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by squozzer 9y ago
What strikes me as most tragic about all this is that we've somehow forgotten that China is still our #1 strategic threat. At best, Russia is second-fiddle -- similar to the UK's function in NATO. That may be intentional -- focus
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by squozzer 9y ago
They picked an interesting starting point for their comparisons, which was 1975, several years after the following: 1) HP ratings went from SAE gross (at flywheel with no accessories) to SAE net (at flywheel with accessories and stock exhau
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by squozzer 9y ago
Apparently the author thinks transferring wealth to one's heirs is a bad thing, but transferring it to insurance companies and nursing homes is not. But let's continue. "What can get rich elderly Americans spending more? One
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by squozzer 9y ago
You might be a bit behind the times -- Tom Selleck pitches reverse mortgages now.
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A certain fictional character named O'Brien might have a problem with your assertion.
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by squozzer 9y ago
Personally I have no opinion on wolves, but I'm a city boy. The notion that "city folk" have any idea how to manage anything out in the wild probably contributes as much to how people in WY and elsewhere perceive the wolf as
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by squozzer 9y ago
I don't think it's a uniquely American problem. Most government activities everywhere are designed to prevent or mitigate change - because the "changes" within the scope of a typical government agency's purview are
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by squozzer 9y ago
I gave a big hint in another comment. FWIW, I'm quite happy my middle name is not Wayne or Duane.
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by squozzer 9y ago
That's a really good guess, but no cigar. Think the male "companion" of a very popular female doll.
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by squozzer 9y ago
I think the elasticity of the demand depends pretty heavily upon the urgency of the problem. And the demand - as you pointed out - also depends heavily on trust. That said, most health problems aren't unique enough to require a complet
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by squozzer 9y ago
I feel a bit sorry for people whose name is TOO common. My first name is neither common (e.g. Bob) nor unique (e.g. Attila), so when I hear someone say it, chances are good that they want to talk to me. In fact, when I meet someone who shar
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by squozzer 9y ago
It wasn't Michael Bolton, was it?
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by squozzer 9y ago
It's called "eating your own dog food" for a reason. What reason that is in this case, I have no idea.
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by squozzer 9y ago
Xanax?
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by squozzer 9y ago
Why not a telco/cableco, especially if FCC reverses Net Neutrality? Apple is not really in the service business a la Google, Facebook, Netflix, or Amazon, but they could tap into the rents the last-milers will be seeking -- and probabl
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by squozzer 9y ago
And more to the point -- the time to trash pols is before elections, not after. By the time November 2018 rolls around, no one will remember or care about the Net Neutrality Sellout of 2017. Which is a bummer.
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by squozzer 9y ago
This is the United Kingdom, right? The nation with the highest concentration of videocams per unit area in the history of humankind, right? No way this development won't turn into blackmail on a national scale.
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by squozzer 9y ago
Here's my 4x10^1000 Zimbabwe Dollars - FB = Show N Tell. Messenger = Passing Notes. Both have their place.
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by squozzer 9y ago
Some of us actually worked in telcom when this problem started. The telcos (aka last-mile owners) really DID want to charge the Netflixes of the world for "backhaul." And they wanted to use their networks as leverage for their own
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by squozzer 9y ago
"The sheer number of computers infected with DOUBLEPULSAR is likely the work of amateurish hackers, experts said." A huge assumption.
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by squozzer 9y ago
This article reeks of self-selection.
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by squozzer 9y ago
DP produced the vehicles to their own specs to use. VW would have produced the vehicles to sell, based on some amalgamation of inputs, and 1000 vehicles would not have been a cost-effective run. But that's just my opinion, I could be w
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by squozzer 9y ago
Compared to COBOL, that IBM PC is a whippersnapper. An IBM 370 would have been a better match. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_System_370-145_und_Ba... My dad programmed in COBOL for the Army, and he retired in
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by squozzer 9y ago
This is why establishment politicians were so scared of Trump's victory -- it may well have triggered a celebrity apocalypse in DC, a city sometimes referred to as Hollywood for the Less Attractive. At least we haven't reached the
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by squozzer 9y ago
Or maybe a body swap -- his for Snowden's, maybe?
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by squozzer 9y ago
It's a double-blind experiment - one march is real, the other placebo. But neither march knows which is which.
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by squozzer 10y ago
I think I used the term "negative mass" on a physics pop quiz once. Had something to do with matter-antimatter reactions. Appears I was 23 years ahead of my time.
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by squozzer 10y ago
I'm not buying the article's premise, i.e. that pay is determined by productivity or its fascimile. As a counter-hypothesis, I offer the following: Men are selected / promoted / rewarded based on reliability, women on de
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by squozzer 10y ago
Finally, a "for the children" argument that doesn't take away rights. Given the situation, my emotional state is hopeful, but not sanguine.
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by squozzer 10y ago
In principle, the ideas sound great. In practice, the biggest decisions seem to have high switching costs (e.g. home purchase), by design, to reduce flexibility. So it might prove useful to pursue courses of action that provide maximum flex

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