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hef19898
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hef19898
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Dealership and sales people or not, you are still being sold to, aren't you? But yes, if you can extract more money from your customers by removing sales people, and the option to negiotiate, from the process more companies will do tha
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hef19898
3y ago
There are countless AI start-ups that can built around ignoring your point 2), those would even perfectly fit YCs last call for start-ups!
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hef19898
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Well, landmarks have a tendency to change quickly in a war zone. Making whatever map material you have useless, or close to useless. All the navigational methods predating GPS still work perfectly fine so.
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3y ago
Wellcome to the world of B2B. Or any purchase involving larger ammounts of money. Buying real estate without having a lawyer reading the sales contract is just stupid. And usually those fees are close to negliable, should be considered in p
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Sure, they have to take (oversimplified) the cheapest option that meets requirements . And that bit is crucial, because no purchase I was involved in, on the buying or selling side, commercial or governmental, was simple enough to not have
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Modern subs, especially the missile ones, are way more comfortable than subs back the day. What I was told by someone who served on German navy subs in the 2000s so is, that the depiction of sub life shown in the movie "Das Boot"
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hef19898
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Who'd have thought real-world B2B sales require more than a credit card and a subscription link? Like, contracts, paper work, audits and lawyers? This is outrageous!
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I don't know those specific books. I do know the pop-history trend of late that paints European dominance, starting in the 1500s and ending somewhere around WW1, in a certain way. Meaning Western capitalism, bonus points for including
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That wouod be the first time the government took the cheapest option available. Agencies writing their requirements takes care of those low-tier, cheap, COTS options very efficiently.
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1972? So, after the sexual revolution, the pill, emancipaction, the beginning of urbanization (which really started in the early 60s), the rise of automated agriculture, the beginning of women having real career opportunities as part of the
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Feelings are completely irrelevant when it comes to investments in the tens to hundreds of millions. Those things are extremely well defined and unserstood, that's why people in accounting, finance and business development are crucial
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Long term? Yes. Long term as in "by 2100". Until then, the more immediate issue is the aging population, making everything from health care to retirement financing (the public, European-style models), in the current form difficult
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I love leasing! Well, not to lease myself, but the cars returned from a 2-4 year leasing contract are usually great value to buy used directly from a brand dealership, come with guarantees from the manufacturer comparable to new cars and ar
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I know, declining male fertility is such a nice talking point, you know men being less manly and all that. Funny so, that while micro plastics and whatnot sure are ugly and cannot be ignored, all other studies do not mention male fertility
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Those plant, utility scale I mean, are not paying loans, those are using special project investment vehicles. Discounted cashflow is not used in these cases (I know it as a way to determine the valuation of a company), things like ROI are u
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Linking all of Europes success during history, up to WW1 arguably as far as sucess goes, to Christianity is at best a fringe view. What does the book have to say about which kind of christianity is the source of all of that? Cathlocism, p
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The places were the guilds had power were the prosperous places up until the early modern age and the rise of manufacturing in the run up to the industrial revolution: medieval towns and cities, added benefits if those towns had noble ruler
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How can one look at those numbers, and take, after mixing it other issues like birth control, such a deeply wrong conclusion?
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No, just in a demographically problematic situation of having a bad ratio of young vs. old people.
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All tgey have decades worth of production of artillery shells for Soviet guns, AK-style rifkes and ammo for those. Stockpiles, basically. And even those will run out. And before that happens, North Korea will slow down deliveries to Russia,
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In theory, but not all written off, old assets are a good idea. Especially if the new one generates a lot more revenue than the old one. Just one thing, depreciation is all about cost accounting and has exactly zero to do with cash flow.
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That birth rates go down withe conomic prosperity has nothing to do with government oppression... That talking point is utter BS, and close to the conspiracy theory of the great "replacement" ...
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hef19898
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Depopolating is just another word for genocid, that's why it is terrifying. Or at least should br, but then some people are just too edgy to get that.
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That's not how those projects are financed so. The initial investment is calcupated based on, usually, 20 years, after which the performance guarantee of the big panel producers, and only those are used for big projects, run out. After
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What has the land to do woth power plant on it? Value wise I mean.
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But why woupd you do that? The whole investment case was calculated on the 20 year life time of the panels. So it is more profitable to just re-power the plant, and generate a lot more electricity, and money, from the same surface. Rinse an
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The funny thing about all those guilds, as those were necessary to create something of a non-peasant class in the cities, is that zhey were absolutely not free market. They fixed prices, limited output, set salaries, limuted the number of w
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Could be that it is easier and less risky to get into Mexico. Plus, the cartels there are a wholesale buyer and have established supply and distribution networks from Mexico into the US and within the US.
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You do get opiods after surgery so, if you want. Only for limited periods of time so.
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Which middle class would that be, in 1024? The merchant princes came later, centuries later in fact. The only that would remotely qualify would be guild organized professions, and even those rose to prominence in the high and latr middle ag
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