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by The-Bus 5y ago
Best thing to do is give them non-threatening names like Beige Team or Fanny Pack.
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by The-Bus 5y ago
Roku captures subscription and advertising revenue, and also resells/licenses ACR (Automatic Content Recognition) data, aka viewing data. Users can turn this off if needed. ACR Service Policy: https://docs.roku.com/publ
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by The-Bus 5y ago
The competing ads will often say something like "Introducing [Product Y] which costs 25% less and is 10% less smellier than [Product X you searched for]" If you've never heard of Product Y, you might be intrigued and click. M
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by The-Bus 5y ago
Adult smoking has been on a downward decline in the US for decades and youth smoking peaked in 1997[1]. While I'm sure the returns of stocks like Philip Morris were very good in their heyday, nowadays MO stock does not have astronomica
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by The-Bus 5y ago
Amazon deliveries in NYC are done by a mix of bikes with trailers, the US Postal Service, Amazon's own Sprinter vans, and third-party contractors using their own vehicles (e.g. Lasership). The bikes and trailers are replacing these veh
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by The-Bus 5y ago
If some combination of pensions/social security allowed people to live a comfortable, safe retirement with some guarantee of food, shelter, and medical care, then they'd be less worried about the one asset they own worth more than
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by The-Bus 5y ago
> more than _half of all Americans don't pay taxes_ I think the only Americans without a real tax burden are children. Even someone destitute who spends $5 on a fast food meal may pay taxes on it. Taxation is a complex topic, and re
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by The-Bus 5y ago
Plastics have actually experienced a pretty significant shortage this year, with resins and other components being hard to source[1]. Polaris, for example, would build their entire vehicle except the seats, then build and attach them once t
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by The-Bus 5y ago
Another proof point for Betteridge's Law of Headlines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headline...
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by The-Bus 5y ago
The problem is that wet-bulb temperature is not the Heat Index or a "feels-like" temperature. Here's a bit more info: https://www.weather.gov/source/zhu/ZHU_Training_Page/definit...
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by The-Bus 5y ago
> push notifications feel more like walking down the Vegas strip having leaflets constantly shoved in your face. Strong agreement here. There's a significant (single digit %) of sites I run into that ask me to accept push notificati
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by The-Bus 5y ago
From a response to a user review complaining by the developer (CloudMosa Inc): "95% of the free users are good users. 5% of the free users are bad users because they are ‘parasites’. Parasite users think they are ‘entitled’ to unlimite
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by The-Bus 5y ago
Had this issue as well. I now use it as a display only and always play with a controller (tabletop mode). If I can't use a controller, I play slower games (like Civ).
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by The-Bus 5y ago
> I've no idea of the history of say Tabasco The Tabasco story is really interesting and it's essentially the Sriracha of the late 1800s and early 1900s. Tabasco is a private, family-owned company. They still grow all the seeds
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by The-Bus 5y ago
I was prescribed Adderall XR which did wonders for my symptoms but eventually I stopped taking it as my heart would race after doing any strenuous exercise. I wish that wasn't the case, as it did help.