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happytiger

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    Comment #40234197

    I can’t wait until private equity companies are exposed as the exploitive side of our current system that needs to be corrected. At the heart of so many good companies are bad deci…

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    Comment #40184358

    We need to cut spending . Spending is OUT OF CONTROL. You can’t make up in taxes what you keep spending, and deficit spending is insane right now. Why is this not part of the conve…

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    Comment #40115933

    This is just a social credit system designed to control behavior, but attached to your workplace instead of your person. The proof is simple. If you move this system from a single …

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    Comment #40084039

    Netflix isn’t good, it just sucks less. It’s really commentary on how bad streaming services are becoming.

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    Comment #40081285

    We need a privacy bill of rights. There shouldn’t be a separation between biometrics and passwords.

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    Comment #40032850

    God forbid we don’t monetize the existence and care of life itself.

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    Comment #40029087

    Mad respect for live demoing in a talk on conference Wi-Fi. There is something to authenticity and embracing potential failure that flies in the face of the well manicured presenta…

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    Comment #40029075

    This is beautiful. Thank you. I think people don’t understand how important just being there for your family actually is. Sometimes it’s enough just to be reliable, stand for good …

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    Comment #40026393

    What’s the status in insurance for this thing? Generally this doesn’t seem like it would be covered under renters insurance. I can’t imagine a landlord in existence that wouldn’t t…

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    Comment #40005306

    They are limited by insurance rules in each state and federal. The patchwork of consumer protection regulation makes for a lot of weird effects, like the one you are discussing. Th…

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    Comment #40005285

    The shear effect generally require forces far beyond trailer loads (think impact forces).

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    Comment #40005282

    This is the way it’s always been done and it’s highly effective. The move to welding it to the frame doesn’t make it less reliable, it saves manufacturing cost and complexity.

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    Comment #40005269

    The parts market transformation for tier-1 parts suppliers is far more complicated. What’s happening is that the legacy parts (panels) are coming from a different management pool t…

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    Comment #40005225

    That’s such the point. You’ve got one of the core issues about what is going articulated perfectly. The problem is that the manufacturers are incentivized to build them with high r…

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    Comment #39998329

    I am not debating potential or technology, but the higher industry repair costs. Theory meets the road so to speak. I think it’s likely an artificially created profit center to kee…

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    Comment #39998323

    El typo struks again.

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    Comment #39997939

    We should pass a law that any company that tries to outsource their trademark and copyright costs onto the public loses them in reaction to this ongoing waste of money and time.

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    Comment #39997934

    Let’s make this the top comment? Haha I love it. The love of your brother is evident and you finished with the point just so eloquently.

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    Comment #39997849

    Rising cost of repairs are causing this as new car are becoming so complex and are so difficult to repair they are causing catastrophic loss to insurance companies. Electric cars l…

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    Comment #39993179

    This is correct. I am currently working on a system to do price and purchase monitoring and optimize people’s purchasing. One of the things that I keep having to work around is dyn…

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    Comment #39963822

    Don’t a lot of places capture methane from their landfills for energy? How can the quantities be unknown when you’re capturing and messing the output gases? This can’t be some magi…

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    Comment #39947929

    It’s the same system California is putting in place with income-based energy billing. Income-based billing is rife for abuse!

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    Comment #39910129

    Such a good point I wish I’d included it in my original comment. Well said.