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by brc 13y ago
I take it as don't really, deeply trust anyone. It's hard to unpack given the drift in meanings of things like 'intimate'. It could mean don't have affairs with women, or it could mean don't go sharing your s
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by brc 13y ago
You have to look at it at a different level. Build something customers want is implicitly 'something they want more than the current options they have'. If the thing they don't have is clearly inferior, then no problem. Th
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by brc 13y ago
What surprises me is the naivety of most people who seem to think that 60 minutes and the like follow their nose for stories instead of having complicated marketing and PR deals behind them. There is no way that 15 minutes of sunday night
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by brc 13y ago
Still not getting the point here. - One individual or fund doing well in any particular year = random chance - One individual or fund doing well for a decade = chance is not a possible explanation Essentially the chance of getting a heads o
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by brc 13y ago
Well, no, that's not what I am saying at all. The beneficiaries of lower prices are the end customers, not the owners of the business. Most people live on (relatively) fixed incomes - a gradual lowering of prices for things that they
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by brc 13y ago
No, you're getting it confused. For a start, the fund that I bought into advertised exactly what they expected (it is based on a computerised trading model, so they know what to expect if it worked). It is not 'chance' tha
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by brc 13y ago
I'm surprised anyone would think that 20% returns are over the top - outsized returns in markets are hardly an industry secret. Triple digit returns are not unheard of. Most of the people making big money don't exactly advertise a
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by brc 13y ago
(5) I know several people with video-enabled drones. Look on youtube - it's a whole genre. That ship has sailed. Although you'd have to be a pretty stupid adulterer to get caught by a noisy drone while cheating. That may just b
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by brc 13y ago
Cars and trucks are also a distinct threat to birds. Really - unless you lived on 5th Avenue downstream from a local delivery drone center, I doubt you'd see many drones. I don't see how we would see a sparrow flying past as &#x2
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by brc 13y ago
My terrestrial environment is not destroyed at all. In fact it is quite pleasant. The occasional buzzing quadra-copter would be sweet music compared to the infernal leaf blowers and lawn-care equipment that gets a frequent workout. These a
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by brc 13y ago
There are plenty of professional investors who have beaten the market year after year, and by a lot more than single digit percentages. Multi-decade returns of 20% and above are well documented. I personally invested in a fund 12 years ag
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by brc 13y ago
I can see an Amazon Prime subscription coming with some type of landing pad dongle. You lay out your mat & dongle somewhere, put in an address and the drone flies to the address, listens for the signal from the dongle and drops the pa
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by brc 13y ago
It's a common but incorrect assumption to think that replacing repetitive human tasks with machines leads to wide-scale unemployment. Of course the delivery person who is replaced by drones is out of a job initially, but this doesn&#
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by brc 13y ago
I personally have no problem with including ads with YouTube content- it was always going to end that way. The problem is the fact you have to 'pay' before you get to play. When a FTA tv puts on a movie, they give you 10-15 minut
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by brc 13y ago
I'm not going to defend the Concorde business model, but the ban on cross country flights due to noise made it impossible. I mentioned this in irony to a colleague recently as a maintenance guy blasted leaves outside with a leaf blowe
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by brc 13y ago
From the Forbes article: "So this was not merely a distributed denial of service attack? It was a zero day exploit? Did it gain access to any data or simply knock the site offline? I’m not one hundred percent on this, but I don’t think
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by brc 13y ago
I agree on one thing : increasing prosperity naturally reduces populations, but I don't class that as population control. Control means having a set target. Control is the Chinese one-child policy, which is a demographic disaster unfoldin
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by brc 13y ago
>I'm not asking for eugenics and one child policies. These are the only proven solutions to population control. You are either for allowing people to have kids as they decide, or you are not. There is no middle ground here. As a human
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by brc 13y ago
You will never get an authoritative unbiased scientific resource. There is no agreed measure on what 'impact' means, and whether that is positive or negative. One persons fantastic city is anothers urban blight on pristine wilderness. All
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by brc 13y ago
Actually, it's methane from cow burps that gets people worried, not farts. You're right about geological and astronomical events having much more importance on the Earth than an insignificant mammal. Earth will always be fine. The Earth doe
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by brc 13y ago
Ice sheets don't concern me one bit. Ice and cold is definitely one thing humanity can do with less of. Felling of rainforest is more of a concern for me. Especially when it is for palm oil, soybean and sugar cane plantations to produce b
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by brc 13y ago
Surely you aren't serious? Better on the governments balance sheet than a private citizen? Really?
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by brc 13y ago
I had money seized under this change. I did not receive a letter from ASIC. All I got was an email, which I skim-read and filed as being ok. There was two months from announcement to seizure. It is NOT ok.
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by brc 13y ago
Rubbish. Under what circumstances does a government have the right to take money after 36 months of savings with no further deposits? Why does it apply to accounts within a bank where the customer is regularly transacting in other accounts
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by brc 13y ago
Yes, any reasonable test of an active account for an online account should be a recent login. But that's not the test- you have to withdraw or deposit money. I suppose we could call it 'banking theatre'. 'dance, taxpayer, dance! Jump thr
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by brc 13y ago
Not 'to be seized' - 'have been seized' I had an account confiscated -stolen -emptied - whatever you want to call it. This was an e-trade linked account. They sent me a warning so I wet in and checked that it was active -login, checked the
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by brc 13y ago
>the performance of a Tesla is comparable to a Ferrari! reply No it is not. It's not even close, not even for the cheapest Ferrari. Teslas seem to be a fine car, but there is no need for this type of exaggeration.
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by brc 13y ago
Sounds suspiciously like 'I don't like people phoning me. I don't like phoning people. I don't want to do this'. And that's fine, but just be aware that you're leaving money and customers on the table.
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by brc 13y ago
This is what I thought as well. I would have thought he could have leveraged it and brought some good out of it, but that sort of thing probably didn't occur to him or his parents at the time. It would have been very difficult to look for
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by brc 13y ago
This is a humorous book that contains some actually useful information for the young male adolescent trying to make the shaky steps http://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Man-John-Birmingham/dp/18759892... It's written tongue in cheek but beneath t

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