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by brownbat 7y ago
A bit like chargeback without any consultation. Planet Money just had a story from the other side, one of the producers made a payment on another service in error, and tried to get it refunded.[0] [0] https://www.npr.org/201
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by brownbat 7y ago
It's possible, but this explanation still implies they're storing the passwords, not the hashes.
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The benefits of Vitamin C have been wildly overstated, thanks mainly to Linus Pauling, whose theories on its therapeutic and preventative effects have been consistently debunked in large studies, with some studies even associating high dose
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To clarify further, generally past convictions are inadmissible, because you don't want to bias a jury about the facts of the specific case. "This guy murdered three other people!" is no proof that he murdered this particular
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Well, OPEC feels it needs to artificially limit supply to keep prices from cratering, while fracking has basically permanently displaced several producers. Also, electrification and renewables threaten future demand (though that may be take
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by brownbat 7y ago
This is a surreal video. If you believe in peak oil, you probably nod along and find this really insightful. If you're a peak oil skeptic, it feels like watching a video by a bunch of flat earthers. I'm not even sure any discussio
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by brownbat 7y ago
Kevin Drum's rebuttal, citing census data and Brookings estimates: "there never really was much of a back-to-the-city trend in the first place... With only tiny variances, the suburbs have been gaining population for 70 years rela
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by brownbat 7y ago
Hans Rosling rebuts this, especially in Factfulness.* If you look at population trends in countries worldwide, populations routinely level out only after improving underlying economic and health conditions. When infant mortality is high and
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> they are dry and tasteless I often prefer thighs too, but if you're stuck, you can avoid dry/tasteless breasts if you use a lower heat for most of the cooking process, then blast briefly at higher heat for a rich malliard. Al
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> I didn't actually get that much value from yt recommendations. The last rec engine I got much value out of was early Netflix, around the first public competition to improve their engine. My nightmare is that corporations suddenly
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Australia is probably covered, if push comes to shove: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Artesian_Basin
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It's a little more complex than that in practice. Accessory liability generally requires you to know that someone is going to commit a crime, and know that your action will help them. Juries can make bad decisions in particular cases o
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Genius link here, in case anyone needs it: https://genius.com/1136925
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In the 80s, people wanted a desktop with apps, and Microsoft solved for that by just letting everyone make any app they wanted and not playing gatekeeper. An MS phone using that model would be interesting. No app store. Just go ahead and ru
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by brownbat 7y ago
Ha. I do have a soft spot for this era, where all manner of fonts and freehand were jumbled together in a single document. In honor of your half serious attack, I'll offer a half serious rebuttal. Mostly I love the single use fonts des
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Your takeaway was "I don't care about the poor" from a comment where I literally talk about how important it is to help people who didn't have the same opportunities I had. It's _the opposite_ of what I said. All I
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by brownbat 7y ago
That "cohorts shift" critique didn't land with me either, until I thought of my own path. Grad school pushed me way below the -$6k median for the bottom quintile.[0] I pulled that quintile's average down for years, but I
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This has sat for a while. I don't really understand why the sudden dismissive sarcasm, but my best guess is I just didn't explain my point very well. You probably don't care at all, but for posterity maybe I ought to explain
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People keep saying supply and demand is a broken theory, but I'm not sure how to interpret that. When oil prices fall some producers seem to shut off their pumps. When restaurants raise their prices the people I know tend to cook at ho
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Question was flagged before I could read it, but based on responses citing the birth rate, the premise of the question might have been along the lines of whether or not it's worth saving lives in areas with high birth rates if we'
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https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/byjify/arial_view_of_... A lot of comments still up are even more directly critical of Beijing than that post. Mods flagged it for "vote manipulation." So
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If you charge for listing and take 30% for sales, people are going to try some aggressive revenue techniques. One of the biggest unsolved problems for users is how to get the security of a walled garden while still encouraging open developm
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https://hubski.com/pub/425192 The trollbots and spammers beat us all there.
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Location. It's valuable to be next to useful places. This value of proximity could be increasing so rapidly that it would wash out the value of any particular residential building you could put there.
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Binary social feedback systems often run into the same issues - people game the system and people use downvotes to disagree. There's no nuance in positive sentiments either - people conflate upvotes with reputation. It makes me feel li
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> a high-quality turns-out style refutation of the existing narrative... Ok, well played.
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I like being able to control the lights and temp in my house from anywhere. I like being able to play music with my voice. I use those features pretty regularly. But... I have a phone for these things, and real speakers for the music. So ev
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> the interconnected nature of the global economy will likely ensure that there will be a resolution to this... I hope so. Rational actor models worry me more in politics and foreign policy than in economics. Reasons this might just keep
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Interesting find. I have encoded video for over a decade, and I don't think a two month period has gone by where I haven't learned something that convinces me to completely change how or what flags I'm using. This is way beyo
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This makes me curious who would be going "too far" in posting fake reviews. What about the marketplace itself? Some of the Amazon brands have mediocre or lower scores on fakespot: https://www.fakespot.com/company&#

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