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by pkphilip 5y ago
"How is it anti-competitive"? The best example is to see what has happened with music/video/book sales on Apple, Amazon, Netflix etc. These three companies have such a stranglehold on this industry that it is impossible
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The whole point is that retailers are now refusing to buy from manufacturers and are preferring to go directly through Reliance because Reliance will bring products from different manufacturers and across categories.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
I don't think people understand the complexity of the supply chain. If it were possible for the manufacturers to directly sell to retail customers, they would be more than happy to cut off distributors and pocket that additional margin
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Whichever way you do it, the distribution process will add to the final price because someone needs to pay for transport to the city, distribution to the retail stores etc. A non-profit may only charge enough to cover their cost but it is n
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by pkphilip 5y ago
A typical retail store - especially a mom and pop store, will only be able to buy limited quantities of products. For instance, 50 packs of biscuits etc.. these sorts of volumes are too small for a manufacturer to ship directly to retail es
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by pkphilip 5y ago
These are not "middle men". Many of them are the sales people of the manufacturers themselves. Reliance will hold down prices only till they receive a huge consolidation of sales and then you can expect the prices to jump.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The problem is not with these salesmen. With Reliance becoming the single point aggregator for all products sold from these 450,000+ stores, Reliance also becomes the single point of contact for any manufacturer wanting to distribute their
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by pkphilip 5y ago
That such a terrible website. All that is wrong with the new fangled web design
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Excellent article. Learned much for this even though I have used PHP for about 20 years. PHP has vastly improved since version 7 - both in terms of language features as well as in terms of performance. However, error handling continues to b
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by pkphilip 5y ago
There is also a likelihood that people are shopping because they are depressed. There is a link between compulsive shopping and depression. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9164428/
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Then we have Cliff Young who ran 875 km in 5 days - at the age of 61. https://www.farmprogress.com/blog/cliff-young-farmer-who-out...
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Why should they ever get to a position where they have no land? Even the worst sea-level rise predictions states that the sea level will rise only by around 3 metres in the next 100 years or so and about 10m by 2300. 3m is just around 9ft.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Have you actually had a conversation with anyone outside the US about what they think about US govt/military policy? Most people are too polite to say these things unless specifically asked. By the way, I am not an American and I don&#
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by pkphilip 5y ago
How does carbon tax solve anything? It is far better to plant trees and find measures to decrease pollution instead of bringing in another tax which will help some company get rich
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by pkphilip 5y ago
You should travel more and ask people outside the US what they actually think about US military policy. Note, some people do distinguish between what the US establishment does and what ordinary American civilians do but that is not always t
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Tuvalu is a country. It became an independent nation in 1978 and is a member of the UN.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Why not? many countries make their own islands, adjust their coast lands and do other sorts of geoengineering. Building tall platforms isn't that controversial either.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
They can become a nation where citizens live on boats (if they are ok with that) or on dwellings that exist over water.. or they can increase the height of their island by bringing soil from elsewhere.. or they can make their own islands.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Why is everyone acting surprised? The value of 23AndMe was always in the DNA of millions of people they had in their database.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
This is really nice! Very easy to use and a very pleasant surprise! Congratulations!
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The 199os were a time when we tried all sorts of tricks to get the last bit of performance out of the hardware. One book which stands out is the one Michael Abrash wrote: Michael Abrash's "Graphics Programming Black Book" ht
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Where did you get the idea that it doesn't give authorities the power to use force? How is law enforcement etc supposed to work if there is no possibility of using any sort of force? From Romans 13 1. Everyone must submit himself to th
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Pfizer is bullying nations to make humiliating concessions(youtube.com)
3 points by pkphilip 5y ago|1 comments
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Investigation by WION indicates that Pfizer is asking nations for even sovereign properties such as embassy properties to be given as collateral to guarantee immunity from all civil liability.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Do you plan to launch in India anytime soon? Would love to get my hands on a Framework laptop
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by pkphilip 5y ago
The term "worship" isn't limited to the worship of any deity alone - as the quote itself indicates. It includes worship of things such as beauty, youthfulness, fame, wealth... or whatever that consumes your thinking
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Personally I think Gemini team's approach has been to throw out the baby with the bath water. This is really unfortunate because the world needs a system which allows for lightweight pages where the user has absolute control over what
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by pkphilip 5y ago
That type of design is called a Charpoy style. You can find these quite commonly in India and neighbouring countries. https://www.google.com/search?q=charpoy+stool
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by pkphilip 5y ago
Energy density is another big factor. Hydrogen has a much higher energy density especially for automobile use compared to batteries.
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by pkphilip 5y ago
True. The convertible beds in trains in India makes it so much more comfortable.

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