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by _red 8y ago
Racket may be too strong of a word, and no I don't expect Amazon to hold inventory for free. However, charging people to "dispose" of inventory (ie. sell for their own profit) is a bit shady.
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by _red 8y ago
Generally vaccines are fairly safe, however the government has created numerous incentives for their to be a lack of accountability, thus its to be expected that safety will fall over time. Specifically, they made it illegal to sue vaccine
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by _red 8y ago
Its a racket for sure, once your inventory gets stuck in Amazon you either have to continually pay the LT service fee increases, or you must pay for them to "destroy" your inventory. Hilariously, they "destroy" your inve
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by _red 8y ago
>The NY Times would have to change completely to follow this strategy. Becoming profitable will require lots of change.
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by _red 8y ago
I'm not posting this as an "advocate" of Alex Jones, however his model works well for a news site. There is no advertiser creep of the message, there is not much outside influence at all. Its a shame something like the NY Tim
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by _red 8y ago
I am an Amazon seller, and yes if you ship inventory to them under FBA program, that inventory is co-mingled.
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by _red 8y ago
Yeah, the fall of Comdex went from 200K+ visitors to collapse over the course of a few years. I think most often these collapses are financial (believe it or not). What typically happens is the conference wants to encourage "free expo
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by _red 8y ago
I'm 100% sure that such worldwide environmental changes will have no negative effects. There is no hubris involved here, future humans will look back with nothing but thanks. Thank you search engine company! Silicon Valley / PHP e
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by _red 8y ago
How is it reducing bias?
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by _red 8y ago
Don't worry. Its called "Climate Change" now. Its a nice catch all.
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by _red 8y ago
One of the results of "loss of god / religion" (I'm not religious, just saying) is that humans have replaced those myths with "science and nature". So, its perfectly congruent for true believers to advocate the
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by _red 8y ago
As a manager of a dev group, I've migrated away from trying to hire "10x developers" and now optimize for "intelligent and persistent". The "10x" developers are seductive, and can supercharge a project int
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by _red 8y ago
Its crazy to me how much more difficult its become to "whip up a quick GUI". Back in the 90s, using fairly lackluster tools like Visual Basic / FoxPro / Delphi, you could design and create a basic GUI a few minutes. No o
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by _red 8y ago
The AMA to both certifies doctors and runs the medical schools. Obviously, they have a vested interest in controlling supply to protect their membership, thus artificial scarcity leads to high prices.
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Scientists find 'clear evidence' that cellphone radiation causes cancer in rats(mirror.co.uk)
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by _red 8y ago
>e.g. Google because they have plenty of money and they are directly impacted if their platform releases a malicious extension. I have some foxes for rent, perhaps you could use them to guard your henhouse.
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by _red 8y ago
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/18/texas-democ... Rasmussen Poll shows 54% of Democrats support giving illegals right to vote. I don't know why you are going against what the majority
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by _red 8y ago
Further the article never mentions: ID, illegals, undocumented Complaining about fraud via electronic voting machines and ignoring the 20M+ that are potentially voting illegally is quite curious indeed.
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by _red 8y ago
Their confusion goes beyond using books as a proxy for scholasticism. No doubt its just a proxy for IQ itself (higher IQ people tend to read more books, thus own more books, thus score better on scholastic measures).
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by _red 8y ago
Yes, it does vary by state. Of course what I wrote shouldn't be taken as any sort of legal advice, it was water-cooler talk only. Here is a handy chart that describes each states approach to the issue (note: the majority match up with
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by _red 8y ago
Just as a footnote. The vast majority (90+%) of Non-Competes are basically boilerplate that are unenforceable in most circumstances. Most businesses include them as an "optical deterrent" to prevent employees from quitting and jum
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by _red 8y ago
That cost is now just properly being paid by those wanting those goods. Previously that cost was being subsidized by all USPS users (and taxpayers via bond underwriting, tax breaks given to USPS, etc).
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by _red 8y ago
This is completely anecdotal, but I'm on several mailing list for bulk buyers of off-lease server equipment. Typically these list are 90% Dell, HP, IBM. About 6 months ago I started to notice a huge percentage of SuperMicros being sold
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by _red 8y ago
Because your "privacy focused nonprofit" is itself funded by those very same "multi-billion ad companies".
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by _red 8y ago
I don't really have an opinion on whether or not you should take your laptop home, but I just wanted to point out this imaginary line between "work" and "home life" is a total modern construct. Tell your distant gre
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None of those things are funded by Income Tax. Roads for instance are funded by gasoline taxes and other DoT levies. The income tax basically only funds: Interest on the debt, and Entitlement programs (welfare, etc).
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by _red 8y ago
I look forward to the day where getting on the internet is like opening a bank account, complete with KYC verification. I will love standing in line at my local DMV and waiting for my WebID profile to be approved.
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by _red 8y ago
I think any sane individual recognizes the huge benefits of having a consistent 10-based measurement system. However, apart from that, the failing of the metric system is the actual measurements they used (length of a meter, celsius, etc),
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by _red 8y ago
This situation is exasperated by the "everyone deserves to go to university" concept. Taking the sub-105 IQ set and putting them situations where they are not capable of competing winds up creating unhappiness all around. No doubt
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by _red 8y ago
Ever since they forced out Brendan (co-founder and creator of javascript no less) because of their political intolerance, FF has really started to go down hill. Each release you have to go through more about:config settings to turn off all

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