southerndrift

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by southerndrift 7y ago
>I don’t understand why it’s encouraged (in some companies) to discuss politics at work in a way that leads to internal issues. Purely from a commercial stance, team cohesion has a positive impact on people and product. Why do anything t
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by southerndrift 7y ago
This assumes that parents know what's best for their children. Is it just to the children that parents can spend a fortune on miseducating their children? (The Dutch family wasn't rich, but there can be seen that parents can total
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Hasn't Maxwell not mentioned Maxwell's equations when giving a speech about the state of the art of science? If a great scientist can be unsure about a theory, it's not surprising that an average reviewer can be, too.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
How else can facebook prevent people from moving on to wechat with its internal payment system? Why should people stick to facebook if wechat can offer a whole bunch of services that need (micro) transactions?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
That's the opposite. The soldiers make it work for the general whereas the German word would be used if it works 'in general' but doesn't when it's demonstrated to the general during an inspection.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Why not both: do the live demo but have some slides prepared just in case.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Where do you get a $1/month VPS?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Why would a diesel generator put them on equal levels? Even if you assume that an electric engine has 100% efficiency, you lose energy because * per amount of energy, batteries are heavier than gasoline tanks so accelerating needs more ener
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by southerndrift 7y ago
I would assume that there will be a neighbor who offers a money service to the village. He will have a Libra account. No need to drive to the next big city. Your family can go to that person who they trust and he will hand out the money. An
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by southerndrift 7y ago
I am not asking what happens if I short shares but if I lend to others my shares. If the broker cannot buy those shares back, I face the risk of losing them, don't I? So I am wondering: does using those brokers come with the risk that
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by southerndrift 7y ago
But the broker doesn't necessarily lend out the shares to his own clients. And even if he does, how does he get back the shares from the person who went long? The broker will have to buy other shares. But if the price of those shares i
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Does this mean that using those brokers means that I 'nakedly' own those shares? I.e. if I actually pick a successful share and the price explodes, the shorter or the broker cannot buy it back and I end up owning nothing? With all
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by southerndrift 7y ago
The limit of the airline metaphor is that uber doesn't have to own the fleet. The fight is in subsidizing rides, like with lift. Then comes softbank and they pick the winner because they have the deepest pockets. Who would go up agains
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by southerndrift 7y ago
The airline argument is quite convincing. How about the frequency and the fair price? It's worthwhile to compare airline rates. It's more difficult for in-app uber purchases that are more frequent for less money. Will people compa
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Nothing is stopping you. But will you retain your market if you are not the biggest network? You need deep enough pockets to get 50% of the market or Uber will get its share back once you try to be profitable since they can leverage their
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Uber is preparing for a future with self-driving cars. If they are the network to rent those cares, they will make back everything and more. The manufacturers and even the self-driving software won't matter. All that matters is being t
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Have you checked that those were denim jeans at Primark? Last time I checked all of their trousers were made in huge parts out of synthetic yarn.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
In which way is it portrayed and what is the reality?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Where do you get the people to entrust millions or billions? The organization will be flooded with networks of people who will scam away all money. Such an organization has to be grown slowly. But that takes too much time if you have the op
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by southerndrift 7y ago
>and fasting does not do your body any good. Wasn't there a study that showed that at least mice live longer if they fast?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
How does 100TB.com beat Hetzner? Their $5 virtual server comes with 2TB whereas Hetzner offers 20TB.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
>The only thing we can say with confidence about these "goods" is that they were heavy, and not necessarily something you want... especially if they are to be repaid "with usury" at some future undisclosed time of rec
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Maybe I am missing some subtleties, but why is talent not money? >The Homeric talent "as money" was probably the gold equivalent of the value of an ox or a cow.[2] Based on a statement from a later Greek source that "the t
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Why do you think so?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
>Wiley was obsessed with starting a business. One day it was a smoothie stand, the next it would be a gallery, then a VR headset company, then a ‘coder’, then a spaceship building company. To me, this sounds like the father shouldn'
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by southerndrift 7y ago
I know. Unfortunately, that metaphor is throwing the baby out with the bath water.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
But humans are not snakes. But behavior is not a skin, but the core, unless it is an act.
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by southerndrift 7y ago
Hasn't much of the work been incorporated into the Alien movies?
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by southerndrift 7y ago
While still online, let people download a bunch of signed tokens from a server in exchange for their public key, which is linked to their phone number and thus identity and credit card. Now when offline, they can create their tickets by lin
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by southerndrift 7y ago
It is not futile. You can drive to a race track and have fun without having to rely on a trailer and another car.

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