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reco··on A website to spend Elon Musk's fortune
The comments here miss the point. Sure you can’t cash out all your stock at once without serious effects.

There is no need to sell any stock though to access insane wealth. I racked up a bill on that site worth 5% of Elon’s value and went pretty wild. Elon could easily tap into that wealth tomorrow with a loan from a bank backed by collateral from his stock without selling a thing. So he maintains control of his companies, doesn’t pay taxes (as he sold nothing), and can literally buy anything he could ever imagine without having any serious effect on his net worth

reco··on DNS cache poisoning, the Internet attack from 2008, is back from the dead
Yeah, let me feed all my internet browsing data directly to google. No thanks.
reco··on Can anyone get access to the same live vote data the networks use?
Looks like AP does have an api https://developer.ap.org/ap-elections-api/. But I’m not sure how you can get an api key.
reco··on Can anyone get access to the same live vote data the networks use?
Networks all get their data from 1 of 2 places. Edison research or the AP.

Those two firms put in a lot of effort in collecting the latest data from the various state/county/city websites. All of which report there data differently, and is why everyone seems to have a slightly different total. I’m not sure if AP or Edison provide a free api nor not, but without using them as an aggregator collecting all that data independently is pretty much impossible.

reco··on How Much Vitamin D Is Too Much? A Case Report and Review of the Literature
What are you talking about? I have several family members with MS and they don’t do stupid shit they learned off YouTube.
reco··on Tesla’s former CTO is building a giant lithium-ion battery recycling operation
Does anyone know what the price is for bulk e-waste a company like this would pay? Or how to find it?

I’ve been interested in setting up some free local e-waste collection for recycling, but it seems like the cost of collection and sorting is more than the price I can get for it.