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EpicEng
7y ago
Economies of scale kick in when you own the fleet. I'm also not sure about the statement "most of their drivers are making little more than the cost of operating their vehicle".
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EpicEng
7y ago
>...likely... Are you familiar with the regs? Your conclusion seems to be based on no actual knowledge, just assumptions.
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EpicEng
7y ago
Are you volunteering?
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EpicEng
7y ago
>However, if a well renowned and respected Authority has an opinion that some evil schmuck disagrees with, it provides evidence as to who is more likely to be correct. That's you as you seem to have forgotten.
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EpicEng
7y ago
Sorry, lost track. Doesn't change my point though.
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EpicEng
7y ago
You're proving my point. When examining an argument you should do so based on the merits of said argument. That's literally the basis of Appeal to Authority. It doesn't get more clear cut than this. I'd also like to poin
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EpicEng
7y ago
>This is not an example of Appeal to Authority because Ben Franklin is an accepted authority. ...huh? >If all parties agree on the reliability of an authority in the given context it becomes a valid inductive argument. No, it doesn&#x
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EpicEng
7y ago
>He absolutely is Show me where that happened. >The annoying thing about "logical fallacies" is that if anyone season argument they disagree with that resembles a "fallacy", that quote it and act like theyve won. T
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EpicEng
7y ago
>Can you call it that though? >One is a person with a well-earned a reputation, the other.. well you get the point. Yes >An argument from authority, also called an appeal to authority, or argumentum ad verecundiam, is a form of def
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EpicEng
7y ago
So... Appeal to authority then?
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EpicEng
7y ago
>I took my six year old laptop in for a recall on the video card, which required a logic board replacement. They did that at no charge Well sure, it was a recall. >In the process, they broke the power unit, so they replaced that and m
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EpicEng
7y ago
>We have three major desktop OSes and two major phone OSes, people have multiple devices - usually at least one running a desktop OS and one running a mobile OS. Sure... Kinda. How many people spend a lot of time on desktop these days? I
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EpicEng
7y ago
I don't think so. He specifically called out the fact that their entire product is eventually going to be a single feature in every consumer OS. And now it is. That hardly applies to every product/service out there.
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EpicEng
7y ago
>So you can't just brush it off and say nobody is overreacting "Acting" is a fairly important part of the word "overreacting". There were no actions, so there was no overreaction. You know Trump better than this
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EpicEng
7y ago
>Not true. Trump nearly retaliated over a downed drone with an attack estimated to cost Iranians 100 lives. He called it off at the last minute when confronted with the potential death toll. Sure, and how many appalling things does Trump
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EpicEng
7y ago
>Their destruction is not justification for anything other than a claim for damages in court. No one is going ballistic over downed drones (not yet at least), but only damages? C'mon, be serious. These things are often classified te
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EpicEng
7y ago
Right, my five year old really enjoys going without food for extended periods of time. Crazy how hunger calms his temperament.
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EpicEng
7y ago
The GP is literally throwing out the reasons s/he won't buy a MacBook... in the same way that you did. What don't you understand?
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EpicEng
7y ago
Point being that if they player has already moved on to other games they may not care, i.e., G2A never find out, and they're numbers are wrong (assuming they're being honest in the first place, which is a big assumption.)
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EpicEng
7y ago
"XXX liked 'some dumb comment'" Ugh, so sick of seeing that
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EpicEng
7y ago
I understand that, "operate at a loss" being the key component there. Is that what's happening?
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EpicEng
7y ago
Are they losing money on it? Lowering prices to compete isn't a crime.
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EpicEng
7y ago
That doesn't make them a monopoly; it makes them a preferred option by consumers. In the US, antitrust laws are concerned with vertical domination of a market. The consumers of these small towns made a _choice_.
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EpicEng
7y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. This is the same reason I don't want e.g. FB collecting data on every action I take. I don't care if they can glean something from it today; the mere fact that such a database exists worri
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EpicEng
7y ago
My wife is a teacher and I promise you that principals don't want to have to manage their teacher's classes. They only step in when required or asked to.
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EpicEng
7y ago
We knew earlier, but I'm sorry; I thought we were talking about actual proof, not lack of knowledge and/or marketing. If nothing could be used by the general public until 'proven safe' you would be living in a cave and d
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EpicEng
7y ago
Prove to me that typing on a keyboard doesn't cause cancer. I'll wait.
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EpicEng
7y ago
Good luck convincing a town of people to not recognize a tourist by their clothing. What does that even mean anyway?
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EpicEng
7y ago
>I dont think porting is the big issue. Why do it in the first place? Just because you can? The code works and it's written in a popular language which plenty of people know. What's the upside?
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EpicEng
7y ago
The comment I responded to: > thought that was intentional so people wouldn’t treat it like a wired mouse? The "specific vision" we're talking about here intentionally makes the product harder to use. There is no technical
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