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That's a really good reason why clothing stores should be exchange-only for returns. If you don't like it or it doesn't fit, you should be able to find something else in the store that fits that you do like. Return fraud lead
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A monopoly is basically a Marxist-Leninist command economy writ small which means it inevitably has all of the same dysfunctions. In other words, Marx was right about how laissez-faire capitalism leads to communism (though of course he was
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A good UI/UX is one that the user is familiar with. A bad UI/UX is one that requires the user to put in extra work to relearn how to get their work done. Redoing UI/UX is also a major accessibility problem because it gets har
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The "license hoop jumping overhead" is a legal requirement. If it ever comes out that your software contains code copied from some random web site, you're asking for a copyright infringement lawsuit. If you stick GPLed code i
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This sounds like the same problem you'll have with the snail mail system if other people used to live at your address and forgot to inform people of their new address. Anytime I get something for somebody who doesn't live at my ho
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A good heuristic for determining whether a game is worth your time is to determine if the game will provide the same experience regardless of when you play it. If the answer is no, the game probably isn't worth your time and you probab
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Legislation that picks on a specific person by name (remember under US law, a corporation is a "person") is called a "bill of attainder"[0] and is explicitly banned by Article I, Section 9 of the United States Constituti
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Ad free cable may have been US centric and that era didn't last very long. The New York Times had an article in 1981[0] about how cable networks were excited about the potential to start running ads. [0]: https://www.nytimes
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At first, cable TV had no ads because it was funded by subscriptions. Then most cable channels slowly started adding more and more ads and demanding higher and higher rates from cable operators to carry their channels. Then the local chan
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The problem right now is that the FAANG companies and the tier below that have suddenly laid off an absolute ton of people (and not hired a ton of people that they'd normally have hired) so you're competing with those people for t
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> In particular, e.g. RedHat's policy of publishing only the "final" source code for their patched kernels, and not the git repo with history (which is what they use when developing it internally) is a straight-up GPL viol
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Generally speaking, most "real inventions" are independently invented by multiple people and aren't successful until somebody figures out how to market them. For example, video games were invented in the 1950s and Tennis for
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The problem for PSVR2 is that the first one didn't really have any must-play games and the 2nd one's only game of note at launch is Horizon which is notorious for always releasing at the same time as some other action RPG that the
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I'm fine with allowing non-competes as long as the company pays the ex-employee their full salary for the length of the non-compete and can't rescind the non-compete without mutual consent. For example, an 18 month non-compete wou
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I think there's a very obvious reason for the "productivity drop": Return to Office I remember tons of studies showing that remote work had caused unprecedented increases in productivity so it seems plausible to me that compa
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There was an attempted mass shooting at the Republican practice for the Congressional baseball game back in 2017 [0] that was a politically motivated domestic terrorist attack (per the FBI's report on the incident in 2021). If Steve Sc
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I think scrollbar blocking is another website "feature" that browsers should disable by default. I don't want to have to deal with the page inspector to browse the web and that isn't even an option on a phone browser. I
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The 5th Amendment of the US Constitution specifically permits eminent domain with "just compensation" so yes an American city could take a large chunk of its private real estate under eminent domain and put it to "public use&
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Plus winning an election means you're more likely to get those opportunities to make money. Most members of Congress are millionaires [0] and it has nothing to do with their salaries (which barely cover the cost of maintaining 2 reside
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If the bribe is paid as a "campaign contribution" to a politician or to a group that runs ads to get a politician elected, it is "free speech" according to SCOTUS in Citizens United v. FEC. If it is paid directly to a po
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The one thing I don't like about Substack's design is the popup trying to get an email address. Its annoying to always have to click "let me read it first" instead of just being able to read the post. Because of that par
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Basically a modern version of the US Copyright Act of 1790. 14 year terms with an automatic 14 year extension if the work is still in print and was in print for say 10 out of 14 years of the initial term. If it isn't made available in
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by bdw5204 4y ago
Location: Philadelphia, PA (USA) Remote: Yes (only) Willing to relocate: No (occasional travel fine) Technologies: C, C++, Java, Go, Bash, Linux, Git Résumé/CV: Available on request LinkedIn: https://www.linked
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GameFAQs has already been dying for the last 10-15 years. Its amazing how most of their user reviews are from 2000-2005 or so and how frequently they don't even have guides for games anymore. Their message boards went from being notori
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There's only one problem: You have to pick the right song that will actually get the video taken down by YouTube rather than just get the ad revenue sent to the copyright holder. YouTube is filled with videos of cops failing to pick th
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This is one thing that has the potential to cause significant numbers of people to switch from Chrome to Firefox. The modern web is unusable without a good ad blocker and its inexplicable to me that it isn't a built-in feature enabled
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With open source projects, you are "entitled" to do the following if you have a problem with the software: 1) Submit a bug report to the maintainer. The maintainer is free to choose whether to fix the bug, add it to the backlog of
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I view myself as a generalist and have looked for jobs accordingly but I've found that specialists tend to be skeptical that anybody can be a generalist or that somebody who has done low level C for a few years since college could be c
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Inflation isn't inherently bad for the poor. If you have debts and inflation is above the (fixed) interest rate on your debts, you're coming out ahead. The downside of inflation is wages and cost of living adjustments often don&#x
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Brave for both iOS and Android automatically blocks YouTube ads.

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