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Valve is certainly a multi-billion dollar acquisition simply from owning steam the largest marketplace for PC(and mac and linux) gaming.


I work on a very large c++ monolith at work and DXR has been a real game changer for helping me just figure out how so much of the codebase works. Thanks!!


> Over the pandemic I never had an issue finding basics like flour

flour was almost impossible to buy early in the pandemic in the US at least. Seemed like more of a demand side issue as everyone (including me) started baking bread at home. It took months for them to start having full stocks of flour again.


One pound bags of flour coming to grocery stores through the grocery supply chains were in high demand, because previously almost no one bought flour on that channel. Meanwhile, bakeries kept on trucking along, AFAICT, with an uninterrupted supply of 50lb bags from the non-retail supply chain.


Yup, in the UK the local butcher started selling flour in clear plastic bags with a hand written sticker on it.

I guess they had an existing relationship with flour wholesale to make their pie pastry and just re-bagged it in house.


At least in the midwest that was just the retail small bags of flour. I noticed the same as other comments - none of the restaurant supply stores around me were ever out of 50lb bags of flour, which is what I ended up buying. Yeast was a little more scarce however, even the bulk bags.


Are you reading your source correctly?

“The vast majority of these loans — 74 percent of them — were for under $150,000, demonstrating the accessibility of this program to even the smallest of small businesses,” Mnuchin said. He told CNN on Sunday that an additional $300 billion “should be sufficient to reach almost everybody.”


Many amazon basics products are just white labeled products. Amazon isn't actually spinning up assembly lines


No but Chinese companies will be happy to spin up assembly lines making a product identical to yours and undercut your product, while Amazon slaps on the 'Basic' brand and pushes it to the top of the rankings.


They totally have relationships with multiple tier 1 manufacturers and have teams pouring over data to pick products to undercut. I hate it when people say this, but I don't know why you've been downvoted.


Is there a similar page for solar? Would be interesting to compare the two.


Where do you pay your tax to then? That's a reasonable enough definition of where you live.


In New York State. I pay the exorbitant taxes which pay for, among other things, protecting the water from the huge city down the road that I'm apparently "damaging" by living there a few weeks out of the year.


Sounds like you need to get a better tax accountant. If you only spend a few weeks a year in New York, then you shouldn't be paying much tax there at all.


...as I have stated above, I am from New York, just not in New York City. I typically spend several months out of the year there, not weeks.


Plenty of states have the concept of unincorporated land.


According the the pdf factsheet linked in this thread they were just existing pieces in new colors. So the transparent parts for the lights and I imagine LEGO doesn't sell technic in Bugatti Blue.


They sell the smaller version of this car, in the same colors [1]. But many pieces are not available in those colors, e.g. I see a lot of the 3x1 cross-blocks [2] in light azure, which is not in any other set.

[1] https://shop.lego.com/en-ES/Bugatti-Chiron-42083 [2] https://ali1994.brickowl.com/store/lego-technic-cross-block-...


yes you can fly low to the ground and crash now from what I've seen.


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