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by frogpelt 11y ago
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/skajaquoda/trinity-the-... Is this it?
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by frogpelt 11y ago
The American Airlines example is just one of thousands. This does not answer the question about ROI.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
I'm talking about elected officials.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
According to Thomas Sowell, this assumption is at the heart of the difference between liberals and conservatives. Liberals assume "everyone is motivated, wants to improve their lives and do well in their jobs or in society" given
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by frogpelt 11y ago
The basic income concept is intriguing to me (because it simplifies things) but I do not think it will work for this reason: Who administers the basic income? The government and by extension politicians. Once they have every single person
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Apple provides Garageband for FREE! They're getting away with it. This stuff is rampant.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Did he heck. I know we are in a different age of journalism. But about two-thirds through the article, a paragraph starts with the above sentence. How does The Guardian let something like this slip by?
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Herein lies the rub. Corrupt politicians will find that using environmental concerns and climate change gives them the proper motivation to say "we need more control and the common man needs fewer freedoms". This is why it's
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by frogpelt 11y ago
I'm late. But I can tell you one HUGE reason people still deny climate change is anthropogenic. It is because it has become such a political even religious movement and most of those pushing the agenda haven't changed their behav
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by frogpelt 11y ago
I stopped reading when the author said a shattered helmet didn't protect from a head injury. You're telling the same forces that shattered the helmet wouldn't have damaged the head? Nonsense.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
It's funny that she takes the opportunity to plug her former employer chef's work and an entirely different book at the end. It makes it seem like that was her motivation for reviewing this book in the first place.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
> Needless to say Ha!
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by frogpelt 11y ago
It's not logic fail. It's emotional fail. Logic fail is claiming there is a logical reason why all single wage earners SHOULD be paid enough to afford a two-bedroom rental in their current location. Emotions might tell you that b
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by frogpelt 11y ago
Using average or even median rent is not that meaningful either. Some people pay high rent by choice not because there aren't other options.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
They should expect to live somewhere decent. They should also expect to be responsible for making sure they have marketable skills and enough money to afford it.
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by frogpelt 11y ago
I don't mean to nitpick but your hearing has strengths and your eyesight has strengths. For instance, your eyesight is terrible at telling you a furniture truck is coming around the corner. If you were good at separating the individual
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by frogpelt 11y ago
What? I had to go back and see if we were looking at the same website. I don't think we were.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
I think you're right, even though you didn't explain what you meant. Yes, a 12 gram robot can carry 2,400 grams of weight but this does not necessarily mean you can build a 12 kg robot that will carry 2,400 kg up the side of a bui
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by frogpelt 12y ago
I've noticed lately that a good portion of society views legal tax sheltering and legal reduction of tax burden as immoral. The thought seems to be if you are making lots of money you are obligated to freely hand over a good chunk of i
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by frogpelt 12y ago
News blogs have started to out and out change the subject by putting a break in the article and then a "SEE ALSO:" link to a completely different story which may or may not be related but probably won't cause you to understan
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by frogpelt 12y ago
This is reporting. Fox News is the only media outlet that has any significant share of the audience in America that would even remotely consider expending an ounce of resources trying to keep a liberal democrat out of office. If you don&#x2
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by frogpelt 12y ago
My guess is that the heart is a muscle and just like other muscles it tends to not have as much output as you age.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Kickstarter is a business too. They get a kickstart by having successful brands use their platform. You could could call it sad and unfortunate but it is inevitable.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Yes, but then there would never be conspiracies because they are almost always more complicated than non-conspiracies.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
It's also not hacking. Viewing page source and navigating to a URL which is clearly visible is not subversive in any way.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
This is probably not feasible, but I wonder if they could put one of these under buildings in earthquake-prone areas. It would be like a giant shock absorber for the building.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
This is opposite from the way car companies do it. They test new ideas and features on the luxury brands and then roll them out to the mass market brands later at lower prices.
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by frogpelt 12y ago
Gladwell's 10,000-hour-rule is, at its core, anecdotal. The 10,000-hour-rule seems like more of an observation that people who are really good at things are likely to have spent a lot of time doing them. My anecdotal observation: The p
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Keurig's attempt to 'DRM' its coffee cups totally backfired(theverge.com)
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by frogpelt 12y ago
It is trendy to say the system is broken. Perhaps we rely on the system more than people used to. Hard work and dedication to learning is what created all those breakthroughs you mentioned. The education system contributed here and there.

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