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by cpwright 12y ago
The only meaningful numbers are market cap changes or percentage changes. The numbers for the market cap are much bigger than most people can think of, and you need to know what the absolute value is to know how big of a relative change it
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by cpwright 12y ago
With the advent of every Simpsons ever, I've been watching it much more recently; and still find it funny, though maybe a little less so. I wonder if as the family and Springfield drift more from the "average" family, it is h
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by cpwright 12y ago
The chicken analogy doesn't sit right with me because there are far more generations of chickens over a given period of time; and additionally the trait that you want to select for in a chicken is clear. You want the biggest chicken i
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by cpwright 12y ago
Regenerative braking makes a lot of sense for garbage trucks, they start and stop all the time, so burn a lot of fuel getting going just to stop 50-100 ft. down the road.
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by cpwright 12y ago
> Did you know that coal plants, which still make up the majority of U.S. energy production, are only about twice as efficient today than they were a century ago? There are certainly two ways of looking at that. The way I read your sent
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by cpwright 12y ago
You might say that the septic is free, but in practice the installation is fairly costly, and it does need maintenance. It also requires less dense housing, so there is an implied cost there (i.e. you need probably 1/2 an acre of la
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by cpwright 12y ago
The article certainly does, even if Lockheed does not. "U.S. submarines and aircraft carriers run on nuclear power, but they have large fusion reactors on board that have to be replaced on a regular cycle." US naval vessels have f
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by cpwright 12y ago
Car insurance doesn't protect you, it protects the other drivers on the road. You can decide to risk it, and if your brand new car is totaled, its on you [assuming you paid cash, if you finance it any lender will also make you get col
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by cpwright 12y ago
I would be surprised if Cook did not read it. Its not that lengthy, and Icahn does own just a bit under 1% of the company, if I did my math right(53M shares * 100.98 / 596B market cap).
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by cpwright 12y ago
And the contracting company certainly takes a cut of every hour Google is paying for. Assuming the security guards get the same benefits as other Googlers (and they should), I would expect that Google saves very little money, or maybe even
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by cpwright 12y ago
Its going to entirely depend on the segment, Wal-Mart gets 55% of revenue from groceries apparently (I took some time to look at what fraction of groceries would be of overall retail sales, but couldn't find it). So I think a reasonab
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by cpwright 12y ago
The AdHoc Rogue AP sounds very much like what they were doing; which may be reasonable in some contexts, but it would seem not to be in semi-public building. One of the important issues here is that wireless communication doesn't respe
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by cpwright 12y ago
Even if you're poor, I doubt having to drive to the fire house and fill buckets or 55-gallon drums with free water is going to be cheaper than a municipal water system (paying for gas, paying for those buckets, the time that you can&#x
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by cpwright 12y ago
Mother Jones did a story on this a while ago, and I was under the impression that if you had a drill press it would be enough to get an 80% receiver usable. Either way, I'm glad Defense Distributed is moving the ball forward on this is
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by cpwright 12y ago
There are studies that claim attractiveness is also correlated with intelligence. (And others claim that it is not). It is one of this science "just-so-stories", but the idea being that other attributes being equal more intellige
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by cpwright 12y ago
Ignoring the nuclear device aspect of it, I would think that these days anyone spraying any kind of sealant or paint these days in a commercial setting would have PPE to avoid breathing the stuff in.
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by cpwright 12y ago
I think the Abu Dhabi campus is just one symptom of the greater problem the author is making. Grand real estate ambitions in lower Manhattan cost a lot of money; what many consider over-the-top perks for professors (or administration) also
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by cpwright 12y ago
The average UPS driver is 120 deliveries per day. http://www.wired.com/2013/06/ups-astronomical-math/ My mailman said he does something like 250 houses + a medical office complex. I expect getting up to the
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by cpwright 12y ago
Apparel isn't safe when you get free shipping both ways. Or even free shipping one way. I know several women who purchase much more online and return half of it than they do in a store. One of them says going to a store is pointless
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by cpwright 12y ago
A microwave link is much lower bandwidth than the optical fiber that already exists to connect the two points (you can't rely solely on microwave, you need fiber to back it up when it rains or is cloudy, etc.). Also, depending on the m
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by cpwright 12y ago
You could probably do the encryption very cheaply from a latency perspective (use AES to generate a key stream that you XOR with the output data, which could easily fit on a sending/receiving FGPA without introducing any significant de
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by cpwright 12y ago
However, with many forms of insurance the expected value is very nearly 1. Term life, for example, pays out 90%+ of premiums as death benefits. You are unlikely to get any of that money, as most policies do not pay out; but the low probab
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by cpwright 12y ago
The "postcode" lottery is interesting. I'm glad that it doesn't exist in the US, because I expect it would get even more people who can't actually afford it to play.
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by cpwright 12y ago
One of the things that readily annoys me is the "Important Information About your Current Account" letters from a credit card company that are just purchase checks inside. I do tend to open them, just in case; but have never actu
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by cpwright 12y ago
I think the bigger screen of a 6 and the promise of Apple Pay provides enough additional value over the 5. I don't find the 5s as compelling an upgrade, and would rather spend $90 on a battery instead of hundreds on a 5S (the battery
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by cpwright 12y ago
So at least for me, if I can't stick a phone in my pocket it is useless. If I can't carry my phone with me everywhere, I might as well not have it. I can understand not sitting on it, but not putting it in my front pocket seems
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by cpwright 12y ago
So, I don't think it is the noise of the syntax; it is the noise of a large code base. I found 12/15 errors (it scored one as missed, though I did find it). I did well, because I was actually looking for bugs; and I didn't w
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by cpwright 12y ago
If they have good outcomes, which they seem to it makes sense. While there may be a place for a hospital that does it all, it makes perfect sense that you would have a hospital that does just heart surgery and a lot of it. You probably hav
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by cpwright 12y ago
If you can shop around in the US for something like that it can matter too. To correct my son's tongue tie the first ENT would have been over $1500 out of pocket, including anesthesia. The second one did it in his office as part of
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by cpwright 12y ago
So stability and reliability do relate to cost-effectiveness. Every time a shuttle or other vehicle fails catastrophically, the program is delayed and costs increase. Similarly, if SpaceX and SNC can't deliver, you end up with no capa

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