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by mfringel 11y ago
I made the decision that no amount of benefit from nature walks is worth the gamble of being screwed-for-life by Lyme Disease. Clearly, that math works for some people, and good on them. I just can't make the odds work.
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by mfringel 11y ago
So, doing the math... a quick look around the web for the Audi RS6 says 15mpg city/22 hwy. This is a road trip, so let's say something conservative like 18mpg. Let's even say they take the same route as the Tesla. Also, t
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by mfringel 11y ago
That implies that all the cash is getting sunk into a new place, which is typically not the case. Typically, I'm only putting 20% of that $500k down on the property. Now, to be fair, that $100k is effectively mothballed unless I pull
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by mfringel 11y ago
A rabbi can also be a mohel.
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by mfringel 11y ago
I'm afraid I don't understand your question. It is for you to decide whether it was too long, and whether you didn't read it because it was too long.
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How is "a practice that has been sustained across multiple cultures over thousands of years" not empirical evidence?
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by mfringel 11y ago
If you have a bucket of honey and a bucket of poop, and you combine one with the other, you have two buckets of poop.
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by mfringel 11y ago
"Just wear headphones" is the new "Just hit delete."
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They all seem to have a pretty standard set of letters and diacritics. Care to elaborate?
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by mfringel 11y ago
I'm curious... how many times have you moved because you felt your tax dollars weren't managed appropriately?
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by mfringel 11y ago
Showing the sensitive and non-sensitive variables as a greyed out bar graph "behind" the slider is a brilliant bit of data visualization.
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Agreed. However, their (in)ability to do one without the other is not my problem. Uber started a revolution; but there is no requirement that they survive it.
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by mfringel 11y ago
That was a great analysis, although I do have a small difference of opinion with you on point #7. Uber's key innovation and disruptive influence is in the customer experience, and I look forward to them finding a way for them to focus
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by mfringel 11y ago
That may be, but that doesn't mean it was useless to halt that abuse of the process.
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by mfringel 11y ago
That's true, but only in the most naïve sense. A house starts falling apart as soon as it's put together... and it keeps falling it apart, and you have to keep putting it back together. The distribution of expenses is lumpier with
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by mfringel 11y ago
The general problem with doing gigs "for exposure" is that it typically only gets you other gigs "for exposure".
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by mfringel 11y ago
So... why are you doing something you hate?
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by mfringel 11y ago
In addition (as mentioned above), FIFA sanctions don't mean all that much to the US, so the US has a lot less to lose by prosecuting this, both financially and in the court of public opinion.
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by mfringel 11y ago
The good news about PowerPoint is that it only takes five minutes for a previously untrained person to make a slide presentation. The bad news is roughly the same.
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by mfringel 11y ago
In all seriousness, my theory is that the more you want to solo in EVE, the more it turns into Spaceships and Spreadsheets.
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by mfringel 11y ago
That is five percent of EVE. The other 95% is spreadsheet manipulation and waiting for your kitchen timer to go off.
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by mfringel 11y ago
The problem with useful/useless is how often you have to re-run the function with people you see more than once. Run it only once, and perma-store the info? Their state could change and you miss out on opportunities. Run it each time
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by mfringel 11y ago
Not a direct reply, but to put some scale around the numbers: 20,000,000,000,000 kWh = 20,000,000,000 MWh = 20,000,000 GWh / 8,760 hours/year ~= 2,283 GW average steady-state generation, globally. A typical utility-scale nuclea
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by mfringel 11y ago
Employers shifting externalities onto employees is something that labor law has been created to mitigate for decades. The fact that Uber has found a loophole (which is being closed quickly) does not make it "okay, because it's con
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by mfringel 11y ago
Assertion. Platitude, assertion. Rhetorical question.
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Amazon Business(amazon.com)
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by mfringel 11y ago
While my eyebrows are raised past the top of my hairline right now, kudos to him for giving it a shot at a large scale. Whatever the outcome, it's going to be a very interesting case study.
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Your superior knowledge has been noted by the Ministry of Statistics. Thank you for supplying the data point.
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by mfringel 11y ago
Warning: Autoplaying video.
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by mfringel 12y ago
Your superior knowledge has been noted by the Ministry of Statistics. Thank you for supplying this data point.

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