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by yholio 8y ago
> The company he formed in 2015 had a simple pitch to government agencies: “We convert a capital expense to an operation expense.” Raytheon Co., the giant defense contractor, was an early investor and customer. It has engineers working w
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>Graham said he will recommend clients prepare their full cases as they normally would. That means hiring an immigration attorney, collecting the necessary documents I don't understand, why is this whole heavy bureaucracy necessa
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Let's see if I got the hang of this: The average iPhone user can only install software approved by Apple, and their primary motivation for that setup is an anti consumer one.
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>That doesn't mean there won't be addons you don't like But it certainly guarantees there won't be any apps Apple doesn't like and haven't paid the appropriate fee. It's incredibly naive to think the pr
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The life expectancy of a man who has already reached the age of 51 however, is 82, because that average no longer includes deaths of younger men. If you add things like good health, education and higher income, which are likely for someone
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I wouldn't equate looks with desirability, for men it's much more complex because women have complex expectations, and that's exactly why men maintain and even enhance their desirability with age. That being said, the desirab
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> And with men I date, I feel pressure to make something of the relationship too soon (move in, get married, “I have to have kids in a couple of years”; fun times!). All the while still trying to be the sexpot 25-year-old I thought I wa
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This sounds mad - madly entertaining that is: >In a qualification game for the 1994 Caribbean Cup, Barbados deliberately scored a late own goal in a successful attempt to qualify for the finals by forcing golden-goal extra time against
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I believe it's already established that operating in China means responding to all censorship requests. Nonetheless, there are still many things an ethical company could refuse: access to the private searches and information of an indi
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The idea that a foreign corporation has a duty to break Chinese law with regards to web filtering is very problematic, if that's what you mean by "give concessions to the government". How far should such a corporation go with
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An exact replica of Falcon 9 was impossible 40 years ago, of course. But a replica with 50% lower thrust, 10% lower ISP and 60% it's payload capacity for a similar inflation-adjusted price was certainly possible. It wasn't the com
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It's the secret sauce of all social networks, users are strongly encouraged to create and distribute content on the platform itself, as opposed to talking about external content. They use dark UI flows, subtle psychological tricks and
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You can build one thousand money transfer networks better than the banking system - it's irelevant, the incumbents will never let them exist at scale. Financial intermediation is a trillion dollars industry, do you think the industry w
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That makes very little sense: https://youtu.be/XEL65gywwHQ
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What exactly am I to do with the link provided, on the desktop? I click on it and I get the first part of of the message 1/6. There is no intuitive way to continue reading. If I click the replies button, I'm invited to join Twitte
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The idea is to tax pollution at the source to influence behavior, as opposed to levies on random things.
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It's interesting that very effective technical solutions exist to the global warming. Yet, we are rejecting for political reasons the regulatory solutions that would see them deployed on an industrial scale. A 10% levy on beef produced
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The price of houses is driven by market rents compounded with access to financing. If lenders are willing to finance an investment with 3% yield, then house prices will jump to 33x their annual rent value - it goes without saying that'
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Rational, in this context, means profit maximizing - both kinds of landowners should act in a similar way. If the owners compromise to less than the value of the land, sure, that's a way to redistribute the savings back to society, but
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by yholio 8y ago
It may seem unfair that speculators exist, but the losers there are the previous owners and not the rest of society. For those who buy flats in a residential building, the price will be the same regardless of who gets to pocket the land app
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It's a prisoner's dilemma, no wonder rational actors chose to maximize personal safety by making the problem worse for everybody else. An arms race of mechanical impulse. An intervention to restore correct incentives would impose
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Sure, but the reverse side of that is the proportional cost increase of solar that has excess capacity. Solar has negligible running costs, it's irrelevant that you use the energy or not, the capital costs will have to be recovered fro
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In the end almost all of the tech successes and failures listed are reducible to a much simpler explanation: the effectiveness in using network effects to create moats, and defending those moats by adapting to technological change. Controll
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I think the conclusion from this sub-thread is that the London subway is insanely expensive compared to most of the rest of the world. There might be local reasons that afford it such price gouging power, like the lack of any reasonable tra
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On the other hand, paying living wages to thousands of unnecessary workers is quite expensive, regardless if they are employees or contractors. Unions work on both goals simultaneously, increasing wages but also providing job security to th
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The analogy is quite difficult. A television station is a well defined legal and technical object with a licensing regime, a standardized image format etc. A cable network is, by definition a transmission infrastructure designed to carry a
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> It reaffirms the right of publishers to decide how they wish to profit from their work -- if they choose to make it available for the aggregator at no cost, that is their right as well. That's exactly what the Spanish law has forb
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Yes, it's morally acceptable for the government to offer subsidized, best effort public services as long as it's not deceiving and knowingly putting people in harm's way. I'm thinking of something like "here's
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I used to be a major user of the site and i think the reviews on TripAdvisor are a lot more honest and genuine. The problem for me was that TripAdvisor's app did not allow me to book a hotel last time I have tried it, merely provided l
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I find it strange that tenants have and show very little agency in all this, except for sueing the city when their child is poisoned. City housing is not a right, it's a public subsidy, and the houses were built with the best interests

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