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by iguy 6y ago
Customers care about the whole package -- the location, the hours, the queue, the decor, the food, the music, the crowd. If they like it, they come back. If not, not. That's a 100% effect. The manager needs to control all of this. If t
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by iguy 6y ago
> You make yourself non-unique by looking like others. ... limited by the precautions that others take Yes. This is why it would ideally be done by the browser, not by individuals. If Safari reported only its top-level version number (an
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by iguy 6y ago
If it occurred at exactly the same rate, I'd still expect it to have a downward effect on family income. I mean, it would be extremely surprising if the additional burden of needing to care for a family member with any kind of illness
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by iguy 6y ago
Thanks that's interesting. Although it also seems a slightly odd collision of worlds. I mean art is important, and can show us personal perspectives we might otherwise miss. (And maybe the super-slick presentation is something someone
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by iguy 6y ago
Yes. I wonder whether a push for something like small modular reactors, starting in say 1973, might have got us a real solution. Seems a bit late now, but would love to be proved wrong on that.
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by iguy 6y ago
Right, but it's hopeless to pose this as a moral question, and hope that businessmen & politicians will suddenly start behaving with boy-scout honor. Those who decline to play by the rules we have ended up with, don't get the
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by iguy 6y ago
Not quite this scale, but talking to people on large projects, I have been told that to bid what it's actually going to cost simply guarantees someone else gets the job. To stay in business, knowing how much to underbid is a crucial pi
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by iguy 6y ago
> you know that grant money is working hard here Am I the only one who finds this a little disturbing? I mean the thing is beautifully produced, no doubt, I don't want to take anything away from the skills of the people who made it.
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by iguy 6y ago
I'm sure it sucked to be the guy whose land was taken. And I'm unsurprised that it wasn't done with maximum tact and local sensitivity. But our civilisation does require large-scale infrastructure. Dams, railways, airports, h
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by iguy 6y ago
> But if not for Russia, why does Europe need a military? I guess Turkey is the obvious other candidate. Not so many nukes, of course, but invaded a now EU member in 1974. Plays games with the edges of Greek airspace every week or so? Of
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by iguy 6y ago
I guess a big factor must be to ask what they would gain. Domestic PR / distraction is one thing, but Crimea also has warm-water ports, and a (largely?) ethnic Russian population. Eastern Poland has... some farmland, some ancient fores
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by iguy 6y ago
I think a lot of upstate NY (and new england in general) used to be farms, and is now forest. Because most farming stopped making sense, once you could ship food from the midwest cheaply. But how much water is consumed by the farming that r
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by iguy 6y ago
> I don't think anyone has really proposed this. They seem to talk about it right near the top of major news stories, so I guess they are proposing it: https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54612293 You might also ge
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by iguy 6y ago
I think the first goal of these challenge studies is to figure this out. Give slowly increasing doses and see what the threshold is.
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by iguy 6y ago
I don't think they have started yet, but such trials are planned in the UK. There's no easy blanket "unethical" ruling from on high. Obviously this isn't a risk-free thing to volunteer for, but it isn't risk fr
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by iguy 6y ago
It's a bit harder to know where you can click. It's also harder to know where you can drag. Which bits of the title bar can I use to move this window around? If I try that next to the expanding search field, will it work?
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by iguy 6y ago
It is eye-candy, but it's also useful for finding your way around if different apps look different. Some apps need every pixel they can get for content, but some don't, and those ones can show some personality.
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by iguy 6y ago
I thought this wasn't just inertia, but required for US licensing. To much grumbling from Airbus.
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by iguy 6y ago
But regardless of whether the outcome fits your priors or not, you may wish to know whether the study has decent evidence, or is just noise. And GP has a good point. The authors have some automated scheme for grading how well-qualified peop
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by iguy 6y ago
Sure, it's not the same as a revenue tax. But compared to a profits tax, money spent on company purchases also never makes it into the profit column. But money the company later spends on salaries, is taxed by VAT. There's an argu
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by iguy 6y ago
Well, who pays tax is kind-of a complicated question. VAT is collected at many points along the supply chain (and sales tax typically at just one). But who pays economically depends on a bunch of elasticities: if the consumers will buy
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by iguy 6y ago
Yes. The whole idea of describing the tax on profits as an involving "declared taxable income" is misleading. Few workers work without a salary, but plenty of companies run without profit... because they are re-investing and growi
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by iguy 6y ago
I know this isn't exactly parallel to the digital service tax, but for the larger debate: The huge obvious revenue tax is VAT. On (almost) anything sold in France they get 20%, and it's very hard to dodge. It does not depend on wh
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by iguy 6y ago
I think Hindi/Urdu is quite a bit like Serbian/Croatian. The preferred script followed the religious divide, but (if I understand right) both sort-of standardised quite similar dialects out of a range of possibilities. And then la
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by iguy 6y ago
> Why should the lingua franca of any country be a foreign language, it should be a local language. Hindi fits the bill My understanding is that this is (or was) contested in the south. While Hindi is (as you say) large and local, it&#x2
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Japan also had quite a bit of planning. Not at the level that the Soviets had, but much more state direction of which industries to pursue and how they would be funded than US/England ever had, and for most of a century.
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Yes there are lots of parallels to Germany, which also took a very state-driven development line in general, and this intensified during the war. I think Lenin's model was explicitly that of WWI germany. Of course the Prussian PR machi
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by iguy 6y ago
Yes there is some truth in this, I think. It seemed entirely plausible (at least to politicians) in the 50s that the scientists might well come up with something else on the scale of the bomb.
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> In 1917, Russia was one of the most backwards countries in Europe But the counterfactual isn't stasis. Russia of 1913 was busy on the same sort of government-driven upswing that Germany had ridden a few years earlier, there was lo
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by iguy 6y ago
They had pretty serious land reform, too. Meaning that large estates were confiscated and given to the people working them. Doesn't always work out, but seems to have been an important part of what other success stories like Japan&#x2F

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