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by mrkstu 7y ago
It will be interesting how the unintended consequences roll out with this. With Chinese companies already having Google free software/service stacks in China, being able to get adoption of those stacks internationally may allow the ful
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Best Buy has been doing great recently and I'm buying from the vendor you seem so think I should be buying from. You're upset I may be shaving a point or two off their margin by cross-shopping? Unless you own stock in BB I really
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Usually I'm buying something like a Nintendo Switch a printer or a backup inexpensive phone- I search both Amazon and Best Buy. Best Buy is usually near the same or same price fo
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by mrkstu 7y ago
I think Best Buy has already done this in the electronics segment- I now will often look at Amazon first then switch over to Best Buy to find the equivalent, buy it, and pick it up on the way home. Their willingness to match prices with Ama
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Yep, nothing on top of the Fed side, https://taxfoundation.org/how-high-are-capital-gains-tax-rat... "The state with the highest top marginal capital gains tax rate is California (33 percent), followed by New York (31.
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Which would be exactly $0 in Texas as we have no income tax whatsoever...
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by mrkstu 7y ago
Apparently they are way out ahead- check out this report on a teardown where they also compare the tech to the competitors: https://www.teslarati.com/teslas-model-3-electric-motor-is-a... And he isn't gentle on his opi
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by mrkstu 7y ago
So is this essentially an RTG powered by Americium instead of Strontium or Plutonium? Or is this pioneering a new method of operation compared to a traditional RTG?
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Like many states in India forbidding the consumption of beef? Or many entities forbidding dog/cat/horse meat? It happens all over, all the time.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
If targeting US customers I'd avoid using a foreign TLD. If you're targeting Indian customers wanting to send to US addresses it should be fine.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Generally yes, but you can stack discounts often if you play the game. Things like shoes on clearance can end up at 15% of their original price- I've gotten a wide variety of stuff like that. Now my wife on the other hand, will usually
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Yep, flew from Phoenix to Atlanta, fell asleep until the end of the flight, woke to get off the flight, and immediately became blind in one eye as an embolism blew up inside the vitreous fluid. Not a great way to start a new job. Boss was m
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Self-interest mandated this resolution. Both companies were risking more than they stood to gain by winning their various suits. Who nominally 'won' will depend on whether Apple is paying what it considers reasonable royalties goi
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by mrkstu 8y ago
It was kind of the point. His other Infocom game was called Bureacrary, so you can see the theme developing... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bureaucracy_(video_game)
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Or, once a bunch of elites go to jail, the laws get changed so that only serious crimes are indeed 'crimes' and the rest get civil penalties in proportion to the means of the offender.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
The next question is how do you repair damage in that scenario?
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Agreed. I've thought of this as the 24/Jack Bauer line of thought. Torture is illegal and should be- but if you've tried everything else and you're running out of time before the nuke hidden in Los Angeles goes off- brea
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by mrkstu 8y ago
They have Apple Cash, which you could load up, and where your cash rebates end up from the Apple Card.
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Where it has been an issue in the past is iOS upgrades- part of the reason that older iPads 'slow down' is the baseline RAM starts to be consumed as the OS gets more resource hungry. Also with the new multitasking features added i
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Been trying to do this having Siri read the page to me, but you often get to much non-article text cruft. I'll definitely try this out- if you're successfully filtering out ads and other non-article text, it'd be great to get
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by mrkstu 8y ago
There are 'performance rights' that are separate from the direct copyright infringement. i.e. if you buy a DVD legally and show it to your church's youth group, you'll be infringing on the performance rights. AFAIAA ther
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by mrkstu 8y ago
People acquire child porn because they are the target market as consumers of it. People, generally, watch video of a terrorist attack to be informed about threats to them or their country, a direct first amendment concern. There is a direct
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by mrkstu 8y ago
No assumptions. We were gathered around the TV in the conference room after the first one hit and part of the conversation was whether it was terrorism, since it was pretty obvious you don't just happen to ram into the side of the tall
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by mrkstu 8y ago
The same people who gathered around TVs on 9/11 after the first strike and then saw the 2nd strike live? So most of the country?
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by mrkstu 8y ago
The initial seed for a startup culture must be locally derived first. Looking at places like Austin and Utah (Silicon Slopes), the local scene developed first- now more outside money is coming now that the 'existence proof' that i
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Instead of being targeted directly at scientific markets, I'd love to see a more generalized 'smart document' version of this. The promise of HyperCard, Glue, OpenDoc and even OLE of compound, programmable documents is someth
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by mrkstu 8y ago
I don't believe they've kept it anywhere. But if Spotify sells through the App Store they'll lose all their profits to Apple's commission, to sell at the same price, or they'll have to charge appreciably more (at no
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by mrkstu 8y ago
They did for e-books, which they got sued for and lost. I believe they also used to have it for subscriptions to things like video services (i.e. if you offered a web price and a 'through the store' price, the store price couldn&#
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by mrkstu 8y ago
I think it gets back to self-image. Many many women can 'see' themselves as a teacher. Relatively few imagine themselves in a career in tech. This is very much a cultural issue- the messages women receive from their media sources
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by mrkstu 8y ago
Intellectual capacity- programming requires a certain ability towards abstract thinking and logic that a minority of the population is comfortable with. I actually believe a greater percentage of the population, by far, is CAPABLE of this,

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