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by brc 10y ago
Your whole reason for being, the thing that gets you out of bed and searching for food, is your in-built desire to recreate and nurture life. Intentionally rejecting that is a massive commitment to make, given the very long term consequenc
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by brc 10y ago
I would suggest you stop worrying and get on with your biological imperative to reproduce your dna, only in slightly variated pattern to ensure parasites and viruses are kept guessing. Also know that people have been grappling with this que
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by brc 10y ago
Moreton bay, look it up. Few years ago now, but the sub visit was big news.
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by brc 10y ago
I would have thought most of the issues with publicly listing are the regulatory environment rather than the lack of a specialised listing market. Isn't this way the Nasdaq used to be? I'm all for innovation but I can see the var
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by brc 10y ago
I know someone who was at sea when their GPS stopped working. They found out later a nuclear sub had come into port around the same time. Seems like it wasn't a coincidence as gps outages are rare.
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by brc 10y ago
This applies to many things, including deciding to mow your own lawn instead of outsourcing it. Most people think that their time is worth x, and the yard-guy costs y, and if x>y, they should outsource the mowing. It's not as sim
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by brc 10y ago
There is an argument to be made for not having corporate tax. Corporations are just collections of people, owners and employees. As long as the income goes from the corporation to those people, it will be taxed as individual income. Now
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by brc 10y ago
Except that the marginal cost of production will go up because of the increased competition for scarce goods, of which every single produced item has some component, not the least of which is land and labor. So yes, there is likely an infla
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by brc 10y ago
This is two private parties slugging it out. The government adjudicates but does not have a specific law that is broken. That is by definition freedom of the press. The danger is when the government starts setting laws that the press has
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by brc 10y ago
That is the whole point of punitive damages though. The big awards are a punishment of the person or company which lose. Plenty of environmentalists would be happy if an oil company got sued into bankruptcy over a spill. It's the way
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by brc 10y ago
I read that article and starting watching my dog, who tends to do his business while walking. It's not true for my dog at least. There really is no rhyme or reason though he will tend to go parallel to a path if there is one. So I&#x
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by brc 10y ago
It's a good theory but I think the investors are pretty straight-up about wanting their companies on a short leash. The key will be those other cities/hubs having their own successes, bringing in the capital and expertise to nurtu
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by brc 10y ago
Australians will take lecture from the New York Times after The USA perfects its record. This article is full of bias-pushing, including the idea that what happens to the people on Nauru is mysterious or that they are in limbo, or that they
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by brc 10y ago
Yes. I know someone on staff at the Wsj, and know their political views. I have seen their reporting and it is generally balanced. Yes, the papers always have an editorial line they are following, but it's not necessarily biased to p
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by brc 10y ago
They are designed to look sexy in the dealership. Most engine covers pop off without even using any tools.
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by brc 10y ago
If you have a car it probably needs some type of work, somewhere. The big cost is in tools, but just start simple and work your way up to something like an engine rebuild. Even doing simple but time consuming tasks like replacing leaking
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by brc 10y ago
That's a wrong attitude for a shop teacher - nerdy types are usually very good at mechanical work. You're right in that the best way to learn is to do.
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by brc 10y ago
Porsche now makes a flat 4 engine again- the new Boxster/Cayman engines are turbo 4. On the cost issue, Porsche famously tried to cut costs for the 996/Boxster gen 1 by using a common cylinder head casting for both sides. This wa
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by brc 10y ago
Actually two decades now.
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by brc 11y ago
I am not a proponent for taxes, most of my arguments centre around the idiocy of most taxes. And you are correct in your analysis, particularly as the improvement component on the land is already taxed by sales taxes for the materials and
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by brc 11y ago
Because you can't trade like-for-like. It's a tax on moving. If you want to leave your 4 bedroom, 1 million dollar property and buy a 2 bedroom, 1 million dollar apartment, you have to forego 100k just to do this? Obviously most
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by brc 11y ago
Well, correct. There are lots of other expensive things you can buy which don't have any issue with price increases no matter now many people want to buy. Boats, for example. If lots of people start buying boats, then the number of
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by brc 11y ago
They are crappy because of the rent control. It is always and every time a terrible idea. It should never be implemented anywhere, at any time, for any reason. Price fixing destroys markets and creates a tiny subset of winners at the expen
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by brc 11y ago
It's even worse in Australia, which most properties do not have a yearly property tax. So you pay a 'stamp duty' when you purchase the property, based on a % of the sale price. This means you have people living in Sydney wit
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by brc 11y ago
Dating apps favour the top 20% of men, and the top 50% of women. The data says as much. I do think there is a 'cliff' where the amount of responses you get drop at a certain point - whether from height, income level, whatever.
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by brc 11y ago
I thought this was the obvious answer. The sky is not dark at night when you use the right telescope. So either the sky changes when you point a telescope at it, or the 'sky' as we see it, is just an artefact of what our primitiv
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by brc 11y ago
In general, large/luxury SUV sales has been outpacing large/luxury sedan sales for a while. Perhaps this was an artefact of a distorted market rather than true preferences. Either way, platform engineering the model s in to the
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by brc 11y ago
The distance issues becomes a problem. What works for the Bay Area doesn't work for North East. It's both because all politics and business is regional, and because information flows are affected by distance.
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by brc 11y ago
But if something is worth doing, it's worth doing now. If you had an idea for a great startup, you wouldn't wait for a few years. You'd do it as soon as it was ready.
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by brc 11y ago
It's a popular idea but not borne out by the truth. In any decent sized (ie, not tax haven) economy, even the most financially distorted economy still produces a lot more real good and services than finance services.

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