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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> something I think that should be made illegal, but that's a different story Why does everything need to be made illegal? If you aren't satisfied with the service a shop provides, don't shop there.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> "Tesla Narrowly Misses 80,000-Vehicle Sales Goal in 2016" So 1/10 of 1% market share a whole lot of red ink (meaning cars may be under-priced, increasing quantity demanded), and no competition constitutes "many cu
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> GM can't be the only guys racing to bring Tesla experience to it's existing brand followers. This has been pointed out many times on these boards, and I agree with it. Tesla (Musk) got this EV ball rolling, for real, and des
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Transit improves thing for all road users, even the ones who never use it. There is zero transit where I (and many other people) live. The nearest bus is over a hundred miles away. Street cars? Been on a couple in my life. As far
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
Only in YouTube conspiracies. Banks aren't even reserve constrained, and haven't been for a long time. Are you limited in the amount of credit you can offer, outside of finding a willing counter party? No. This is the freedom of
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
And someone else will fill the void. If there's one thing I'm not afraid of scarcity, it's human innovation.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
As long as people who don't take transit don't have to subsidize it , you have a deal.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
I shouldn't have to read the comments to determine if the headline is a lie or not.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Recent history is especially illustrative of this. Are you referring to Trump's election? Well, some people's problems were solved by the ballot box, and they got their man elected. The fact that you disagree with the pol
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Seems like it could just be part of the website change process. It might be. But don't worry, if that's the case I'm sure there will be a story right at the top of HN that says, "Whoops! Trump didn't delete a
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Still, I do agree it makes sense to be light on the weekdays and splurge on the weekends. Right. I make no claims about my method being "good". But I work long days, and commute. So I usually don't each during the we
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> I'd be a bigger advocate of intermittent fasting. It's just another method of caloric restriction: forcing your meals into a 6 or 8 hour window, or not eating for a day a week. You're just eating less.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> I wonder how effective it would be to drop calorie intake past the age of say 60 years This space is crippled with pseudo-science, but I think the idea is that there could be irrecoverable damage done by that time, and that your old s
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Not because they necessarily need the nutrients. I agree. And I think that's how most fad diets work: they are roundabout methods of calorie restriction. It's really hard to eat 3000 calories worth of vegetables, or even l
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> This just an assertion, or do you have backing data? What sort of data? That we (in the West at least) eat far too much? That you won't starve if you skip eating for a day? I also enjoy eating. What I meant was, people, genera
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> But pleasure is easy and ice cream tastes good. Balance is everything. That's why calorie restriction is a thing of beauty; eat what you want within the bounds of a caloric limit. Personally, I eat very light all week (sub 1500 c
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Interesting but is it worth living being hungry all the time? For most people hunger is a mind set, and eating is a habit.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Lost count of the number of times a $20+ movie was destroyed after being in a childs hands. As opposed to a tape or records ? I've scratched records trying to remove dust.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> the actions of the Trump administration have many allies questioning how reliable the US is. Thankfully the real decision makers aren't going to toss away decades of political good-will and foreign relations because of 3 weeks of
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
50% of people, in the US at least, have less than $1000 in savings. They don't have $10,000 to put into your startup.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> If Medium can get enough of its readers to subscribe to a paid product with extra features, it may be able to achieve its initial goal of building a different business model for publishers. A subscription model is different?
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> billionaire CEO Ev Williams The fact that you can become a billionaire after founding two money losing enterprises is so confusing.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Someone could take an axe to those costs and get the company comfortably profitable. Twitter has a celebrity SV CEO. That's his job; what are they waiting for?
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
What about Medium is a moonshot? Hero worship in SV is peaking.
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Mackey has publicly admitted he vastly regrets taking WFM to Wall Street. Same story we hear from Silicon Valley on occasion: they regret the loss of control of the company, but not the massive payday. The fact that this chain suffers
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> What did you do to get out of rust and how did you do it? By understanding that "making big bucks" involves a fair share of luck. By not defining my life by my career or money, but instead valuing time. I mean, I'm sti
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
So 15 minutes of entertainment time to you (the time spent consuming a WSJ article) is worth 5 or 10 cents? Imagine if you were compensated at the same rate for your work. I suggest you try to find a substitute for those entertainment penni
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Give them a free threshold of say 10K followers, and then charge them a fee after that. Users clearly benefit, and often profit, from their large follower base. Twitter should profit from it too. Interesting idea, in theory. In reali
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> Tesla is doing is much bigger than the individual. The company is at a crucial moment, they're about to scale up for their first consumer priced car. How so? What is it that they're doing that is so special, beyond what For
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by idiot_stick 10y ago
> I don't think if these two were from Asia/Africa they would have been called expats. And you base that on....? Why do people search for injustice?

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