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by brc 11y ago
Even if you work for yourself, you're still working for someone else. An employee has 1 boss. An entrepreneur has a thousand, a million, whatever the number is. Working for cash means exchanging value with someone who gives you the ca
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by brc 11y ago
Without knowing the details I suspected unions would be partially responsible. I know that the incidence of 'accidents' spikes remarkably around negotiation time. The last time I read about this, the airline was fighting the uni
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The role of absurdly high real estate costs is something that is very infrequently discussed, but very important. As all businesses rely on land, labour, energy and resources, a big increase in any of those three has flow on effects.
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Taxes and regulation. Not hard to understand. Developed counties like the US were once low-tax, low-regulation outsourcing destinations with comparative advantages that outweighed even higher shipping costs.
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I didn't know they made a lot of money on patents. Imagine if they had filed later and were still collecting royalties from every digital camera decide sold.
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by brc 11y ago
I have a couple of friends still workign COBOL and some weird hierarchical network database system that predates relational databases. They get paid insane money, work from home and don't work a forty hour week. I'm guessing the
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by brc 11y ago
The thought never enters many peoples heads that the person delivering food hosting rooms, driving cars thinks the person buying the service has a terrible life. 'So busy they can't even cook themselves a meal, forget that'
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by brc 11y ago
The wood fired pizza (and oven design) dates to roman times.
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by brc 11y ago
The article only briefly mentions it, but the future looks like pulse less continuous flow hearts. This one http://bivacor.com uses magnetic levitation to eliminate wear surfaces and needs no external air pump like the ones in
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by brc 11y ago
Frankly I have trouble believing the evil mastermind conspiracy theories that are so prevalent every time Murdoch, Soros or whoever buys something. People forget that it's not a personal plaything like a sports team, but a business in
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by brc 11y ago
It's easy to poke fun at people writing these emails until you have to write one yourself. Then, not so much. Big changes have consequences, and trying to be too 'caring' or personal can lead to further problems. There were
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by brc 11y ago
The noble savage is another Victorian invention. The Victorians can hardly be singled out for conquering and enslavement, given that was pretty much the norm for human history to that point. Victorians are saints compared to roman times, a
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by brc 11y ago
I don't think that is true at all. Many parents undertake difficult logistics to ensure good education. Those parents who choose convenience over education quality are not interested in education quality - therefore no change in the s
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by brc 11y ago
I tend to agree with this. For whatever reason, girls just don't like the work. When I stated studying, the ratio was 50:50 split. By graduation time, it was down to 80:20 as he girls transferred into different courses or dropped out
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by brc 11y ago
Electric cars probably contribute more to road wear and tear because they are generally heavier. I actually support flat rate vehicle weight/mileage use taxes. That woudo encourage lighter cars and less driving. The technology exists
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by brc 11y ago
Yes, precisely. So many times a debate is about whether or not something does measurable harm. People or policies with a measure if success are often cited as evidence of lack of harm. Whether it's taking drugs or raising the tax ra
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by brc 11y ago
Yes, c02 is the basic building block of life, able to be converted into all manner of living things. Much better to turn old plastics back back into c02 as a raw life material than to leave it trapped in the ground.
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by brc 11y ago
I don't know if it's banned or just expensive where I live, but I haven't seen a styrofoam cup, container or packaging for a very long time. Everything is cardboard and paper wrappers. You can still by styrofoam disposable cu
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by brc 11y ago
Cabs might not have been regulated for the cab drivers benefit, but benefit they did. This guy saved for years to get the benefits of the medallion system. My point is that if you rely on the government to create your business, don't
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by brc 11y ago
A dramatic demonstration of this is the Bugatti Veyron. Between the original version (1,001 hp) and the SuperSport version (1,184 hp) - the top speed only increased from 408 kmh to 431 kmh. So a 183 hp increase in power yields only a 23 k
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by brc 11y ago
Yes. Turbos are being added to everything, killing the NA engine. The reason is to create a smaller displacement motor which still has the power that drivers expect. Turbo engines can consume vast amounts of fuel when opened up to full th
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by brc 11y ago
Yes. Optimising for c02 reductions over Nox and particulates is a monumentally stupid policy. Co2 may have a deleterious effect in 100 years time, but is not an issue for air quality today. In any case, passenger vehicle c02 emssions are
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by brc 11y ago
Engines are most efficient at WOT. Hilly ascents at WOT will burn the fuel more efficiently (even though you're using more). Add a descent in which the computer stops providing fuel and it's possible that you could get a better
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That is not inflation adjusted. Also 1970 is before the usd was taken off the gold standard, and the subsequent oil shocks that followed. Gold/oil has traded in a range that whole time, while gold/usd and oil/usd has changed
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Sad story but every economic change for the better creates winners and losers. You can't regulate away loss without regulating away improvement. He is better off forgetting the medallion and finding work somewhere else to repay the lo
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by brc 11y ago
Understanding the behaviour of individuals choice with limited resources is the key to understanding economics. The tools of economics provide a dim light through the fog of chaotic crowd interactions. It's not suppose to be a bluepri
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It's not meant to be scientific. It's a tool for abstracting a situation down to understand the intent rather than the details. Your first mistake here is to try and assign a '$X worth of utility' - utility is not a uni
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I don't think you understand utility properly, and sounds like you have a hard sciences bent. The point of utility is that everyone is different. They will all behave in chaotic and unpredictable ways. The only way to make sense of w
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by brc 11y ago
Utility is a well-known concept in economics. It's strange at first to the outsider, but it's easy to understand with a little reading.
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by brc 11y ago
Yes we ride our kids to school often. They love it. The school recently also built a skateboard/scooter shelter for those who ride them to school. I rode to school for most of my childhood, up until graduation. At the time it involve

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