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by Digory 5y ago
Among primary English speakers, “alcoholic” almost always refers to abusive drinking. I can’t imagine using “alcoholic” to describe people who consume alcohol in moderation. And I am around a lot of teetotalers.
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by Digory 5y ago
That’s probably not a bad substitution for the average person, but a bad one for a precise vocabulary. I get the feeling though, that the need to compensate for mobile misspelling means a dumbing down of precise vocabulary.
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by Digory 5y ago
Twitter should have the ability to issue apology/retraction tweets. They know who's seen the original.
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by Digory 5y ago
If you think you’re good enough to fool 200k YouTube detectives, I imagine you think you’re good enough to get it past the average insurance adjuster. I think this guy’s risk-reward calculations are probably off by a few standard deviations
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by Digory 5y ago
The basis for the numbers are really no different than the color-codings here, and the analysis of why they all tend to be circular reasoning. "I act like a red because I'm a red" is similar to "I act like an Enneagram
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by Digory 5y ago
Insurance.
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by Digory 5y ago
Also: any “love languages” and Enneagram numbers. It’s really astounding how much these frauds impact relationships and organizations.
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by Digory 5y ago
Right, just pointing out that people ITT seem to think there's a bigger market for reserving a particular (car/seat), with the buyer bearing the costs for changes. Southwest is the opposite of that, as are most of the rental car c
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by Digory 5y ago
People are generally willing to go through a lot to get a lower price. I fly Southwest, which guarantees no seats, but offers free changes. A car rental usually comes with a flight, and the flights aren’t 100% reliable. The airlines don’t b
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by Digory 5y ago
I have been asked for a zip code buying gas with a tap to pay card recently. I assume that’s going to be more common.
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by Digory 5y ago
This is terribly jumbled. Yes, if you’re in a non-Islamic religion that reveres the Old Testament, you probably support Israel’s land claims. But Catholics, Mormons, and Evangelicals have wildly different views of the end times, and the “B
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by Digory 5y ago
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1865/ Which seems to be true for me. Despite having semi-pro levels of wifi gear and a "fiber" provider at home, I can often get transfers work by turning 'off' the
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by Digory 5y ago
Obviously, this gets handled under UK charity law, not US — but I wonder if this would fly in the US. Charities can own for-profit entities, but pay taxes on the Unrelated Business Income. But this is closer to a for-profit hospital conver
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by Digory 5y ago
Yes, depopulation of small towns accompanies a lot of this, which means you have isolated seniors and the disadvantaged making up a lot of rural places. But the economic incentives to leave it all behind for the big city are strong. The int
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by Digory 5y ago
I have seen the same loss leaders at “traditional” supermarkets, but it’s also true that stores like that are disappearing from rural areas. And they’re usually losing out to a Dollar General or Dollar Tree. So even in head-to head competit
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by Digory 5y ago
I didn't say boards are capricious. They just have a clear motive: more money, now. This should not be a surprise to funded CEOs. Don't let your happiness depend on making a board happy, if that's not what you bring to the
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by Digory 5y ago
> People that shop for groceries at dollar stores do it because: 4. They only have a dollar. Yes, it's cheaper by the fluid ounce to buy a barrel of Pine-sol at Costco. But if you have $100 for groceries and household expenses this
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by Digory 5y ago
Never stand between people and a pile of money. Your Board doesn't fire you when you're the best guide to a pile of money. Your Board will fire you if they think you're slowing their progress toward a pile of money. If you th
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by Digory 5y ago
That’s fair; a community of repeat players has a different feel than people trying to win one round. Your OP said the stability involved “some sort of community with social hierarchy and structure, agreed-upon values,” though, which I think
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by Digory 5y ago
"Stable-ish social order" is a byword for homogeneity, isn't it? We were all nerds, mostly descended from Europeans, associated with post-war higher education, learning through math or reading, and critical thinking. We had
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by Digory 5y ago
> if people are worried about the economy like they say, you'd think they'd be saving. Not if the worry is inflation and supply chain instability. That pushes spending, not savings, forward.
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by Digory 5y ago
As presented here, his theory is that the careers of younger scientists depend on the qualitative judgments of older scientists. The field is convinced the judgments of older scientists are systemically, oppressively wrong on matters of se
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by Digory 5y ago
Because business like to reward 'difference makers,' and retention is usually a frontline manager's issue. Otherwise, it's hard to measure the success of the "retention department." Only one group has the job o
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by Digory 5y ago
Interesting. A doubling in the US seems bigger to me than just the chip shortage. I wonder if the US tax incentives/spending policy this year are increasing demand at the same time supply is short?
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by Digory 5y ago
So the working explanation is that the disappearance of new cars (due to chip shortages) has doubled the price of used cars? How long can that bubble last? Is it the same globally?
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Yet many 19th century warehouses had more ornamentation that today's Pritzker winners. At some point, there were businessmen backing beautiful buildings. I do think Apple's Ring campus is minimalist while also trying to be beautif
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by Digory 5y ago
> I also don't care much for family "protection", so right now I don't see a good reason for using Cloudflare It seems like you don’t fit the target audience for this service at all.
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by Digory 5y ago
Scarcity exists. You cannot follow the maximum standards, because you only have so many resources. We can sort our 'recycling' and go through 'security theater' at the airport but those involve necessary trade-offs to
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by Digory 5y ago
It’s bogus. Social scientists are locked in their own need to be social by seeming to be scientific. A problem of sociology that now extends to our public-policy-facing sciences, as well.
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If this was a US loss, how could it have shown a win? Jail?

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