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Old smooth-bore dueling pistols aren't terribly accurate, and a kill shot was unlikely. However, wounds and infection were more likely to kill you than they would be today. More ac…

Actually, I think it is. It sounds like they're clawing back the investment profit, but it is likely those profits were invested in something else which also earned a profit. That …

It's javascript. I think this article does a fine job explaining it: https://medium.com/s/silicon-satire/i-peeked-into-my-node-mo...

Actually, according to the original plan, the House of Representatives should have grown so that each member represents a roughly equal number of constituents (excepting very small…

In general a professor is an entrepreneur. They are running a small business where they sell their product ("knowledge") to customers (business and industry) by means of sales and …

The flip side of this is that they charge $50 more than Apple for an iPhone. Why make all your customers demand a price match for something so widely known? It seems like it would …

There are people storing up closets full of the old full-copper pennies waiting for the day that the penny is discontinued and they can get scrap value that is higher than the face…

It's so easy to become jaded when so many things are "too good to be true" and in fact aren't true. Theranos, Madoff, etc.

The phrase is still valid, but it is unclear that it applies to the current company. Companies do not have minds and are not people. They do have inertia, but if you change enough …

While I think the parent was referring to how much a company would need to spend to buy off enough reps for their legislation, it is a valid point that increasing the current $100M…

So it's sort of like the vinyl record thing then? I suspect the difference in photographs that you see is more in the difference between using an enlarger and photo paper vs. a col…

I was talking to a friend who recently got into 35mm film cameras. He develops the color film himself, but then immediately scans it in and uses digital tools to work on the images…

In the WP case there was essentially a monopoly (Luxotica). As a monopoly they had built in additional profit and limitations that gave WP more room to work. It was definitely a br…

A distinction without a difference.

You can't argue the genius that came up with "chocolate diamonds." You have a diamond that looks brown and ugly and can somehow make it desirable and even rare. While I swore off n…

But maintaining this inventory of partial parts that maybe one person might request for perhaps long after production has stopped is cost (and space) prohibitive. Sure you could do…

He sees Apple as a services company now.

That sounds silly. "Pen and paper" worked for many, many years and I guarantee that it can still work. What you're implying is that people couldn't add up the numbers?

I think it's fairly accurate. If you have a couple dozen (or 100) friends scattered around the world, it's a lot easier to see pictures of their kids or new kitchen on a Social Med…

It's likely the only option unless you live in a large metropolitan area or can drive a couple hours. I guess there aren't enough clients to support both so we get the one that can…

As a PA resident I always thought of it as spending more if you want the lottery ticket. Obviously if you never get into an accident you'll be much richer with lower-priced limited…

It is possible that if the AMA or others is intentionally restricting the supply then any hospital that started its own residency could have trouble hiring regular doctors. I am no…

Madoff didn't have a daughter.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/22/luxury/car-boot-sale-diamond-s...

I like Iceland's solution for this. They import bauxite and export aluminum to use their geothermal electricity as a resource. Perhaps there are other electricity-intensive operati…