improvement in accessibility for ASL users.
The license plate isn't incorporated into the VIN in any form though, so this is demonstrably -- and literally -- not decoding.
"Identifier" or "Finder" maybe, but not in any way a decoder...
A "VIN decoder" would take a VIN and identify the World Manufacturer Identifier (country of origin / manufacturer), vehicle descriptor, model year, manufacturing plant, and production number -- but not the license plate.
If you're going to mess with capitalization for the title, it would be better ending with "than two Pi 4s" for pluralization -- there is no "Pi 4S" model.
That's 65k starters, with your negative unhelpful comment assuming $0.05 / 5¢ "profit" per starter.
That's 325,000¢ - or $3250 USD "made" in nearly a quarter of a century.
That "profit" discounts 24 years of:
- PO Box rental - web hosting - domain fees - labels and bags for starters to go out in - envelopes, if the one provided isn't suitable or sufficient - electricity for refrigeration and freezing of starters - ingredients for feeding and maintaining the starters
$3250 over 24 years gives a mean of $135 per year -- obviously this will fluctuate from year to year, and costs have risen since the early 00's -- likewise there have probably been more requests as the internet has grown more popular, and the word of Carl's friend spread further.
If you think ~$135 (or even ~$100 on a slow year) is sufficient for everything above -- never mind the time and work donated by the growers and keeper of the mail box -- then you're very much mistaken.
Furthermore, if you think they're being "paid" for their work out of that, your misanthropic and "negative nancy" response, is sorely mistaken.
Of course, all of this presumes that every item is international shipping, and paid for in the "substituted" two $1 bills, or IRC.
1. For US domestic shipping, they just ask for a 63¢ self-addressed and stamped envelope [2]
2. For your profit-implying "they want you to pay them" comment, see:
"Requests sent outside the US require $1.55 US postage *or* substitute two U.S. one-dollar bills or an IRC (International Reply Coupon)" [2]
Note the "or" part -- it's a choice, not a mandate.
Firstly, you can send them what it costs, $1.55, as you like - via PayPal, cash in an envelope, whatever. Their "two $1 bills" option is handy for places like Canada which may have US note currency -- and the IRC is useful in places that don't have US currency in regular circulation.
Secondly, many places don't actually sell international reply coupons any more. While the UPU mandates their acceptance and swapping for postage, they don't mandate the sale of IRCs [3]. For example, Royal Mail (in the UK) hasn't sold them since December 2011 -- therefore requiring the use of PayPal, finding $2 in bills somehow, or sending the $1.95 in change.
If you think Carl's friends have somehow become massively rich over the past quarter-century by checks notes mailing out carefully-maintained 1847 sourdough starter, likely at a loss... please let us know how you've worked that one out.
[1] http://carlsfriends.net [2] http://carlsfriends.net/source.html [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_reply_coupon