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by a_c_s 8y ago
Consumers don't need to worry about this though: all fraudulent charges are removed from the customer's account and are somebody else's problem. The customer gets a new credit card sent to them, sometimes even overnight, for
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by a_c_s 8y ago
1. Each employee on a train costs well over $100k/year: going from 2 employees per train (driver & conductor) to 1 would save on the order of $200+ million dollars a year. 2. Wifi in stations is entirely paid for by the advertising
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by a_c_s 8y ago
The big advantages are ease and flexibility. Ease: there's no TSA security before boarding, so (from a passenger perspective) you just climb in to the plane and take off, similar to hopping into a car. Flexibility: you don't have
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by a_c_s 8y ago
NYC was quite affordable when nobody wanted to live there (like the 1970's). Once the city was 'cleaned up', demand for housing has increased and, as much as people bemoan all of the construction, housing units haven't m
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Because the cat doesn't switch bowls unless a bowl gets >2 scoops.
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by a_c_s 9y ago
What's best for consumers is having a variety of competitive choices: in the short term a monopolist can offer the 'one true best option', but over time they (like all companies) will stop acting competitively and then consum
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by a_c_s 9y ago
If my credit card gets stolen then I just report it to the credit card company and I get a new card (free) and all of the fraudulent charges reversed. If the bank goes under, my funds are insured by the FDIC. If I lose my wallet I can repo
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Grand Central is having new platforms built for the Long Island Railroad (LIRR), which is a commenter train system that is separate from the subway system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Side_Access
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Yeah, I think we need to flatten them a different way: tax corporations and individuals on a percentage of revenue (income) they earn. Then it becomes very expensive to create a shell company to launder money through and games like paying o
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by a_c_s 9y ago
There are very few opportunities in life that can't be delayed by 48 hours (especially if the reason is a major lifecycle event like a birth, marriage or funeral). Without family or friends, what's the point of life?
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by a_c_s 9y ago
It seems like this advice is derived from anecdotes and "gut feeling" rather than data and research.
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Different people are different: I find running almost painfully tedious.
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by a_c_s 9y ago
"How does your company think about diversity?" I asked this question in my most recent round and got a variety of answers, which I found illuminating. Some people were caught totally flat-footed and it wasn't a focus, others
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by a_c_s 9y ago
> management of the supply of that currency that is equitable to all participants remains illusive The interests of participants are mutually exclusive: debtors want high inflation, lenders want deflation.
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Price gouging, outside of a declared 'state of emergency', is totally legal in the USA. They can't be sued for it. (Though I agree with your frustration 100%)
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by a_c_s 9y ago
This is also the kind of law that makes people hate lawyers & judges. No judge should approve guardianship unless they have substantial proof that the family has been notified. Facilitating fraud like this is blatantly unethical: if onl
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by a_c_s 9y ago
I was excited by Snowcrash (the first chapter is awesome) but the plot kind of dissolves into a lukewarm mush by the end. AFAIK, people tend to love Snowcrash for the ideas and the world building rather than the plot.
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by a_c_s 9y ago
A compromise could also be to divide the tasks differently: instead of the tidy and less tidy partners being 50/50 on taking the garbage out, perhaps it should be 99/1 on garbage (the less tidy person only handles it in unusual ci
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Oops, you're right: didn't realize the article was using quarterly numbers!
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by a_c_s 9y ago
According to this article , Amazon has $101,749 in revenue per employee (which is almost 2x that of Wal-Mart). That's roughly 1/18th what Apple's doing. https://www.fool.com/investing/2017/06/
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by a_c_s 9y ago
This is far more applicable to traditional, actively-managed mutual funds than it is to index investing. In a mutual fund a handful of people select the stocks to invest in and do so arbitrarily. Sometimes there are specific goals or sector
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Nope: the body of the iPhone 8 & iPhone X are almost the same size. https://www.cnet.com/news/iphone-x-iphone-8-size-comparison/
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Or one could start a business part-time and only switch to it full-time when/if things are going well... which is what the Warby Parker founders did and now they are either CEOs of or are on the board of a unicorn start-up.
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Nope, unless one counts dropping the price. However since it was released in March many Apple-watchers expect any updated version to also be released in the Spring as well. (This seems more likely now since Apple didn't kill the iPhone
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by a_c_s 9y ago
The iPhone 8 is $699 for the base model in the USA. ($999 is for the iPhone X, which has a separate discussion thread)
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by a_c_s 9y ago
This is bad advice for most people because, regardless of business skillsets, these kinds of one-sized-fits-all prescriptions don't take into account human diversity. Fear is a terrible motivator for many people: rather than providing
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by a_c_s 9y ago
You missed the most critical points of the parent though. To use your example, Comcast has been overcharging by $10/month for years. A just resolution would be for each customer to get $120/year they were with Comcast PLUS Comcast
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by a_c_s 9y ago
With the current system there's no way to know which supplier is a bad supplier: there's just a bucket of mixed legitimate & counterfeit inventory.
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by a_c_s 9y ago
Not the parent but this article discusses benefits: https://open.buffer.com/reading-fiction/ They discuss benefits in: 1. Increasing empathy 2. Decreasing stress 3. Sleep 4. Relationships 5. Memory 6. Inclusivity 7. V
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by a_c_s 9y ago
I'm using a machine with a touch bar right now and I have an escape key in the upper-left corner of the touch bar where it always was. I don't understand this complaint.

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