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721.
by brc 12y ago
You do realise the previous government of chumps passed a law making it illegal for Google to create Fiber in Australia even if they decided they wanted to? The NBN is the worst policy idea to hit the Australian tech industry, ever. I do
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by brc 12y ago
I have read about 3 articles in the last few days which say the complete opposite. Including a 'Eulogy for Twitter'. I don't know who is right. I know I find Twitter has become a mess lately, with fewer people putting origi
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by brc 12y ago
Azores. They are on the mid-atlantic ridge. The Canaries are off the coast of Africa.
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by brc 12y ago
Early Tour de France riders would take a bottle of brandy with them and swig it. It was supposed to dull the pain of steep climbs. At some point that was abandoned.
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by brc 12y ago
A car has that simple goal of A/B movement....for you. Plenty of other people want to hack with their general purpose mobility machine infinite in scope and possibility .
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by brc 12y ago
Every modern car becomes an old car. It's fine if you want to turn over your vehicle every three years. 'Modern' cars are not fixable - even the specialists tear our their hair on some cases and give up completely. Classics a
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by brc 12y ago
Save the URL! Phone numbers suck and are a usability nightmare. But people are used to them and everyone understands it. No URL - no decentralized web. I understand why Google wants to place itself as the key search and directory for the we
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by brc 12y ago
The nautical origin of the 'cat out of the bag' definitely refers to taking the cat o'9 tails out of the bag it was kept in. Whether that, in itself, was linked to hiding a cat in a bag to pass off in a market isn't cle
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by brc 12y ago
It's quite amazing how many words (and phrases) in common usage are actually nautical terms. For example...when was the last time you said: 'Everything is above board' 'That company needs a bailout' 'A storm is
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by brc 12y ago
Yeah, I used to use that all the time. 'System xyz is showing an abend'. I had totally forgotten the term until now. Think I might throw it around a bit, see who knows what I'm on about.
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by brc 12y ago
I would find walking in a city to be a barrier to creativity. You have to keep engaging your concious, safety brain to deal with other pedestrians, road crossings and immunize your brain from all the advertising and noise that is trying to
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by brc 12y ago
There is also the likelihood of the development of 'close area' networks, where a car ahead that spots the debris (and either hits or avoids) passes down a message along the chain, so that following vehicles are alerted and all be
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by brc 12y ago
>I will never understand why people think insurance companies will be a barrier to adoption. Insurance companies are going to love this. I think the tipping point will be when insurance rates on driving your own car skyrocket. Yes. The
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by brc 12y ago
All modern cars have crumple zones - though smaller cars like the smart and A/B Class have very short crumple zones. The difference in your video is the improvements in passenger safety cell construction - much of which comes down to h
735.
by brc 12y ago
No. Current driver-based insurance policies might be based on the ability to hold the driver personally responsible if they are negligent. Insuring a vehicle is just figuring out what the likely payout ratio across a cohort of those vehicle
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by brc 13y ago
Yes, it's very unlikely for the same reasons. New York 'Wall St' is a very established industry. The biggest of Tech IPOs are chicken feed compared to the money going through New York on a daily basis. If you want to be at
737.
by brc 13y ago
How old is your son? At what age did he have the aptitude to really understand it and work with it?
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by brc 13y ago
'No New York startup has been a breakout hit with a multi-billion valuation' 'Tumblr, the blogging service based in downtown Manhattan, made headlines last May when Yahoo acquired it for $1.1 billion. ' I don't know
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by brc 13y ago
Diets are easy. Don't eat anything that is advertised on TV. If an actor in a televised 30 second play convinced you to eat it, you probably shouldn't. Apart from that, invest in good quality scales. When the numbers go up, chan
740.
by brc 13y ago
Exactly. Why guess? Why not know exactly how productive you are? Last month I was 71% productive as defined by those tasks which are directly leading to output. An average of 5h 36m per working day. My best day was Monday, 14th April.
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by brc 13y ago
I would guess the valuations are based on the expected targeted size of the market and defensible market position. Without a reason why your current growth will accelerate, it's only reasonable why a valuation would be done on a cashf
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by brc 13y ago
Or RV Swaps, like house swaps. For either other side of the country or another country altogether. I've had that idea for a long time hoping someone would do it. Insurance and others is a minor sticking point I think, but should be w
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by brc 13y ago
Well, exactly. That shows the difference in understanding.
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by brc 13y ago
Yes. Pick up a Vogue. A fat magazine with virtually no content but a lot of pictures. A mixture of advertising and photo shoots. There is a whole, massive demographic out there that just loves this stuff, and isn't technical at all
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by brc 13y ago
True. Creditors vs Debtors. Creditors are advantaged by deflation, debtors advantaged by inflation. Except where effects of one or the other affect the amount of bad debts.
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by brc 13y ago
Well, yes they are. The can has been kicked down the road. Few things have actually been repaired. Printing and borrowing money only temporarily solves a current problem, and pushes other problems down the track.
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by brc 13y ago
Well, from a purely 'distance covering' point of view, clearly a liquid fuel car would win because of faster refueling, higher range and speed limits. I was more thinking of a road trip article, where the travel itself is the focu
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by brc 13y ago
This entire story underlies to me the need to bootstrap into something that is already working and has numbers before talking to anyone about taking money. I enjoyed the piece - the writing, the story. It's meant to have a melancholy,
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by brc 13y ago
You seem to think investors are some sort of ATM waiting for the right pin rather than humans with their own set of decisions, problems and multiple priorities. Think of it like dating. You'll get a lot fewer dates if you ask someone
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by brc 13y ago
You would think they would be convincing magazine editors to doing a long-form 'we drove a tesla across the US' type article. I'd be very interested in reading something like that - what its really like to string together a

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