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by akgoel 7y ago
Patent would run out in 20 years. But, that’s a novel way to use the justice system to screen spouses for your kids!
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by akgoel 8y ago
The only "value add" for colleges is the signaling provided by getting the degree, i.e. going through the application process and committing to finishing a 4 year degree. This is most easily measured in the income data for college
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by akgoel 9y ago
Less than 1000 verses. You could naively linearly search the whole Gita as a single string.
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by akgoel 10y ago
My wife would rather torrent potato-quality VCD's than pay to rent a DVD. As far as I can, it's what she was used to when the Indian video shops were just copying VHS tapes in the backroom to rent out.
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by akgoel 10y ago
Here in Houston, with it's vaunted medical center - you can almost always get cheaper services with non-hospital affiliated services. Need an MRI? Bob's House of MRI will be cheaper than the hospital's location. Same for phys
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by akgoel 10y ago
I did keto for 4 months at the beginning of this year, and I did lose 40 pounds, and generally felt great. But then I started getting more active and picked up tennis. I found that after 30 minutes, I was completely out of energy. It wasn
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by akgoel 10y ago
i had this happen to my 6+ a year while under warranty. The Apple Genius Bar I took it to had seen this problem before and knew to twist it to get it working. He made sure it was backed up to iCloud and then gave me a replacement. This new
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by akgoel 11y ago
Unless, of course, physical cash no longer exists, and all you have is some sort of ephemeral digital cash in a financial institution that can be easily subject to a negative interest rate policy. A bank balance can lose nominal value with
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by akgoel 11y ago
cheap oil is not the cause of the market crash, but rather they are both caused by the same problem - fear of recession/depression. Cheap oil (along with many other commodities) have been falling quickly over the past 15 months. Incre
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by akgoel 11y ago
He showed it in a standard garage setup, but I would fear my garage door opener would be in the way... Hopefully the ultrasonic sensors would see the garage door opener and not hit it.
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by akgoel 11y ago
Well, it's not surprising, but I'm not sure I agree with they psychology that ebooks should be cheaper. Pricing for books is not just a markup over marginal cost. I have this discussion every day in our office - our price is not
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by akgoel 11y ago
I could not get money to install on windows 10
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by akgoel 12y ago
Yes, the investor who somehow only invested all of their money one time at the peak of the dotcom bubble would only now get their nominal value back. However, some of those component company are presumably throwing off dividends, so it may
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by akgoel 12y ago
Don't unsafe pointers in C# also opt you out of GC?
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by akgoel 13y ago
Disagree. Driving will now have increased insurance prices associated with increased risk. The roads will be safer.
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by akgoel 13y ago
My city requires a smoke alarm both outside and inside each bedroom. For my 5 bedroom house, that's over $1000. But the fact that I've had to wake up 3 times in 3 years in the middle of the night to disconnect all 5 "exteri
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by akgoel 13y ago
I'm sure ESPN could, but they probably wouldn't. Online streaming on this scale would essentially become pay-per-view, and the pay-per-view revenue for most games would not match the current broadcast revenue. Would you pay $50
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by akgoel 13y ago
Agreed. An Acer desktop like a AXC600-UR13 for $400 is full fledged Windows box with an HDMI out.
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by akgoel 13y ago
That's circular logic. They have figured out how to monetize - by utilizing DRM.
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by akgoel 13y ago
I disagree. Microsoft killed Silverlight. Your iPad argument means that we should all just skip native development and stick with HTML5. Either Silverlight or WPF should be the favored Windows desktop development environment. Instead, they
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by akgoel 13y ago
This sort of econ101 argument that MR=MC in a fully competitive market forgets that such a simple model also must allow for consumer surplus to equal supplier surplus, and that they must necessarily also be zero. In that case, all transact
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by akgoel 13y ago
In Texas, the inspection checks for emissions, windshield cracks, headlight and signal light operation, and tire wear. When I lived in Massachusetts, the inspection wrote me up because my headlights weren't in the same plane (the service s
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by akgoel 13y ago
In my case, I don't think the data would help. I'd like to drive from Houston to Dallas in my Tesla, but won't until they install the superchargers along the way.
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by akgoel 13y ago
As a Model S owner in Texas, I would think the easiest solution would be to record the mileage on the car at each annual state inspection and tax me on the net mileage driven between inspections.