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by mediaman 7y ago
I think there's a difference between postulating a hypothesis, and then testing it, which is what I believe you're referring to, versus going around advocating a particular position as being true and then "testing" it. W
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by mediaman 7y ago
It might not help enough if you have some specific reactions to all mushrooms, but letting ground up mushrooms sit in citric acid (from lemons or similar) for 10-15 minutes can help break down the fibers that can cause upset stomachs.
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by mediaman 7y ago
It's not that easy to accept only your own changes though. You can accept all changes, or reject all changes, but accepting only your own and rejecting others, at least in Word, takes specific effort.
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by mediaman 7y ago
Not really. Coal is not economic to make new plants. New plants are generally natural gas or renewable. So shutting down old plants shifts demand to NG or solar/wind.
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by mediaman 7y ago
Most car manufacturers are massively reducing complexity. Toyota's Next Generation Architecture is reducing total manufacturing costs by 20% by simplifying their entire platform of vehicles into a common set of types and using similar
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by mediaman 7y ago
Agreed. If you have to be working on some exciting, disruptive project, doing solo development work that generates good income by working with run of the mill businesses with run of the mill problems is not going to be a good fit. Personall
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by mediaman 7y ago
What do you use for text input? A case with integrated keyboard, or separate bluetooth keyboard, or something else?
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by mediaman 7y ago
He's explaining why it matters organizationally. Organizations aren't rational; they're a product of their structure and incentives.
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by mediaman 7y ago
ARR most commonly refers to recurring revenues, especially in the context of premium valuation multiples on revenue. Annual run rate is usually used for small businesses trying to extrapolate out a monthly revenue number. For quarterly publ
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by mediaman 7y ago
Most of the major auto makers are trying to sell various tack-on services to get that ARR honey. Car-based internet is one of them. It's tough though: most people don't care about car based internet when their phone already has it
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by mediaman 7y ago
The Taycan is a dud. Slower (acceleration), more expensive, less range, worse software, no Autopilot, no supercharger stations. Who wants that? The efficiency is so bad in the Taycan it' laughable. With similar battery sizes, the Model
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by mediaman 7y ago
ARR is not a synonym for "revenue." Tesla's total revenue was $6.3bn for the last reported quarter, an annual run rate of $25.2bn. That's all sales, nearly all of which are sales of new vehicles. Sales of durable new veh
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by mediaman 7y ago
Yes. Though he only had 50 hours total time, and that plane - a relatively high speed, retractable, turbocharged piston - is way too much to handle for someone with only 50 hours. From accounts, it sounds like he stalled the plane on climbo
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by mediaman 7y ago
Deflation would result in lower nominal prices, not inflation.
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by mediaman 7y ago
Yes. Rents are up quite a bit, but when I was there this year, one bedroom apartments could be had for 600-800 Euros.
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by mediaman 7y ago
Prius sales have dropped off a cliff. Sales are down six years in a row. Peak sales were 236,000 in 2012, and just 87,000 last year. Part of that is that there's a lot more hybrid competition for the Prius than there used to be.
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by mediaman 7y ago
If you take a closer look at their financial data, you'll find that it's quite a bit better than what people repeat. In Fiscal Year 2018, they had positive operating cash flow of $2.1 billion. Part of the reason for the difference
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by mediaman 7y ago
Yes, exactly: there were plenty of carbs available to both groups, but those with the highly processed variety ate more of those carbs than those without, suggesting that it's not the availability of the carbs but rather the degree of
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by mediaman 7y ago
Go read the study. The data from this study doesn't support your statement. They matched the carb content (and sugar, fat, etc) of the "highly processed" and "less processed" groups' food offerings. The highly
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by mediaman 7y ago
An undervalued currency raises the cost of imports into the country whose currency is undervalued. For other countries, it subsidizes imports from the country with the undervalued currency. He's not claiming that an undervalued curre
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by mediaman 7y ago
I see where you're going with the grocery store produce analogy, but it's not a useful analogy for how markets work. 1. Those grocery store items (let's say tomatoes) are priced equally to each other, by decision of the super
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by mediaman 7y ago
The important concept to understand about profitable investing is that you have to have a strategy that others are not also using. Sure, investing in companies in good financial health is profitable. Unless everyone else does it too, and th
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by mediaman 7y ago
Look at cash flow and you'll see a story different from the casual media reports. Over $600mm in positive operating cash flow net of cap-ex in the last quarter. Over $1.3bn in positive operating cash flow net of cap-ex over the last fo
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by mediaman 7y ago
Goodwill is the accounting balance recorded when a company buys another company for more than the value of its assets. If you have $1bn in assets, and you sell to my company for $2bn, $1bn is recorded as the assets bought and the other $1bn
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by mediaman 7y ago
If the information gathered is required to be made public, they won't go gather it. It's simple incentives. There is no market regulatory philosophy that says "thou shalt not profit from working harder or smarter." Rathe
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by mediaman 7y ago
I agree. In the States, we largely adopted "blue bin" recycling that encourages people to dump everything they think might be recyclable into the same blue bin. The idea was that this would encourage high recycling rates, and even
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by mediaman 7y ago
As a counter-example, British Columbia recycles its post-consumer waste. There are state of the art sorting facilities near Vancouver that receive this material, sort it, grind it, clean it, and pelletize it. It's then bought and used
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by mediaman 7y ago
You're confusing mixed waste, the subject of the article, with all recycling. It's true that mixed waste is difficult to process and is often best in a landfill or clean incinerator. But properly sorted plastics are perfectly usab
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by mediaman 7y ago
There isn't. In order to get rid of an existing Chinese investor, you have to work out a deal. If the investor really likes their investment, the terms will have to be fairly attractive to the investor to exit.
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by mediaman 7y ago
How much of what you see is people who had pursued master degrees during the economic downturn? I heard that there was an enormous amount of people exiting the workforce to pursue education when there were few jobs available. Instead they l

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