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What about insurance brokers? Or travel brokers? They don't have stock. Intermediaries (sort of) inherently create quality control via having a better perspective on the market than any single supplier can, and through pressuring indiv
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Ha :)
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Thanks > They are talking about 'reducing extinction risk' being a field of study. And the risks of doing damage to a that new field with early research. Then this is an unfortunately named field to introduce first, given that
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> People who actually wanted to do things well... You think intermediaries (e.g. dropshippers) can't add value to a supply chain? I don't know why you'd be so uncaring about /r/entrepreneurs when these are genera
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Thanks. You use the word 'field' 54 times and 'risk' 33 times in the article but never explain what you mean by them. I found this confusing. E.g. at one point you say that 'reducing extinction risk' is a field
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Ok but what makes a certain meme have enough power that it then has fecundity/fidelity? There must be a resonance between powerful memes and 'human nature' or else they surely wouldn't propagate (e.g. fear of death, in t
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> "well those people are reacting exactly how we thought they would" Almost like NPCs...
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The speed at which the media have rounded against this meme is breathtaking. Are some memes inherently powerful and just need to be controlled? Why are they powerful? How much longer can 30 year old boomers be let sip Monsters outdoors? It&
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Oh yeah ok. I'm talking about academic writing. I'm sure some academics' work will always be read, whether because they're well known, do good work, are active in communities etc. However when a large chunk of publicatio
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Too many people write an abstract as if it's a preamble to the paper. If a person has to inspect your paper in-depth to see what results you got, reconsider your abstract.
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Avatars! Just use Reddit..?
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Thanks. Were people as panicked inside Facebook during the outage, as I was as a user trying to browse meme groups?
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The general public don't have a clue what Equifax is and don't know about the hack. Your Grandparent's sexting convos being put online might grab the public's attention a little more.
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I'd consider myself 'tech savvy' and still expect my conversations on Facebook to remain non-public even in the case of security negligence on my part. If anything private is released through this hack, other than hashed pass
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As I understand it, this wasn't just a simple/typical security breach. The hackers had access to people's accounts and for who knows how long. 50 million people's private conversations and pictures being made public, for
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Facebook, Whatsapp and Instagram went down globally for hours at the start of August. There was no explanation about this major outage as far as I remember. Does anybody know if it was related to this data breach? If so, why were people onl
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This may be nice in a sunny seaside tourist city, but any pedestrianised towns I've been to in the UK are barren, dull, and frankly scary once the sun starts to set.
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> As for the car industry - who cares? We care about industries such as this because they contribute massively to the public purse, provide stability to entire regions via employment, and make products that much of the world relies on ri
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> The deadline isn't tight at all, the direction was clear since the early nineties. Hybrid electrics were well into development by the 90s. The Prius was launched in 97. There was a hybrid race car in Le Mans just a year later. Les
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These external costs are less-bad in the short/medium term than the societal costs incurred from an artificially terminated industry.
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I believe there's a provisional date for a ban by 2030. My opinion is that if EV is great then this ban shouldn't be needed, but nevertheless, it seems like a reasonably fair (if tight) deadline.
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> Meanwhile, established car makers are twiddling their thumbs and paying their lobbyists to delay the phase out of internal combustion engines for as long as possible. Why wouldn't they? Why should a government have the power to en
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You're right, he was Fifty B
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How does that seem like taking credit? They aren't saying they're using NVIDIA hardware, they're saying it developed it from NVIDIA work, i.e. pix2pixHD, no? It also seems as UC Berkeley and NVIDIA collaborated on pix2pixHD,
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> There's a huge population of people like that. The problem is the lender, surely
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> as a white, heterosexual, cisgender man in America, I live life on the lowest difficulty setting >What a pathetic, and wholly incorrect thing to say. It's disgusting.
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Essentially I'm questioning this common idea that talking about depression will alleviate it, and maybe prevent suicide. I'm not saying that it doesn't, I'm just asking for evidence that it does. My anecdotal experience
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Is there any evidence that talking about depression openly, or talk-type therapies, help to reduce depression? My experience of colleagues talking openly about these things is that it becomes a self-perpetuating cycle, and ultimately makes
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> I think this has more to do with the fact that the landlord is not comfortable dealing with someone who doesnt speak the same language. Language is always used as an excuse, but language doesn't seem to be a hindrance in any other
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> Congratulations, you've found the goose that laid golden eggs. And now you say all geese lay golden eggs. I mean I saw these signs frequently. Although yes, on the whole, people are pleasant and accommodating. This 'discrimin

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