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Once that's added to the plus column, all of the other costs seem insignificant.

The article blows right past this like it's insignificant. Junk mailers sort their own mail, drop ship it to the local BMC, and pay the post office for the privilege.

Look at the lot of it in this blokes name, not just one tiny insignificant part of it. Most of all think about the relationship between government and ...

> the worst and most insignificant wastes of human beings always take away great ones? Because you never cared about non-great ones.

My contribution was insignificant, but I am still proud to have been part of it. My only regret was that I never made it to Florida to watch a Saturn V take off.

Remember, the > Death Star's power to destroy a planet, or even a whole star system, > is insignificant next to the power of the Force.

I submit this as a small way of reminding the community that life is short, and as a small and insignificant way of honoring a great man.

If I have a finite amount of time available for hacking, why do I want to spend a not-insignificant amount of it signaling? Hacker culture has been corrupted by this 'need' for influence.

When you're renting you're limited to very insignificant and inconsequential things, you can move around your sofas, have red plates instead of blue and get a new desk, but what sort of control is that? It's all cosmetic.

Often this leads to a pedantic discussion of some insignificant details. With all these extremely knowledgeable people from different fields, I wish I found more big picture insights in the comments here.

What I would like to know is, how many, random model based predictions do you need until the improvement rate becomes insignificant? In other words, would humans act much smarter if they could afford more time to think about decisions?

When the researchers examined the rat pups, they discovered that this seemingly insignificant practice had a distinct physiological effect. When a lab assistant handled a rat pup, researchers found, it produced anxiety, a flood of stress hormones, in the pup.

And yet, financially at least, there is only one kind of success: they're either going to be one of the really big winners or not, and if not it doesn't matter whether you fund them, because even if they succeed the effect on your returns will be insignificant. What this means is that YC is not looking for sustainable businesses, but homeruns.

Every other language or platform forces a lot of extraneous concepts on you on day one, which is always going to be a turn-off for a not-insignificant portion of the people coming in to the field.

The number of people who develop influenza because they got sneezed on in line waiting to get their vaccination is insignificant compared to the number of people who won't get sick because people get vaccinated.

He basically explained you have to eat all the insignificant minutia of individual peoples' daily lives, no matter their public stature, if you want their opinions and views on the world at the same time.

Technology is 5-6x bigger, but the tech companies trying to disrupt content are an insignificant fraction of that industry. Meanwhile, set aside whether you believe in the reforms proposed in the Khanna memo --- reducing statutory damages, increasing cost of enforcement, reducing copyright terms.

This observation may be construed as heartless, insensitive to the victims, and "if it were your X then it would be different"… but I contend that each time we act like chimps and allow our attention to be drawn to the latest epidemiologically insignificant tragedy we lose as a species. A van distributing a year's supply of aspirin to the fleeing masses would have been more helpful than any ambulance.

Then, from that point forward, let's have a real business-to-business relationship as opposed to a totalitarian-government-to-insignificant-ant relationship. That's a winning formula.

This impression is further strengthened by the not insignificant detail that Capital is here asserting the right to punish Labor even though Capital has negative a billion desire to ever cut Labor a check. Another thing reminding me of university: "The fights are so vicious because the stakes are so small" was originally said about academic infighting but could also be applied to drama over the social functioning of a commit bit.