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   by larrydag 7y ago

   Harvard Business Study on impacts of firm exit with increased minimum wage https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52552
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   by larrydag 7y ago

   I hope they have the added cost of theft, vandalism, and medical. That looks really risky.
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   by larrydag 7y ago

   I'm curious if it can achieve the 20km altitude. I would bet weather would be a significant factor with keeping it aloft and on course.
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   by larrydag 7y ago

   Adoption, per the article, seems to be the key driver for cryptocurrency in the long term. Right now it's hard to take cryptocurrencies seriously when its a wildly speculative commodity-like instrument of wealth. When cryptocurrenci
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   by larrydag 7y ago

   It's actually a pretty American playbook for restaurants especially in the south. There are many BBQ, Southern Cookin, fried fish places that do this all over the place. I'm in Texas and my family frequents these types of places
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   by larrydag 7y ago

   Much isn't said enough about modern fertility rates and how they are shrinking rapidly. https://www.gapminder.org/tools/?from=world#$state$marker$ax...
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   by larrydag 8y ago

   Being facetious but I gave up on Windows on my computers just over a decade ago due to this very reason. I was sick up constantly needing to upgrade every 2-4 years and having serious security issues. I went full Linux and I don't co
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   by larrydag 8y ago

   While I agree with the progression of knowledge listed here I don't think it requires 3 years of foundation to math. If you have a basic understanding of math already you should be able to pick up the theory fairly well in a couple of
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   by larrydag 8y ago

   More like teenagers now.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    I can't stress how important 2. is to learning. I don't think I learned anything well unless I used what I learned in practice. Reciprocal don't add anything to your learning if you won't use it on a regular basis.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    I concur. Is iRobot considered an unsuccessful company? The basic premise of the article is if these organizations are being consumer focused.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    The lifelong plight of the artist. I don't think it will every change. The community tends to only respect the artist once they are long gone.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    Start with an Arduino. Really simple circuits and you get to learn on a microcontroller. It's fun too. For instance learn how to turn on and off an LED then go from there https://store.arduino.cc/usa/arduino/
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    I never installed the FB app for the very reason of being metadata spammed for anything.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    This is impressive engineering "Ultrasimple, it has no pistons, no electrical system, no lubrication or cooling system, no clutch, transmission or starter"
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    I think its a fair question. According to the article it seems most modeling is based on known occurrences on Earth which makes sense. Yet do we really know if these interactions work in a totally different planet environment? There are
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    Our family visited the Everglades a few years ago. This is indeed an epidemic to the natural habitat. In fact the guides said that anyone can come by and hunt Python. The biggest threat is to the birds in the area.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    Concerning 1. I believe that is often overlooked. It would not be hard (I suspect) to figure out the future effective tax revenue a municipality would receive.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    yes i agree with these sentiments but the statistics involved are vastly different. The probability of a life-altering event is a lot greater than winning a lottery.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    Agreed. Like saying financial institutions gamble on lending money to customers. I think the correct contrast would be legalized state lotteries.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    I've often heard of BUDS Navy Seal training that its not IF you break a bone or get hurt its WHEN. I agree it takes a certain personality.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    I believe the point of the article is one person's tactics is another person's strategy and vice versa.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    Great point. Manufacturers are interested in moving inventory. Not so much with making money on loans. So they will take a small margin or even a loss on the loan as long as it sells the car.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    It shouldn't. In fact it should be more since there is interest. I'm guessing there are some fees involved.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    I work in auto finance for a lender. There are so many gimmicks used by a dealership to get a customer into a car with financing. A lot of it is the lenders too because they offer incentives like markup to the dealers. There is a lot tha
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    Apparently the precious metal content on asteroids is through the roof. Titanium, Nickel, Platinum, etc. One study concluded that there was more than a trillion dollars worth of metal on one asteroid alone. https://www.forbes.c
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    Planetary Resources just folded up shop and got sold. The new company is liquidating most of the assets from what I can tell. That's a shame. That looked like a really interesting concept.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    Then Christopher Columbus was the biggest escape artist ever. Thank goodness for dreamers.
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    I don't think there is any shortage of dreamers. It's the funders that are in shortage. The U.S. government wasn't willing to spend on STS since its price tag was so high and not much appetite from the general public. Fran
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    by larrydag 8y ago

    I want my report to focus on work. I don't want them in too many meetings.