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by sambe 14y ago
The entire thrust of their response - perhaps even half of the text - is that EPEAT remains outdated. So not really, no.
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by sambe 14y ago
I think it would be more valuable to question your assumptions. You have changed the topic and conflated several different issues - it is not the case that doing one thing wrong means doing everything wrong. There's a lot rotten in banking,
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by sambe 14y ago
That was precisely the conclusion of my (heavily downvoted) reply. The ratings agencies are not the banks. What is unclear about this? I wouldn't even think it controversial. The parent that I replied to stated that the instruments were mar
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by sambe 14y ago
Those are terrible analogies. They did not hide bad loans in there and claim they were good. The products specifically consiste of a subprime tranch. In the financial world you are always buying products with risk attached. The amount and n
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by sambe 14y ago
Sales is sales. They were not doing this any more than than they would for any other product, and no financial investment is safe. Blaming the banks who sold these seems totally crazy to me. The prospectus is available, and the contents are
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by sambe 14y ago
Thanks for the clarification (and no thanks for the utterly bizarre downvote, whoever that was - wtf?). Based on your experience, is it the companies themselves who can get these later costs down, or is it entirely dependent on outside part
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by sambe 14y ago
It actually sounds like you are saying that drugs are NOT that expensive to develop. The high failure stage is cheap ("tiny fraction of the cost"), bringing it to market is expensive but this happens once efficacy and safety are more certai
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by sambe 14y ago
It's not so much an argument "for scalping" as an argument against being emotional and extreme. So, once again, - no, not everyone benefits. Without the higher price tickets available from the scalpers, they would not have been able to go.
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by sambe 14y ago
They are doing a service to anyone who buys scalped tickets, who is happy to pay extra rather than not go. Competition at this price is lower. I know many people who have happily paid well over face value on several occasions. Of course eve
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by sambe 14y ago
An odd comment - I didn't say either of these things. However, other people are saying them and I'm with you - both are fallacies. Particularly on the first, I'd suggest to "real fans" that they consider whether they prefer paying more than
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by sambe 14y ago
The ToralFootball app, now StatsZone, allows you to do some analysis yourself. Not "raw" exactly. http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/total-football-2010/id3755679... http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/fourfourtwo-football-stats/id... http://it
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by sambe 14y ago
How is there artificial demand? The scalpers aren't buying tickets for fun - there has to be someone to flip them TO. These people are fans and they create the demand, as stated in the grandparent. Edit: a common "rebuttal" in this thread (
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by sambe 14y ago
Top Gear is highly influential both in terms of viewing figures and general perception. Of all the people I know who saw the episode, they all had genuine reservations and believed it to be about accurate journalism, not comedy. Second, as
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by sambe 14y ago
Desirable qualities Intuitive Forgiving Frictionless Most of this article applies equally well to humans...
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by sambe 14y ago
I have had good experiences with ipython inside virtualenv, what's the problem?
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by sambe 14y ago
Liking it a lot so far - but one suggestion: frequency options are good, but there is nothing available for >daily. Workaround is multiple items, I guess.
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by sambe 14y ago
The shift key clearly indicates it's status. Much like the Caps Lock key on a real keyboard. But both answers that a vaguely pro-iOS keyboard have had the downvote-disagree game played, fairly obvious fanboy-ism. It is a trade-off. I said t
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by sambe 14y ago
The point is to attack the straw man of the oft-repeated "failing" of an all-caps virtual keyboard. You often see the claim that this is some obvious, horrible design flaw or even - bizarrely - confusing. I hate to say it, but usually you h
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by sambe 14y ago
No, you're not. Several answers of this sort, ignoring the expectation that apps to disseminate information without your permission. This is a general expectation, but in particular on iOS there is a clear tilt towards ensuring the user is
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by sambe 15y ago
Take a look at CallGraph. I rapidly ditched Pamela, seemed spammy and overpriced.
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by sambe 15y ago
I think in general it is governments and regulators who are (attempting/pretending to be) cracking down, not exchanges. Exchanges continue to get faster, and offer premium services to those who need it.
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by sambe 15y ago
No doubt this upgrade will get bad press for lacking "wow" factor. Buy the phone, sell the shares. But really, do people care so much about a redesign? Near field what? 3D?! Come on... For 3GS owners like me this is an enormous upgrade, for
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by sambe 15y ago
It is not a question of economic system. I don't even know what that means. His employer signed a contract saying if he messed up he still gets paid, AND failed to be sufficiently critical of his risk taking. As a result, they suffered. Th
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by sambe 15y ago
And like his contract, oversight and accountability is the responsibility of the board/shareholders/owners. Not any of us. He didnt "get away with it". It is nothing like rogue trading whatsoever, let alone "far worse". One is ill-advised b
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by sambe 15y ago
Why is are these debates run only on terms of envy and retribution? The company made a bad decision, and they were absolutely not rewarded, they lost big. Weideking was hugely influential, but his contract with the company was already agr
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by sambe 15y ago
No, they really shouldn't. If you care, you already know about about:prefs.
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by sambe 15y ago
Running both PCs practically without reboot, Synergy needs restarting about once a month. I do not need more than one keyboard and mouse. I can't log in to both at once, but then a) one is not Windows, as is this case for most people in my
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by sambe 15y ago
"at this point" refers to their advantages now, not when it became clear to Gruber. It is not intended to discount anything that happened in the past.
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by sambe 15y ago
I know that I hardly have time for one of them, but greedily want to try all three. I wonder if there is an expectation for the course to be available again, or at least provide the full materials afterwards. And if there is a penalty for f
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by sambe 15y ago
...and in fact I believe that Freakonomics suggests that black athletic ability is more about variance than average.

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