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Did you find out a way to solve this problem too?
Around the breakeven point,
- the cheaper item is better because it starts producing sooner.
- if the cheaper item has been upgraded more than the expensive item, the expensive one might be better because it would contribute more in the future (after upgrading)
I got lost in a jungle of math trying to work out how to take those effects into account.
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harold aptroot wrote: Did you find out a way to solve this problem too?
Around the breakeven point,
- the cheaper item is better because it starts producing sooner.
Nope. I'm ignoring the marginal cost on the assumption that a few minutes of revenue from buying a cheap item earlier is much less significant than the losses from being AFK for more than the 5-10 minutes a time machine costs.
harold aptroot wrote: - if the cheaper item has been upgraded more than the expensive item, the expensive one might be better because it would contribute more in the future (after upgrading)
I just treated upgrades as a single purchase with an output of X CPS and bought them when cheaper than time machines. Except for a few of the most crazy expensive ones available (I didn't accumulate enough overnight for them) I'm buying them as they unlock since with 50+ of everything they're all well above breakeven. When I get home I'll probably be buying all the +10% and maybe the +15% cookie flavors. Probably the kitten upgrade too even though I've no idea what that one will pay out.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Dan Neely wrote: EDIT: Can anyone tell me why my first link above is getting encoded crap attached to the end? they look identical in the message editor.
Time waster of the day indeed! Took me awhile to figure out what was wrong with the first url, but here it is.
The first url has extra invisible chars appended to it: http://orteil.dashnet.org/experiments/cookie/%E2%80%8E
And this is what it means: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-to-right_mark[^]
You're welcome! 
- S
50 cups of coffee and you know it's on!
Code, follow, or get out of the way.
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**Boggle**
I'd assumed the unicode garbage I picked up was some sort of magic space being abused for layout; but sticking that at the end of a displayed URL doesn't make any sense at all.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'm reading a book on how to build bat houses that was published in 1993. It makes a reference to a company named Internet Inc that sold wire mesh. It was quite odd seeing a company named Internet Inc.
I think Google is the closest to a true Internet Inc.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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You are under 35 aren't you?
In 1993, there was no Internet for most people. I remember looking at my first webpage at Uni at about that time, it was viewed as a novelty (but also hailed as the next big thing).
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Quote: You are under 35 aren't you?
No.
Quote: In 1993, there was no Internet for most people.
I know, that is what I found amusing.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Keith Barrow wrote: but also hailed as the next big thing
I wonder if they will be right 
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It's a passing fad.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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The consensus at the time was that it was hard to see how this was going take off. My opinion was that it needed to support images in the pages, so then people would use it for porn.
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Another typo of DD's?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... That the little old lady was running away, so that proves she was feeling guilty.
Nice idea[^]. All you have to do is borrow a passer-by's phone...
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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The application is obviously buggy as all the screenshots show nothing but garbage on the screen.
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It's not garbage! It says "ming wing ding bing ning..." Can't you read?!?
(It's just an SMS client)
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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... unless it's an operating theatre and you are an anaesthetist! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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DeathByChocolate wrote: ... unless it's an operating theatre and you are an anaesthetist!
Elegance is simplicity.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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So, if I go for the Benny Look[^], that'll be elegant.
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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Aaahh, I see you are trying to become more sophisticated. You will be drinking Gin out of a glass soon! 
"State acheived after eating too many chocolate-covered coconut bars - bountiful"
Chris C-B
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Either that or he'll be buying the more expensive straws.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I see you more of a 'Miss Diane' kinda guy.
Please note I have never ever watched an episode of crossroads and know nothing of Amy Turtle[^] or Shughie McFee[^]!
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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Your linkey is brokey
Reality is an illusion caused by a lack of alcohol
"Nagy, you have won the internets." - Keith Barrow
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Fixy linky
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Obscurum per obscurius.
Ad astra per alas porci.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
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I'd posit that a broken link to anything Crossroads related is preferable to a working one.
More in keeping with their set design, too.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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What is this "Crossroads" of which you speak? Sounds like a rip-off of a superior soap-opera[^] to me! 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Elegance is simplicity.
K.I.S.S
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