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by dqv 2mo ago
No way to know what data sources NielsenIQ is using, but for what it lacks in data from retailers, it probably makes up for by way of consumers' receipts.
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by dqv 2mo ago
I don't know how to estimate the impact tbh. The same article links to https://www.bain.com/insights/weight-loss-drug-users-spend-l... How much does 7% of the population spending 4% less on groceries impact the nu
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by dqv 2mo ago
A product advertised as having a 1 year warranty and then the seller not honoring the warranty is the product not being sold as described. But yes, it's my mistake for assuming the purchase protection would... protect my purchase. And
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by dqv 2mo ago
Nah I thought I liked PayPal as a customer until I found out that they favor large merchants against the consumer. I had a problem with a product and the company was playing games with the warranty. I only had it for 3 months and it was alr
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by dqv 2mo ago
Yes, at the lower end of those salaries, you have to do things (and this is one single example btw) like have roommates, which drastically increases your housing instability. Why? Because you have to rely on your roommates' ability
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by dqv 2mo ago
So the stereotypes are true. My friend in elementary school told an amusing story about his friend, in a Swedish family, who moved from our nice suburb to a suburb in another state, one like the grandparent is describing. They didn't u
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by dqv 2mo ago
Yes, this is where the disagreement between the two camps arises. Some people view reading holistically while others are only concerned with the end result. If only the end result matters, it doesn't matter much how you got there. This
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by dqv 2mo ago
It's not a maybe. People's brains work differently. For one thing, in the written version, it's way easier to scan backwards precisely to a point in the text to clarify missed details. Sometimes I like to stop reading for a m
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by dqv 2mo ago
https://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks As others have pointed out, libraries often have Libby access which can have pretty huge selections of audiobooks. There's a discovery feature that lets you search by vibe, wh
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by dqv 2mo ago
> "this absolutely positively must be a group effort" (eg, the military). Which, by extension, means education absolutely positively must be a group effort, even if taxpayers can't understand the n -order effects of sever
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by dqv 2mo ago
It goes > Subject: Information about Your Automatic Renewal > This is an automatically generated email from Nintendo for customers who have a Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack individual 12‑month (365‑day) membership set to rene
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by dqv 2mo ago
Which algorithm is the hot garbage one to you? SuperMemo 2?
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by dqv 2mo ago
Finding out about this program was such a relief. I haven't worried about the prospect of having to call 911 since signing up.
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by dqv 2mo ago
That's not true. We have a lot of generalist bees (and other pollinators too! bees aren't the only ones that pollinate!) that can pollinate the Eurasian crops. This is also true for any other crop on any other continent. And I am
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by dqv 2mo ago
> I suppose honey bees are not native in North America pretty much the same way as the human species? No? Well not in a way that wouldn't be stretching an owl over a globe. But Carolina Jessamine is toxic to honeybees and not native
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by dqv 2mo ago
You know, I thought, surely, by now, capitalists would be calling for reform to capitalism to prevent the weird ponzy scheme from shutting down, but it's the same clichés! Not even an interrogation of why people are souring to capitali
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by dqv 3mo ago
Precursor to age verification gateway. In the future, an AGEnt will attest that you are old enough to access the resource.
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by dqv 3mo ago
But that just goes back to the banks again. Why did the Washington politicians encourage easy mortgage lending standards? Lobbying by big banks. https://scholarship.law.gwu.edu/faculty_publications/1301/ In a si
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by dqv 3mo ago
Yeah, but I have no idea how good it is or how expensive it is: https://www.dnb.com/en-us/smb.html
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by dqv 3mo ago
They are acquaintances and friends, although not close friends. It's also unclear what their biases are since I can't read their minds, so there is no way of knowing if their biases are harmful for their lives. If I knew what thei
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by dqv 3mo ago
Emotional intelligence. These interactions aren't people sharing points of view, they are sharing something they see as meaningful, and no matter how politely I convey it, it's still going to come off as "that sounds stupid a
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by dqv 3mo ago
This is my read on how people react to LLM responses, especially about personal/social issues too - that many are fooled by the LLM. On occasion, someone has shown me LLM output, believing it to be a profound and illuminating response
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by dqv 3mo ago
> Pentagon spokesperson Sean Parnell said that the Pentagon had granted exceptions to Hegseth’s optional flu shot policy to the Army, Navy, Air Force, National Security Agency, and the Defense Health Agency. So which ones are still exe
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by dqv 3mo ago
"overengineering" UPDATE appointments SET starts_at_utc = local_time AT TIME ZONE timezone_name WHERE timezone_name = 'America/Vancouver' AND starts_at_utc > now();
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by dqv 3mo ago
> In all likelihood this will never happen in a particular timezone. You sure about that? https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz-announce@iana.org/... 2026b - changes to future timestamps 2026a - change
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by dqv 3mo ago
It's just a different kind of complexity and one that requires having a library that can arbitrarily load different versions of tzdata. I've been thinking about it for a while though - a time zone conversion library that also acce
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by dqv 3mo ago
Only for server-supplied timestamps. Like the time clock example: sure what you're describing works if the user is just pressing a button to clock in and the server stores a UTC timestamp in response to a POST request or whatever. But
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by dqv 3mo ago
For the 2026a release: Changes to past and future timestamps Since 2022 Moldova has observed EU transition times, that is, it has sprung forward at 03:00, not 02:00, and has fallen back at 04:00, not 03:00. (Thanks to Heitor Dav
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by dqv 3mo ago
Not always a math bug. Sometimes a human bug. Tzdata can have errors (it's crowdsourced after all) that cause past UTC stamps to be incorrect because that incorrect tzdata was used at conversion time. And since most people aren'
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by dqv 3mo ago
You've done everything but cite the source of your claim that "[by] capacity it's trending from around 60% now to 80% by 2030". I wasn't born yesterday dude, it's obvious you're deflecting. You cited a slo

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