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scarecrowboat

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    Comment #27635612

    What if the followup procedure is invasive and expensive? It's possible that this procedure could be net negative in aggregate depending on the % of false positives and # of result…

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    Comment #26797158

    I'd still expect the AMD version to have better battery life because the numbers are probably 30% lower across the board right?

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    Comment #22709270

    > While I'm ranting, why do they let basements or single floors of a shared house count as an 'entire place'? It's really weird to turn up and see you're actually in a basement in …

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    Comment #21210611

    Genuinely curious -- do you have a source for this?

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    Comment #18918517

    Do you have any sources on that? I have family in the hotel industry and anecdotally the entire industry in my area took a nose dive in the last recession. Not quite the same as ge…

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    Comment #17752736

    Have you been making a (literal) apples to apples comparison though? I find that farmer's markets in my area (Seattle) can be cheaper than Whole Foods for organic locally sourced t…

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    Comment #16709646

    It's interesting that you associate an American of (likely) Chinese descent with Chinese culture.

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    Comment #16538051

    >> No one sane plays a game like that with all their money on the line. Already mentioned in another comment, see LTCM as a prime example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_C…

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    Comment #15828459

    I think it's that the goal posts have shifted, i.e. distribution used to be the bottleneck for alot of people but now that it's easy (for internet businesses) there's a new bottlen…