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by Booktrope 6y ago
The writing is really horrible. Interactions of waves in plasma "conspire" to produce effects. Electrons ride waves like "surfers". Interesting findings, extremely badly presented.
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by Booktrope 6y ago
Isn't it actually about market power? Apple controls a dominant share of the market for paid apps on phones, so it can use that power to extract more money from sellers of such apps. Google's market share is very small, so it ca
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by Booktrope 6y ago
The main point about -ocracy is a really good one, but the article makes so many blanket statements without any real evidence that seem way off base. The Ivy League schools (and quite a few other liberal arts colleges that should be includ
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by Booktrope 7y ago
Looks like, you can only access articles via a simple, and pretty useless, word search.
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by Booktrope 7y ago
As you say, capital gains are not "only" due to speculation, but just sometimes. You also assumed that your risk capital was originally "earned" implying that you paid full tax rates on it. Unless your original earning
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by Booktrope 7y ago
Or perhaps, VW exec hopes full self-driving cars may never happen, because it would imply a fleet approach where transportation would be a service instead of cars being a prized possession. That, of course, would mean far less cars. So do
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by Booktrope 7y ago
This story is 4 years old. No update?
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by Booktrope 7y ago
Wait! These figures are not inflation adjusted. Inflation has been about 15X since 1928. So, the $382,000 shown on the chart for 2018 is now worth about $26,000 in 1928 dollars, against $143 value sometime in 1928. That is, in constant do
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by Booktrope 7y ago
This isn't true for most small publishers and self-published books. Libraries can get lots of great books from these sources, but they usually don't. Librarians complain it's too hard to find good books unless they buy them
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by Booktrope 7y ago
The effect mentioned in this article is certainly not suffocation. 2000 ppm of CO2 is about 0.2% of the air, and doesn't signficantly reduce oxygen levels. It's a real problem, but calling it suffocation is pretty dumb. This is
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by Booktrope 7y ago
Where are you shopping? Most US supermarkets have lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, as well as a meat counter and often recently-thawed fish. ("Fresh" fish can't actually be distributed without days of delay unless you li
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by Booktrope 8y ago
There's even more interesting research indicating that context of support is crucial. (Gable, et al, Safely Testing the Alarm: Close Others’ Responses to Personal Positive Events, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2012, Vol
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by Booktrope 9y ago
This article is a good example of stupid tech reporting. Someone who's supposed to be a knowledgeable reporter does some speculating, without bothering with any actual data, and comes up with a so-called "problem" and idioti
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by Booktrope 9y ago
So this makes me wonder, why would anyone bother to write about Marcuse's critique of Wittgenstein. Don't tell me our armchair radical academics are once more so enamored of facile concepts like "repressive tolerance" t
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by Booktrope 9y ago
Nothing like a little oversimplified, half baked Marxism, when you want a one-idea panacea for society's problems. Ugh!
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by Booktrope 10y ago
If you go read the study, there is a potentially rather severe experimental flaw. My wife has what seems to be fairly severe gluten intolerance, which shows up approximately 3 days after she consumes even small amounts of glutinous. She had
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Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: An Auto-Biography by Walt Whitman(ir.uiowa.edu)
18 points by Booktrope 10y ago|3 comments
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by Booktrope 10y ago
This article repeats the canard that Amazon has been selling ebooks at a "loss", using this as a key example for its thesis. In actuality, Amazon wanted to discount ebooks, but the big publishers wanted no discounts so they could
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by Booktrope 10y ago
He calls it "The Conscience of a Liberal" and then says "So yes, I’ve been wrong. Let those who are without error cast the first stone." Krugman is a good example of what's gone amiss with liberalism. Even worse tha
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by Booktrope 10y ago
While this indicates that there are lots of people who never read ebooks, it does not actually say whether more ebooks or print books are being sold and read. The Pew survey notes that the mean number of books read is 12, while the median
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by Booktrope 10y ago
Clickbait based on a 5-year old source which actually says, "Twelve trials were included in this review which reported data on two outcomes (dental plaque and gum disease). Trials were of poor quality and conclusions must be viewed as
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by Booktrope 10y ago
For a remarkable fictional exposition of this, read The Confidence Man by Herman Melville one of the truly great American novels. Many of the examples described in this article are brought to life, and used to generate a very funny, strange
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by Booktrope 11y ago
Consent of the governed does not mean, agreement of the governed to specific measures. No does it mean majority rule, which can easily be tyranny of the majority (possibly, the worst kind of tyranny, because it's possibly the strongest
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by Booktrope 11y ago
The comments to this post are really interesting - one comment claims that (according to an agent) agency pricing was Amazon's idea, not the big 5, even though, the big 5 very publicly insisted on agency pricing. It's really absu
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by Booktrope 11y ago
In the various reviews I've seen for this store, no one seems to have raised the question of, how would a store like this be profitable? It's selling books at the same prices as Amazon online, but with the added overhead of being
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by Booktrope 11y ago
Good point. It's a piece about traditional publishers (especially the big 5) not book sales in general. Also buried in the article is head of Kindle ops saying, Amazon's ebook sales are continuing to increase. It's not on
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by Booktrope 11y ago
More bad information about the publishing business from the NY Times. Ebook sales aren't declining generally; it's big publisher ebook sales that are declining. Ebook sales for self-pubbed authors and indie publishers are growin
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by Booktrope 11y ago
It's much more than you are saying. If you start with the retail price of the book (which your referenced article does), there's 50% off the top generally for wholesale discount (that is, the retailer pays about 50% or so). There&
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by Booktrope 11y ago
Not actually so. The canard that print books are not more expensive than ebooks comes from traditional publishers trying to justify high prices for ebooks, but it's not so. Costs for print books that are higher than ebooks: printing,
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by Booktrope 11y ago
The quote is on its face silly. The author of the article got mixed up. Publishers set a retail list price of $14.99. Of course Amazon doesn't pay retail list price for books it sells - it pays wholesale. (As do other retailers includ

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