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by vacri 9y ago
> It seems strange to say, "Well, a film must be in a cinema" when that's not how most people watch them. (At least not the vast majority of films they watch in any of the countries I've been in.) David Sedaris goes
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by vacri 9y ago
Do you consume foreign-language media often?
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by vacri 9y ago
If we didn't do that, we'd be completely inundated with American shows flogged off on the cheap. We wouldn't have any local content at all - perhaps not even the news. France has a barrier in that they (proudly) speak a diffe
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by vacri 9y ago
Starting at the reserve can spook some bidders and make it hard to start the auction. Starting below the reserve usually gets some momentum going in the bidding, and that tends to carry over to a higher final price. Advertising a price that
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by vacri 9y ago
Here in Australia, underestimating by realty companies is the norm. I watched a friend go through buying a house last year, and some houses were advertised at prices that were below reserve [1]. As in, at auction, the bidding reached the ad
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by vacri 9y ago
> it still struggles to produce things smaller countries are capable of Quite. http://www.actualfunnypictures.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/201...
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, they're certainly not #1 at moving the goalposts...
908.
by vacri 9y ago
But North Virginia is where datacenters have the most instability! AWS has shown that...
909.
by vacri 9y ago
The used-car market in the US shifts three times as many cars as the new-car market.
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by vacri 9y ago
They say the glass is warrantied for the lifetime of the house, but it will be interesting to see what exclusions are in that warranty.
911.
by vacri 9y ago
0.76% is about the number that's currently incarcerated, with the rest on parole. It works out to be about 1 in 100 adults in the US that are currently incarcerated (even the US balks at the idea of locking up children)
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, if you're not willing to pay your current tax that already goes towards funding prisons, you'll eventually be sent there as well. It's not that ironic.
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by vacri 9y ago
At one place I work, the target is 80% rather than 100%. Seems to be a saner target than full coverage.
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by vacri 9y ago
I think you overestimate both the market saturation and lucrativeness of nannies.
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by vacri 9y ago
> In their defense, Apple hits home runs with those kind of products. Apple makes plenty of turkeys; it's just when they score a hit, they hit it out of the park.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Your chances at winning are pretty low, but eventually someone will do it. That's a 'lottery', not a 'barrier-lowering device'.
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by vacri 9y ago
You depend on the government to enforce privacy elsewhere, so why not? A man hanging around inside the women's toilets? Government deals with that. A stranger hanging around inside your house, or just peeping in your windows? Governmen
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by vacri 9y ago
> It does if you're a tourist needlessly worrying about getting gunned down while you're visiting the Grand Canyon This kind of example is really stacking the deck. It's not like there are real people out there being tou
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by vacri 9y ago
For system-related stuff, python 2 is already 'everywhere', as it's used all over the place for that kind of thing. Even some nodejs modules depend on python for their installation. But if you're going to be doing more t
920.
by vacri 9y ago
The threat isn't one of invasion or punitive payments, it's simply "if you leave, we're not going to give you preferential treatment in trade or politics". It's kind've self-evident - if you choose to l
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by vacri 9y ago
Given that 'first world' means 'US and its allies', that's clearly a loaded question. There was no war between second-world communist countries either. If you take out the 'first world' bit, then yes, ther
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by vacri 9y ago
Improved high availability and geographic dispersion. They're running in multiple datacenters across the globe now.
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by vacri 9y ago
> I don't see why the US should change its policies to benefit Australia How on earth did you get that out of what I wrote?
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by vacri 9y ago
> The British isles aren't floating away to the Atlantic, and the countries will need to continue trading. Europe has been bluntly honest about this. They've said that the UK leaving the single market will hurt them, but they
925.
by vacri 9y ago
> couldn't get Europe to commit to basic concessions that would make British lives easier, and the imposed austerity made a lot of people's lives worse in a very concrete and visible way. How did the EU impose austerity on th
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by vacri 9y ago
> In the end, that kind of policy would hurt the US at a time when America needs more winners like Apple How does it hurt the US if the policy is changed to remove tax on foreign earnings? Total change on inbound money = $0. Frankly, s
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by vacri 9y ago
> man I know people working as bank tellers, who rent just a room and still cant make ends meet It's always been like this for people. There's this myth these days that all the employed people of yesteryear had comfortable li
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by vacri 9y ago
Infants also don't survive by themselves. Leave an infant alone and it will die.
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by vacri 10y ago
I find it funny just how much public mindshare the Estate Tax gets in the US: "only the largest 0.2% of estates in the US will have to pay any estate tax" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estate_tax_in_the_Unit
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by vacri 10y ago
> There should be no more shame in choosing to default as there would be for choosing to exercise a stock option that causes your counterparty lose all his money. Defaulting on a debt is not about shame. Governments don't feel sha

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