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by adamlett 7y ago
That's a very different and much weaker statement than the first one you made.
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by adamlett 7y ago
I think you have cause and effect reversed. Extended warranties are offered, when the product is expensive, not the other way around. Extending warranties can be thought of as a kind of insurance. If a product is inexpensive to replace, it
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by adamlett 7y ago
Between anecdotal evidence from your mechanic(s) as recounted by you and this article[1] which contains actual hard numbers, I find the latter to be the most convincing. Which is not to say I doubt that what you recount has been yours or yo
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by adamlett 7y ago
That's a different point than the one I was addressing, which was that warranties can be taken as indicators of how long products can be expected to last. What products that have extended warranties usually have in common is that they
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by adamlett 7y ago
Try flipping it around. If I presented an product to you and were able to convince you that it was of significantly better quality (more durable, fewer bad surprises etc) than other products in the same category, would you be most surprised
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by adamlett 7y ago
That doesn't hold up, when you think about it. Most companies don't offer any warranty outside of what is required by the law, which is usually between 0 and 2 years for consumer products, depending on where you live. By your arg
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by adamlett 7y ago
It's hard to disprove that it is sometimes like that, but I would be extremely sceptical towards any claim that it is generally like that. I think it is safe to assume that price and quality are correlated in most cases.
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by adamlett 7y ago
We managed to stop using freon, thereby rescuing outselves from ozone depletion. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/5/100505-scienc...
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by adamlett 7y ago
The way I read TFA, the argument is this: If you think electric cars is the solution or a meaningful part of the solution, you're wrong. It does not say electric cars are bad, and it certainly does not argue that we should not so
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by adamlett 7y ago
In Denmark, if you have a fixed-rate mortgage, you are always allowed to buy back the bonds at their nominal value. For that reason, you absolutely can save money by refinancing when the the interest rates go down (you still have to pay som
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by adamlett 7y ago
I should have been more clear in my comment. What I meant was: There is no requirement that the maturity of a mortgage should be 30 years exactly.
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by adamlett 7y ago
There no rule that the mortgage will run for 30 years. It’s just what most people choose. But there’s nothing stopping anyone from paying back the entire mortgage in 10 years.
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by adamlett 7y ago
The value of a company’s shares is the sum of its assets and its expected future earnings, both divided by the number of shares. The assets are a known quantity and do not fluctuate much in value, but the expected future earnings may. When
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by adamlett 7y ago
It’s both. If there was a way to state the law in such a way that it was always clear when and how to apply it, there would be no need for courts and judges.
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by adamlett 7y ago
But the quality of the fake is irrelevant. According to whom? Falwell involved an absolutely perfect fake If that were true, written accounts would be as video when used as evidence in a court of law. You may be surprised to learn that
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by adamlett 7y ago
So a deepfake of a clean-cut star, say Taylor Swift, in an over-the-top hardcore porn clip would not reasonably be considered real and so could be a legitimate parody. So it could be argued. But color me skeptical as to whether such an ar
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by adamlett 7y ago
That involved a fake interview with Falwell published in Hustler. I don't see how that is legally distinct from putting his face on a body double What I understood from recently rewatching The People vs Larry Flynt was that LF and Hu
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by adamlett 7y ago
Learned helplessness runs wild at Apple. Your use of the term learned helplessness matches no definition I'm aware of. Can you elaborate on what you mean by this, and also point to what evidence you have that it runs wild at Apple
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by adamlett 7y ago
VPN's are not a privacy panacea. Hiding your internet traffic from e.g. your ISP comes at the cost of divulging it to the VPN provider. Apple has been very clear that they don't want to be in a position where they would have to tu
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by adamlett 7y ago
Such a "solution" would be a PITA. I for one am using my phone many times during a work day for personal stuff (e.g. messaging with my wife), and I am also often using it for work stuff in my free time (e.g. replying to email from
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by adamlett 7y ago
I wrote a minimalist Textmate theme based on the same thinking, namely that comments should stand out from the surrounding code. Check it out: https://github.com/KaptajnKold/Minimal
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by adamlett 7y ago
There's rumours of a vehicle that has somehow overcome the problem of air resistance and is able to go faster even than this train: "The Aeroplane". Maybe you've heard of it?
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by adamlett 7y ago
You’re just painting your own bias over his words Yes, I agree. But I also think I acknowledged that, when I wrote I appreciate that Paul G's intended meaning was different . How about _interpreting_ what he said _literally_ ... Hm
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by adamlett 7y ago
To you it may seem there is little difference between being poor and being financially wiped out. To the person experiencing it, the difference is huge. Among other things, it can mean the difference between struggling to make rent, and not
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by adamlett 7y ago
Don't get blinded by the analogy. There's an important difference between it and the problem we're discussing: We can't actually change the fact that woman generally are not as strong as men. We can however as a society
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by adamlett 7y ago
Idk, it seems to me that PG is just wrong about this. Not categorically and in every single instance, but on the whole. It's like saying women are physically stronger than men, and pointing to some woman who is clearly an outlier. You
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by adamlett 7y ago
Most common SQL statements read like somewhat stilted english. Many non-programmers find this particularly accessible. The problem is not reading SQL, but writing it. It's a lot like Excel. You can do some really complex confusing s
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by adamlett 7y ago
Yes. The empty interface.
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by adamlett 7y ago
You really think SQL is incredibly simple ? I think TFA makes a pretty convincing argument that it is anything but.
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by adamlett 8y ago
Lots of open source projects are well architected and cleanly written[1]. Demanding that they also be problem free , or future proof , is a red herring. I've never heard any proponent of clean code claim that these are side effects o

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