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> > Why? I love my local baker, but for brand name items, I'm going to order online. > really? even for things like bikes, sporting goods, clothes, running shoes, ... I could go on. I have personally ordered all of these onlin
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> People want to buy from their local stores. Why? I love my local baker, but for brand name items, I'm going to order online. > BOPIS (buy online pick up in store) Why is this attractive to anyone? If I am making the effort to
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> what could cause this? It could be ... The Backhoe, The Internet's Natural Enemy (2006) https://it.slashdot.org/story/06/01/19/1643215/the-backhoe-t...
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I think the EU knows very well that it needs a uniform tax code. This faux outrage - "I am shocked—shocked—to find a tax haven in the channel islands!" - is just laying the political groundwork for the project.
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> it also just didn’t seem fun anymore That's exactly why they are doing this experiment. To answer the question: will people come back if they don't have to wade through all this stuff they don't really care about?
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Yes, but also impact on their ability to generate and wield political power. Journalism is practically non-profit these days, but there'll never be a shortage of journalists looking to marshal the Fourth Estate.
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This is an interesting comment though ... > We believed that the veterinarian is the most trusted partner for a pet parent (vs. the walker, grooming, trainer) and that owning the vet relationship would create the most value. We have sinc
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It was inevitable that Facebook would eventually become more selective about which content producers are promoted to their users for free.
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> Sara Giordano argues that "traditional science" relies on "a colonial and racialized form of power," and must be replaced with an "anti-science, antiracist, feminist approach to knowledge production.” https:&#
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One idea about dark matter is that the laws of gravity are just different at large scale. This measurement rules out some of those theories ... > the [measurement] enables us to test a certain class of modified gravity theories, which
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From the paper ... > With the current rate of progress in quantum computing technologies, 50-qubit systems will soon become a reality. To assess, refine and advance the design and control of these devices, one needs a means to test and e
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The "Disable HTML5 Autoplay" Chrome plug-in stops this.
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> 75% decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas The measurements took place in protected areas in Germany. Have there been similar studies for other locations? Edit: It appears that almost all the measureme
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There's also a serious argument that it has a mundane explanation ... https://phys.org/news/2017-06-wow-mystery-space.html
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> only talking about measurements in Germany, right? Yes ... > total insect biomass using Malaise traps, deployed over 27 years in 63 nature protection areas in Germany
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Click the 'web' link under the main link then clickthrough via google.
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What will the default Windows audio player be?
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Tax law is quite complex. Even for taxes based on profits, it is non-trivial to tie patterns of revenue and expense to particular tax jurisdictions (much less particular geographical locations). This is particularly true in the age of e-co
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Now you need to have "significantly more" than being implemented with a computer. Opinions differ over exactly what this means.
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> No one is telling the students that they're spending 4-12 years getting an education which is worth less than what they're paying for it. I think that some fault lies with unrealistic expectations. Every liberal arts graduat
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I think there is a basic Left/Right divide on this question where the Right is closer to "liquidate all social security programs and distribute the proceeds" and the Left is closer to "new handouts in additional to all e
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It isn't better for the publisher though. The longer that they can keep eyeballs at a site that they control, the more advertising they can sell. Commenting also allows the publishers to collect more demographic and psychographic dat
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The open source angle could be interesting in the long term.
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A few professional negligence lawsuits wouldn't hurt.
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> juice press theater Yes, this should be their epitaph. It's actually hopeful in a way. Substance still has sway over style.
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Even a modest level of support for high quality peer review of open access journals would have a big effect.
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It requires interesting control systems to keep stable and performing optimally. You can read about some of the challenges here (has some great figures) ... http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S01
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Colony Collapse Disorder is roughly defined as unexpected colony death over winter. A previous base rate of 10% colony loss increased to 15-25% colony loss during different years. There are lots of theories about why, but note that wild s
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Hive splitting is quite a natural process. New "weak" hives quickly become "strong" hives. A single queen bee can lay hundreds and even thousands of eggs per day. During late spring, hive population doubles every few
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Any such labeling change would likely result in decades of litigation over the precise meaning of each term when someone inevitably comes to harm while taking the drug. From the manufacturer's point of view it's cheaper and possi

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