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by brc 12y ago
Careful, you'll fall foul of fashionable thought and the marauding thoughtcrime enforcers. Questioning that perhaps modelled climate sensitivity to co2 has been well overstated will get you branded a heretic, a denier and earns bucket
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by brc 12y ago
"One weird trick" - the scams and spams will never leave us.
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by brc 12y ago
I'm not sure that is true. There are always new people entering the internet in still large numbers, and their late adoption usually means they are technically naive. You also have young people becoming adults and sometimes getting t
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by brc 12y ago
>I apologize to all you forum owners for what I did in the past. Yeah, well you made hundreds of thousands of people spend hundreds of hours cleaning up after automated bots turn a site to crap. The underlying issue here is a lack of und
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by brc 12y ago
MB have been working on this stuff for decades. Often they develop these things in conjunction with a supplier like Bosch. They then get a period of exclusivity and then Bosch/whoever are free to sell the systems to other companies. T
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by brc 12y ago
I read something a while back where a rental company trialled renting cars with the emergency stop option - to stop, as you say 'people going to sleep and plowing into the back of cars'. The results were surprising even to them I
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by brc 12y ago
I think the OP is talking about sitting in the back seat, not the front. I'd say OP got into a Tesla taxi/exec car and didn't like the room. But not sure why comparing to the Panamera is a good example, because it has a low
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by brc 12y ago
It's not just states that hate Palo Alto. Foreign governments the world over are chafing at the amounts of revenue that pour into Google and Apple and they don't get even the tiniest cut. A large economy will have consumers spend
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by brc 12y ago
Yes, this seems like a well-solved problem as nearly every franchising model includes company-owned stores.
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by brc 12y ago
There is no such thing as 0% financing. The cost of the interest is buried in the product somewhere.
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by brc 12y ago
Right. The conversion rate is better for some products after a salesperson walks the customer through. Of course, you're cutting off the cohort of people who just don't want to talk to a salesperson - so you'll never convert
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by brc 12y ago
In those times, they really wanted to get the point across.
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by brc 12y ago
Agriculture created surplus which meant that someone could feed a larger family. If you are a hunter gatherer you need to be a very good one to support more than one wife, even if you are the chief. With surplus generated by agriculture, sp
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by brc 12y ago
You don't have to survive long to pass on your genes. You don't need to make it past 30 to produce a big range of offspring.
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by brc 12y ago
No the parent comment is right. Aligning your circle of influence and circle of concern is the key to productivity and happiness. Moral fashion is all the rage, but unless you are going to engage in the political process (properly, not just
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by brc 12y ago
How about the freedom to set your own travel plans, efficiencies in travel with all the attendant economic benefits and vital tool in improving real estate quality? The road-and-traffic free utopia you seek cannot exist. >leading us inex
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by brc 12y ago
Try taking 3 kids to a restaurant on a bicycle in a city. People who think cars are just plain evil need to realize why they are popular.
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by brc 12y ago
The reverse of this is of course baby boomer generations who hate what the news has become (TV and Newspaper) yet slavishly consume it anyway, because of a lifetime habit. Whenever I see an older relative frothing about some stupid article
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by brc 12y ago
There is also the issue of your army of tech staff doing demos and presentations using your competitors tools, or shipping your operating system with somebody elses browser installed. Microsoft need a browser and always will.
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by brc 12y ago
It's funny, I'm sitting here desperately trying to remember what AJAX stood for without resorting to a search. And I can't. Was it Async Javascript and XML? Or was it ActiveX related. It did change things immensely.
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by brc 12y ago
Unfortunately, for many millions of women, even in western countries, this is still the case - treated as property.
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by brc 12y ago
And here we finally get to the 'all property is theft' argument. Give me strength.
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by brc 12y ago
The rent control creates the mold and stuck windows. That's the point. Supply is the answer. You cannot increase the number of people living in a city without increasing housing stock. Build, build, build. It is the only answer.
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by brc 12y ago
At least you seem to be acknowledging your luck in being protected by law against market prices. You should take advantage of your situation and save the money you are spared by law, so the day that the law stops protecting you, you have a
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by brc 12y ago
No, profit is arranging a voluntary transaction where both parties where both parties trade something they value less for something they value more. Where did all this 'profit is evil' talk come from anyway? This is a site dedica
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by brc 12y ago
But that's a problem with supply in the market, not a reason to keep rent control. Fix the supply and the rent takes care of itself.
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by brc 12y ago
Rent control is a shocking idea that makes a small claque of renters rich at the expense of everyone else. It's obscene. Everyone blames the owners or some lawyer when a protected tenant becomes unprotected. The blame lies in the law
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by brc 12y ago
Low tech magazine? Now I have seen everything. Luddites rejoice, for your publication has arrived!
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by brc 12y ago
As usual, this compares nameplate capacity instead of delivered generation. Falling solar install prices are a good thing, but they don't close down other generation types. Coal plants still have to burn even if there is a glut of ele
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by brc 12y ago
It's pretty offensive that people are using 'Taliban' and 'Isis' as throwaway rhetoric to collect political points. Unless the people in question are throwing gay people from buildings or killing girls for attending

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