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by NoPiece 14y ago
That's true of drugs costs, but it doesn't explain the expense of things like an office visit.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
But isn't it the same with a two-year subsidized phone plan? You pay a little up front, and a little extra each month. Again, kudos to T-Mobile for making the costs transparent, but I don't see how it is substantially different.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
But wouldn't you say they are just un-bundling it into a separate line item on your bill? You still pay $20 a month for 2 years. I really do appreciate the transparency, but I'd still make a choice based on overall cost.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
The spring assistance in these knives doesn't cause the blade to move, it just makes it easier to pull them out. That's basically the definitional difference between them and switchblades.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
In the plan the article outlines, you pay T-Mobile $20 a month for 24 months to pay off the phone. On one hand it is better because because you can leave anytime and the cots are clear, but on the other, it looks a lot like a two year subsi
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Folding knives aren't new, and aren't primarily intended as an alternative to switchblades. Folding the blade into the handle just makes an easy to carry package, with your are a contractor, or a sportsman. Knife regulation is mostly around
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by NoPiece 14y ago
If you were talking about a single national sales tax, you could be right. But what is being discussed is 50 different state taxes, which would be a burden, regardless of modern tech.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
But when he goes to buy doritos and a red bull at 7-11, some of that money is captured. I.e., Lot's of black market dollars wind up being used to make legal taxed sales purchases.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Because Maxis is a wholly owned subsidiary, I assume what is said by Lucy Bradshaw is actually filter and vetted, if not scripted, by EA corporate PR. If not, shame on Lucy for being so tin eared. If so, shame on Lucy for letting it happen.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
EA should clean house on their PR team. What disastrous responses. To starting this post with, "I hate to disturb you when you’re playing SimCity," is so gross, self congratulatory, and not contrite. That plus doubling down on the dishonest
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Are you sure you are solving an actual problem? I've backed a dozen projects, and never gone to to the kickstarter.com home page looking for a project. I'm not sure many people spend time browsing for things to back. People just hear about
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by NoPiece 14y ago
He isn't anonymous to RPS - they say they know who he is, and verified he worked on the project just aren't publishing his name. That's a lot different than an "anonymous tip." "Our source, who we have verified worked directly on the projec
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Can we blame Google a bit here too? They have set-up a system that people can game, and it causes tremendous collateral damage. Our site is under a constant barrage of fake accounts and content trying to generate links to other sites. Mean
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by NoPiece 14y ago
If you look at children 14 and under, 390 drowned, and 376 died by firearms, including accidents, murders and suicides. And if you only look at accidental firearm deaths, there were 62 for children 14 and under, and 123 for 20 and under. Po
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by NoPiece 14y ago
They do have a different set of norms, but probably more due to the academic culture. The first email was sent at BBN a company that was part of ARPANET, along with governmental organizations as well as the universities.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I think the critique would be more pointed if he could highlight a backlog of great ideas that Silicon Valley refused to fund. The money is available if you have a big idea. There is plenty going on in Silicon Valley outside photo sharing f
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by NoPiece 14y ago
While there was a ton of amazing stuff going on inside Bell Labs, it really seems like progress in telecom didn't accelerate until after the ATT breakup. If you think the cell phone situation now is bad, you used to have to rent your home p
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by NoPiece 14y ago
There is definitely an internet lynch mob mentality on this even though the inappropriate use critique is spot on. You'd have to be a brave designer to use it, even in an befitting way. Apps like Balsamiq have dropped it and subbed in look-
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I'm not opposed to government spending or large investments in infrastructure, but it should happen when spending is at 15% of GDP, not 25%. The problem today is we are spending so much, and seemingly getting so little for it. The spending
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by NoPiece 14y ago
How does that possibly fit with your claim that it is against the stated purpose of Kickstarter? Kickstarter gets to define what their purpose is, and their actions are as clear as their words. You'd have stronger ground complaining about K
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You could say the wheels of capitalism has run out of lubrication, or you could say that the creeping growth of regulation and governemnt spending has thrown sand into wheels. See this graph of spending as a percent of GDP: http://www.rith
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by NoPiece 14y ago
First, I don't see anything on that page that would disqualify this project. Second, why is this project a staff pick by Kickstarter if it somehow violates the spirit of their rules? http://www.kickstarter.com/discover/categories/games?ref
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by NoPiece 14y ago
What would you say about a typeface like Helvetica? I'd say its greatness largely is derived from universality, not exclusivity.
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You say it is contrary to the stated purpose of Kickstarter. Can you link or quote something to back that up? All I've ever seen them say is that it is a platform to fund creative projects. This is a creative project. For game developers, e
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by NoPiece 14y ago
You have a more narrow view of what Kickstarter is than most, and more narrow than Kickstarter itself. All they say about themselves is, "Kickstarter is a funding platform for creative projects." If you don't like it don't fund it, but if i
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I'd edit this into my last comment, but it is too late. Anyway, note this exchange on Twitter with the SimCity producer, Ocean Quigley. -- Iain Kidd ‏@oceanquigley Just wondering if you regret the decision as creative director to refuse to
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by NoPiece 14y ago
This cartoon is an interesting take on EA acquisitions... http://i.imgur.com/zFrTB.jpg
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Right, but I'm just saying that there isn't nearly enough information to claim the devs let down the CEO (as the parent comment implied). We don't know why things are failing, or or who made the decisions that let to the problems. We don't
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by NoPiece 14y ago
I wish developers had more power, but believe me, 90% of the time they are completely beholden to their publisher. In this case, Maxis is a 100% owned subsidiary of EA. They have no ability to kill the project walk way in protest (other tha
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by NoPiece 14y ago
Absolutely right, you could totally see this train wreck coming. http://imgur.com/xddfMvh

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