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by tiatia 9y ago
"A market in which buyers are not free to choose better products is not a free market." Which is not the case here. If I sign a one year gym contract and suddenly a much better, much cheaper gym opens across the street, I can whin
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by tiatia 9y ago
Ultrasonic Dryer? Who needs this? And DOE dropped nearly a million on it? Was it an SBIR grant with nice kickbacks? :-) I found a washing machine with ultrasonic much more interesting: http://www.tovatech.com/blog/3759&
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by tiatia 10y ago
The equivalent to a COOP could be many things, depending what you want to do and achieve. I would look into GmbH/AG (inc/LLC), gGmbH (non profit Inc), eingetragener Verein e.V. (not sure there is such a thing in the US), or, most
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by tiatia 10y ago
"That's something for his lawyers to look into of course, I have a feeling the 300K a year guys they keep on retainer who likely approved this policy have a good idea of how they can argue this was legal under current regulation.&
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by tiatia 10y ago
Yeah. Love this guy. If you like him and aphorisms, you may enjoy this Colombian: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/340970.Nicol_s_G_mez...
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by tiatia 10y ago
Peak-a-boo http://socialfixer.com/
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by tiatia 10y ago
Well, what makes the cards so great? Seriously? * Collect miles? I prefer the Cash back I have with my CC. * Zero foreign transaction fees is a nice feature. * Create virtual credit cards is a good feature. * Travel insurance? Have a better
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by tiatia 10y ago
Hm. No. Just the outcome: "1993 and 2005, air conditioners in the U.S. increased in efficiency by 28%, but by 2005, homes with air conditioning increased their consumption of energy for their air conditioners by 37%." Jevons sends
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by tiatia 10y ago
"That's great!" It is likely a sing of a sinking standard of living. Had to come sooner or later, so I would not call it "bad". "But, overall energy use per GDP will fall through the floor due to their much hig
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by tiatia 10y ago
I have not used United in many years after a major cluster f.. on a trip. Things like this were supposed to happen sooner or later. This airline hast a total "FU" attitude regarding customers. It is the only airline that I insist
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by tiatia 10y ago
Also, sometimes the employer pays for the miles. If you get reimbursed for your flights, some airlines give you much more miles if you buy a ticket (Economy has many sub classes) that is slightly more expensive (e.g. 100 Dollar more, doubl
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by tiatia 10y ago
In the US I have a Citi Platium Cash back card since man years. Very satisfied, except it has foreign transaction fees. If lounge access is your goal, you can get this with some cards (US: Amex, Europe: Diners Club)
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by tiatia 10y ago
Collecting miles is an art. (See Flyertalk). In my experience: - You can collect the miles but it is very difficult to use them. I think I had this problem with AA, if I remember right. They were rated last in a Frequent Flyer Miles Ranking
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by tiatia 10y ago
I have not looked at the link. But would Sagemath not be both? Python AND R? http://doc.sagemath.org/html/en/reference/interfaces/sage/in...
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by tiatia 10y ago
2) New Zealand would be a decent choice I guess http://money.cnn.com/2017/02/01/technology/peter-thiel-new-z... But positioning yourself is also a good idea. I can stay unlimited in three continents with
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by tiatia 10y ago
You would not believe me how many applications I wrote. I know the black hole. There are a few rules. Never apply to a job that uses Taleo, SAP or any other "application" interface. A real job requires to send or upload a resume a
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by tiatia 10y ago
Ah. Yes. Billions.
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by tiatia 10y ago
"medieval Arab scientists" Ibn_al-Haytham was one of the inventors of the "scientific method". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ibn_al-Haytham
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by tiatia 10y ago
Cost of the Manhattan project in 2012 US dollars: 30 Trillion http://blog.nuclearsecrecy.com/2013/05/17/the-price-of-the-m... This was a significant part of GDP and please also consider that the US had a much
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by tiatia 10y ago
I am sure that Miele builds outstanding washing machines. But, first, a Miele basically costs double what another branded machine would cost. And partly, they live on their old name and reputation. Same with Mercedes. I am sure a Mercedes i
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by tiatia 10y ago
Well, there are crazy people everywhere (don't need to understand the language, just look at the pics) http://www.zabex.de/site/waschmaschine.html Regarding the opening link: " I’ve bought and sold refrigera
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by tiatia 10y ago
"would gladly pay $3000 for a washer" Miele. https://9to5mac.com/2011/03/07/how-steve-jobs-picks-a-washer...
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by tiatia 10y ago
"In situations where there are far more good ideas than funding, good ideas will be rejected. This is mathematics." This was not a vague idea, this was a project that was very advanced. Obviously nothing came out of the funded ide
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by tiatia 10y ago
"The rejection rates for SBIR's are commonly 90%+ because there are far more proposals than dollars." I know. But I thought it is based on merit. If you try to tell me it is a lottery it should require very few people. "
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by tiatia 10y ago
Let's say it is overdue that Trump cuts some fat.
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by tiatia 10y ago
I could not know that the first one was not feasible. I had no access to the equipment (but later someone had access who published a paper). But still, one of the main points the reviewer did not get. Even if it was not a good idea from an
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by tiatia 10y ago
Mate, I know that the plural of anecdote is not data. And I can't provide specifics because such a thing may easily blow up in my face (blow back). But just FYI: I had a SBIR grant rejected and it was rejected with a cause. But I also
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by tiatia 10y ago
"The National Institutes of Health, for example, would be cut by nearly $6 billion, about a fifth of the NIH budget." Many of their employees have drop dead salaries. And the same time these department are corrupt as fuck (say han
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by tiatia 10y ago
How do you do this? I rooted my HTC one, put hosts in /etc/ but somehow the phoen "ignores" it?
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by tiatia 10y ago
Stupid post extraordinaire. Respect "You can trade $6.95 on ETRADE". Yes. Right. By the way, the fuel cost the same per gallon for a Lamborghini than for a used Toyota. Why not buy a Lamborghini then?

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