mdavis6890

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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I'll agree with other commenters that actually just showing a complete solution is better. Or both!
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I wish people would take this into consideration when naming their company/product/etc. At least drop a vowel or add a silent 'h' or something...
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I’m reminded of the most excellent write-up on qntm.org about abolishing time zones. If you haven’t read it, and you’re one of those kinds of folks (I was!) this will quickly sober you up :-) https://qntm.org/abolish Also,
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
- All sections must be connected into a single, contiguous network. - The whole network is contained in the grid, and no pipes may run outside the grid. - Bulb-shaped pipes with a single connection are terminations (dead-ends).
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Great game! I humbly suggest that you flesh out the rules just a bit more. I struggled to figure out if pipes were allowed to run out of bounds, whether they all had to be connected into a single network, and the significance of the bulb-en
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Things, including economic things, always change over time. The mix of goods and services that we produce will change, and prices with them. Many things will get more expensive or become unavailable, while other things will get cheaper and
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
It must! For obvious, numerous reasons we are producing less stuff now than before, so we have less available to consume. Prices must outpace wages, or we get empty shelves, or we can ration. But we MUST consume less on average. We could ta
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Yes that’s reserved for the government only.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Obligatory: https://m.xkcd.com/978/
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Also the online ordering infrastructure that has to be developed and maintained is run (and paid for) by corporate - not the franchisees (I assume). This makes the online ordering system essentially it's own business that must provide
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I think a more genuine headline would be "Domino's spent $50.4 million (and counting) on TV ads [that] brag about [their franchisees] giving local businesses a total of $100,000" Clearly they're going to spend money on a
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
We should impose mandatory-minimums for alcohol consumption. I think 10 drinks/wk should do it.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Actually I think open source supports the author's point. Lots of open source projects are cool. Not very many make money. In fact sitting here I can't even think of one. Okay, Red Hat made money for a while.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
An alternative viewpoint is that this business model is good for consumers, or a least differently neutral. If printer companies try to make their money on the printer sale, then it's very difficult for folks who only need to print a
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Article the twelfth (AKA the 10th amendment) of the Bill of Rights from the US Constitution: "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectivel
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Probably the friction scales more with transaction count than overall cost, so you're getting at a real issue. It would be a pain as a vendor to deal with a zillion little one-cent transactions. Still I think there are workarounds: May
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
You're describing the way software used to be sold, and that worked fine since really there was very little that needed to be patched over time. It wasn't connected to anything. There was no internet and barely a network. It ran o
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Basically - the web is what Chromium source code says it is - no more, no less, and no other.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I think you're missing the fact that solar and wind, being quite mature and otherwise unencumbered, have been pretty well optimized to what physics and chemistry will allow. Further gains will be slow and incremental. Nuclear has been
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
I really want an app-store filter for paid/free apps, where I can filter OUT the free apps. Anyone else? I feel like a big part of the problem is that the entire space is filled with junky 'free' apps, and getting to somethin
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
People want to move to population centers - but many (not all) people in population centers would rather they didn't. So they make it hard to build.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Everybody wants "affordable housing" - but many do not want more people . This is the fundamental disconnect. Many folks just do not want to make it any easier for more people to move in. They would like rents/prices to be l
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
They'd probably rent for $3k month. With no water.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Sounds like you're underpaid ;-)
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
This seems weird to me. I hear it all the time, but I don't understand. It's a few hours, even as much as a day of effort - to make a huge jump that might be worth hundreds of thousands of Dollars, or perhaps have other major life
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Public company stock should be valued near it's current market value, minus a bit to account for volatility. I would think 90-95% is about right.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
The supply and demand curves for high quality webcams do not intersect. There is no price/quantity combination that will satisfy both producers and consumers.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
Still, why is a percentage more fair? What definition of 'fair' are you using? "If people think Patreon is making a killing with their fee structure, they should build a competitor." >> Yes! And honestly this could
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
It's all about the conflict of interest created by having prisons earning money by having prisoners.
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by mdavis6890 4y ago
The problem is the conflict of interest that it creates.

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