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by padobson 11y ago
Most of the revenue comes from TV contracts which have exploded in recent years as sports have become the primary reason to continue to have a cable subscription. Netflix has almost 70 million subscribers[1], and cable-based companies, espe
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by padobson 11y ago
I foresee alot of NFL and MLB team owners in the next 10 years. Especially when that bubble bursts and the price of a major sports team comes crashing down.
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when all the intelligensia spend almost all its brain power in obscure religious debates, you get very few results. What's great about this sentence is how it brings the whole narrative full circle, back to fascism and Germany. The P
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Corporate ownership may have it's downside, but in my hometown[1], at least we got a Whole Foods in the bargain. [1] http://wiki.southpark.cc.com/wiki/Historic_Shi_Tpa_Town
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Completely agree. I don't usually edit things I read, but this paragraph... I want to examine the details of this large corporate investment surge, and why it matters. Cities are the spaces where those without power get to make a hist
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Walt Disney was extremely puritanical when it came to sex, but his animators were definitely not. Much to Disney's dismay, the wrap party for Snow White was orgy-esque.[1] [1] http://www.cartoonbrew.com/old-brew/bi
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Yeah, our evolutionary response to the capsaicin arms raise was to push out endorphins and adrenaline to overcome the pain to get at the nutrition. As a result, a decent concentration gives you a nice little high to go with the vitamins.
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I've found that a high intensity workout is more effective than a low one - even comparing a jog to a run. A few weeks ago, I could feel the depression setting in, and several runs that started with 8 minute miles didn't seem to s
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by padobson 11y ago
Since the doctor's recommendation. Kale seems to have slightly more nutrients, but, IMO, at to great a cost too taste.
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Depends. I buy groceries every two weeks and get two bags of fresh spinach. I freeze one and leave the other in the vegetable crisper. So the first week it's all fresh, the second week it's frozen.
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The paper comes to the conclusion that men eat more in the company of women due to sexual selection. I was wondering if maybe men ate more in the company of women because women eat less, and there was more left over for the man. But the exp
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Eating Heavily: Men Eat More in the Company of Women[pdf](download.springer.com)
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Thanks for the link. I started on Spinach because my doctor suggested "leafy green vegetables". I tried kale first, but I prefer the taste of spinach. I most often eat it first thing in the morning as a shake: 90g spinach + 1 cup
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There's a question of whether or not those faster transportation systems would be a good long term investment. Create the means for people to spread out more and still enjoy the advantages of cities for just a 10 minute train ride, and
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by padobson 11y ago
I go to therapy to manage my depression. I don't have a severe case, but it's bad enough that it affects my productivity at times. Once a year or so I'll have a bout where I am almost completely unable to function. The tools
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by padobson 11y ago
Hell, maybe the rotation of distant galaxies is off because they're just sprites So there's probably some other simulation of our universe where they tried to do models, but it was too slow. If not, then the simulator introduced
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by padobson 11y ago
I really enjoyed the abstractions in this piece, particularly this: Iron from the mantle, released at black smokers, has a predictable ratio of iron-56 (full fat) to iron-54 (lite), but in the Hamersley rocks the ratio is skewed; the iron
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by padobson 11y ago
Seems to me that Uber won't stop the market for self-driving cars, so much as validate it. They'll save a lot of money when they don't have to pay drivers anymore. Or... One person or company that owns a fleet of self-driving
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I've received poor value because I've paid more for the same thing. I disagree with this completely. Did you buy it because price wasn't important to you and it was on a more convenient shelf? General Mills paid for that sh
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by padobson 11y ago
I don't immediately agree with the premise of this article: that the consumer pays an advertising tax on the good or service being purchased. I tend to believe that advertising actually adds value to the good or service, especially whe
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"Industry pundits predicted that no one would sit still for a cartoon feature. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs proved otherwise and blazed the trail for the industry." Nobody knew how to make serious money on short animations, ani
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by padobson 11y ago
I completely agree with the title of this post, and agree with most of the points, but this problem is a lot bigger than breaking down cliques and social barriers, and developing mechanisms to get people experience. The problem is that a ba
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One of my favorite board games is Container[1]. The game is great because the economy develops with each player taking on different levels of responsibility in different roles: production, storage, and shipment. And it's not at all unc
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I definitely hadn't considered the low-margin nature of the TV business. But surely there's an avenue to starting a platform like this on phones and tablets, with an initial focus on older games appealing to a niche audience. Once
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I've been using forums of one kind or another for nearly twenty years. So my question is, how much of what I believe was planted there by somebody using this stuff?
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iOS or Android or whatever else OS You just answered your own question. Remember the screen paradigm. In the 80s, Nintendo made it possible for developers to make games that worked on Zenith TVs, Magnavox TVs and RCA TVs, but they only ha
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It might work for low end or previous generation games You may be right that the cloud tech needed to support the best XBox One and PS4 offerings isn't there yet, but Nintendo has been pushing under-powered hardware for generations n
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I recoil from this idea as it pushes further in the direction of free play homogenized games. This may be true, but we won't know for sure until we figure out how to make the AAA games as ubiquitous as Candy Crush and Game of War. Ho
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I look at the console world and feel like I'm taking crazy pills. The massive reduction in cost of hardware has enabled every device to get smart. And, surprise surprise, the first things to get smart were the things with screens - pho
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From the FAQ[1]: The conditioning step takes about four minutes to perform currently and, once optimized, the remineralization step will take about 20 minutes. The whole treatment will be comparable to the typical time scheduled for curren

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