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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> "I, for one, very much look forward to the day that I can take a day or two to actually make the best decision about my purchase instead of spending several days playing some weird song and dance with multiple people who want to t
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> "Drive around to a few dealers"? First of all, I didn't mention "driving around" all over the map; you did, along with what a problem it is. Now you're coming up with some ridiculous scenario about dri
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> if (source.isSuspicious() What are the attributes of the source object that we need to determine if it's suspicious? That's the hard part.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Even though they know the sources are suspicious they still let people send large amounts of money to countries like Ghana and Nigeria On one hand we want Bitcoin with no constraints on money transfers, on the other we want money tran
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> If you've researched your car options and decided that the best car for you is a Honda Civic then your local Honda dealer becomes a de facto local monopoly on cars. How you feel about the dealership should be accounted for in you
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Most people don't want to drive around to all the dealers in a 300-mile radius. You're spending $20,000+ and you don't want to drive around to a few dealers? Spending a day or two to make the best decision is too much
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> due to the long history of pushy shady salespeople, which if my last 3 visits tell me anything, is still very deserved It's hard for me to understand how people get pushed around when they're walking into a situation where t
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
I think many people would, yes. Which is frightening. I just read an anecdote about Sid Meier dealing with this in the Civilization games in Michael Lewis' Undoing Project : people couldn't stand losing battles of 33% 3 times in
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Analysis is useless if it isn't right each and very time, got it.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
1. There are many degrees between "didn't work at all" and "worked so well he became predident". 2. Cruz was an establishment candidate. This electorate wanted an outsider.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
I didn't "pick" anything. The argument was made that "bodily fluids" can't be a differentiator between men and women.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
I'm sure I could, as much as I'm sure I won't be bothered to.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> You also need a penalty for accepting a ride and never actually showing up. A legitimately competitive market would solve that quickly.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> The marketshare battle is done. Google won. No competition Is there an analog to this? Is there another market where marketshare has "been decided"? My instinct tells me that companies who fall for this are in trouble.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Tell me, where are all those comments warning us about the impending doom at Theranos and getting silenced by supporters calling them sexist? There have been nearly 500 Theranos articles posted here over the years. You conclude it di
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Or maybe Friends was a statement on the fact that just because you have a PhD doesn't mean you're smarter, more of an "intellectual" or more deserving of attention based solely on your education. Maybe Ross was simply
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> I'd love to have more insight into how this happened There's the one story that you can read in articles like this, which will provide details of the rise and fall: http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016&#x
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Isn't this a little like saying that men and women are different due to their differing precious bodily fluids? I get your point, but what else are we but a bunch of bodily fluids?
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> but just seemed so strange to me that they'd drop the ball so much on the kind of customer they should be very much desiring Don't get me wrong, I'd have done the same, but: What makes you think you're such a desir
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Of course there are a couple of behemoths such as FB who don't seem to be going anywhere anytime soon Keep in mind Facebook is, what, 12 years old? Popular for 8 or 9 years? It is still a baby itself. Would anyone be shocked i
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Most abused spouses are not literally helpless either. Comparing Amazon employees to battered spouses is a stretch. Some might even say it's ignorant.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
I would love to see this. Every article about rampant ad fraud inevitably contains a comment thread where ad consultants appear to make claims that other people "just can't do it right". Let's see it done right, then.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> An acquaintance calls herself a 'playwright' and she's written 2 tiny productions for the local theatre with 2 actors each - no props or anything. I've been to innumerable tech conferences where I've met the h
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> The real story here isn't the tech companies, its the lack of available housing in the area due to a decades long aversion to building more housing and a huge jobs/housing imbalance amongst almost every city in the SFBA. Don
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> why is he moving to Tesla which is equally secretive? In what way is Tesla secretive? They make all kinds of announcements about things that aren't actually "real" yet.
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Do you really consider any of these things serious problems? Phone functionality could turn off in "game mode". As far as the owner of the device "taking it away" to use it while it's being played...how is this a d
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
You're making some big claims about the cleverness of this marketing strategy. But I'm going to disagree that "reducing demand" and "staggering releases" are the way to release a video game console. I see no
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> I waited for over 40 minutes for other people using the chargers to leave. And yet "free Supercharging for life!" was advertised as a major advantage for owning a Tesla. I agree, this is the most realistic option. If waits
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
Like all the house flippers you saw on TV previous to the last housing crash? Buying investment property with no experience because real estate "can't lose"? The average investor rarely" knows what they are doing".
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by forgetsusername 10y ago
> Why would you go to a fueling station when you can charge at home, at Superchargers, and destination chargers at businesses How is a Supercharging station different from a fuelling station? Other EV users won't go to a "Tesl

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