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by gozur88 9y ago
>I thought the point of student loan is to grant it to anyone regardless of if they can repay? No, the student is supposed to pay back his loan regardless of major. The reason we have student loans is under the traditional credit system
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by gozur88 9y ago
No, we couldn't, because people who don't go to college will be paying it.
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by gozur88 9y ago
As with any X vs Y weapon, the scenario matters a whole lot. If you know where the missile is going and your interceptors are launched from that area you have plenty of time. This is the situation the USN is looking at with the new Chines
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by gozur88 9y ago
The key feature of Iron Dome is it won't try to intercept rockets that aren't going to hit a populated area, which means the Israelis don't go broke shooting $100k interceptors at $50 rockets that were going to hit anything a
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by gozur88 9y ago
"Rockets fired at Israel" includes foreign-manufactured rockets fired from Lebanon.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's not uncommon. I've had credit checks done a couple times.
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's why they say "based on a true story" instead of "this is a true story". They can change whatever they want and call it artistic license.
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by gozur88 9y ago
The reason you don't talk to cops in the US or Canada (and some other countries, I assume) is by law your refusal isn't taken as an indication of guilt. So you have nothing to gain and everything to lose. Police interrogations
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by gozur88 9y ago
As I understand it, from an automaker's perspective a lease is a sale. They're just selling it to a third party instead of the leasee.
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by gozur88 9y ago
How is that impoverishing everyone else? There's an incredible amount of empty land in the US - the UK has 12 times the population density. I don't understand why people feel they have a right to move to a particular place and li
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by gozur88 9y ago
Even if it gets to Mars there's no way to put it into orbit. It'll either hit the planet or go shooting past. I guess in theory you could use aerocapture to avoid leaving if you aimed it just right , but without thrusters that w
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by gozur88 9y ago
If I were king for a day I'd institute an across-the-board import tariff of 5% or so. Enough to keep domestic suppliers from gouging consumers, but also enough to tilt the playing field a bit in the direction of domestic manufacturing
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by gozur88 9y ago
Sure, so you have a portfolio with lots of startups to spread the risk. If your total portfolio made less than 20% this year, you wasted a whole lot of time.
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by gozur88 9y ago
The stock market is white hot right now. Why take a huge risk on a startup when your index fund is up 20% in just one year?
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by gozur88 9y ago
I'm not sure it's that he's stretched thin or just that he never pads his estimates. When Elon Musk says he's going to deliver X in three months, the unspoken coda is always "assuming every bit of uncertainty falls
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by gozur88 9y ago
That's not true. You don't validate someone's opinion by honest debate with them. My point is I don't think it's actually their opinion. You can't have honest debate with someone who's pulling your leg.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Well, it's not a spectacularly bad idea under those conditions. But it's not like companies don't already pay for drilling, mining, and grazing rights on federal land. Right now the money doesn't go into a special fu
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Wouldn’t the enormous wealth that our increasingly productive society is generating, which now flows into just a few pockets, be a fair source? This has never been done successfully in an economy not based on resource extraction without
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by gozur88 9y ago
It wouldn't be a guarantee of anything, just a citizenship-based ownership of a big mutual fund.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Are these people really irrational, or are they just messing with everyone? I agree NASA shouldn't bother with them much, but more because there's no point in engaging with trolls than because they're irredeemably ignorant.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Radio DJs have been cutting out intros for at least 50 years. When I was a kid I didn't have enough money to buy albums and got all my music from the radio. When I finally did start buying music I heard all sorts of intros I never
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by gozur88 9y ago
Sure, it's fine for daily use, but my folks live about 400 miles away, and I visit every couple months. That's an extra charge on the way there, then another on the way back. And it's not clear to me just how easy it will be
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by gozur88 9y ago
>Why do you think that it's mathematically impossible for a company to find the money some other way? Depends on the industry. If there's a lot of foreign competition and workers aren't mindful of the health of the indust
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by gozur88 9y ago
The real problem is if you wanted to go farther gassing up the Saturn takes five minutes, and gassing up the Tesla will take... 30 minutes? If there's nobody using the charger?
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by gozur88 9y ago
This sort of thing is why I would never play cards for nontrivial money outside a regulated club. It's a lot less likely to happen when the owner stands to lose a license worth millions.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I think the line between "customer" and "investor" is actually pretty clear.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Well, I would have to look at pc86's app first.
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by gozur88 9y ago
It's true there's nothing perfect under the sun. But I think the financial judgement of MSFT vs some guy's hobby project is pretty sound, and in general price signals work pretty well as a message to producers.
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by gozur88 9y ago
Did he? I thought he was working for CERN at the time, meaning the public (or the European public, anyway) already owned the protocol he produced.
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by gozur88 9y ago
People like Gates don't get rich because they work hard (though most of them do). They get rich because they're willing to risk what they have build something more. Gates could have sold out to IBM or Apple or whoever and retired

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