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by brc 13y ago
>They have flooded the market with cheap money in an attempt to heal the wounds (losses) of the financial crisis and incent business owners to invest and grow their businesses. That has not worked particularly well but it has worked a bi
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by brc 13y ago
This is standard excuse trotted out. Of course it is incomplete at best and grossly misleading at worst. Deflation is the opposite of inflation. One is an increasing value of currency, and the other is a decreasing value of currency. Peop
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by brc 13y ago
If it were up to me I'd just can the sales tax on the brick and mortar stores as well. There is always some spending you can cut somewhere.
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by brc 13y ago
A friend of mine is leading the redevelopment of some beachside land that was a WW2 target range. Somehow I don't think its former life will make it into the glossy marketing brochures. The whole area has been checked with metal detec
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by brc 13y ago
Indeed, so was I. I detest vandalism.
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by brc 13y ago
Mutant Keynesian policy idiocy coupled with demographic decline is why things didn't go as predicted.
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by brc 13y ago
I think the most important part of this is in the comment - there is interest in graphs that go from lower left to upper right. No graph, no traction, little future.
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by brc 13y ago
I assume the case difference is just typing and not some sort of case-sensitivity in taxonomy. Seems like there is some imprecise naming going on which is why I wasn't sure.
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by brc 13y ago
Giant redwoods? I thought Giant sequoias grown in the Sierra nevada.
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by brc 13y ago
Thanks for putting the employers point of view across. Important acquisitions can be sunk because of a failure to adequately cover IP. In that case, sloppy paperwork can mean a very real loss to many people who have worked hard. From that
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by brc 13y ago
You're unlikely to get it reversed. Get a carve-out agreed. You should be able to reasonably work that out by indicating you're working on X, in your own time, on your own equipment. X belongs to you and not the company. X is no
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by brc 13y ago
Even if you have this type of blanket clause you can get a carve-out for a specific piece of work. Usually done by notifying your manager in writing that you're working on a home project (book, whatever) and that it won't be done
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by brc 13y ago
The loss of wealth is one thing. The loss of freedom to pursue your own lifes choices would be worse. Add to that the loss of the ability to leave and find a different society that suited your tastes - well, that would be a very miserable
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by brc 13y ago
I think you're right. Whoever next builds a company with visionary products that change the world - well, they aren't going to look, talk or act like Steve Jobs. It's getting it all backwards to think that the personal trai
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by brc 13y ago
I don't agree with that at all. For a start, socialism goes back further than Marx. The defining characteristic of socialism is the abolition of ownership of private property. Socialism, in the Marxian view, was what was going to aris
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by brc 13y ago
I hope your research leads to the correct conclusion that trying to force people into equality leads to the use of force to stop dissent, and leads people to flee or campaign against it. Socialism ends in death and misery, every single tim
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by brc 13y ago
I wish more people understood and accepted this. It seems like every other day I read something which is wistful for a bit more 'enforced equality'. Ther can be no such thing, nor is it desirable. People have different talents
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by brc 13y ago
The yacht is mentioned in the article.
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by brc 13y ago
There is no doubt in my mind that the 'clean tech' investment bubble is as popped as the dotcom bubble, albeit for different reasons, but with the same refrain. Pets.com and better place will end up as poster children for specula
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by brc 13y ago
It's wrong to think that the majority of service costs as vehicles age is in the engine and oil changes. Most new cars engines/tranmsmissions will go very large distances with no mechanical failure if serviced properly. Exceptio
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by brc 13y ago
I take the original comment to mean : if you limit the size of the government, you limit the ability for people to abuse it's power for their own purposes. That's not the same as corruption. A government can still be powerful, b
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by brc 13y ago
...and radiation.
773.
by brc 13y ago
So this looks like a powerlaw curve with a fat head and a short tail. I don't see this as a big deal - this means that 56% of people have engaged with a service. I think most people would be happy with that.
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by brc 13y ago
That is how twitter jokes look. It is part and parcel of the medium. Better to have the joke look like a twitter joke and get read by an audience, than to make it pure and read by nobody. Really, the hashtags are no more out of place tha
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by brc 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Communication_Station_Har... This says 1 MW power. I would say a mobile platform could get away with much lower power.
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by brc 13y ago
A friend of mine works on ships that do towed array for seismic exploration. The software and systems they have behind this sort of thing is very comprehensive. In that case they are looking for things below the ocean floor. They're
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by brc 13y ago
It's unlikely that no noise at all was recorded in the cockpit. Other issues have been discovered from non-voice recorded noises - like the 737 Rudder failure problem that was deduced from the noise of a pilot grunting as he tried to
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by brc 13y ago
I think you'll find that most modern cars log a lot of things, and that it isn't something specific to Tesla. It is for diagnostics and warranty reasons that these occur, as well as quality control.
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by brc 13y ago
Children are great, but by the time they are interesting enough to spend all day with, they're old enough to start attending education. Of course, people can use the time to homeschool if they like - probably a good choice for many -
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by brc 13y ago
Can you educate a know-nothing what 'gain' is in this context?

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