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- Nvidia's fat margins are a worrying sign of its market power https://www.lightreading.com/ai-machine-learning/nvidia-s-fat-margins-are-a-worrying-sign-of-its-market-power 37 comments
- Home owners push for battery subsidy as solar power benefits become ‘increasingly marginal’ https://metropost.us/home-owners-push-for-battery-subsidy-as-solar-power-benefits-become-increasingly-marginal/ 2 comments energy
- How Zines Brought Power to Those on the Margins of Culture https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/brooklyn-museum-explores-how-zines-offered-a-voice-to-those-outside-mainstream-culture-180983351/ 10 comments books
- Why the future of long-haul trucking is battery electric. Purchase choices are governed by very thin profit margins. The attractiveness of BETs is therefore mainly due to economics. Electrification based on batteries requires half as much energy than fuel cell trucks powered by renewable hydrogen. https://www.transportenvironment.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/2022_02_battery_electric_trucks_HDV_factsheet.pdf 15 comments energy
- Texas marginalized communities were the first to be hit with power outages and continue to struggle http://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/climate/texas-blackout-storm-minorities.amp.html 24 comments politics
- Mike Podhorzer introduces "Barrels per True Fly Ball" statistic powered by StatCast (guess who the leader-by-a-wide-margin is?) https://www.fangraphs.com/fantasy/additional-fun-with-brls-tfb-rate/ 8 comments baseball
- What would you do if Trump got rid of pattern day trading rules and allowed any sized margin brokerage account to have up to 4x day trade buying power? https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/5yk030/what_would_you_do_if_trump_got_rid_of_pattern_day/ 37 comments wallstreetbets
- Researchers studying winter ice thickening by wind-powered pumps, a geoengineering proposal, find deployment of the turbines over 10% of the Arctic, especially where ice survival is marginal, could more than reverse current trends of ice loss in the Arctic http://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/could-freezing-more-water-save-arctic-sea-ice/ 4 comments science
- I've got $1300 margin buying power. What should I spend it on Tuesday? https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/5kbxfp/ive_got_1300_margin_buying_power_what_should_i/ 32 comments wallstreetbets
- The Resentment Powering Trump: His supporters believe he is the only one who understands their marginalization. http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/03/the-resentment-powering-trump/473775/ 17 comments politics
- Subaru’s secret: Marginalized foreign workers power a Japanese export boom -- The maker of the Forester SUV has won over U.S. drivers with its socially responsible image. Its supply chain relies on hundreds of migrant workers who are far cheaper to employ than Japanese laborers http://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/japan-subaru/ 10 comments business
- Russia Is a Marginal Power https://youtu.be/zy2ynayn08q 28 comments geopolitics
- Other teams ran 4% under the fuel limit as a safety margin. Suggesting Red Bull had a 4% to 5% power advantage. https://twitter.com/adamcooperf1/status/445196205782343680 28 comments formula1
- It's 2011 and in the United States if you happen to love someone of the same sex you are prevented from enjoying the same liberties as other Americans purely because marginally educated Christian bigots are given more power in America than rational educated compassionate Americans. http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2011/01/02/hopes_for_gay_rights_gains_shift_to_courts/ 246 comments politics
- The Power of the Marginal, the Video (Paul Graham) http://blog.scribestudio.com/articles/2006/07/17/david-graham-railsconf-2006-keynote-address 4 comments reddit.com
- The Power of the Marginal http://paulgraham.com/marginal.html 257 comments reddit.com
- Explainer: How margin calls came to threaten Europe's energy firms • Producers sell some of their power years in advance, but they have to pay a security deposit. These deposits have risen sharply in line with prices and now companies need at least 1.5 trillion euros to cover the cost. https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/how-margin-calls-came-threaten-europes-energy-firms-2022-09-16/ 3 comments europes
- New York Times: Pelosi worries Trump won't give up power if he loses re-election by small margin https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/05/04/politics/nancy-pelosi-trump-2020-election-impeachment/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F 9 comments politics
- New York Times: Pelosi worries Trump won't give up power if he loses re-election by small margin https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/04/politics/nancy-pelosi-trump-2020-election-impeachment/index.html 3 comments politics
- New York Times: Pelosi worries Trump won't give up power if he loses re-election by small margin https://edition.cnn.com/2019/05/04/politics/nancy-pelosi-trump-2020-election-impeachment/index.html 1203 comments politics
- The Wall Cuts Texas Voters In Half, Quinnipiac University Poll Finds; But Voters Oppose Emergency Powers By Wide Margin https://poll.qu.edu/texas/release-detail?releaseid=2601 4 comments politics
- Power from the Margins: The Poor People’s Campaign Hits the Capitol https://progressive.org/dispatches/the-poor-peoples-campaign-has-officially-launched-now-meet-180627/ 3 comments politics
- The internet can be a powerful tool for good, but only if everyone can get online - Too many children, women, Indigenous populations and other marginalized groups don't have access: UNICEF report http://www.cbc.ca/beta/news/technology/ramona-pringle-equal-access-internet-1.4447109 190 comments worldnews
- US govt gives up the internet to California's ICANN. The Govt Advisory Committee was unable to reach 2/3 consensus. A French minister says States will be marginalized by the private sector (GAFA). Some govts feel the 2/3 pre-condition led by the internet community gives too much power to GAFA. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/03/24/france_slams_us_govt_internet_transition/ 33 comments worldnews
- American economy had exhausted the “low-hanging fruit”—cheap land, new technology, and high marginal returns on education—that had powered its earlier growth; the real story isn’t inequality per se, but rather a general and inevitable economic slowdown http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/currency/2013/11/when-machines-replace-humans-at-work.html 3 comments politics
- Kiwifruit has proven itself as a powerful mood booster. Kiwifruit supplementation improved vitality and mood within four days, peaking around 14-16 days, and improved flourishing from day 14. Vitamin C, on the other hand, marginally improved mood until day 12. https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroom/furry-fruit-improves-mental-health-fast 365 comments science
- Italy’s Conte wins confidence vote by narrow margin — Prime minister clings to power but now leads a weakened, minority government. https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-giuseppe-conte-wins-confidence-vote-by-narrow-margin-matteo-renzi/ 2 comments europes
- SPX currently at the largest divergence in 22 years between margin debt peaking and SPX. Nearly 2 years since margin debt peaked, yet SPX continues powering higher. https://www.advisorperspectives.com/images/content_image/data/ef/ef23a5eed7bc0f11c9494741e3b4ad25.png 24 comments wallstreetbets
- Bitcoin Cash (ABC) ahead, more hash power, more activity, higher price. 4x higher price (margin). Seems like a win for BCH. Jihan Wu and Chinese miners not even needed. Certainly not enough for a 51% attack on BCH. BSV nodes reportedly crashing. Faketoshi lost, community won https://twitter.com/iamjosephyoung/status/1063139589735370752 37 comments btc
- Tom E. Curran: [Bill] isn't completely "opposed" to [Guerrero's methods], but - from my understanding - he values conventional strength training for power players and doesn't want his strength guys marginalized. Understandable. https://twitter.com/tomecurran/status/983362155461402624 91 comments nfl
- Otaku Culture And Cultural Soft Power --- Japan's economic collapse offset by boom in Internet-driven youth and marginal cultures—manga, cinema etc—which sent Japan's national cool quotient soaring. Lost status as industrial power, gained status as cultural superpower http://www.ethanzuckerman.com/blog/2011/11/16/mimi-ito-on-otaku-culture-and-cultural-soft-power/ 28 comments worldnews
- Week 7 Combined Average Power Rankings: A four stat average using offensive third down conversion %, offensive red zone TD scoring %, turnover margin, and points allowed. 9 of the last 10 Super Bowl teams had an actual average score of 14 or lower. Which teams meet this criteria right now? https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/78p34j/week_7_combined_average_power_rankings_a_four/ 10 comments nfl
- Week 6 Combined Average Power Rankings: A four stat average using offensive third down conversion %, offensive red zone TD scoring %, turnover margin, and points allowed. 8 of the last 10 super bowl teams had an average combined ranking in the top 10. Which teams meet this criteria right now? https://www.reddit.com/r/nfl/comments/770itw/week_6_combined_average_power_rankings_a_four/ 15 comments nfl
- SpaceX next big step is launching the Falcon Heavy next year, which will be the world's largest and most powerful rocket by a big margin, able to lift more than 50 tonnes payload into orbit, while bringing back three rocket boosters back to earth from a single launch. http://youtu.be/u26-CIDaazQ 33 comments space
- Pope Francis Says Covid-19 Vaccine Must Be 'Universal and for All'—Not Just the Rich and Powerful: In addition to coronavirus, Pope Francis said, "we must also cure a larger virus, that of social injustice, inequality of opportunity, marginalization, and the lack of protection for the weakest." https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/19/pope-francis-says-covid-19-vaccine-must-be-universal-and-all-not-just-rich-and 41 comments worldnews
- "Nuclear power is the benchmark to beat, outranking coal, oil, gas, and even wind by a slight margin as the least deadly major energy resource in application," according to both the European Union and Paul Scherrer Institute http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2016/reconsidering-risks-nuclear-power/ 11 comments technology
- President Obama is working systematically to marginalize the most powerful forces behind the Republican Party, setting loose top White House officials to undermine conservatives in the media, business and lobbying worlds. http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1009/28532.html 90 comments politics
- How the Corporations Broke Ralph Nader and America, Too. "Ralph Nader’s descent from being one of the most respected and powerful men in the country to being a pariah illustrates the totality of the corporate coup. Nader’s marginalization was not accidental..." http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/how_the_corporations_broke_ralph_nader_and_america_too_20100405/ 3 comments politics
- "Bill de Blasio is poised to win the race for mayor of New York City by a historically large margin, powered by optimism that he will bring about change and by overwhelming voter disapproval of the Republican Party." http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/nyregion/de-blasio-in-position-to-win-mayors-race-by-historic-margin-poll-shows.html 32 comments politics
- With Nuclear Power, "No Acts of God Can Be Permitted". "The 1960s design of five Fukushima-I reactors has the smallest safety margin and probably can't contain 90% of melt-downs. The U.S. has 6 identical and 17 very similar plants." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amory-lovins/with-nuclear-power-no-act_b_837708.html 4 comments reddit.com
