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by brc 12y ago
From my earlier reading on this site, essentially the other dating sites bid up ads quite highly, presumably because the lifetime value of a dating customer is quite high for a paid site. It was a lesson I'll always remember - if you&#
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by brc 12y ago
It would seem to me that the visual obstruction of the column causes as much as the physical obstruction. An interesting twist on the experiement would be to construct a clear obstruction that people could see through - and see if that imp
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by brc 12y ago
Yeah...I think we are working on houses built in different centuries. I was working on the first reno since building...not the 40th.
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by brc 12y ago
Ha, my most successful project was done partially with a pregnant spouse and the other half with an infant in the house. I find that you can gain a lot of understanding with 'shiny new house/cash to buy bigger house' promise
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by brc 12y ago
Adam Smiths point is that you should stick to the production of whatever goods you have inherent comparative advantage at. That doesn't mean you should be a mono-skilled person with only a bimodal work/consume life. To be a rounde
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by brc 12y ago
Nice. In terms of buying the raw materials - you should find if there is a specialty supplier in your area. You can get a lot more interesting cuts and species from those, especially if you're working on relatively small scale proje
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by brc 12y ago
A timely article for me. I'm spending my first day sitting a custom-made sit/stand desk. Tailored to fit exactly in the spot it was designed for, with shelving designed to fit exactly what I wanted. With monitor height at the o
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by brc 12y ago
Not over time. Each failure is knowledge banked away, knowledge that is often cross-applicable to other situations. Even for skilled tradesmen, there is always the possibilty of having a job go bad and having to eat the cost of putting it
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by brc 12y ago
Start with something simple - a small house with basically sound construction but dated/damaged interior fitout. Learn how to do simple stuff like fixing walls, painting, new kitchen cabinets, laying new tile, replacing plumbing fitti
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by brc 12y ago
Forgive the TL;DR; - the examples on the site don't include any image inserting. How would I go about adding image insertion capability? Would the idea be that I build/find an image handler plugin module and add it in?
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by brc 12y ago
Yes, but I bet check-in, or wherever they enforce the carry on, was slower. That is why they don't enforce it regularly - because the customer blowback and holdups at the check-in are the airlines problem. Whereas people bringing on
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by brc 12y ago
Perhaps the pilot procedures take x amount of time - which is fixed. Whether boarding takes x, or x-10 minutes wouldn't change the ability of the flight to leave. There is also landing/takeoff slots, which are outside the control
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by brc 12y ago
Virgin Australia domestic planes sometimes board without jetways (even in airports with jetways). I believe this is to save on landing fees. When they do this, they open front and back doors with stairs. These planes board significantly
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by brc 12y ago
The moron-boarder is a non-trivial issue. I don't think you can adequately model that type of behaviour. Any method has to be robust to problem boarders - people who go for the bathroom, can't find their seat, bring on too much
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by brc 12y ago
I fly often enough that I have frequent flyer status and get access to early boarding. I find this valuable because of the following reasons: a) It allows me to enter an empty plane and find my seat and stow my carry-on (correct size) right
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by brc 12y ago
The mythbusters segment alluded to in the article is quite interesting to watch. I think they did a quite good attempt at creating a real-life scenario for boarding a plane. While the article suggests that part of the issue is that the air
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by brc 12y ago
Yes, that's what I am saying. There is a pricing point at which having a customized sales process absolutely makes sense. What I am saying along with that is that - by doing this - you're ignoring a lot of the market at (or even
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by brc 12y ago
So many times I say this to people. Sometimes the reason people aren't buying is because they can't find the price, and aren't willing to pay the mental price of talking to a sales person to find out. I understand the sales
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by brc 12y ago
Yes, this point is not in dispute. A small sample : http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/gulags-reveal-awf...
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by brc 12y ago
Or, you could try a liberal democracy with a strong constitution and separation of powers, based on common law and strong rights of individuals.
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by brc 12y ago
A very good point. In order to match up the limited supply of handmade goods with the limited market of buyers, you need to have a long-tail searching tool, and the ability to tap into small but geographically dispersed consumers. The int
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by brc 12y ago
It's interesting the migration of trends from the hand-crafter (but expensive) to the mass-produced, but cheap, and then starting to come back to the hand-crafted, where it can be afforded. I'm not sure if that is a natural cycle
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by brc 12y ago
If I was wearing leather shoes every day for work (let's say I'm a lawyer) I would actually prefer to settle on a style and just stick with that. Same goes for a quality suit. At some point, if you have a style, you go with it a
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by brc 12y ago
Communism? Really? Sorry, no thanks. I'm fine without being murdered by my own government for having unclean thoughts. Long live the individual.
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by brc 12y ago
I'm inclined to agree. To me the irresponsible party is the previous owner. They obviously had some sort of agreement but never codified it in law. If they had turned over an easement or otherwise established rights for the road, then
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by brc 12y ago
I think there is also a cohort of customers - people who are really, really attracted to 'new and weird' who are constantly on the lookout for products to fill their super-specific pain point. When something new comes along, the
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by brc 12y ago
In other words...we all agree that price fixing leads to either shortages or surpluses..but we all agree that fixing the price of money in a central bank is the right way to go. And we are not able to see the contradiction therein.
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by brc 12y ago
It's because of the lack of creative destruction blowing through the country. An ossified political strata is resistant to new ideas. A lack of new ideas and lack of dynamism creates a self-reinforcing negative spiral. China has been
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by brc 12y ago
GDP includes government (mis) spending. During this period, Japan borrowed heavily and spent the proceeds, boosting the GDP. You need to look at different measures to see if per-capita productivity and output have grown to make a real decis
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by brc 12y ago
Utilities can be privately owned. Indeed, many power stations and transmission lines are privately owned. It should be a utility, it just shouldn't be owned by the government. Australia would have to be the only country in the 21st

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