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by astura 3y ago
If you're paying with credit card or debit card they are tracking you anyways, might as well get a discount for it.
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by astura 3y ago
Thank you, appreciate it.
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by astura 3y ago
>That's because all of the self checkouts in the US use the weight change to match against the scanned item Objectively false. Some stores in some areas do that. Most don't. At Walmart if I only have a few items (most of the ti
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by astura 3y ago
You can't makes broad, sweeping generalizations like "UK/US type self checkout." It varies so much. I live in the US and the only place I ever go to where they weigh the items you scanned is Costco. Everywhere else I go
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by astura 3y ago
>though as I type this I realise they may have worded it to encapsulate only honest mistakes rather than people trying deliberately to break the system Exactly. Retailers generally assume liability for honest mistakes made by their syste
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by astura 3y ago
Is there a tl;dw? That's an hour long video.
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by astura 3y ago
Yeah, I plan on paying approximately double (100% markup) if I'm ordering delivery on an app. That's why I only do it when I'm in a hotel room on a work trip and I don't have the rental car keys. Hotel food is not cheape
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by astura 3y ago
They are invasive (in the US) and grow like weeds completely taking over and crowding out native species. Having many of them screws up the nitrogen level of the soil further crowding out/killing native plants. This alters the ecosyste
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by astura 3y ago
>I wouldn't even call it a "podcast" at that point, but I guess the definition is changing. Yeah, it's a generational thing. My friend and I who couldn't find the podcast were all like "WTF? That's not
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by astura 3y ago
>Is it still a podcast if you have to watch it like a video? Maybe. I often listen to YouTube video essays while falling asleep or doing chores. I don't watch the video portion during this time, but it's playing on the phone wh
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by astura 3y ago
No, plain YouTube. A lot of what people call "podcasts" don't exist as audio-only version, they are just YouTube videos. Even if they are audio-only YouTube videos. I did not know this either until I heard a former friend who
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by astura 3y ago
^--- See what I mean? Dude just compared eating rice (a staple food staple food for 3.5 billion people) with cigarette smoking. I rest my case.
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by astura 3y ago
The ketogenic diet was invented as a treatment for epilepsy in the 1920s, before we had effective anticonvulsants. It works to control seizures, but nowadays most people will be able to control their seizures with anticonvulsants which is g
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by astura 3y ago
British for "emergency room."
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by astura 3y ago
I think the increase in people looking for "senior"s has more to do with title inflation than anything else. Now anyone with more than 1 year experience is considered "senior." The decrease in internship positions is pos
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by astura 3y ago
Have you considered going outside?
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by astura 3y ago
No it's not, dude.
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by astura 3y ago
>it's the same though process that leads to the destruction of budda statues by the talibans I disagree with this. The thought process is "return stolen items" not "destroy stolen items." Harvard doesn't bel
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by astura 3y ago
Expressing an opinion you disagree with isn't a "personal attack."
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by astura 3y ago
I guess it could vary by location. My local Walmart is the only place I go to regularly where I have to insert my card instead of tapping.
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by astura 3y ago
I said "of course" because it's very common for businesses to not accept cash when it's inconvenient to. Airplanes are just one example I gave. The federal reserve addresses state/local laws: >Private businesses
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by astura 3y ago
Many (most?) car rental companies don't accept debit cards, only credit cards. When they do they have special requirements for people who pay with debit. I was behind a guy at Enterprise who didn't have a credit card so they requi
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by astura 3y ago
Of course it's legal. Its also common (try paying for anything on an airplane in cash, for one example). This is such a misconception that the federal reserve has a page on it. https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/c
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by astura 3y ago
>I don't know what's wrong with me I would be much more concerned if you didn't feel devastated by this and you didn't want to cry. What you're describing is a normal human reaction to a tragedy.
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by astura 3y ago
To be clear, I think #2 is much more likely.
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by astura 3y ago
Yeah, you gotta determine what is more likely 1) the landlord didn't change the locks between tenants AND there's a great "key copying conspiracy." Or 2) There's an emergency requiring your landlord/maintenance
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by astura 3y ago
Unions represent employees, not candidates. I don't see how ageism in the hiring pipeline would be fixed by unions.
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by astura 3y ago
I went to Big W website and the first bike I clicked on with the default sorting order has a steel frame. https://www.bigw.com.au/product/repco-blade-26-mens-mountain...
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by astura 3y ago
If you walk into a high end bike shop you won't see many steel bikes, you'll see them mostly with higher end materials like aluminum, titanium, or carbon fiber. Most people aren't getting their bikes from a high end bike shop
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by astura 3y ago
Here's an (old) example of poor random number generation leading to an exploit - https://www.developer.com/guides/how-we-learned-to-cheat-at-...

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