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by altacc 5y ago
The Telegraph is mainlining drugs which have side effect of thinking that everything was better in the old days and nothing should ever change as change scares the old people. It is a posh, old school conservative tabloid and very flexible
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by altacc 5y ago
English is a beautiful slow motion car crash of multiple languages & influences and the result is a great language but I do pity anyone trying to learn it. When I was having difficulty learning the rules & oddities of another langua
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by altacc 5y ago
I think I've worked on customer facing products enough to know never to assume customer actions and especially not to assume they're rational! Price factors are unimportant to some people and even if it is an important factor, add
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by altacc 5y ago
It might be your last point is the most significant, this is a psychological effect, not economic. From my basic understanding, economics often assumes rational actors, but humans are not always rational. Maybe those willing to pay more wil
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Study suggests that sugar taxes are only effective if price tag mentions the tax(news.osu.edu)
10 points by altacc 5y ago|5 comments
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by altacc 5y ago
I wouldn't be too quick to claim that the myth of institutional house buying has been dispelled. Zillow isn't the only company out there buying real estate, and they are planning to sell most of the properties to other institution
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by altacc 5y ago
Professionalism isn’t about how long you stay at a job, it’s about how you act around work, which includes joining and leaving a company. There are ways of quitting which are unprofessional but not the act of quitting itself. How much detai
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by altacc 5y ago
Dogs evolved to live with humans when we had very different lifestyles. I think the crux of the author's essay is something I agree with: most people no longer have lives and jobs which align with the social & mental needs of a dog
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by altacc 5y ago
Classic example of somebody becoming rich and thinking that makes them an expert on everything and the most qualified to solve any problem they cast their mind to. See also: just about every other billionaire on the planet.
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by altacc 5y ago
Music studios are often quite small and unimpressive from the outside. Inside they can be quite ratty & smelly. The value of a studio is often the people who work there and the equipment they have on site and that's the attraction
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by altacc 5y ago
I was quite surprised it was covered in the Daily Mail as they are usually in favour of trampling on privacy & civil liberties in the name of law & order. They're classic "nothing to fear if you've done nothing wrong&
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by altacc 5y ago
Having worked in a range of companies, there is definitely an inverse correlation between company size and speed, especially for individual teams. At 500 people you're well into enterprise level organisation, where a lot of processes a
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by altacc 5y ago
That's a whole other discussion. Having a good stock price does not equate to profitability. Vast amounts of money are pumped into loss making companies in the hope of future returns, either when other people pump money in to raise th
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The Five Dimensions of Curiosity (2018)(psychologytoday.com)
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by altacc 5y ago
Uber's advantage was the ease of using the app to find a ride, but in many places local cab companies got their own app to match the competition. In many cities there are lots of times where Uber's availability and pricing algorit
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by altacc 5y ago
I think this depends upon the brand and their marketing strategy. Amazon don't want you to think about their design, which includes dark patterns, as their brand is about making purchasing easy. For companies like Apple, being "de
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by altacc 5y ago
A lot of that is to provide several different animations for the comma after LoveFrom is written. Whether that's overkill depends upon how important you think that animation is, considering most people will only see one version, but th
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by altacc 5y ago
"we decided to only partner with the manufacturers of our reference product.” - so not only are they copying a product and ranking their replacement above the original, they also put themselves into a position to influence the manufact
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by altacc 5y ago
The Jacobin is a socialist magazine, so guaranteed to annoy many in this forum but even from my leftist point of view the argument for Facebook being a utility in need of public ownership is flawed. But equally, it is correct that this is n
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by altacc 5y ago
There are so many fallacies & misunderstanding there it's hard to know where to start, so I won't...
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by altacc 5y ago
70% of Americans have less than $1,000 in savings. Many of the people who most benefit from libraries live paycheck to paycheck and libraries want to help those people and want those people to use their services. That's a major portion
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by altacc 5y ago
The target audience for Bing's homepage is a bunch of product owners in MS who want their crap on the homepage to try to increase their interaction metrics.
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by altacc 5y ago
I can't speak specifically for your wife's hospital, but by the sounds of it this might have been less of a lie than bad information. Apparently during the early phase of the pandemic the knowledge about the usefulness of masks ag
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by altacc 5y ago
I would say that service varies but in general and I've recieved bad service in pretty much every country I've ever been to, but yes, customer service in the Nordics is different to some other countries. I think some of that is do
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by altacc 5y ago
In this case there is a video of them placing the LEDs by hand. At least they didn't have to solder them individually! (They used reflow soldering.)
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by altacc 5y ago
This is a one off build, where they placed the LEDs by hand.
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by altacc 5y ago
"If you've done nothing wrong, then you have nothing to fear." is the mantra of people who don't yet realise how flawed legal systems across the world really are.
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by altacc 5y ago
I wonder if this is related to the 418 "I'm a teapot" HTTP response code?
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by altacc 5y ago
I think it's equivalent to the tobacco industry. They didn't invent smoking tobacco but they built it into an industry. Once they were aware of the health effects of smoking was it their fault that they suppressed this information
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by altacc 5y ago
Our school actually banned Pokemon cards as they caused so many issues, from lack of activity to arguments and thefts. On the way to and from school you'll see students just outside the grounds making illicit trades and games.

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