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EFF

The amount of additional profit Google can extract from an existing consumer pales in comparison to the profits generated from attracting a new user.

Given how trash of a search engine Baidu is, Google would likely achieve market share dominance in China within a couple years - should they move forward with Dragonfly. Complying …

This is a very selfless way of living, and for that you have my respect. But the chief cause of loneliness for many people is the fear that the person they were waiting for will ne…

never thought of this.

The OP said he would have felt fine had his returns been limited to 10%. I hope you realize your characterization of returns ("profit without creating value") can be applied whethe…

That got me.

Actually, it was a tasteless joke on my part. > Well that is the usual way of getting kids in an MRI. Wait, is chloroform still used as anaesthesia?

It rhymes with bloroform

Hey, it's in to criticize tech companies. That's not to say there aren't problems, but most people get outraged at whatever society tells them to get outraged at in that moment. No…

howzit bru

Air is listed right beside that, which is probably closer to what he was referring two. Combined, they sit at 10%. Not as much as he thought, but nothing to scoff at.

> To be fair it's not much (less than 5%) https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3 Here's a better source. It's 0.5%. I felt that was enough to warrant using "not used in …

I'll change my comment from not -> hardly. https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=427&t=3 While your number seems like a lot, it's really just a drop in the bucket. The US consu…

You should know that oil is hardly used for elec. gen in developed countries. They are only indirect competitors - through the automobile.

Did your desire to use the word fungible outweigh the fact that the US has drastically reduced its dependence already? Anyway, you're right that decreasing oil demand will lessen d…

How do you anonymously host a service from your home computer? I'm new to all this. I also checked out your site. I hope to be at your level of expertise one day.

https://sci-hub.tw/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-01... see the top of page 534, figure b. You are correct that the initial forward momentum is from the launch rail, but th…

https://youtu.be/boB6qu5dcCw?t=128 > But it is not a viable propulsion source. At least not on Earth for things larger than a meter or so. It's 5m wide

> I feel immoral for being so successful on the stock market!!!! I just couldn't help it, my program was TOO successful Next time you want to covertly brag in a thread about regret…

I've only heard of them scrapping carbon cap + trade and fighting against carbon tax. If they've also dismantled regulations regarding more acute, pressing types of pollution I'd l…