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by Discombulator 7y ago
This might be various things, but “predatory” is not the right term for not allowing the user to benefit from a free promotion when he or she does not want to continue it. They even make clear exactly what will happen, no dark UI pattern in
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by Discombulator 7y ago
I am using the Dreem 2 (dreem.com, use my referral code for a discount: UEXBFMANU). I do not have a certified reference device but those aspects of the recordings that I can assess (start and end of sleep, awakenings, onset of sleep, positi
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by Discombulator 7y ago
The problem with this argument in general is that there might always be unintended consequences for any change. Hence one should never try to change anything. In this case, the argument about rising taxes seems completely arbitrary. Why cou
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by Discombulator 7y ago
> That's another topic, why can't the EU sort them out? What do you think the EU should even do about this, based on which principles? To me this is entirely unclear. There is no right to secede from a country, in fact, the ter
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by Discombulator 7y ago
Many (most) JDK distributions are free for all usages and fully open source. Can you give some references for the patents issue you mentioned?
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by Discombulator 7y ago
In my reading, your post implies that everyone is exclusively motivated by short term self interest. I do not think this is true, neither for myself nor for others, and I suspect you do not either for yourself and people you know. The probl
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by Discombulator 7y ago
I have not looked into Coda yet, but have a few observations on the user / programmer divide. To me, spreadsheets are just another programming paradigm. I have seen business users build impressive things using Excel (excluding here VBA
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by Discombulator 7y ago
I think the real question is whether the failure rate of companies using Haskell is higher than those of companies using mainstream languages.
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by Discombulator 7y ago
This is glossing over the fact that checked exceptions are a very controversial feature and that most language designers (is there any language besides Java that supports them?) do not implement them on purpose.
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by Discombulator 7y ago
One of the best explanations of the issues of Southern Europe, and Italy in specific, that I read about during my studies, can be found in the book “The Moral Basis of a Backward Society” (Banfield). It describes a village in southern Italy
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by Discombulator 7y ago
Just a small correction: as a business, you subtract the VAT on your suppliers’ invoices from the VAT invoiced to your customers. Effectively you remit the taxes only on the added value of your business, hence the name. This makes it also h
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by Discombulator 7y ago
These caricatures don’t help anyone. If you think like that, you should make clear that you speak for yourself.
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by Discombulator 7y ago
Fully agree. Climate change cannot be tackled by individual action, just like hunger or poverty cannot. I have by now the suspicion that anyone suggesting so while arguing that no regulation should be put in place is either naive or in bad
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by Discombulator 7y ago
Overall, we need to let go of the idea that people believe things because they have evaluated the evidence and have come to a conclusion. This is scientific thought, and if you have ever changed your mind on a strongly held belief based on
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by Discombulator 8y ago
I have read only about half of the paper. It is written in a very compelling style, though I get the impression that the authors have an axe to grind. However, to play the devil's advocate for a bit, standardized tests such as PISA and
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by Discombulator 8y ago
Maybe also due to Amazon’s tightlipped PR policy, it is not uncommon to read in comments about some article related to amazon such as this one accusations about systematically increasing and even user-specific “dynamically adjusting” prices
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by Discombulator 8y ago
This is a classical example of a market failure. The issue is that today, when you you are buying any good, you are not paying for the full end-to-end cost of the item, which includes the cost of disposal (collection, sorting, recycling) an