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by kipchak 3y ago
Growth businesses like tech and startups also tend to be more sensitive to rate increases due to changes in the time value of money. At 0% rates a business that generates a return in 10 years is fairly close to the same as a business that g
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by kipchak 3y ago
These sorts of cars ware great but are really the needles in the haystack, and you need to have a pretty good idea what to look for, find them before someone else and live somewhere where rust/road salt hasn't killed them which is
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by kipchak 3y ago
I wonder how many cars Nissan has to sell with a $16k MSRP to not run into some sort of truth in advertising laws. For example looking at Nissan's website there's one such car in stock (in transit) within 500 miles of me.
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by kipchak 3y ago
Oh nice, glad you liked it! End Times came out fairly recently and is largely a continuation of Ages of Discord, might be worth a read.
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by kipchak 3y ago
I don't think he would qualify as a Marxist, but you might find some of the Structural-demographic theory work interesting, in terms of considering economic factors as a determinant of well being. For example the double spiral[1] of we
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by kipchak 3y ago
It makes most sense to me if you think of change as a result of people doing things and sharing information and the size of the population. About 7% of the people who ever lived are are alive today. https://info.nicic.gov/ce
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by kipchak 3y ago
I think social media and technology in general ism while important, to some extent a second order effect response to a breakdown in community This is measured in Robert Putnam's Bowling Alone as occurring after 1965-ish[1] through a va
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by kipchak 3y ago
Yes, though you can ask a cashier for a quarter, at least at the stores I've been to. Feels ore satisfying than it probably should to get an occasional quarter or two for bringing stranded carts back on the way in also.
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by kipchak 3y ago
I think the problem with their cheez-its is that they are knockoff cheese-nips instead.
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by kipchak 3y ago
I agree it's rather haphazard and incoherent, but given it's a library and the variety of material it contains I think the lack of coherency somewhat works.
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by kipchak 3y ago
It also seems like you would expect the practical considerations from environment and material availability to result in different looking buildings. For example pitched roofs and large windows in climates with lots of snow, or windcatchers
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by kipchak 3y ago
Arguably it's the opposite - "surplus males" or "bare branches" are a problem which warfare fixes. https://www.wilsoncenter.org/event/our-security-threatened-t... https://kar.kent.a
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by kipchak 3y ago
As a partial explanation, maybe it's not the case that area = weight/tire pressure as an absolute rule? In which case we get back to the layman knowledge of "wider tires have a greater contact area." As an extreme exampl
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by kipchak 3y ago
I'd probably grab a few personally if I got down there before things started to spoil.
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by kipchak 3y ago
Even better, sell something that is perceived to be a solution and the problem keeps existing. Ideally that then creates a new problem. See for example "Torches of Freedom".
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by kipchak 3y ago
Maybe it's something like a much milder kind of historical human sacrifice, where the intuition is that greater sacrifice means greater reward. This is useful in some cases such as delayed gratification but is harmful when the sacrific
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by kipchak 3y ago
Like a lot of products I think part of it's appeal is a feeling of security which doesn't necessarily equal practical security, in the same way a 4x4 might appeal to someone wanting to feel "rugged" even if it never leav
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by kipchak 3y ago
Sony has a patent for the repeat slogans part. (Say McDonalds to end commercial, fig. 9) https://patents.google.com/patent/US8246454B2/en
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by kipchak 3y ago
They have partnerships like on the FRS/BRZ and Toyota owns I think a 20% stake but separate companies.
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For example the Mach-e has had issues with contactors welding open during heavy usage and charging as the same part was used between the standard and higher performance model.
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by kipchak 3y ago
>In total, bitcoin consumed nearly 1,600 billion litres - also known as gigalitres (GL) - of water in 2021, the study, published in the journal Cell Reports Sustainability, suggests. It's too bad the study isn't linked, but the
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by kipchak 3y ago
Thief, Sin, Shogo, Delta Force and Rainbox Six were 1998, and if you go out to 1999 there's system shock 2. 1997 had some classics also like Dark Forces II though they're more of the doom clone variety like Blood.
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by kipchak 3y ago
>Maybe these are more relevant to most consumers than abstract complaints on Hackernews about “freedom.” It seems like the parent is complaining about people taking business' explanations at face value when there's a likely dif
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It can also go the other way, for example in Apex which supports both controller is currently considered stronger due to high aim assist, with a good chunk of pro players switching to controller.
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by kipchak 3y ago
For anyone curious what this looks like Microsoft has a couple minute demo at around 7:25 of the video here. Would be curious to see how useable the copilot info like the KQL queries are by default or if it takes some finagling. They also m
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by kipchak 3y ago
For early societies, you might be thinking of the Greeks, though apparently it's somewhat common between languages?[1] For Greek the idea to originate from Homer's writings, with colors being more described in terms of how light o
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I wonder if there might be a language aspect to this, with males in the US generally having less familiarity with words for the in between colors leading to more difficulty distinguishing between them, with people with more words for greeni
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I think there's still a market for what you're describing, but in terms of players and revenue it seems like competitive multiplayer titles that don't require particularly beefy hardware and where network latency is especiall
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The most recent Microsoft Studios release was Forza Motorsport a few days ago, with the next big Activision thing being the perennial CoD next month. (Which as an aside is still coming to PS4/Xbox One)
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I think it would be mean, but I don't know if it there would be much skewing. The most expensive make they include is Tata at a $105,708[1] average transaction price. If you just average all the entries you get $54,000, so it looks lik

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