mulmen

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by mulmen 11mo ago
> Look, the Mint has one job, to make money. If it's losing money, it doesn't make cents. :P I realize this is a joke but again, my objection is that this is the actual reason given. > But, while coins are durable, the Mint
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by mulmen 11mo ago
Sure, if the coins are worth more as scrap that’s a problem. So why isn’t that the justification?
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by mulmen 11mo ago
No, you can't. According to [1] the scrap value of a penny is $0.0084771. The cost of production is $0.037. The relevant question is if a penny creates more than $0.037 of economic value before it is lost or destroyed. [1]: http:
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by mulmen 11mo ago
> But, if we stopped minting pennies because they cost too much (3.7 cents), it's hard to imagine we're going to keep producing nickels when they cost 13.8 cents to mint. Dimes are much cheaper than nickels (5.8 cents), and qua
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by mulmen 11mo ago
Ah yeah, I forget the details. It was a sophisticated system. I’m curious of the origins. Did this have bookkeeping or business reporting benefits in the pre-digital age? Even when we were using computers at the turn of the millennium i
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by mulmen 11mo ago
I’d like to see an estimation of how often coinage is actually used. I play a lot of pinball so I handle quarters frequently but I can’t really think of what I do with the smaller denominations except collect them in a jar. I wouldn’t mind
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by mulmen 11mo ago
The argument that we should stop minting them because they cost more to produce than their face value falls flat for me. A penny is not a single use item. The cost of production must be depreciated across the thousands of transactions in w
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by mulmen 11mo ago
At big retailers the price tag code indicates what type of price it is. For example the last digits can mean: 0: full 9: sale 8: reduced 7: clearance (item will not restock) I forget the exact system Sears used but we could tell at a glanc
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by mulmen 11mo ago
It’s far more complicated than that. There is no one sales tax for everyone. Oregon residents didn’t pay sales tax when making purchases in Idaho. Washington charges sales tax on out of state purchases if that state’s sales tax is less th
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by mulmen 11mo ago
> Let it be someone else. But this can't work. Then why would anyone innovate? I reject the assertion that it's impossible to innovate and develop a viable product. My question is what makes a company able to do both?
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by mulmen 11mo ago
Yes because Softbank never makes mistakes clearly whatever they are doing is optimal.
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by mulmen 11mo ago
People did buy it though. Apple sold a non-zero number of iPhone 13 Minis. They simply decided that number wasn’t big enough.
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by mulmen 11mo ago
This is also the source of the Florida Man meme right? Florida's transparency makes it look like a state full of criminals.
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by mulmen 11mo ago
Really depends who owns the footage. I’m installing cameras on my house but the NVR is local-only.
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by mulmen 11mo ago
> Kind of an unforeseen consequences situation. This is the most foreseeable consequence I can imagine. It’s up there with “When I throw this baseball where will it land?”. It shouldn’t even require conscious thought.
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by mulmen 11mo ago
I think someone even tried automating the redactions then posting to YouTube. It’s an interesting case that pits privacy against transparency. I absolutely want the cops to wear bodycams and I’d prefer they can’t even turn them off. But th
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by mulmen 1y ago
I recently dusted off a CentOS 5 file server that hadn’t been powered on in a decade. It’s familiar but a lot has changed. But to your point it has changed less than Windows or MacOS.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Sure but “be second” doesn’t help that first mover. What incentive is there to innovate if your product is doomed to fail? What can a company do to both innovate and develop a viable product? Are the corporate structures and cultures nece
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by mulmen 1y ago
So what’s the lesson for future business leaders? Someone has to be first. What can a first mover do to get to that second generation product?
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by mulmen 1y ago
Microsoft had so many opportunities that they just failed to execute. How did they miss on everything ? Home servers Media streaming Smartphones Touchscreens Tablets They even had media production with MSNBC. All of this was available fro
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by mulmen 1y ago
What makes you draw that conclusion? The wraps and powder coating can be observed but how can you infer intent? Which one is the “car person” and which one is just a Cybertruck owner? They both wrap their vehicles or get custom paintjobs.
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by mulmen 1y ago
I don’t understand. Vinyl wrapping cars is a normal thing for car people. What’s the difference?
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by mulmen 1y ago
Yes, the reason is Intuit.
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by mulmen 1y ago
I don’t see how that is beneficial. If a simple concept relates to a complex one then explain the complexity, don’t add it.
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by mulmen 1y ago
Seems superficial. If a simple concept is presented in a complex way what did you actually learn?
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by mulmen 1y ago
Oh yeah. It’s a constant threat. The wheat is harvested “dry”. The plant dies and dries out. The drier the better. Moisture leads to mold in the silos and clogs up the harvesters. The wheat is harvested by “combines” which are literally
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by mulmen 1y ago
> It's very important to park the engine close to the fire but not too close. Ask me how I learned this. I was a farm hand as a summer job to cover beer and books in my college years. We harvested wheat which carries a high fire ri
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by mulmen 1y ago
Your margin is my opportunity. The more expensive centralized models get the easier it is for distributed models to compete.
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by mulmen 1y ago
The battery could be made smaller by whatever amount is needed to carry the marginal motor weight the advertised distance.
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by mulmen 1y ago
It's literally the thing Palantir is for.

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