tanzam75

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by tanzam75 10y ago
> It's not "MBA-speak"; this sense of the word "secular" is used in economics, time-series analysis, astronomy, etc. Of course it's MBA-speak. MBA-speak does not mean that they invented the word, or that
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by tanzam75 10y ago
> Edit: Nadella said re: how MS looks at acquisitions ( http://www.theverge.com/2016/6/13/11920306/microsoft-ceo-sat... ) "Is this asset riding secular usage and technology trends?" - anyone
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by tanzam75 10y ago
Before 2013, Visa and Mastercard forbade credit card surcharges. However, cash discounts were allowed. The problem was the Most Favored Nation clause in the credit card contracts. Merchants could offer cash discounts, but they could not o
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by tanzam75 10y ago
> Windows 7 was the VM, not the host. Oh. Then I agree with you that Microsoft screwed up the licensing -- but it's a different screw-up. Windows 7 Ultimate is just like Windows 7 Enterprise, except for the virtualization rights
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by tanzam75 10y ago
> I spent HOURS on the phone trying to acquire a license for Windows 7 Enterprise, I needed it for Hyper-V. I'm not sure why you're trying to do that. Windows 7 cannot run Hyper-V. You can install the Hyper-V Manager on Wind
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by tanzam75 11y ago
> It's a shame that Google Maps is inferior to my iGo tablet running Windows Mobile from 10 years ago. And it didn't need to have continuous wireless data access. ... How was iGo capable to deliver superior maps so many years
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by tanzam75 11y ago
> Even if you don't allow them to be sold off, nothing is stopping someone from entering an agreement where they have to pay the same amount monthly to a person X in exchange for a lump sum received now. So they still receive their
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by tanzam75 11y ago
> Structured settlement cases became more popular in the United States during the 1970s as an alternative to lump sum settlements. The increased popularity was due to several rulings by the IRS, an increase in personal injury awards, an
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by tanzam75 11y ago
I don't see why structured settlements should be allowed to be sold off at all. The whole point of choosing a structured settlement is to prevent the person from spending a one-time windfall. So why allow that arrangement to be undone
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by tanzam75 11y ago
> It would take only one nuclear device being "detonated" in low orbit, to wipe out nearly all of the satellites in a large area of that space. The resulting EMP may wreck quite a few ground-based systems too, IIRC from a book
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by tanzam75 11y ago
> I wonder how robust the GPS system is. Could an unexpected space phenomenon bring it down? What would happen if a rogue nation started shooting down the satellites? GPS is not the only system. We currently have about 2.7 global sate
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by tanzam75 11y ago
> His business means rockets are going to go from $400 million to $150 million. That's nice and all, but it's not an extraordinary revolution. Rockets didn't cost $400 million before SpaceX. You could already get a sate
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by tanzam75 11y ago
Georgia is the largest state east of the Mississippi by land area. Michigan is larger if you include part of the Great Lakes.
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Japan had been allied to Germany. The Wehrmacht had been one of the most effective fighting forces the world has ever known. The Imperial Japanese Army had been formed on the Prussian model back in the 19th century. The German Wehrmacht h
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> I think that the real problem is that most people will not pay for 5 different streaming services. Remember, the median family income in the US is only about 50k, which I'm guessing is less than most people here make by themselve
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by tanzam75 12y ago
I can believe that their technology works. I've been hearing about this sort of stuff for ten years before I first heard of Theranos. Search for "lab on a chip." There are grad students working on this sort of stuff at eve
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Since NT 6.0 (Vista), graphics drivers run primarily in user mode. There is still a kernel mode component, the miniport driver, but it is kept small to reduce the likelihood of crashes. There are some other drivers that also run in user mo
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Well, corporations are launching new products all the time. Each new product can be thought of as a VC investment in a new startup. However, the VC investors have to share the winnings with the founders, while the large corporations get t
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by tanzam75 12y ago
You don't even need an annual fee. Even a one-time fee is sufficient deterrent to blanket extension of copyright. The old 56-year copyright term used to be split into two 28-year periods. You basically paid a one-time fee: half at th
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> A), ambitious and unrealistic are not mutually exclusive. It was ambitious and unrealistic to attempt a moon landing in under a decade. That's absolutely not true. It was ambitious and totally realistic to attempt a moon lan
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> Why? If you apply game theory, one of the three will try to defect and undercut the other two. Because they're playing a repeating game. AbbVie and Merck are big pharma companies. They don't particularly want to get into
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> The thing is, that's not happening at all. Nearly all US insurers are covering the new therapies. There are a couple that are holding out and only doing individual approvals. So what are all the news articles about? A problem t
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Why not take a page from the financial industry? Solvadi could be paid for with monthly payments, say, 90% of the average price of conventional Hepatitis C treatment. Once the total payments add up to the price of Solvadi, they stop. The p
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by tanzam75 12y ago
The British National Health Service can make that trade-off. Because the NHS covers the entire population, it knows that it will recoup the high up-front cost by avoiding other treatment later in the patient's life. An American insure
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by tanzam75 12y ago
There was a polio outbreak in China in 2011 that was traced back to Pakistan. Prior to that outbreak, the last case of polio in China had been in 1999. The outbreak was contained after 21 confirmed infections plus another 23 suspected. Th
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> Some years ago, there was a video about the moon landing in Washington DC airport (it was at a Smithsonian exhibit or store or some such). It included video of the control room when the alarm went off during descent. There was silence
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> Their revenues were $8.15 billion (just over $100 per customer, for the whole year). ... What's really shocking is that their revenue per customer relationship is under $130 per year. You seem to be an order of magnitude off on
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Amtrak still uses motor-generators on some parts of the Northeast Corridor to convert 60 Hz AC grid power to 25 Hz AC traction power. It's exactly what it sounds like: a motor that is mechanically coupled to a generator. The motor run
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by tanzam75 12y ago
Sorry, I gave the wrong chemistry. The carbon-chloride battery is labeled as "heavy-duty," because it has greater capacity than the carbon-zinc battery ("general-purpose"). When alkaline batteries were invented, the olde
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by tanzam75 12y ago
> I've definitely bought bad (really cheap..) store-brand batteries that lasted inconveniently short. If it's Duracell I know it's good. If you bought the cheapest battery on the shelf, then it probably wasn't an al

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