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by mseebach 9y ago
This article suggests a total cost of $1000-$1500 which is ~20x the cost of mined uranium (and 40x less the cost of gold). It does not mention energy as a significant driver of this cost. http://scienceandglobalsecurity.org/
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by mseebach 9y ago
Not quite. The majority of deaths from the Banqiao Dam burst was from subsequent epidemics and famine. The 11 million displaced also weren't exactly spending three nights in a hotel, then going home. The construction of the Three Gorge
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by mseebach 9y ago
Even the heavily agenda-driven Greenpeace report on Chernobyl deaths gives an upper limit of 200,000 (and if we're counting non-lethal casualties, the benchmark is 11 million displaced, so let's not go there) - so the absolute ins
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by mseebach 9y ago
That may be the case, but the Danish vehicle tax has not made a meaningful dent in neither car ownership nor usage.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Yes, rolling back the tax discount on EVs should remove the last fragment of the fig leaf that those taxes have any environmental purpose whatsoever.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The examples given for "vitamin" and "painkiller" are poor, or at lease not describing differences in products, but in marketing strategy. Also, the idea that "vitamins" are poor product is betrayed by the succ
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by mseebach 9y ago
The fundamentals of sales are the same whether you're selling pens or $10m enterprise widgets -- you need to understand the customer and the product and how to fit the two together. It also applies in marketing, a closely related field
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by mseebach 9y ago
This is a special pen, and you just carry it around with you at Walmart? I shudder to think what would happen if you were to drop it -- that happens all the time, people drop pens and stuff, and they practically never get it back! See, this
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by mseebach 9y ago
Not the OP, but I think the point is that yes, they did waste an opportunity. That opportunity was to not go to college.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The problem is, they need to realise it ~6 years before they're a college graduate.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The premise of the question is that a pen is ubiquitous and used all the time by everybody. You can trust that the interviewee already understands exactly what a pen is and does (as opposed to the company's niche Foo Widget -- in this
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by mseebach 9y ago
Programming is inherently difficult. We can do a lot in tooling and increasingly higher level languages to help make a lot of the details a lot easier, but a the core, it remains abstract symbolic manipulation. It seems to me (and I have
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's no way Amazon isn't going to make that particular situation better, not worse. The vast majority of the bookstores of yore stocked a few hundred, perhaps a few thousand, titles, and those were necessarily the ones "ev
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by mseebach 9y ago
Subscribe to a magazine with a substantial book review section, perhaps even one of the "The X Review of Books" ones. Besides giving you thoughtful reviews (go for some of the books that don't immediately appeal to you, but t
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by mseebach 9y ago
Pranks are a sign of trust. The trust bit is that you only use it for pranks and not any of the myriad other things you can actually do with a logged in computer. But the pranks should be a reminder they might just as well not have been a
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by mseebach 9y ago
> > The writer already assumes that we think he is lying. > Not quite. He assumes we think he could be mistaken. ("[…] it could be conceivable […] that, in my grief, I remotely logged in, sent the email and forgot I did it&quo
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by mseebach 9y ago
These are the relevant links for the idea: http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2017/05/tyler_cowen_on_1.ht... (about half-way down, search for "casualness") > * But what I find striking is societies
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by mseebach 9y ago
It's just poor writing. The "Internet style" dictates that if you can't put something in bombastic absolutes, it's probably not worth writing down. The cluttering up with qualifications, then, is a sign of honesty,
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by mseebach 9y ago
The road to hell is littered with "solutions" "for the greater good" foisted upon a population that did not actually want it. Facebook is popular by and large because the people that use Facebook like Facebook.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I'm a distant observer, so grain of salt: isn't the significance of Dilma's impeachment in the shift from quiet tolerance of corruption, to actually taking some action and demonstrating that not even the president is immune?
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by mseebach 9y ago
I've decided to trust Google with my personal email, and that may be what it is. But for those who don't, I suspect the difference between "having" and "indexing for ad purposes" (the data is certainly indexed
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by mseebach 9y ago
That's just a question of having a wide enough definition of "band".
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by mseebach 9y ago
> are solely meant for teenagers Perhaps that's because the people campaigning for them are explicitly referencing protection of children as their motivation. The label on CDs says "parental advisory" and the MPAA film rat
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by mseebach 9y ago
Presumably, the scope of the scandal would have been much smaller. His immunity would almost certainly have been conditional on him abiding by this confidentiality agreement, then, probably, some investigators (the senate oversight committe
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by mseebach 9y ago
Sure, but that's just not what we're discussing here. The author of the original article clearly authorised the increased spend (but obviously not the sudden change causing it), and could have declined (presumably at the cost of h
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by mseebach 9y ago
Perhaps. Or perhaps they block or throttle your account. Stopping payment is the nuclear option, you can't expect any cooperation with outstanding payments on your account (not that you necessarily can with a fully paid up account), an
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by mseebach 9y ago
But negotiating protection with the Russian government is a simple, safe, known-to-work strategy? Snowdon clearly isn't a neophyte who shies away from things because they are dangerous and difficult.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Of course, this approach only works if you're happy to have your service cut off more or less abruptly if your card bounces, something the author of the article explicitly mentions isn't an option. The problem (in the article at l
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by mseebach 9y ago
I'm not. There are very few compelling consumer LAN usecases, most of what most users do it bounded by their internet connection. Indeed, the tendency is for consumer devices to forego ethernet ports entirely in favour of wifi.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Sorry, the two years was a reference to Windows XP, of which there were also way too many installs still around (although possibly not on critical devices, but all the more irresponsible to not have upgraded them, then). > No-one takes a

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