xixi77

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by xixi77 8y ago
weird that you bring milk up as an example, because this is an industry where regulations tend to make sure milk prices stay high and production stays low; really there are not many examples of food subsidies/regulations that aim to re
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by xixi77 8y ago
But, are these approved by the American Ladder Institute? https://www.americanladderinstitute.org
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by xixi77 8y ago
How is that different from say broadcast TV or any other media though? Or are you saying that ads are their product as well?
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by xixi77 8y ago
Actually looking at other things the woman making the "toxic wasteland" comment wrote, I certainly don't agree with her on everything, but I'd say she actually makes a lot of good points. Particularly about how delivery
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by xixi77 8y ago
What is particularly toxic about this comment though? I would actually agree that there won't be many poor/minority people participating, but that has more to do with the challenge itself, not the fee. Poor people buy a lot of lot
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by xixi77 8y ago
TBH, I find it difficult to see value in that particular line of research: it stands to reason that there would be a link between advertising and consumption in all age groups, so spending money to confirm that seems wasteful. Also, I haven
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by xixi77 8y ago
Sure, it might not be general purpose, but the "niche" is really quite large: there aren't too many websites written in Excel, but there aren't many written in C++ either :) I am really not a fan of Excel overuse, but it
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by xixi77 8y ago
I'm much more of an emacs than vim user, but the "wrong IDE" part is not quite true. Most IDEs support the common languages that you've listed, but once you go a bit further into domain specific, it is not as common any
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by xixi77 8y ago
I think you are right, but: how about tools like Excel, which is very non-linear, and yet it seems to be easier to pick up, and less intimidating, for complete newcomers compared to traditional programming?
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by xixi77 8y ago
TBH I see a plenty of the arguments on the other side too, whenever a company does something people disagree with, there are calls for regulation. Even further, there are lots of people here who get annoyed when they see someone just skirti
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by xixi77 8y ago
Do we actually know what data has been leaked/illegitimately retained/whatever you call it? A lot of the discussion revolves around friends data -- was all friends data accessible regardless of the friends' own privacy settin
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by xixi77 9y ago
Well maybe not to that extent, but to my knowledge things are not that bad in Japan yet :) Let's just not confuse market share with monopoly (in economic sense of course, which is what we are talking about here -- the Japanese legal de
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by xixi77 9y ago
Of course; I know very little about Japan's antitrust laws, it's really beside the point whether they are democratically defined or not. It's on Amazon to argue about their interpretation through Japanese courts or by whateve
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by xixi77 9y ago
True, and definitely an argument to consider full numeric. I am sure they've thought about that already and decided against though, so I didn't want to go that far. Also, in practice today there are not many people anywhere in the
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by xixi77 9y ago
After reading their evaluation document, I kinda see the use case. I personally find the mix of letters and numbers a little annoying though. I think it would be better to use only letters for the first 8 symbols (perhaps after getting rid
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by xixi77 9y ago
I don't really see why this is necessarily unfair, unless there is literally no other way to reach consumers other than through Amazon: shouldn't their own product pages show up in Google search results, for one, not to mention ot
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by xixi77 9y ago
Link seems broken atm :( Regarding the efficiency though, I would think (even disregarding new users of LaTeX) it would really depend on the length and content of the paper. For longer papers with many formulas I'd pick straight LaTeX
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by xixi77 9y ago
It might be even worse. I actually doubt they'll allow you to get your info deleted, even for a fee, unless forced by law: it would only be worth it for them (as in, producing revenue that is a significant fraction of that they would b
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by xixi77 9y ago
Have wild rabbits been mostly dealt with in Queensland? Because if not, it's not obvious to me how a relatively tiny additional source of escaped/released pet rabbits would make a difference?
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by xixi77 9y ago
I don't think English spelling not being perceived as phonetic does much here. For example, a lot of Russian speakers think Russian spelling is phonetic, and yet there has been no shift to pronounce words as written there either, as is
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by xixi77 9y ago
He's not suggesting to ignore the risk; his claim (that I cannot really evalate) is that Houston's approach is not inferior to zoning.
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by xixi77 9y ago
What's so controversial about this (other than perhaps the "if you beleve")? Seems like a pretty factual statement, the shift from coal to gas is currently the primary driver of CO2 emissions reduction. Particularly since h
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by xixi77 9y ago
This is not really new; just think of all the stuff that came out of AT&T labs...
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by xixi77 9y ago
I am honestly puzzled at why you believe this to be the case. I'm not even sure it has ever been the case. Consider, for example, how chemical weapons have never been used in WW2, despite all sides having stockpiles. Consider the fact
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by xixi77 9y ago
Of course not; surely it is a condition of your food service license to allow inspectors on premises, so you'll lose it if you don't let them in (I doubt you'll get charged with a federal crime for it though). I don't se
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by xixi77 9y ago
But the employees in question didn't even identify themselves as such, did they? Like, if a random person on the street asks you what's your name etc., are you required to answer truthfully just because that person could be an und
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by xixi77 9y ago
Ah, that makes sense.
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by xixi77 9y ago
Exactly: people are complaining about technology because it gives consumer an option to have a copy on multiple devices, but at the same time they are just taking the things that the same technology gives them, such as preventing people fro
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by xixi77 9y ago
All kinds of developers are worldwide though; a lot of desktop software companies have developer teams outside of the US (even when the company itself is US based, and often it's not anyway).
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by xixi77 9y ago
Yes, but why can the little guys do it? If they can produce acceptable quality at a lower price, what is the problem with that? Or if they can't, why are people not seeing that? To me it seems that it's a bit of both: Apple stor

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