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by pravda 11y ago
What happens to cars that are written-off and not bought by your dad or someone else who wants to fix them up and get them back on the road? They go into the car crusher, but only after every part with any value is stripped from them. (Yes,
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by pravda 11y ago
I don't think anyone who buys a Telsa for 100 grand cares the slightest bit about being forced to pay overpriced dealer service rates. And it's not like a 'worn out' Telsa is going into the car crusher. Every part is go
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by pravda 11y ago
Police officers, whether dirty or clean, cannot commit anyone. In both cases the psychiatrist was responsible. http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/woman-interest-clippers-...
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by pravda 11y ago
Defense contractors need fighter jets. Drones are too cheap. https://www.nsfwcorp.com/dispatch/cheap-drones/ How many drones would it take to get $500 billion into the bank accounts of defense contractors?
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by pravda 11y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrian_Schoolcraft#Raid_and_in... http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/kamilah-brock-nypd-bmw_u...
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by pravda 11y ago
>you are far more likely to shot or beaten up by a black man than you are through a crooked cop True, but after being shot or beaten up by a black man, you are free to go. If you are shot or beaten up by the cops, you will be arrested an
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by pravda 11y ago
That is absolutely correct. I did not account for rust. Rust can eat away a car in 10-15 years, at least at latitudes that use salt on the roads. My car is galvanized, which I think was unusual for the 1980s. So I have not had rust proble
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>In my experience cars last about 10 year, 15 if you are careful. Huh? How can 'time' kill a car? My car celebrated her 30th birthday. Under 200K miles. Time does not kill cars, and neither does mileage. It just gets to a poi
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by pravda 11y ago
You've got it backwards. He is right and you are the one who is wrong. Sorry. You really thing IBM thought, "wow, we are making so much money with these PC things ... better turn them into a commodity so our profit margins will
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by pravda 11y ago
What does "Duplo" mean? "the Duplo economy" "Duplo world"
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by pravda 11y ago
Whenever I read the comments below an article like that, I always wonder exactly the mechanism by which the pharm industry gets their talking-points inserted. Do public relations firms have full-time employees to get their talking-points in
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by pravda 11y ago
>I'm a proud Canadian, and all else being equal I'd rather live in Canada than the US, I think we need some border-tightening. :-) Here's another title: "Canadians Drive down Salaries of US Artificial Intelligence Re
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by pravda 11y ago
>If you see a designed object in a movie Not just movies! Looks like Samsung bought placement in a music video. https://youtu.be/lf_wVfwpfp8?t=4
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by pravda 11y ago
>We choose to put ourselves in harms way for the sake of others. You don't get paid? If you are getting compensation, then you're not doing it for the sake of others. >Heroic, right? Nope! No more heroic then the gas stati
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by pravda 11y ago
>Patents expire after 25 years, Twenty years. At least in the USA. Carry on.
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Why wouldn't it be legal? It is somewhat weird though. I think it would make more sense to pay employees with dependents less.
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by pravda 11y ago
I would think that if there were a worldwide market for developers, salaries would come down. The Bay area seems to have a positive-feedback loop going on. Highly-paid programmers have bid up the cost of housing to astonishing heights. So
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by pravda 11y ago
>Ann is paid $170,000 in the Bay Area because that what all the other developers of her caliber are willing to exchange their time and expertise for. Well...sort of. Ann is paid $170K because Bay-area companies have bid up the cost of B
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by pravda 11y ago
>Overseas Phone Calls were a luxury back then Forget about overseas, INTERSTATE phone calls were a luxury! The 1980s were a nightmare -- no GPS, no cell phones, no digital cameras.
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by pravda 11y ago
>1100 American soldiers killed by Iranian proxies in Iraq And how 'bout all the Iranian soldiers killed by our friend and alley, Saddam Hussein, during the Iran-Iraq war? We didn't even get upset at Saddam for the USS Stark in
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by pravda 11y ago
I love Jet.com Great prices, at least after their recent 20% discount. Got (5 cases!) cat food for less then it would cost locally and it gets delivered right to the door! I can't imagine they made any money off me. I might even be a
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by pravda 11y ago
If you get the cold sores, get the Abreva®. That magical balm knocks 'em out like Tyson deckin' your grandmother. Can anyone explain this: "That is because improved hygiene in rich countries is lowering HSV-1 infection rates
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by pravda 11y ago
I had never visited Jet.com until I needed another pair of shoes. The shoes I buy are normally $100 - 20%, at Shoebuy.com. Total was $83 shipped back in 2013. Was all prepared to buy them at Shoebuy.com, then Jet.com came up in Google shop
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by pravda 11y ago
Less demand for memory means memory prices go down. Thank you Microsoft!
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by pravda 11y ago
I agree -- this seems a real BS lawsuit. But Avid Life Media (owner of Ashley Madison) is not part of it.
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It is the merchants. Credit card fees are paid by merchants. It comes out of profits.
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How am I supposed to know if my toast is ready? Go over and look? What year is it ... 1934? I will overlook the conspicuous absence of flying cars, but the year is 2015 and I want an email when my toast is done !
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by pravda 11y ago
>I'd like to know how many of those are paid vs un-paid accounts. As I understand it, accounts are 'free', you pay to send messages. That's how the bot-scam works...they generate fake messages to the users and the us
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by pravda 11y ago
Well, I am very impressed. 14 bit = 2^14 = 16384. Optical or some kind of hall-effect? I am going to guess hall-effect. When I read "permanent magnet synchronous motor" I think stepper-ish motor. Is that what the joints are? No
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by pravda 11y ago
That's the power of public sector unions! Minimum-wage employees getting compensation well into the six-figures and they don't even have to work!

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