nmrm2

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by nmrm2 10y ago
There are plenty of examples where private companies control water distribution without government assistance or oversight if you look past the USA. We don't need fanciful theoretical speculation to know what happens in practice. (note
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> The popular narrative that, unchecked by government, a business will eventually rise to absorb everything is not borne out by practice. I get your point, but there are exceptions. In particular, utilities come to mind. All locatio
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Airbnb is great if you're out of town for a week to a month or more (for business travel, vacation, etc.). The $ you make more than covers a professional cleaning service for when you get back, which leaves the place cleaner than when
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by nmrm2 10y ago
But at that point, what are you offering? (Genuinely curious. Capital? Taking on the risk? Insight/market research?) And is that worth the overhead that goes into your pocket? Sharing economy type stuff makes complete sense when it&#
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by nmrm2 10y ago
I think the typical fear actually goes the other way -- that infrastructure won't be able to handle increased peak demand, leading to a lot more gridlock/pollution, longer commute times, etc. when more people are driving.
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Sure. But the people with the skill-set and interest in doing that are going to do so anyways; I don't see how anti-theft tech would convince that type of person to shell out an extra few hundred for a bike. They would just buy somethi
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> Especially as the price approaches four digits, "what if this gets stolen?" has to be near the top of most potential buyers' list of concerns and probably chills sales to some degree. If you're spending that much
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Yeah right there is not a single genuine environmentalist in the whe world. They're all just control freaks hell bent on messing with your life /s
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by nmrm2 10y ago
>...by which I mean the experiment itself without the "fair" elements I don't think the author or anyone else disagrees... the article was specifically about science fairs , not science projects generally. It's rig
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> Well, you can repair the damage from plastic bags. Maybe. Maybe not. Maybe you can, but the costs to the environment involved in doing so are prohibitive. In any case, I don't think it's totally obvious that this is actuall
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> Do you believe that, given a million dollars for every bag used, the government could clean up this supposedly irreversible damage? You're missing the point. If you charged a million dollars for every bag used then basically no
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by nmrm2 10y ago
You seem confused about the point of plastic bag taxes/bans. The purpose of plastic bag taxes isn't to "price-in" an externality; rather, the purpose is to fundamentally change consumer behavior. More generally, the lang
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by nmrm2 10y ago
1. Click on the "World Press Freedom Index" link in the first sentence of the article, then click on the "METHODOLOGY" link in the subheader (black and white bar). 2. Google gives multiple cited sources: https:/&#x
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Cheating was rampant at my American high school; teachers were either completely incompetent or were aware of the cheating and didn't care. Penalties were similar to what you describe. That said, I wasn't in the Pacific Northwest,
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by nmrm2 10y ago
FYI, the author's original comment was about fox hunting, which is decidedly different from most forms of hunting popular in the US.
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> The former is seen as "a problem" and the latter isn't That's not true. There are organized efforts to increase the number of men in (especially elementary school) teaching roles as well as efforts to increase the
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by nmrm2 10y ago
The point of my previous post is that your supposed trade-off is a false choice. There's A LOT of middle ground between today's limitations on drone operators and a world where we expect to shoot down aircraft near crowded air
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by nmrm2 10y ago
It's really not clear to me that there's a trade-off between bird impact prevention and drone prevention (or anything else you mention) for two reasons. First, effort allocation isn't really a compelling explanation -- most o
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> The MVP / market analysis process is different for biotech, but still should happen. It's pretty fascinating! Right. I think we're all violently agreeing. Biotech companies do need MVPs and market analysis. My observ
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> not shooting them down seems like it could go much worse Sure. But a sensible policy would also minimize the amount of weapons that are deployed in heavily trafficked airspace. That is why the sensible approach is to heavily regulate
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Routinely shooting down aircraft near a busy commercial airport. What could possibly go wrong?!
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> I thought one of the key ideas of a MVP is that it's something you put in the hands of customers... Internet-type startups, at their core, are about marketing more than they are about technology. Getting the technology right is
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by nmrm2 10y ago
From the article: > The trucks did not travel in platoon for the entire journey — only on motorways when traffic conditions were "normal" — and each vehicle, even those following the lead truck, had a human driver on hand. Al
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by nmrm2 10y ago
The author is the owner of a "content consultancy", and is not in any sense a technology journalist. "Content" is advertising paid for by advertising.
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> It might even just be the case of a vocal minority of people who think everyone else doesn't work as hard as them. I worked in a grocery store (in the US) back in the day. People complained about the smallest stuff -- that I was
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by nmrm2 10y ago
> (I don't know if this is normal for Aldi Aldi is a German company. Every grocery store I've been to in Germany has seats for the cashiers. Also, the cashiers wear name tags that read Mr. or Ms. Blah. I suspect parent is cor
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Yes, well, the hammers are hundreds of dollars a piece so we have to make due ;-)
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by nmrm2 10y ago
Nail, meet head. That said, 47k still seems crazy high. I've never done Gov't consulting though. One hopes hardware was included in the contract?
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by nmrm2 10y ago
The app was used at 100 airports. If you include the cost of the iPads then it's like $7000 for the actual app. Still high for a couple hours of work, but you figure most of that is overhead inherent in contract-style work. I never cha
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by nmrm2 10y ago
I'm not going to actually respond to a decade of writing in one comment. My comment was not meant as an indpendent discrediting of MM. My comment was meant as a reading guide for someone who wants to read MM in good faith without wasti

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