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OpieCunningham
16y ago
> There isn't any phone other than iPhone that loses the signal altogether by just touching one point on the phone. Perhaps, but I'm not entirely convinced that is true. It may be, but it may also be true that other phones do have a one
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You're right. If you can't accept my examples as a demonstration of the point that nothing has a quantifiable value, there is no point in continuing the discussion. You're certainly free to guess at any value you wish for any thing you thin
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> You've just changed the hypothesis in order to ridicule it. No, what I did was demonstrate my point. It doesn't appear you understood so I'll be as clear as possible: accurate value is impossible to determine as it requires perfect kn
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16y ago
> It's not always easy to estimate large prices . . . that doesn't mean there isn't one. There isn't one. There are multiple guesses all based upon assumptions and limited knowledge. Here's an example: m: I have a book, how much will yo
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> On the contrary, there certainly is a dollar figure, but it's far higher than any individual would be able to provide. That dollar figure is: whatever amount of money-effort it would take to save one hundred times as many people as th
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16y ago
So there is no dollar figure. OK then. Pretty much my point. But since we're not dealing with a dollar figure, as your original post indicated and many of your follow ups required, you're right. Nothing is priceless and in exchange for kill
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16y ago
As the consequences are unpredictable, the approximate probable cost is unpredictable. You haven't convinced me that everything has a price. Here, you cannot predict the result therefore you cannot predict the cost value of the result. Ther
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24fps is not based on persistence of vision. Persistence of vision exists at 23fps or 22fps and lower for some people. 24fps is an historical artifact of the first few generations of motion picture technology. It is maintained because human
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I have mild flu-like symptoms a day after consuming aspartame. I'd be interested in knowing which of the studies reviewed in the meta study were funded by corporations incentivized by aspartame.
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I'm not familiar with the details of Samsung's technology. And certainly it is true that display manufacturers create wholesale fabrications of supposed technical improvements in order to sell displays. But theoretically, adding additional
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A school isn't a place of freedom. The administration is tasked with the safety of the children, not the preservation of the Bill of Rights. This is why most schools have some form of dress code. An enforced dress code is, by nature, a limi