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by a_c_s 12y ago
Warp 9 is 834 times the speed of light Source: http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Warp_factor
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Taking a taxi everywhere seems like it would be expensive: how much would taking an Uber/Lyft 30 minutes each way to and from work actually cost? (For reference, my commute is 30 minutes in NYC and costs me $112/month pre-tax for
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Apple's app stores take 30% of revenues, not profits.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
50% of what though? If you have 1 in a million chance, increasing that to 1.5 in a million isn't a big change. If "bad luck" afflicted 1 in 100,000 then then bad luck would still have a much bigger effect, despite lifestyle c
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by a_c_s 12y ago
1. The customers of credit processing are businesses (merchants), not people buying stuff from those businesses 2. There is no single rate, especially once different fee structures are accounted for: https://www.sba.gov/blog
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by a_c_s 12y ago
That's why I said free market (as per the colloquial definition) rather than a perfect market, which is the platonic ideal that real-world markets approximate to varying degrees. They certainly aren't magic and certainly get overs
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by a_c_s 12y ago
The overblown rhetoric used makes this piece hard to read. For example, charging a rate that the market will bear for a product like payment processing is simply the free market, not some kind of 'evil' practice.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
I don't think pissing off congress is going to ever be in NASA's interest.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Russia has neither free speech nor free elections. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-25299116 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/nov/30/russia.politics
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by a_c_s 12y ago
The author sets things up so nicely and then veers off into wanting to acquire random companies. Arguing that Apple could maintain focus by keeping the current management of acquired companies then begs the question: what value is there for
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by a_c_s 12y ago
As developing economies 'develop' their per-capita GDP approaches that of developed economies. Therefore, as this happens, the size of an economy becomes more proportional to the population size. Therefore over the very long term
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Given that China's population is 10.8x Japan's, this seems inevitable. Is there more to this that make it notable that I'm missing? Source: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=china+population+%2F+j...
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by a_c_s 12y ago
FYI: Your comment is being downvoted because, well-intentioned though it may be, it doesn't contribute to the discussion.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
You miss the point: most people think America is a place where hard work and education allows somebody to achieve a middle class lifestyle (aka the American Dream). Following from this, here's the key point: most Americans want to live
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by a_c_s 12y ago
This service has to exist first before it can chip away at anything. Part of the reason the US regulated ISP's the way they did was the thought that different technologies could compete: Dialup/DSL, Cable, Power Line & Satelli
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by a_c_s 12y ago
In fire service mode door operations are manually controlled. So they do have a purpose, even if most users never experience it. Source: http://elevation.wikia.com/wiki/Fire_service_mode_(EFS)
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by a_c_s 12y ago
I'd be surprised if they didn't use Swift for their iOS apps.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
If cotton is an inferior crop, why would we want to keep planting so much of it? In this scenario where hemp & marijuana are legal, cotton farmers could start growing hemp too if that is more profitable.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Thanks for sharing your experiences, though I'm not sold on your conclusion. There are plenty of students who, when bored or unchallenged, underperform to the point where they are initially mistaken for having an intellectual disabilit
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by a_c_s 12y ago
I know plenty of brilliant people who are now unemployed or severely underemployed (working minimum wage retail jobs despite having a college degree). Despite being academically gifted, they haven't found their way to careers that matc
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Given that hiring/firing people is a key part of being a CEO, a racist CEO would result in hiring/firing/not promoting talented, capable people based on irrelevant factors. Speaking purely from a business perspective, this wi
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by a_c_s 12y ago
The plural of anecdote is not data. Just because people suffered silently with poorly understood conditions (autism, ADHD) or didn't discuss their food issues doesn't mean those conditions didn't exist. My uncle has always ha
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by a_c_s 12y ago
Do you have any insights as to why your friends don't take advantage of existing programs?
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by a_c_s 12y ago
My comment was only referring to Firebase as a standalone product/service. If Google discontinues it yet incorporates the technology into their own products/platforms that is still a loss for developers who use/would have use
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by a_c_s 12y ago
...until Google decides to pull the plug on Firebase in 6 months to 2 years.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
You're still treating cows and people as equivalent: thanks to the microorganisms in their guts, cows break down fiber, which is entirely indigestible for humans. Unless you know the glycemic load of both digested corn and digested gra
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by a_c_s 12y ago
You missed the key word: "numbers, pages and keynote APPS". The parent's point is that Google doesn't have an offline version of their productivity suite, so they aren't trying to do the same thing Apple is.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
For cows grass is also predominantly carbs! Grass is mostly fiber, which is converted into carbs by the intestinal flora of the cow. So why does corn fatten them better? Is it the macronutrient makeup of digested grass vs digested corn, or
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by a_c_s 12y ago
I agree with you there: AIM was great and more solid than many of the new services. I'm still a bit puzzled as to how re-inventing instant messaging (WhatsApp) can be the hot new thing worth billions of dollars.
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by a_c_s 12y ago
These questions are so basic they seem like either trolling or a back-handed way of expressing an opinion. If, as your comments suggest that isn't your goal, then spending 30 minutes on wikipedia would be a better use of time than ask

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