hnphillipj

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by hnphillipj 8y ago
EFF
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
The amount of additional profit Google can extract from an existing consumer pales in comparison to the profits generated from attracting a new user.
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
Given how trash of a search engine Baidu is, Google would likely achieve market share dominance in China within a couple years - should they move forward with Dragonfly. Complying with demands of the Chinese gov't is the only way they
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
This is a very selfless way of living, and for that you have my respect. But the chief cause of loneliness for many people is the fear that the person they were waiting for will never come: There is a fire which burns inside me, but no-one
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
never thought of this.
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
The OP said he would have felt fine had his returns been limited to 10%. I hope you realize your characterization of returns ("profit without creating value") can be applied whether his program yielded 10% returns or 400%. The mor
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
That got me.
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
Actually, it was a tasteless joke on my part. > Well that is the usual way of getting kids in an MRI. Wait, is chloroform still used as anaesthesia?
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
It rhymes with bloroform
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
Hey, it's in to criticize tech companies. That's not to say there aren't problems, but most people get outraged at whatever society tells them to get outraged at in that moment. No thoughts of their own. This place is mostly
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
howzit bru
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
Air is listed right beside that, which is probably closer to what he was referring two. Combined, they sit at 10%. Not as much as he thought, but nothing to scoff at.
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
> To be fair it's not much (less than 5%) https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3 Here's a better source. It's 0.5%. I felt that was enough to warrant using "not used in deve
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
I'll change my comment from not -> hardly. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3 While your number seems like a lot, it's really just a drop in the bucket. The US consumes close to 8 b
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
You should know that oil is hardly used for elec. gen in developed countries. They are only indirect competitors - through the automobile.
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
Did your desire to use the word fungible outweigh the fact that the US has drastically reduced its dependence already? Anyway, you're right that decreasing oil demand will lessen dependency on foreign oil. You're wrong that our cu
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
How do you anonymously host a service from your home computer? I'm new to all this. I also checked out your site. I hope to be at your level of expertise one day.
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-01... see the top of page 534, figure b. You are correct that the initial forward momentum is from the launch rail, but the graph clearly shows t
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
https://youtu.be/boB6qu5dcCw?t=128 > But it is not a viable propulsion source. At least not on Earth for things larger than a meter or so. It's 5m wide
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
> I feel immoral for being so successful on the stock market!!!! I just couldn't help it, my program was TOO successful Next time you want to covertly brag in a thread about regret, at least make the moral dilemma believable.
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by hnphillipj 8y ago
I've only heard of them scrapping carbon cap + trade and fighting against carbon tax. If they've also dismantled regulations regarding more acute, pressing types of pollution I'd like to know.