SixSigma

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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   I know, I wish I had one.
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   My first 386 computer. Built in the computer shop I worked in. It wouldn't boot if you tightened the screws on the case. Solution: Don't tighten the screws on the case.
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   Uber makes $2bn loss on $1.8bn revenue. I'm not sure who thinks that's basic economics
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   I'd much rather use Uber because they are subsidising my ride.
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   Uber will not make a profit for decades, break-even is a stretch of credulity. Unless you think they can somehow turn around $2bn loss on $1.8bn revenue in a very thin margin business.
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   The point is that the evidence seems credible if somewhat incredible. It might not be convincing and certainly not conclusive but there are a series of remarkable coincidences.
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   There are 300k+ subscribers to T_D I am one of those who have never even heard of that chat room, nor visited. And I am on T_D all day long every day since February. We have posts with 7k+ points and 56% upvoted. https://i.reddit
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   It was -1 with no replies at that point. I now have the Gizmodo article which mentions a chat room off reddit. Which is all chat from Moderators which openly want us banned. It is rather one sided because our mods didn't respond. Gizmo
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   by SixSigma 10y ago

   > They actively target, brigade (large group upvoting/downvoting), and intentionally troll other communities with their only goal being to fuck with people and overwhelmingly push their rhetoric. [citation needed] I'm there ev
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Demand for car utilisation is bi-modal. I imagine a world where every car queing on the freeway is an Uber with someone sat in the back scrolling Facebook
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    If you think Labour is in favour of individual rights over the rights of the state, you haven't been paying attention.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    It could, yes, and has been. See Walmart vs local economies.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Double dip tasting is my "favourite" to see on TV
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    > get off MY feed! shitposting on public facebook posts is a lot of fun
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    > owning a plot of the earth is ridiculous you'll think differently once you've planted your crops in it
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I didn't draw and conclusions, I just presented one bullet point of note and linked to the conclusions of experts. > Cheaper buildings and labor for US companies, which improves their competitiveness against international competitio
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    $30bn per year leaves the US economy via wages to immigrant workers sending/taking it back to their home countries. $25bn to Mexico alone, that's 2% of their GDP http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles&#x2F
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    And by paying US workers the wages won't be leaving the US either.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    What I mean is, those criminals who did not get caught and but did get photographed are happily smiling in the not-criminal training set. So the label of "criminal" is over general.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    This is akin to saying "The USA bans all burning of moon rocks for power"
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Could be a shill ?
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Here's me living with just a 1280x800 X201 laptop. It is perfectly practical.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Learned to distinguish criminals who got arrested and photographed from people who didn't.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Also a Service Level Agreement doesn't mean that you will really get 99.999% reliability, usually it just details what financial recompense you will receive when that level of service is not achieved. e.g. "We will give you $1 per
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    They didn't exactly cover themselves in glory during the coalition. As a side comment, did you know Hillary Clinton we getting leaks from behind the scenes at the coalition negotiations (see the PDFs) https://wikileaks.org&#
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Even frogs get out of the water when it starts to get hot.
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Ironically I access my VPN to the UK so I can access geo-restriced UK websites while I am out of the country. Blocking it would indeed mandate blocking HTTPS, my OpenVPN piggybacks on port 143 on my UK server (though I guess DPI could spot
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    I guess that is true to a first approximation but exceptions perhaps prove the rule https://magazine.atavist.com/the-mastermind
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    My point being more that reflecting on your outgoings and measuring their value to you is important. And these insights give you benchmarks for your daily life. I can compare the $20 for a single meal eating out against the $9 I otherwise s
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    by SixSigma 10y ago

    Millennial discovers budgeting Blog post at 11!! I track all of my spending. I spend $0.088 per day on ground coffee, of which I drink 500ml every morning in the week and two extra on Weekend days. That's over £2 per month ! Starbucks