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Don't think about the sunk costs. This will just depress you.

You're talking about sunk costs. There's nothing you can do about that now.

Then there are the sunk costs of installing this stuff. So one source [1] puts getting fiber to the home at less than $1,000.

Brooks first published The Mythical Man-Month in 1975 and I don't think those lessons have ever sunk in, either.

Oh dear God. This is what we've sunk to? Saying we'd love to fire some "asshole" because he chose not to pull a pull request changing two instances of "him" to "they"?

That's the sunk cost fallacy talking. If you spend $10 on a domain name, you have $10 less with which to buy exposure to Google shares, bitcoins, yen, tulip bulbs, or Magic the Gathering cards.

I tried swimming harder, but eventually got tired and sunk. Despite my friends being about 20/30 meters away from me, they didn't realize I was drowning.

It's a sunk cost if that's the kind of work you have to do, so fucking accept it and hire at-level. There's also a social-climbing element to it that is pretty disgusting.

The miners are either true believers in the future potential, or they are effectively stuck because they have sunk upfront real USD but are currently mining at a loss and have no choice. 2.

The equivalent of a shipper, having sunk its cargo, claiming the damages it owes are diminished by the cargo being worth less for having dropped to the sea floor.

Edit | LayerVault actually appears to be a pretty useful product, clearly with a lot of thought sunk into it. Which makes it twice as unfortunate that they decided to pursue something like this.

People pay for their future revenues, not your sunk costs. In the world of small website acquisitions, you'll be valued at something like 1X your previously proven annual revenue, not at a linear projection from what spike day looked like.

Health Insurance: Thank god that I have this or we would've been sunk from the beginning. Despite having insurance, there continue to be ongoing costs and once I go on long-term disability I'll be paying cobra rates to keep the same coverage.

This is a book Ive already written, so its a sunk cost for me... Its all blog posts that others have found useful or meaningful in their search for decent work with decent people at a decent wage.

Nations in the Mideast and India all had flourishing markets in debt, and flourishing trade, while Europe was sunk in poverty. When Europe revived and began to expand again, it helped itself along with the revival of credit, and credit markets.

Throwing away unit tests is like saying "This ship has been sailing for years and has never sunk - let's throw away the lifeboats!" Now, yes - somebody could erroneously change the test condition to make it pass, although hopefully that kind of change would be spotted by even a cursory code review.

But, when the Koreans tried to build ships with Scottish plans and detailed step-by-step directions, the result was two ship halves that didn't quite fit together and sunk when assembled. For historical and geographic reasons, Scotland's shipyards weren't full-sized, and they built their ships in two halves and then assembled them.

As a coach, with the way the business model set up, even one customer asking for their money back was a financial disaster - there were lots of sunk costs in terms of accommodation and flights. Anyway, through sensible use of a questionnaire, I got my personal refund rate down to literally 0.

Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown And wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed. And on the pedestal these words appear: `My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings: Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair!'

The prime example here is that of the collateralized debt obligation in which huge portions of the US mortgage market got sunk into. Mortgage backed securities are probably not in of themselves terrible ideas but the way CDOs were structured made it impossible to objectively value the risk behind the instrument.

But Apple got sunk by the second factor it will need to show if it is to win at trial and that is the "likelihood of confusion" factor. On this point, the court weighed eight factors as required by governing precedent but, in effect, really boiled it down to the fact that consumers buying apps for Android devices will not really believe that they are buying them from Apple or from an Apple-authorized source when they see the term "app store" at Amazon's site.