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by vivekd 10y ago
I find LED screens hard to read on for long periods of time, but I don't have this problem with e-readers. At this point, I think the attachment that people have to analog books is purely emotional. There is no practical reason to hav
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by vivekd 10y ago
It's not just an internet thing. The entire profession of Chiropractic care has long been established to be a pseudo-scientific field. Research on the effectiveness of the treatment is at best conflicting and it's effectiveness
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by vivekd 10y ago
1. Legal 2. Excessive costs, lack of performance among professionals 3. Change in attitude seems to be the biggest factor. If lawyers stop being about fighting and competing and persuading and more about tackling problems, getting to the t
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by vivekd 10y ago
I think the real issue is there is an IP moat - Eink corporation was pretty much a monopoly which kept prices high and research and innovation spending low - but the patent has been partially annulled in Germany so there might be more innov
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by vivekd 10y ago
You are defining "boarding" narrowly as the act of getting onto a plane. I think it's clear that wasn't what's meant by the contract and it is only being interpreted in this narrow way because people are angry with
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by vivekd 10y ago
as I said before oversell is defined in the contract as more passengers than available seats, it is not defined as more passengers than seats. Some of the seats were unavailable because they were given to airline employees - this, while po
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by vivekd 10y ago
This is one of the cases in law where everyone wants to argue about the contract but no one wants to sit down and read the thing. Here contract of carriage https://www.united.com/web/en-US/content/contract-of
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by vivekd 10y ago
I don't know where you are getting your information from Zarahustra was born around 628 BC and died around 551 BC see encyclopedia Britannica https://www.britannica.com/biography/Zarathustra
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by vivekd 10y ago
>. As well, one could well argue that the cosmic battle between the Light and Dark sides of the Force in Star Wars has, quite ostensibly, Zoroastrianism written all over it. . . . Or Christianity, or Hindu epics like Ramayana, or the Bud
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by vivekd 10y ago
There's an eink typewriter for that purpose - although I can't say that I've tried it - getfreewrite.com
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by vivekd 10y ago
>I literally cannot think of a company that "won" by promoting its ethical competitiveness, Just off the top of my head there's starbucks whose main marketing innovation when they opened up was that they use only "fai
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by vivekd 10y ago
Why? Amazon already has a great and successful business model, why not focus their efforts on expanding this model rather than trying to compete with Microsoft in an area where Microsoft has domain and market mastery? Say what you want ab
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or improvements in alternative radio or screen tech like e-ink
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by vivekd 10y ago
I traveled around for a period, and my feeling is that any joy to be found in a nomadic lifestyle and travelling cannot compare to the feeling of belonging and connectedness that being a part of a real physical community gives you.
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by vivekd 10y ago
our taxes are much higher meaning people and companies have less disposable income - more money is in the public sector rather than the private sector. Structural is the way our society is set up, there are lots of public services so peopl
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by vivekd 10y ago
We may be able to get by with lower salaries than America if Americas immigration system continues to lag. It's easier for potential AI brains to immigrate here than the States under the current climate. I do agree that this is only
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by vivekd 10y ago
That's not true, children born to slaves were treated as the master's children > If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out alone. (E
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by vivekd 10y ago
Leviticus 25:37-55 says that bibilical slavery is to be temporary (lasting only till the year of Jubilee which came every 50 years) but they may buy themselves or have a family member buy themselves out sooner. The fact that they could buy
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by vivekd 10y ago
The location is Winnipeg Canada. I think I know what happened. There are hardly any jobs out there and even fewer good jobs. . . In fact, Canada doesn't pay it's developers well at all, (I assume this lady was applying as a code
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by vivekd 10y ago
yeah, that is true of r/the_donald. I got banned for saying I support him but I have questions about some aspects of his campaign. At the same time, arbitrary banning for anything less than 100 % agreement and support seems to be a re
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by vivekd 10y ago
The verse was used twice, once in Hosea 6 and the other in Matthew 9. Hosea 6 clearly refers to burnt sacrificial offerings like killing animals. consider the full context: "I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of
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by vivekd 10y ago
I agree, this seems like something that will attract only a few members who are more interested in keeping medium alive for the sake of the founders dream of changing media rather than the actual "perks" of membership which seem s
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by vivekd 10y ago
To add to this, if you are hobbyist that writes small programs that don't have huge numbers of lines of code, then then slowness isn't really a dealbreaker for you. I use Atom myself for python/django programs. My sister wh
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by vivekd 10y ago
And the lord said "I desire mercy not sacrifice" It's only human to believe that things can only be achieved with sacrifice and that great things require great sacrifice. It was this mentality that led our ancestors to sacri
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by vivekd 10y ago
So every time I buy a swifter or razor or dryer I have to do thorough research on things like power consumption, cost of replacement parts etc. No! I have a life, I have other things to do. I buy from large brand names like Lexar because I
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by vivekd 10y ago
You are assuming that the average customer knows that the company is subsidizing the printer to sell the ink. . . I don't think that is true. I think the average person sees a great deal on a printer and is genuinely surprised when th
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by vivekd 10y ago
The problem is lack of knowledge, the average customer, including me when I bought my current crappy printer, doesn't have enough knowledge to know that certain printers eat ink. In fact, printer companies that use these sales tactics
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by vivekd 10y ago
>Have you ever seen a really effective kindergarten teacher? Or salesman? Or engineer? They are naturally inclined to do what they do and have the instincts through education and experience to just do what others need to think about. I d
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by vivekd 10y ago
Facebook is a fad that will pass. Pretty soon people will be onto the next big digital media thing and forget all about their facebook accounts. But targeting and regulating a single enterprise just because it is too popular will set a da
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by vivekd 10y ago
While perhaps not altogether effective, I think shutting down blatantly racist hosts would be a very good place to start in promoting that cultural shift.

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