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by PKop 4y ago
> collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago – these stores lose tens of millions of dollars a year, and their annual losses nearly doubled in just the last five years. Is i
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by PKop 4y ago
So it's probably that this has nothing to do with their competition then, and rather some other factor causing the continued massive losses and ultimately their pull-out.
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by PKop 4y ago
Shoplifting
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by PKop 4y ago
"We know the community will have questions about why we are closing these locations. The simplest explanation is that collectively our Chicago stores have not been profitable since we opened the first one nearly 17 years ago – these s
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Walmart Announces Closure of Four Chicago Stores(corporate.walmart.com)
28 points by PKop 4y ago|36 comments
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by PKop 4y ago
You need an Elixir server process to run Livebook, so what is meant by "regular JS apps" that you intend to embed into?
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by PKop 4y ago
>And that raises the question of which criminals to put in jail which makes it much harder. Why is this hard? Is there a problem with speeding that is lowering quality of life to the degree that violent, property, drug and homeless loite
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by PKop 4y ago
This is only true if you believe that the purpose of punishment is rehabilitation. Depending on how severe the punishments it absolutely can affect crime rates. This is a very simple problem to solve. Remove the people from the streets. Pun
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by PKop 4y ago
Typical cope response "the crime is not happening". We're so far beyond debating whether it's happening, don't try to gaslight people. Just walk around the damn city, there's filth, drug use, harassment, tent-c
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by PKop 4y ago
I'm saying something about currencies because arguably it is the only legitimate use-case for "block chains" as popularly understood. How is this hypothetical non-currency decentralized ledger written to? Who has rights to do
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by PKop 4y ago
In what sense are they "blockchains" (as understood in the "crypto" sense) if they are not de-centrally written to? Is there proof of work? Distributed consensus? Can the public read entries from the ledger and verify so
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by PKop 4y ago
But how could title information be decentrally controlled? How would random 3rd parties running a node (and why would they do this? What would be their compensation?) be able to verify anything about the state of some thing that exists in t
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by PKop 4y ago
Why would a blockchain be an improvement over a regular centrally controlled database managed by the state? What benefit is it providing?
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by PKop 4y ago
How does a decentralized system emerge to solve this? Crypto currencies reward the network with tokens self-contained within the network. What would be given to the public to run this network? Also tying the state of physical reality with a
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by PKop 4y ago
Runs on the Erlang Virtual Machine, also known as the BEAM. Erlang was built for scalability and fault tolerance of telephone switches by Ericsson in the 80's. Give this a watch, "The Soul of Erlang and Elixir". Covers a lot
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Crafting Your Own Static Site Generator Using Phoenix(fly.io)
3 points by PKop 4y ago|0 comments
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by PKop 4y ago
It's about avoiding counter-party risk and strengthening domestic supply chains against uncertain economic, geopolitical and military future. Certainly there is the element of "don't strengthen your adversaries" too. Why
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by PKop 4y ago
I'm not sure how obvious it is; that story seems just as likely to have been fraudulent as true.
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by PKop 4y ago
A few simple replies to your statement and you fall apart like this? Have you never engaged in an argument or what?
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by PKop 4y ago
Do you think the growth of rates of depression and anxiety do not cut across socioeconomic groups? Doesn't it seem the rate of growth of these mental conditions outpaces any increase in poverty or economic strain? Presumably even those
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by PKop 4y ago
This would be consistent with the internet being "too messy", if not too big generally. There is too much garbage to sift through, and spam trying to game the algorithm.
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by PKop 4y ago
They would be, except it ignores them sometimes.
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by PKop 4y ago
https://twitter.com/mskristinawong/status/795999059987173377
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by PKop 4y ago
Did this person get charged too?? This tweet is still up! https://twitter.com/mskristinawong/status/795999059987173377
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by PKop 4y ago
You are exactly right. Certainly there can still be some criteria upon which the sorting of leader, alphas, follows from. There is some heuristic which may avoid having to fight it out all the time, but this does not disprove that an alpha
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by PKop 4y ago
Perhaps there is a synthesis of the two, where some get more say based on "war ability" (or other such competence) without actually having to engage in micro battles everywhere. Notice I was describing the criteria upon which deci
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by PKop 4y ago
There isn't a universal morality so just say you find it disgusting.
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by PKop 4y ago
>an improvement I'm sure some think it is. I think dictating power based on war ability makes way more sense than everyone having a say simply by virtue of breathing. Egalitarianism is not consistent with nature. But these things go
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by PKop 4y ago
Democracy will one day be seen as ridiculous as absolute monarchy is today.
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by PKop 4y ago
That's them being respectful, but make no mistake the point of the blog post is "vs"

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