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by oska 6y ago
I think most Apple customers will tell you that Apple products are too expensive. Most 'moats' are not beneficial to the consumer. What's beneficial to the consumer is competition, and companies innovating, not building moats
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by oska 6y ago
I think his claim to be a beneficial 'allocator of capital' is bogus. He tends to invest in established exploitative companies. His investments have been made on an almost exclusive basis of growing wealth, which in the end is a
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by oska 6y ago
Was this in classes for English as a second language? Because, as a native English speaker, this seems like misinformation to me, perhaps partly influenced by your teacher having a first language where nouns do still have gender.
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by oska 6y ago
Somehow I think Buffett would have ended up a parasite in any society. There's always been a niche for the Buffett type.
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by oska 7y ago
> In the UK it is illegal to chalk anything – hopscotch, art or botanical names – on paths or highways without permission, even if it educates, celebrates and fosters interest and knowledge in nature. > One anonymous London tree name
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by oska 7y ago
> What has Elon himself actually done that looks like good management? Plenty. I'm a huge critic of Elon's tweeting on Covid-19 (see elsewhere in this thread) but to argue that Elon is not a good manager of the companies he run
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by oska 7y ago
What's the point of even writing a comment like this? Comprised of completely obvious platitudes. We all know that we don't have to buy Tesla stock or can sell it if we decide we don't like the CEO. The point that people are
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by oska 7y ago
Presumably short for fabrication, i.e. manufacturing place.
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by oska 7y ago
Thank you for the podcast recommendation.
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by oska 7y ago
I imagine they clean more than the toilet when they each put their uniform on. Perhaps do some garden work too.
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by oska 7y ago
Online copy of the original version of that essay: https://harpers.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/HarpersMagazi...
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by oska 7y ago
It really doesn't. Not punning wordplay fun anyway.
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by oska 7y ago
> There is a reason Zoom has been adopted the way it has The reason is that people do not generally think philosophically or strategically about the software choices they make. The FSF does and, time and time again, their deep consider
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by oska 7y ago
With a barcode scanner it shouldn't take you long to catalogue even thousands of books (disregarding the pre-barcode ones).
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by oska 7y ago
> There is an adage with which my father frequently admonished me as a child: You can lie as much as you like, but don’t believe your own lies. Strange advice to give a child.
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by oska 7y ago
I've been posting that link in various comments on the web over the last week, it's a very interesting article. But Taiwan is not the US; they have shown a very healthy trend away from authoritarianism over the last 33 years sin
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by oska 7y ago
My guess is that loss of individuals to vehicle strike is not important for the overall population. What's important is the carrying capacity of the habitat which, according to this article, has been significantly increased.
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by oska 7y ago
That 1849 image [1] depicting a man riding a personal rocket-propelled vehicle through the air is pretty imaginative for its time. [1] https://the-public-domain-review.imgix.net/essays/comic-gold...
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by oska 7y ago
> Would the USA know if I flew to the UK, then the USA? I would imagine they will have you fill in a recent travel form. And make it clear that you'll be in a lot of trouble if you don't answer truthfully.
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by oska 7y ago
Except downplaying it is exactly what you are doing, based solely on a personal opinion which you do not back up in any way.
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by oska 7y ago
Vanessa Teague: > I can't believe @healthgovau is still saying "The dataset does not contain the personal information of patients." We have shown many of the patients' records can be easily and confidently identified
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by oska 7y ago
Switzerland probably remains the champion.
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by oska 7y ago
This is basically the same sequence I use (cold showers for over a year).
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by oska 7y ago
I think it's mostly a sitcom trope, rather than a problem that ordinary people can't solve.
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by oska 7y ago
Your article looks like junk to me. At least from the abstract, there doesn't seem to have been any attempt to control for the environment (and climate) that the subjects grew up in.
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by oska 7y ago
They're not a bag. Thus they're not sealable.
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by oska 7y ago
Marketing can be legitimate. Marketing includes putting up information about your products and services on your own website that people need to proactively go to to be exposed to. The problematic industry is push advertising, which is pushi
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by oska 7y ago
Try answering this one without looking it up: February 29 2020 + 365 days
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by oska 7y ago
Virtually all your examples are seaside marshes, not low-lying inland swamps. But your example of Angkor is a good example of a low-lying inland swampy area and, while for a period of history it was a productive, heavily populated area it t
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by oska 7y ago
Reminded me of the second half of Rogue Male by Geoffrey Household. [1] Also, The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall. [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_Male_(novel) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org&

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