goldcd

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by goldcd 8y ago
Nobody "wants" to be forced to do anything. But, it's a transaction. That youtube video is free to you, the guy who made it deserves some compensation (plus the hosting from google isn't free) blah blah. Nothing works un
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by goldcd 8y ago
"As someone who spent most my life producing them" - I can only assume you were escorted from the premises.. I'm more pragmatic. I earn and spend money. Given that I'm going to spend money, I'd like to spend it wise
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by goldcd 8y ago
You're right - it's not that simple. To take an anecdotal example. I was slightly interested in knowing why so many people now took credit cards. Not 'traditional businesses in shops' - but food-carts/stalls, beggar
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by goldcd 8y ago
But it's no less creepy that Fox News/CNN/your news provider of choice, noting you're a statistical viewer and flogging adverts you're more likely to like, and employing pundits you're more likely to turn off.
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by goldcd 8y ago
However if you've been furiously googling for holiday destinations in Maui - maybe I'd slip you some adverts for swimwear, but hold-off on beach umbrellas as you'll never get one on the plane.
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by goldcd 8y ago
"Do you want to be forced to watch an advert you have no interest in?" "Do you want to pay to have your advert shown to somebody who has no interest in your product?" The same answer to both these questions is why why ad
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by goldcd 8y ago
My point is that many companies are 'profitable' in a financial absolute sense - but not up to the expectation of the non-market owners. If we had a better system (similar to post-float IPO) before IPO to handle this and allow peo
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by goldcd 8y ago
Reading the story and the links, made me think. We have VC chucking in massive money and expecting billions in return and failing that dish out a swift euthanasia to the vast the majority within the cohort that didn't do well enough. T
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by goldcd 8y ago
Yep - fiction wasn't what books were for. Books were for men to exchange serious knowledge. Start of the 19th century we had Austen knocking out chick lit, Shelley on a Euro-bender knocking out horror, then Dickens serialized gubbins s
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by goldcd 8y ago
Or to look at it another way. I can't think of an example where we've greeted change with open arms. I presume somewhere back in history there's a parent monitoring their childs harpsichord time, or telling them to stop drawi
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by goldcd 8y ago
I mysteriously never got the computer I wanted for Christmas for years. Only eventually turned up when I'd saved up pocket money for over a year to contribute half the cost. Turned out my grandmother "didn't like them" (
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by goldcd 8y ago
Isn't this just the latest - "Think of the children!" We've had Reefer madness, Elvis' hips, satanic rock and roll played backwards, video-nasties, murder-simulator computer games - and all the rest of it. Every set
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by goldcd 8y ago
Well on your basis we could open an infinite number of variations. Tap on the bottom or the side. Tap on the side, whilst facing North. Tap on the side, whilst facing North, using a finger with red-nail-polish. Tap on the side, whilst facin
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by goldcd 8y ago
I'm not saying Snopes is maliciously preventing "the truth" from being discovered. I love Snopes. I've sent countless "You're wrong because snopes links " to people. My humble concern is that if you fin
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by goldcd 8y ago
Right. You've made me do it. Tomorrow I'm buying Coke-Zero cans, chilling them, I will shake together, toss coin tap heads on the bottom, and open simultaneously (providing I can work out how to hold my phone and two cans at the
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by goldcd 8y ago
I'm getting flashbacks (and yes, I know this shouldn't be important, and I should let it go) - but I can't. That -3 rating is causing flashbacks... I did not say "as hard as you can" - my approach is similar to a fi
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by goldcd 8y ago
Hold on. You're right. They say side, I say bottom - and it might make a difference. To the average reader it reads the same. I'd be fine if both approaches were covered and compared. Googling provides results all over the place -
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by goldcd 8y ago
Glad you asked - https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/on-tap/ This is demonstrably bullshit. It does work. Many years ago I got a bee-in-my-bonnet over this and tried to correct them - and got told to ~"piss off
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by goldcd 8y ago
I don't think you'd need to. Just expose controls and camera to the internet, and you'll be able to charge people for the privilege of digging you a basement.
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by goldcd 8y ago
I think the issue here is just the 'size of solution' between private and public transport offerings. i.e. If you've got tens of thousands of people in a place - an underground line isn't a bad idea. If you've got
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by goldcd 8y ago
My apologies. I was just recycling a previous argument against a different report (without reading this one properly).
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by goldcd 8y ago
I mean by gut response was "That's a lot" But then as a consumer I much prefer that figure to $50
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by goldcd 8y ago
Neither are the nationalized public transport systems they're competing against.
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by goldcd 8y ago
I've got the same one. Not had an issue with the warmth - but bulk is ridiculous (although I quite like it). Try pulling in the waist cords, it's a bit flappy and open otherwise.
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by goldcd 8y ago
I didn't apply for a job based on the reviews. Wasn't that they were 'all bad' - were pretty mixed with no standout embittered ex-employee, nor sudden influx of positives. Just reading through them a common complaint got
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by goldcd 8y ago
I don't want to stroke the Bezos ego more than necessary - but he's not dumb. Geniuses don't get rich by just being geniuses (think of Tesla holed up towards the end in a shitty hotel). What you need is a smart person who can
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by goldcd 8y ago
Maybe what's important is that I have no idea how to rate Feynman as a physicist. I can rate him highly as a writer though.
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by goldcd 8y ago
We are going to pick on the size of that tie-knot right?
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by goldcd 8y ago
"Breaking nicotine dependance is the goal." I'd disagree. Stopping people smoking is the goal - as that's what causes the damage. Breaking nicotine dependency is definitely one way of doing this, but if it can't be
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by goldcd 8y ago
That's trends in percentages - not absolute numbers Makes perfect sense that. If there are more smokers than vapers (which there will be historically as vaping is new and smoking is old) - then a few switching to vaping will cause the

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