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by mprev 8y ago
That is only relevant if you expect most Model Ys to be sold as seven seaters. The point of the analysis piece was that CUVs are more popular than traditional sedans. Their popularity, at least here in Europe, has nothing to do with their s
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by mprev 8y ago
It's possible they have commercial relationships with the vendors that back those other OSS projects. It's common for such vendors to build a discount into contracts in exchange for promotional support. Also, corporations are not
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by mprev 8y ago
It might turn out that the MAX situation is a similar roll of the dice.
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by mprev 8y ago
That’s not what I was refuting.
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by mprev 8y ago
The Airbus A320 alone has had 35 hull loss incidents. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incide... Whatever else you think about this topic, it’s utter nonsense to say only Boeings crash.
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by mprev 8y ago
I’d love it if you could unpack some of this. You gloss over some pretty big statements here.
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by mprev 8y ago
I don’t deny that there is more to all of this than most of us see. However, much of your comment leaves me feeling “citation needed”. What supporting material can you link to?
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by mprev 8y ago
I'm not sure you'll find a receptive audience on HN for cinemas as a job creation exercise. There's something to be said for movie theatres as an experience or an event, but it's a stretch to argue that overcharging for
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by mprev 8y ago
Thanks for the thorough response. How was your experience writing the book? I’m curious to learn about people’s process for taking an expertise and converting it into a book.
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by mprev 8y ago
Is this really a book’s worth of content?
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by mprev 8y ago
Who has ever said that? Bloody strawman if ever I saw one. HSBC in Mexico, for example: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-18880269
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by mprev 8y ago
Why do you want to do this?
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by mprev 8y ago
Why did it feel offensive?
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by mprev 8y ago
That’s a false dichotomy. Another option is to allow donations that are ring fenced for the project or projects I care about.
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by mprev 8y ago
When I visit Google search there isn’t a banner begging me for money that will be piped into Google Wave, Buzz, or some other unrelated venture.
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by mprev 8y ago
So, we in the UK have a history of not having clear transition plans.
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by mprev 8y ago
Citations would be great, yes please.
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by mprev 8y ago
Or perhaps they make a documentary about something more important/interesting rather than rehashing this one story.
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by mprev 8y ago
That’s not the point. It’s about whether the film maker sets out to be balanced or to act as an auteur.
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by mprev 8y ago
I used to work for Andrew and, although the story of the £30k wasn't common knowledge as such, we all knew the fact that he (and his friend Alex) started the company while at school and then Andrew made a great success of it. The parti
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by mprev 8y ago
I’d dispute the law of leadership as being absolute. Plenty of people blaze a trail only for a later competitor to come walk the now relatively easy path and extract the value that the first company was too busy to see.
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by mprev 8y ago
The tl;dr is that when someone is paying you $500k a year then the work itself might not be all that motivating. However, within time, the money isn't enough to motivate you either. You gotta wonder, though, what the rest of the world
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by mprev 8y ago
I think it doesn't help that the second half of the book ... especially in "Further confessions..." it dives into shamanism and so on. It's almost like he handed his critics a script with which to discredit the rest of w
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by mprev 8y ago
Is anyone else having trouble parsing that title?
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by mprev 8y ago
I'm not saying it's totally equivalent but the story told in "Confessions on an economic hitman" suggest that it's common for government agencies to use private firms in order to allow for plausible deniability, amo
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by mprev 8y ago
Yes, of course, I can see how it looks like I conflated the two. But, I mean, it started out as being hit on, I guess.
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by mprev 8y ago
You’ve clearly never had a stalker. The behaviour sounds almost exactly like how my stalker inveigled his way into my life and then behaved when I cut him out.
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by mprev 8y ago
The people who want to leave the EU and not necessarily the same people pushing for this.
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by mprev 8y ago
Stranger in a Strange Land has self-piloting flying cabs. Not that I'd recommend it as a novel.
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by mprev 8y ago
I still don’t understand how anyone at Apple senior management expected anything different from Browett.

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