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by mchannon 8y ago
I don't think it's silly to come up with a pricing method that is simple and uniform to apply. However, "4" can just as easily morph to "3" or "5" if the fundamental costs change industrywide.
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by mchannon 8y ago
Or they raise the price. Then they just don't sell as much, leaving you to either consume less food or buy cheaper substitutes (retaliatory pork tariffs should mean cheaper bacon back home, shouldn't they?). Asked no serious manu
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by mchannon 8y ago
When FBI agents point assault rifles at your head, you will find yourself talking to them in spite of that advice. Happened to my wife.
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by mchannon 8y ago
If the cost of food doubles, your cost of a meal out doesn't double, but merely increases by a lesser amount. This is a 25% bump, a portion of which will be borne by the manufacturer, seller, shipper, and money handler. I don't se
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by mchannon 8y ago
As someone with intimate first-hand knowledge of this part of the process, let me show how "Thomas" is off-base. First off, there's usually a massive wrestling match between prosecution and defense as to what the jury instruc
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by mchannon 8y ago
"having" a patent is different from "assigning" a patent. I haven't read through all of them but having your name on a patent is more a prestige thing and very difficult to monetize. There are exceptions to this,
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by mchannon 8y ago
Thomas Edison freely admitted most of his 1,093 US patents were for inventions that would never have worked. Patenting a completely ridiculous and impossible idea is quite straightforward if you know the system and have the money and reputa
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by mchannon 8y ago
You're asking the wrong question. Instead of "should we do the opposite of what the coding test tells us?" you should ask "should we require coding tests at all?" Some candidates can't code, but most companies
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by mchannon 8y ago
I know you're trying to be nice, but I think you missed something. "Mr. Dufresne, you killed your wife and her lover, I don't feel like you should have gone to Shawshank."
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by mchannon 8y ago
I am a victim, offering highly pertinent experiences to inform the opinions of the HN crowd. It doesn't matter if my tone offends your sensibilities. I feel like you're playing judge, jury, and executioner. Leave the pitchforks
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by mchannon 8y ago
Sympathy is better than the other thing. The fact is that we don't know what actually happened, only what the government and media want us to know, even if it isn't so. They look guilty as hell, but so do innocent people. Trial b
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by mchannon 8y ago
Probably chalk it up to a very confusing and esoteric form. No bail could just mean they don't have to post bail to get out. "Warrant" could just mean they came in on a warrant vs. a summons. More important is the top of the
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by mchannon 8y ago
Equal Rights Amendment. It's alive and well. Illinois just ratified it, and we need one more state to reach the magic number. As soon as the right wing of America realizes that men are sometimes discriminated against, we won't b
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by mchannon 8y ago
[site redacted] Eerily similar experience, down to the charges and the 11 counts. I don't disagree, but the average person on a jury just does what the lady in the skirtsuit tells them to do so they can get out of there. Most people y
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by mchannon 8y ago
It does not show that. Being familiar with the process, it looks like they're out on supervised release. Non-custody. No point in putting a warrant out for someone when they're at the courthouse to be arraigned.
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by mchannon 8y ago
I have been in this exact place before. For the two of them, this day will be just about the worst of their lives. This is ordinarily when hard-core criminals are taken into custody. If their experience was like mine, they had to show up
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by mchannon 8y ago
With the appearance of the "duck curve", utility providers and customers are going have to reckon with the fact that a kWh of solar electricity at the noon hour is not worth the same as a kWh of solar electricity at 5pm. So long,
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by mchannon 8y ago
Mailed you a chapter from my upcoming book.
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by mchannon 8y ago
Ridiculously absent is the lack of mention of the fork. Europe got the fork about a millennium ago, and children now use forks to spatula unchewed and underchewed food down their gullet, leaving the lower jaw to atrophy. Nobody notices bec
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by mchannon 8y ago
Zero carbon emissions? The uranium drag line, trucks, ships, trains, and smelters are all fossil fuel powered, and that doesn't include the prodigious amounts of steel and cement needed for a nuclear plant. It might be less carbon-in
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by mchannon 8y ago
We don't know about your use case, style, tolerance for real estate, or eyesight quality, but think of how the appliance is going to be spending most of its time- folded up on your back. Weight (and to a lesser extent bulk) can make th
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by mchannon 8y ago
Much as I hate them, this sounds like material for a civil-criminal hybrid case. Looks like you were defrauded out of your source code and proceeds therefrom. If so, work on putting together a fraud/theft complaint and contact law enf
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by mchannon 8y ago
Everyone's telling you to involve a lawyer. You've stated you don't want to involve a lawyer, so assuming that you're putting your foot down, here's what I'd do (other than involving a lawyer): Put together a
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by mchannon 8y ago
It's not dumb, and it's not for free. If you robbed a bank and had a nice big pile o' cash, how smart would you be to put it in a bank and collect interest on it? You jeopardize (or devalue) the asset by trying to play landlo
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by mchannon 8y ago
Those appear to be vacancy rates calculated from submissions by landlords, but what about absentee owners who don't want to be landlords? I don't think we're measuring the real figure of merit here.
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by mchannon 8y ago
I suspect, as in Vancouver, a lot of foreign-originated dirty money is getting parked in SF real estate, where the structures sit vacant. One of Vancouver's innovative approaches was a special tax assessment on vacant structures. I hon
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by mchannon 8y ago
Maybe it's a sign of age, but my daily driver is an Apple Extended keyboard from the G4 era (around 2002), and the angle, layout and throw is unparalleled with anything newer from Apple. This is the black-on-clear variant, with full-h
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by mchannon 8y ago
What many inside the SV bubble may forget is how miserable day-to-day life can be in SV, as compared to flyover country. How's $3600 a month in rent grab you? $500k for a down payment on a teardown? An added 30 minutes of commute tim
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by mchannon 8y ago
Would I want to hire someone who didn't do their job well? Absolutely, if their incompetence was incompetence in my favor, which is something I'd want to reward. Alternately, if hiring them off freed up an opening for a friendli
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by mchannon 8y ago
Pretty bad. It hasn't ended yet, and it won't for years to come. The bad part is that the agent's notes can be used to convict not only you, but other innocent parties as well. That happened with me- I've never talked

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