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Comment Re: Fine TiVo you have there. Shame something mig (Score 1) 52

I cut the cord shortly after I got my first batch of rentals from Netflix. I missed Survivor, 24, ER, Lost, etc. I'm old and I also did everything before it was cool. But I don't want anyone to think I'm cool because that's very much not cool.

Comment Re: A giant step forward for mankind (Score 1) 182

That's a chicken and egg thing.

Not completely, I can imagine potential customers telling the factory owner that they need to get their prices down and in the long run, building a rail line is the best way. Of course, I'm assuming that the auto part factories aren't the only ones using it so that the costs get spread around.

Comment Re: A giant step forward for mankind (Score 1) 182

Checks are a now-antiquated holdover high trust, long-time-preference society, where checks effectively held the same weight as cash (or hard currency). They never had checks or similar mechanisms in Africa because checks require a high trust, long-time-preference society.

What kind of retarded inbred claim is Africa never had checks, or that checks were as good as cash anywhere else, on what fucking planet? There's a long history of personal checks not being accepted, or only if the merchant knows your bank or employer. There's a long tradition of people in need being denied financial services in general, especially in rural America (high trust my ass), and OBVIOUSLY rural colonial Africa and indigenous parts of Africa didn't have financiers standing by with bags of money.

How the fuck do you make a grand claim of societal differences and ignore the realities of financial service development in ANY country?

Comment Re: Wait, what??? (Score 1) 113

Think of the categories as fixed, and the people moving *through* them. Over 65s are exiting the category at a lower rate.

Uh.. more people are entering category? And probably even more people are exiting it to 66?

64 years ago there were more babies born than there was 65 years ago. And 63 years ago there were even more. You see there was this boom of uh babies, where the birth rates rose year over year for some time and then started declining to where we are today. These are the baby boomers.

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