bennyelv

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by bennyelv 6y ago
That's part of the fun! For smaller ones like the Moth or Waszp anyway. Less fun and quite expensive in an AC75... The dynamics of a sailing boat are far more complex than a motor boat. The drive comes from halfway up a huge lever (
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by bennyelv 6y ago
If you encounter force 8-9 while out on a speedboat day trip you've seriously messed up with your preparation and planning! it doesn't just come out of nowhere. The reality is that it's the sea state that matters. A sheltere
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Ten years ago if you'd predicted that trump would be in the White House and Johnson would be in No 10, you would have been laughed at... Nobody's laughing now because the reality isn't funny.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
"Nothingburger" - I've not heard that word before, is it an American word that doesn't translate to English :)
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by bennyelv 6y ago
My personal observation is that even if you know that to be the case, it's all to easy to fool yourself using the platitudes that knowing it should prevent. It's only really people who live with conditions that have long term ef
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Interested to know how that happened! I've got a neurological condition (MS) that one time meant that sweet tasted bitter, but only on one side of my tongue. It wasn't a pleasant experience, but thankfully it only lasted a coupl
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by bennyelv 6y ago
It’s not clear from your description really - Doesn’t that mean your chance of dying has doubled? Is that not significant?
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Can you? Citation needed, not heresay.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Even on a fairly high quality connection, you still lose a significant proportion of the non-verbal communication on a video call. The fidelity just isn't the same when you're looking at the slightly laggy image of a person on a
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by bennyelv 6y ago
In the UK MD = CEO (when not finance), so without more context you couldn’t really say. He’s either an MD in finance, which is the equivalent of a VP (roughly) in other kinds of companies, or he’s the CEO.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
The premise of your objection to it is that there is nothing of a higher moral status than protecting ownership of property. Why is that more important than any other moral axiom?
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Exactly - the answer is always that it depends on the exact situation. “Only borrow to buy appreciating assets, only buy depreciating ones with cash” is a fallacy.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
This is often touted as a good rule of thumb but it’s really a fallacy. Your money does not know or care what it is spent on. If you take out a loan to purchase a car, and then use the money you didn’t spend on the car to purchase investmen
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by bennyelv 6y ago
Except if you observe a junction for a short while you'll see that in general people drive through even if there is no chance it would cause an accident. /devils advocate The loophole for a cyclist is that they could swing their l
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by bennyelv 6y ago
My observation of your observations and other observations like it is that the observer chooses a narrow definition of "jumping the lights" that suits their own biases. Specifically, the issue is with Amber lights. The highway co
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by bennyelv 6y ago
That’s only a practical way to think about it if you have enough other income to cover your expenditure. Equity doesn’t pay your rent.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
I’d probably go with gross or criminal negligence for a screw up of the magnitude and simplicity of this one.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
The biggest cost is your time. You've valued it at 0... If the startup idea requires someone (or more than one person) to work on it full time in order to succeed then that's not a valuation that is practical.
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by bennyelv 6y ago
It sounds to me like your risk assessment is a little unbalanced. We also have no idea what the medium and long term effects of being infected with SARS-CoV-2 are, so why are you happy to be exposed to it?
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by bennyelv 7y ago
How would you accurately attribute that to the risk of the disease being overestimated, rather than the measures taken being effective?
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by bennyelv 7y ago
Mortgage payments are being suspended to ease the financial burden on people rather than because people make payment in person. Two banks in the UK have already voluntarily announced similar measures. Not that it's a particularly altr
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by bennyelv 7y ago
Where is the evidence? If you present evidence I'm sure it will be welcomed.
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by bennyelv 7y ago
>Softricity was absolutely amazing but shelved Why do you say that? I thought it was just renamed App-V and it's still going strong to this day. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/application-managem
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by bennyelv 7y ago
I don’t see how your conclusion follows from the premise. I don’t think anyone really doubts that they’ve stolen IP, but it doesn’t follow from that that their 5G equipment is therefore untrustworthy. That conclusion requires its own evide
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by bennyelv 7y ago
I can see that it could be effective against brute force attacks. A real user would assume they fat fingered their password and try it again, a brute force attack would miss the password and carry on forever.
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by bennyelv 7y ago
There is... but one of the problems with the sport of sailing is that there are so many variables and working out what's chance and what's a trend is incredibly difficult. It's been well known for the last 10 years that the A
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by bennyelv 7y ago
The dust up is actually about one of the manufacturers continually refusing to play the game nicely and abusing the de-facto monopoly they're granted in the regions they supply by the class governing body and generally trying to push e
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by bennyelv 7y ago
In the UK at least the customer would be well protected (assuming that the dealer they bought the car from was still in business etc). The car was not as described, so the dealer they bought it from would have to compensate them appropriate
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by bennyelv 7y ago
I used to work at a global financial services firm that was AMD only back in the late 2000's when they were on top in the CPU wars. We never had any negative consequences from making that decision.
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by bennyelv 7y ago
That’s not quite true, in England the purchase of a house is not binding until the contract is signed and exchanged with a deposit, but completing the contract (paying the balance, handing over the keys) can be done at some agreed point in

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