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by II2II 3y ago
It's not very compelling evidence (just three selected data points), but the article states: > According to Perkins Coie, a law firm that tracks such cases, 214 class-action lawsuits were filed against the food and beverage industry
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by II2II 3y ago
Yes, that one sounds frivolous since it is unreasonable for the consumer to expect such an outcome (at least in a literal sense). On the other hand, placing a common fruit in a product's name without making it equally clear that it is
873.
by II2II 3y ago
If you're caught, yes it is easier dealing with the truth. On the otherhand, I doubt that the boss thought they would be called out on the claim and I doubt they think they will be called out on the verification of the 'evidence&#
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by II2II 3y ago
How does that work when the employer puts you in a position where you must provide an answer, the expected answer would involve commiting a crime, and the only alternative is to tell the truth? Whether we like it or not, employers have a lo
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by II2II 3y ago
Collect a large number of pilots, divide them into two pools based upon their performance (low and high). Which pool do you think will incur more expenses to the airline? Keep in mind that some of those costs range from reducing consumer co
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by II2II 3y ago
One of the nice things about Linux is that users have choice. A lot of people were put off by the transition to Gnome 3 and continue to be (self included). Which is fine since the desktop environment/window manager can be swapped out.
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by II2II 3y ago
Nostalgia aside, the PC was (and continues to be) a far easier machine to clone. For an electronics hobbiest, this is a fun project. For programmers, it is a challenge to see what can be done with a platform that was rarely pushed to its fu
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by II2II 3y ago
I'm suggesting that advertising that feels manipulative will be unsuccessful. I will agree that advertising does not have to be manipulative to be successful, though I would choose a very different example. In my books, being reminded
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by II2II 3y ago
An advertiser who leaves the consumer feeling as though they are ceding their autonomy is unlikely to be successful. If I were you, I would be very concerned by suggesting that this is only a problem for the easily manipulated.
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by II2II 3y ago
The words hack and hacker have been co-opted by so many people and for so many purposes that it is does not have any coherent definition, at least in the realm of technology. To add examples to your list: hacker seems to refer to people who
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by II2II 3y ago
I am guessing those staffers have at least a vague notion of what caste is, yet would have to either learn more or verify the accuracy of what they know in order to get their job done. If anything, their willingness to learn rather than to
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by II2II 3y ago
In a sense, they are right. Survival is about meeting your immediate essential needs. Of course, they are also very wrong. Opportunities to escape poverty are lost when you are only trying to fulfill your immediate needs, then there are the
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by II2II 3y ago
One way to address these complaints is by providing proper infrastructure. Quite frankly, when on the road you have to behave like a motorist. Sometimes your observations are a matter of perception. Consider a light turning amber, a cyclist
884.
by II2II 3y ago
Rather than asking "why didn't you do it this way?" you could ask "why did you choose this approach?", but only do so if you are prepared to acknowledge their reasoning may be valid (and, ideally, you are known for
885.
by II2II 3y ago
The value of the sandwich method depends upon some sort of equivalence of the praise. It may have taken hours or days of work to produce the code that generated horrible results, while indentation would likely register as a triviality. To c
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by II2II 3y ago
Didn't a lot of servers just stop carrying the binaries newsgroups, or never bothered carrying them in the first place? Even without considering piracy, binaries tended to place a burden on the server provider since the messages tended
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by II2II 3y ago
Noone is saying that restaurant employees would make $250/hour. While the rates cited in the article are higher than most employees earn in equivalent environments, the are still modest in comparison to other industries (and they are a
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by II2II 3y ago
Yes, that is an issue. My union (mostly non-tech workers) was negotiating for a new contract when the old when had expired 18 months prior and had been negotiated two or three years before that. It was such a long wait that a lot of good pe
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by II2II 3y ago
You're probably correct. I forgot that Apple labelled the enter key as return on the alphanumeric part of the keyboard and as enter on the numeric keypad. I recall some software (possibly MPW) treating cmd-return as enter. Or something
890.
by II2II 3y ago
Tangential to the content of the page: I really enjoyed how many MPW utilities generated output, including error messages, in the form of commands. Your terminal was an editor buffer, so you could cursor up (or click) on the appropriate lin
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by II2II 3y ago
Personally, my use of fonts are more utilitarian. In that context, the fonts shipped with a typical Linux distribution are perfectly usable and far from shitty. While I would expect someone who has more of an eye for design to have more dis
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by II2II 3y ago
It appears as though the real problem is address near the end of the article under a heading that has nothing to do it: Monotype is switching to a subscription model that will likely weigh strongly in their own favor, and there is little th
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by II2II 3y ago
This seems to depend upon the author/publisher more than anything else. It also seems to heavily depend upon the type of book (e.g. DRM free computer and science fiction books seem to be the most common). Even when you do find a store
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by II2II 3y ago
Look for a second hand device then? I don't know what the situation is like for Remarkable, but Kobo has been around for over a decade and used ones are floating around the second hand market. (The Kobo Touch was introduced over a deca
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by II2II 3y ago
> What I don't want is I buy an old Kobo on eBay, and find out it's not jailbreakable, or requires some library which requires a different version of Ubuntu, or whatnot. I understand what you're getting at. When I was foll
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by II2II 3y ago
The last time I checked, youtube-dl and yt-dlp can both be obtained via (Python) pip. To my knowledge, these will be the latest releases.
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by II2II 3y ago
I took a quick look at Shapez. It may end up being addictive (to me) when Factorio was not. The reason being that Factorio's world is a bit dystopian in my view. A good game, but I like more cheerful things in my life. The abstraction
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by II2II 3y ago
I would be happy with an equal among peers. There's nothing wrong with other modes, except that one dominates to the detriment of all others. And by detriment, I mean everything from safety to the design of communities.
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by II2II 3y ago
Quite frankly, this sounds like an argument against physical activity more than anything else. Plenty of people go for morning or lunch time jogs. In my neck of the woods, and at the right time of year, plenty of people go for a morning or
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by II2II 3y ago
Statements like this make me more nervous about the advocates of nuclear energy than of the mass adoption of nuclear energy itself. In the simplest of terms: radioactive material emits energetic particles and photons. In itself, this is not

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