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by curiouscats 10y ago
Apparently the USPS does make an image of every envelope processed. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/04/us/monitoring-of-snail-mai... But the basic idea is yes, you must comply with all laws. If you can
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by curiouscats 10y ago
Companies can be punished for failure to obey laws. If a company didn't bother to retain records on who bought something they are now required to recall due to safety failures I can't imagine any country would say that is ok. The
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by curiouscats 10y ago
I have been an investor for decades. Of course I want stock compensation treated as a cost when companies report earnings. It is especially crazy when companies trumpet their billions spent buying stock at the same time they want to treat
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by curiouscats 11y ago
And just because mergers often destroy value for investors it doesn't mean they don't destroy value for consuemrs and society. They often do both. They allow subverting of the markets and cost customers and society AND managemen
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by curiouscats 11y ago
I do expect the same "'business as usual' to follow, whatever the specific outcomes of this election." It is very hard to imagine the legislative process would change much even if Trump is the president. Probably he wou
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by curiouscats 11y ago
This is what I have. I just have a cheap Ikea Jerker desk. It has worked great for me for a long time. I can stand sometime, use my chair other times. I good tall-chair was the trickiest part for me to find.
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If Japan Can, Why Cant We? (1980)(blog.deming.org)
13 points by curiouscats 11y ago|2 comments
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by curiouscats 11y ago
And really goodwill is the excuse used by the advocates in the company for whatever the sponsorship they want the company to make. It makes sense. Also even just the goodwill of employees of their own employees (who want their company to s
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by curiouscats 11y ago
To some extent what you say has merit. But remember we are a republic, we elect people to lead us. They are not meant to raise only to the level of the average person. At least they were not until maybe the last 20 or 30 years. It is tru
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by curiouscats 11y ago
Those quotes are found in a huge number of stories. Sure you can blame them for a rush to publish if you want. I think mainly they are trying to indicate they reached out to a relevant party and didn't hear back. And by saying didn&#x
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by curiouscats 11y ago
I have a HomeWorx HW180STB and it worked great. I have an old HDTV without an internal receiver. I have only used it to watch over the air sports (otherwise I use Netflix). I haven't tried the pausing TV (or recording TV) yet. I thi
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by curiouscats 11y ago
Yes and the factors are the costs of accepting the government granted monopoly pricing (free markets don't have government saying you can't sell this thing because some other people have gotten the government to say only they can
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by curiouscats 11y ago
Very true. The medical-debt induced bankruptcy is the most visible sign but don't ignore the absolutely huge sums diverted from paying employees to paying for health care The USA pays more than twice what the rest of the rich world do
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by curiouscats 11y ago
It makes sense (from a customer focus and engineering perspective) to design items to be easily maintained/repaired. HDTV projection TVs primarily have lamp units that can be easily replaced by end users. My project HDTV was built in
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by curiouscats 11y ago
"just a sweeping policy" The USDS is suppose to be addressing the idiotic "seeping policies" that allow bureaucratic thinking to drive away those interested in working to use technology to improve performance. That they
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Performance Without Appraisal: What to Do Instead of Performance Appraisals(pscholtes.com)
1 points by curiouscats 11y ago|0 comments
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by curiouscats 11y ago
Paying to own content is a big part of Netflix strategy. It takes time to build that up thought. Australia seems like a good example of the challenges trying to pay the owner a fee to show it for some time in some countries. 10 years from
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by curiouscats 11y ago
Student debt becoming unreliable will likely impact rates on student debt. Though it is confused by government subsidies. Those who would lose out are those forced to pay higher rates on student debt. If the government bails out those fina
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by curiouscats 11y ago
His criticism isn't that 2nd tier VCs have lower returns. It seems to me your point would make sense if his criticism was of 2nd tier VCs for lower returns. Since that isn't a fair comparison if they don't get a shot at the
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by curiouscats 11y ago
There are people against copyright in principle though a very small number of people. Mainly what I see is similar to using amendments to "poison" legislation. The abuse at the core of the current crazy USA rules (and then the US
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by curiouscats 11y ago
It could be ratio AND over 2% of active users voting for (or some such measure).
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by curiouscats 11y ago
"Models 10 kWh $3,500 For backup applications 7 kWh $3,000 For daily cycle applications" From http://www.teslamotors.com/powerwall Maybe Solar City has been using the ones meant for daily cycle - that would mak
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by curiouscats 11y ago
I didn't mean to imply this >> why you're assuming people do it so they can seem cool to others << I am certain that is not always true. I think often when people are explaining to others some of those people phrase th
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by curiouscats 11y ago
I agree it isn't for everyone. But there are many different types of people it is for. I don't really fit with "stepping outside your comfort zone" etc.. But quoting and traveling and working online works for me. I thi
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by curiouscats 12y ago
How many high school kids have iPhones? Isn't it millions? I would not be surprised that huge numbers will have a $400 (or more) Apple Watch. Now if that happens, it might be a sad commentary on the allocation of resources in our soci
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by curiouscats 12y ago
His point is valid. If you rely on something that causes people harm that must be factored in when they seek to minimize their risk. I don't use ad blockers because I generally support your position. I do block flash because it is so
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by curiouscats 12y ago
That is similar to some of the sensible suggestions to reduce the front running gains high frequency traders extract from the market. I can't remember the details but even just pooling them by the second or something like that.
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by curiouscats 12y ago
http://www.hackerparadise.org/ I think I met one of the people involved in it at a recent event in Chiang Mai, Thailand (or maybe someone just told me about it).
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by curiouscats 12y ago
I agree putting the word vacation in there just confuses things. I would often add vacations on after business trips. I was on the east coast if I go give a seminar in Colorado then I take a week vacation after than and then return. You c
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by curiouscats 12y ago
It is sad how we allow rude people to get away with selfish behavior and make life for difficult for everyone else. Doing so encourages rude people to be even more selfish and we get the kind of behavior you see discussed in the article. A

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