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by rfrey 3y ago
Russia invaded Ukraine. Unless you think Russia is a US puppet helping the US weaken Russia, I think you should check your prejudices.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Aluminum can certainly also be cast.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Not always. I'm pretty sure MY failures in life are because I'm bald. Certainly they have nothing to do with my own choices.
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by rfrey 3y ago
It's interesting that you think seven-year-old positive comments are vapid, but seven-year-old negativity is not.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Many businesses would behave much more conservatively -- making much smaller bets, conserving cash instead of investing it -- if they could not offload certain risks. So that ability does increase overall productivity IMO.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Your parent literally said if, for example, your liquid net worth is 100x the replacement cost of your home. and for the vast majority of people, rebuilding their home is not feasible with their current net worth.
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by rfrey 3y ago
I'd rephrase - Ellsberg is a more thoughtful person than you.
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by rfrey 3y ago
The assumption that only commercialization efforts are deserving of rewards, and the labour to discover and make viable the things that are being sold are not deserving of rewards, is one that needs reflection.
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by rfrey 3y ago
A huge fraction of that charity is donations to the church one is a member of, much of which money goes to church salaries, property maintenance, etc. If we included country club dues and gym memberships in the German charity numbers, perha
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by rfrey 3y ago
Five comments below this one, user all2 claims that Canada jails people for merely criticising anyone who is Islamic.
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by rfrey 3y ago
The GP quote was "But what I really didn't like is how dishonest they are."
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by rfrey 3y ago
I didn't downvote you, but I did notice that you are making repeated assertions about price disparity between direct and third party; multiple people are posting actual links and experiments showing you wrong; to which you more vehemen
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by rfrey 3y ago
Definitely a tough frame of mind to be in for metalwork. You remind me that loco-builders are the exception to my rule, though. Maybe clock makers too, but the rest of us are busy on our solid toolposts and NASA-engineered toolbit height ga
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by rfrey 3y ago
Graduated licensing is normal in many industries.
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by rfrey 3y ago
Are there a significantly larger number of people who die by electrocution (GFCI concern) or electrical fires (wirenut concern) in the US/Canada versus France?
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by rfrey 3y ago
For efficiency, I took up machining, where "Doing" and "Gear" have had a cosmic "merge cells" command applied to them. The only reason to own machining equipment is to USE it... to create tools and fixtures to
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by rfrey 4y ago
Because first, it's trite: literally every person in the organization is hired to "solve business problems". Second, I think it's pompous to elevate one's position to some sort of strategic "problem solver&quot
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by rfrey 4y ago
>I get paid to solve business problems That's far more pretentious than any of the things you listed.
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by rfrey 4y ago
Thank you for the clarification.
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by rfrey 4y ago
Am I misreading, or are you arguing that people are more free to protest in Russia than in Paris?
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by rfrey 4y ago
One really has to stretch to equate the change of prime movers in an automobile to a global conspiracy to destroy free will. What could the conspirators do with an electric vehicle that they couldn't do with a Hummer?
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by rfrey 4y ago
Reduced maintenance costs, reduced operating costs.
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by rfrey 4y ago
It could be that working in the store for a day is a good way to get candid and unfiltered input from those workers and managers. Agreed that information should flow up the chain freely, but there are a lot of incentives working against tha
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by rfrey 4y ago
My kid is in university now, and I tell him to read the textbook chapters or online references the prof gives in advance of the class. It won't necessarily make sense, and he shouldn't spend hours untangling it - read it, do the b
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by rfrey 4y ago
Which he probably got at salvage and repaired.
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by rfrey 4y ago
And many who are not Americans look with disbelief at those who would deny the right of self defence to a nation, embolden and support an imperialist tyrant, virtually guarantee more wars in the near, and justify it with a cynical call to &
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by rfrey 4y ago
Well, felt smart, anyhow.
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by rfrey 4y ago
Your comment hardly counts as "criticism." Drive by, low effort swipes at anything get downvoted a lot on HN.
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by rfrey 4y ago
> the FDA is perfect and changing them in any way, shape or form would destroy THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT Absolutely nobody said anything of the sort, and I'm not sure what your goal is in caricaturing the position of people with somew
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by rfrey 4y ago
That's a super interesting point... even if you're fine financially and the acquirer doesn't sabotage you, you've fundamentally damaged the company by exploring acquisition. Like if somebody goes from working hard on a m

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