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by bruce511 11mo ago
I did ceramics for a whole and noticed a common trend. The creator judges the product compared to their imagining of what they wanted to make. Yhe piece invariably falls short (because our imagination is better than our skillset.) Everyone
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Agreed. Frankly test taking doesn't correlate to job performance well by any metric. For example, get 90% on a test, that's applauded and earns a distinction. In a job context, 90% gets you fired. I don't want a worker who pr
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Forgive me, but I don't understand. Perhaps you can elaborate a bit (I did read the web site. ) So, it seems to me like your primary target here is the suppliers marketing budget. The line of thought is that if marketing goes away, the
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To be clear, it's less of a "suggestion" and more of a report of something I've come across in the wild. And as much as it may disregard the RFC, that's not a convincing argument for the customer who is looking to i
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I have come across systems that use GET but with a payload like POST. This allows the GET to bypass the 4k URL limit. It's not a common pattern, and QUERY is a nice way to differentiate it (and, I suspect will be more compatible with M
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I guess I'd like a bit more explanation on what you envisage. I'm thinking back to presentations I've done, even ones where entertainment was an ancillary goal, but I'm not seeing how this would help? Obviously there are
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Any comment from an experienced person to an inexperienced one can be categorized as patronizing. (Including this one.) So sure, if you want to fret about the future, if you want to be anxious about hypothetical things like singularities o
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I'm really not supposed to be sarcastic here, but you're miking it hard. So let me get that out of the way first... You looked at the state of the world, you experienced climate change, witnessed the dismantling of the US govt, th
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"Disclose" is kinda ambiguous here. One of the hindrances to getting a patent is prior art. Meaning that the thing you're trying yo patent already exists. After a patent is issued lots of people typically say "but that&#
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The principle is fine, and certainly applies in many countries. $100 extra per entry seems steep to me, but I guess that boils down to your currency exchange rate.
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Maybe. But maybe not. Firstly, writing the code is perhaps only 10% of the product cost (over its lifetime.) Support, marketing, adjusting, debugging, handling edge cases and so on are where most of the costs lie. In my case brighter folks
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>> Tools you pay for that feel overpriced I get your thinking here - free market spots a gap and competes on price. But personally I think this is a "poor" business strategy. Firstly, competing on price is a race to the bott
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You're sensitive to your passport information being stolen. You don't trust their security. That's all perfectly OK. Fortunately they offer other option(s), which it seems you made use of. So you're all good. A different
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It's not requiring you to submit a passport. That is just one of the options . Feel free to use a different option.
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I agree, it's not as simple as "$500 per year". In some cases it can be, but mostly it's not. Firstly, you need to clearly define what is included, and even more so, what is not included. How many hours is $500? Who deci
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by bruce511 11mo ago
It'll vary by location, but typically credit scores are a measure of -credit- management, not -money- management. So people who are good at managing money, who tend to avoid credit, don't get a chance to demonstrate good -credit-
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With the caveat that doctors have to deal with sick people all day So sure, if you're looking for high income and job security, and the work itself is irrelevant then that's one way to decide. But clearly programming and doctoring
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But that's the point isn't it? You can't (shouldn't?) subsidize all industries. That's unaffordable, and misses the concept of subsidizing things considered important to long term national security. So subsidies, by
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by bruce511 11mo ago
Yes, tarifs can change behavior. I'm not sure that's the goal here, and I'm not convinced there's a local alternative to coffee (at the scale Americans drink coffee.) >> Tariff on coffee as set up by Trump incentiv
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Subsidies are a definite tool, and subsidies are existent in many industries. Lots of farm products for example are subsidized. Of course they encounter their own political hurdles. Think Solar, Electric Cars, CHIPS act etc. But they become
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Clearly monetary policy is a big subject, and yes the Fed has specific targets etc in mind. But I was talking more about a mindset. And of course speaking generally- lots of people (everywhere) have budget constraints. Having traveled in th
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Sure, that's one way to approach it. But I feel like the Canadian approach is better. You don't need to coerce fellow citizens, indeed the point is far more effective when it's not coerced. And if not enough citizens care to
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I knew that would come up :). Yes, Hawaii produces about 1% of the coffee consumed in the US. I'm guessing a chunk of that is consumed in Hawaii... But I'm glad you got the point. :).
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Leaving aside the other (valid) items in your list, reciprocal tarifs really aren't helpful. Firstly, they're unnecessary. Just do what Canadians are doing. Stop buying US goods. Stop going to the US on holiday. Shop keepers get t
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Squeezing the supplier may work in the short term, especially for goods already ordered, and produced, which can't be sold elsewhere. But in the short-medium term it creates uncertainty for the supplier. (The on / off / on na
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No sure why you are being down-voted. Your argument is coherent and correct. Targeted tariffs on specific goods leads to the development of local production of that good. Lots and lots of countries have these in place. Blanket tariffs are,
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I understand your sentiment, but I feel like your position is somewhat simplistic, and the actual situation is more complicated. First, overall, the US has increased manufacturing output over the last couple decades. 2019 was the highest ye
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This gets to the heart of the real question Cyrus should be asking; While the market of people who don't want to pay subscriptions might exist, is this the market you want to chase? Part of building a business is building a customer
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I get that in some societies there is a quick journey from something bad, to someone-to-blame. In litigious societies this means a quick trip to sue someone, anyone... What's interesting to me is that in societies not prone to blame, o
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>> Small developers are not welcome at Meta You took a long time to come to a conclusion that is common knowledge; "Don't build things which are dependent on someone else's platform." This is a valuable life lesson

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