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Groupon Is Said to Spurn Google’s $6 Billion Acquisition Offer(noir.bloomberg.com)
1 points by laut 16y ago|0 comments
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by laut 16y ago
Market failures are an idea. An idea that the market is failing because someone isn't being provided with something that they want at the price they want. You are saying that if a good isn't being provided, it's a failure. But who told you
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by laut 16y ago
Have you ever driven a car with a manual transmission and tried to set off with the handbrake pulled? Brakes can bring a car to standstill even fighting the engine. The brakes in the SUV in front are dimensioned for that SUV and I assume th
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by laut 16y ago
That sounds cool. Still not a Mac though. Maybe very very few people will hack it and run Mac OS X on it, but many people who buy Macs just want something that works out of the box.
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by laut 16y ago
The appeal is that it is small and light Mac. The described computer is heavier and has a slower CPU and is not Mac.
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by laut 16y ago
It doesn't have to be very expensive to drive a luxury car. Buy a used one for under $10k. You don't have to be a millionaire to do that. Here's a BMW 5 series for less than $6k. http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/ctd/1997867593.html Or an
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by laut 16y ago
I'm more concerned about other aspects of the U.S. economy. Such as inflation. That's what made pennies worth so little in the first place. These numbers are also more interesting than pennies: http://usdebtclock.org/
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by laut 16y ago
Yeah, there are technical alternatives already, but it's a question of econonmics. If there is less oil produced prices will rise and less will be consumed. There are many alternatives, but today oil is just cheap enough for many uses. Natu
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by laut 16y ago
Looks like some fishy sites are linking to that page. http://www.google.com/search?q=links%3Atoksvaerd.net&ie=... Maybe it was previously hacked and part of a SEO-spam network?
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by laut 16y ago
Interesting concept. But this makes me wonder: http://toksvaerd.net/ is number 7 on the list for Denmark. It's apparently a site for parents of school children in a small town. The site has had about 300 visits in 2010 according to their
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by laut 16y ago
Everyone is brought up to think it's the best country in the world. But I'm glad I emigrated and the other people I know who moved seem pretty happy about it too. No that stuff isn't free just because it's paid for by taxes. And because the
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Enthusiasts in Denmark to launch manned spacecraft with private funding(wired.com)
3 points by laut 16y ago|1 comments
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by laut 16y ago
The world doesn't know what K-Swiss is.
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by laut 16y ago
Not all SSDs are faster than a hard-disk for sequential writes (for instance writing a big file to disk). http://www.anandtech.com/show/2738/24
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by laut 16y ago
> Classic. Moral claims don't get you too far. I think it's immoral to steal and kill etc., but that won't get me far arguing with you I guess? > These things are complicated. But if you've already got it figured out, no need to dis
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by laut 16y ago
Societies don't get wealthy by consuming. They do by producing. As a rule, if something is taxed there will be less of it. High marginal taxes decreases high value work. It is a terrible idea. Immoral too.
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by laut 16y ago
Because it takes more resources to make two sites instead of one. Also on the iPad why would you want a crippled "mobile version" of a website, when the device is capable of displaying a normal website?
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by laut 16y ago
Socialized health care is not the same as having money to pay for treatment. Some Canadians go to the US to get treated for cancer. In Denmark there is also government healthcare, but some people, including politicians, still pay private ho
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by laut 16y ago
Regarding the X3, I agree with Jeremy Clarkson that it's pointless: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2LLMxlkT-Y It's not really good off road, and as a car it's worse than a normal car. For an off roader can get a used Range Rover for abou
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by laut 16y ago
Do any of the browsers current support streaming with the HTML5 video tag? So that you don't have to download the entire video before playback can start. And so that you can skip ahead and start playing something towards the end of the vide
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by laut 16y ago
It is already reality to a certain degree outside of the US. The difference can likely be explained by how some combination of the economics, regulation, politics, culture, geography is different in the US.
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by laut 16y ago
Fair taxes is an oxymoron. A flat tax is more fair than a progressive one. But it would be more fair with a head-tax aka. poll-tax. Everyone pays the same amount.
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by laut 16y ago
ACN fell from about $40 to $0.01 and came back. 4000x or 400000% Buying a few thousand $ worth at a penny wouldn't have been a bad trade. http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=ACN EDIT: Such as trade would most likely be cancelled though.
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by laut 16y ago
There's a big difference between prices emerging and a crowd that discusses a question to come up with a "group answer".
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by laut 16y ago
Apple is very profitable. It made 3 billion last quarter, about twice Jet Blue's market cap. Apple has no debt and a lot of cash. Apple could essentially buy Starbucks with cash. Apple's current assets is more than 30B and Starbucks market
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by laut 16y ago
SIM unlock.
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by laut 16y ago
Why do you ask? What's the point?
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by laut 16y ago
The license fee is a de facto tax on TVs. The license money goes to the BBC because the government said so. If the government is unhappy with the BBC it can take the license fee away again.
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by laut 16y ago
Splitting hairs. It's de facto government funding. The license fee is a de facto tax. The government gives the BBC the right to collect the license fee and can take it away again.
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by laut 16y ago
BBC has government funding. That's not independent. News reporting can't possibly be completely "unbiased". You have to choose what to focus on and how to report it. I think the state controlling a big media institution is terrible.

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