r7000

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by r7000 2y ago
> the devil is in the details Well yeah :) Any ideas on how the board is chosen? Does the majority(only) owner / CEO of the p-corp do it?
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by r7000 2y ago
Sincere question: what do you believe should happen when a company becomes successful? You make excellent criticisms and I've had similar thoughts. But I never really understood what people want to do other than confiscate companies on
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by r7000 2y ago
Why does anyone think the goal is a place for billionaires to flee to? Where does this come form? All initial efforts in the solar system will be extremely arduous. No one serious thinks otherwise.
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by r7000 5y ago
Permutation City's dust theory was the first idea that made me think: oh maybe something like that. It ties in with the whole "why isn't there just nothing" - total nothingness is a state as well. Probable, coherent stat
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by r7000 5y ago
Carter-Zimmerman polis vs the rest of the Coalition
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by r7000 6y ago
1969-2004 was the golden age ;-) When Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey–Maturin series (super fun to read) was being written.
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by r7000 8y ago
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/05/where-have-all-insect... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/26/windscreen-ph...
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by r7000 10y ago
Bands want people to come back to future concerts. Yes I understand. My point is that is just one of many factors influencing how bands price their events. And that range of factors has changed over time.
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by r7000 10y ago
I did not say you did. I mentioned record sales because the balance of from where artists revenue is coming is pushing artists to get more of their money from their gigs as other revenue sources have declined. The motivation to keep fans co
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by r7000 10y ago
> Bands don't generally want to maximize revenue from any given gig They do more nowadays. The old model of touring to drive demand for record sales has been turned upside-down. It is now sell music to drive demand for concert ticke
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by r7000 10y ago
That is not correct. Some artists sign deals guaranteeing them more than 100% of total face value. Others put tickets on the secondary markets themselves. If any system does not funnel a huge amount of cash to the artists it would be change
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by r7000 10y ago
Scalpers neither increase nor reduce total demand. Scalpers are not going to the event themselves.
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by r7000 10y ago
The UK and Canada are not republics. There's no need to clarify "pure democracy"as no one thinks any modern democratic country is a pure democracy. All modern democracies are representative democracies. Since there is, more o
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by r7000 10y ago
Are the UK and Canada republics or democracies?
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by r7000 13y ago
I have never commented anywhere about Capistrano. But, it has been part of a toolchain that has brought me success and improved my life. Thank you very much for all you have done.
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by r7000 14y ago
> Our highest court has ruled that our voting system > is against our contitution. Twice. What an embarrassment. To be fair the ruling is part of your voting system needs to be tweaked to make it even more fair. That is no embarrass
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by r7000 14y ago
She was interviewed on CBC radio recently: http://www.cbc.ca/player/Radio/The+Current/ID/2252831223/ The piece has a lot more details plus interviews with women working in the gaming industry.
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by r7000 14y ago
Dynamic pricing. No such thing as "face value" for a plane ticket. Ability to schedule more flights in the same day as demand increases.
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by r7000 14y ago
Agreed. I read them as slowly as I could manage over the course of about five years. Even 21 was a great read. I was blown away that I was still maintaining the same enjoyment 15, 16 books in. I just assumed the quality would have had to de
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Chrome beats IE market share for one day(theregister.co.uk)
128 points by r7000 15y ago|70 comments
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by r7000 15y ago
For a peak into a future with 'ongoing diagnosis' see the very cool Greg Egan short story Yeyuka: http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/yeyuka.htm "So why did you go into medicine?" "Family expectations. It was either that or the law. Med
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by r7000 15y ago
Canada scores in the top 10 of all PISA categories and has a higher proportion of its population that are immigrants than the USA.
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by r7000 15y ago
> demographics Canada scores in the top 10 in all PISA categories, not far off from Finland, and shares much more demographically and geographically with the United States than with Finland. The provinces of Canada with higher ethnic di
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by r7000 15y ago
If Angry Birds is Crush The Castle this is Hold Your Ground: http://www.physicsgames.net/game/Hold_Your_Ground.html . Since Hold Your Ground has been out for years I am surprised someone hasn't done this before considering the runaway succ
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by r7000 15y ago
I agree. Here is the ballot: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Bun... Voters have two votes: one on the left and one on the right. "Hier 1 Stimme" means "Here 1 vote". It is still just an X in a circle but twice ins
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by r7000 15y ago
A PR system maintaining one representative per constituency is already in use in the United Kingdom - in both Scotland and Wales.
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by r7000 15y ago
I enjoy Xiangqi immensely. There's a great quote: Western Chess is a war, Chinese Chess is a battle. There is less messing around with openings as well. That appeals to me as I am just a casual player. You get to the "fun part" much faster.
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by r7000 16y ago
Max speed to 5GB per month after which they reserve the right to slow down your connection.
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by r7000 16y ago
In Canada I have unlimited data (with fair use policy), unlimited text and unlimited minutes (North America) for $40/month. The existence of such plans is quite new. Concerning the introduction of "mandatory" metered internet in Canada: it
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by r7000 16y ago
That would have been incredibly handy in the age of sail.

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