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Gottlieb at the FDA(blogs.sciencemag.org)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Impolite and "toxic customer"/"Thief" are worlds apart. If you can't deal with a broad selection of the average public, don't sell to them. It's really that simple, and the business world selects hea
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I mean... yeah obviously, but your examples of toxic behavior and fraud are about as far from the case in question as possible, except insofar as they apply to the guy who bricked the door opener. I'm not suggesting that businesses tol
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by M_Grey 10y ago
If you even think in terms of "firing" B2C customers, you will eventually fail. "The customer is always right" isn't some kind of service-minded epithet with goodness and wholesomeness in mind, no; it's a loud
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You make it sound like speech hasn't always been a contest; nothing about the freedom from government censorship implies anything else either. All you get with "free speech", is the notion that the government can't thumb
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by M_Grey 10y ago
If you're Reddit or some other group that depends on mods, you're still going to want moderators who take down the kind of material you're legally required to remove and report.
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Genetically Engineered Microbes Make Own Fertilizer, Could Feed World’s Poorest(sciencemag.org)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
So... what I'm reading is that a whole new attack vector for angry teenagers will be to mess up your display in a way designed to make you puke? Thrilling.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You know, as I think about it in the context of some of the bat-shit crazy products we've seen over the years, I'm guessing that this has been considered and focus group tested .
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by M_Grey 10y ago
You are a normal business, monetizing users for a slice of dwindling ad revenue, but you're competing with something that isn't a business and doesn't monetize its users. That's... kind of the problem right there. Peop
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I agree, and I can't recall where, but I think I read some article explaining why Heinz ketchup is a special case. Basically it's a really fine control of texture, moisture, acid and sweetness, and it's hard to do just ri
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...Drink it through a hollowed-out Slim-Jim? I'm not getting any money am I...
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I should have been clear, I was thinking of Cool Ranch Doritos (this was covered in an NPR piece years ago and that was one of the examples). As for Mountain Dew... "citrus". It is the classic case of amplitude. Take away the acid
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Palms out Look... it's nice. I like it too sometimes. In fact, when I can't get it I just ferment the urine of young rams, it's practically the same thing! Kidding aside though, it's not as though a soda is going to ru
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Oh... you joke, but I have a good friend who has some interesting issues (totally worth adapting to them, he's a great guy) especially around foods and tastes and smells. He figured out that you can buy flavoring from those big labs ou
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by M_Grey 10y ago
>Ugh. Give me low-amplitude foods, then... Exactly. Doritos and Mountain Dew thrive on this concept of "amplitude", and they're palette annihilating crap for which "moderation" is so far removed from typical cons
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Absolutely. It doesn't help that I feel like I'm "the worst version of me" in a traffic jam either. At best, I'm battling against my worst impulses of judgmental anger... at worst I'm just fuming. The view of d
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Short of a bad marriage or a chronic illness, few things can ruin a life like a long, bad commute. I see your choice as being very rational.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Just a perfect explanation, thank you. There always seem to be those catch-22's in these techs; I just wish the articles didn't come out in this predictable pattern of pulses.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
...You're not going to like the results. Edit: A glance at said results is making my point fairly well. It would appear that when you try to make money blocking only some ads, people... don't like that in their ad "blocker&
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Android apps can conspire to mine information from your smartphone(sciencebulletin.org)
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I don't even have a signature. While I can do lovely calligraphy, my actual handwriting is a testament to a failed Rey-Osterrieth complex figure test. Now, that's extreme, but how many people have a stable signature now when the
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I'm not saying it applies here, but it's the core of many cons that you apply time pressure on the mark. "You can make all of this money, but only if you act NOW! Everyone else is doing it, they're smart and successful a
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I swear I've heard about this before... is this one of those stories that emerges about a technology that never seems to enter the market? That "super slick" coating for condiment container interiors is another that springs t
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I would agree that the case of the memory system is definitely one of the "risky" ones, although it could be made safe with ventilation and isolation. Realistically though, some people involved in regular maintenance probably did
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by M_Grey 10y ago
I hear you, but I still wonder what kind of evidence I'd want to see laid out in front of me before parting with a cool $100 mil, and I somehow doubt that's how these things work.
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by M_Grey 10y ago
What he's saying is not that Hg is safe, just that acute exposure is less of an issue than chronic exposure. What you're describing are pretty much the dictionary definition of "chronic".
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by M_Grey 10y ago
The issue is more to do with mercury as a persistent environmental toxin, or you know... if you happen to cure your hat's felt in it you'd be in real trouble. Honestly, if it were a more obvious and rapid killer/debilitator,
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by M_Grey 10y ago
Is it? It's understandable why they'd want to claim that, and why a culture might exist of mutually rewarding "brilliant leadership" with "competitive packages", but... come on. What do you think the ratio of p
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New technique produces highly conductive graphene wafers(news.mit.edu)
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