clairity

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3031.
by clairity 7y ago
another poster gave a good example--offering related merchandise on a interest-based website/forum. a made-up example might be a customer at best buy spending time in both the tv and pc departments and then having an ad pop up on a nea
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by clairity 7y ago
it's really not hard to define what a "good" ad might be--a product (or service) you don't know about but that solves an immediate problem without an immediately obvious solution. it'd anticipate your need, without
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by clairity 7y ago
yah, the volume buttons still work through the apple tv to the receiver via radio (for me).
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by clairity 7y ago
musiccast speakers are reputed to work well, but they're a little pricey. currently, only the apple tv has an internet connection (via ethernet cable into a router, not wifi). i may eventually extend speaker wire into the kitchen to ha
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'Car Accident' or 'Traffic Violence'? The Way We Talk About Crashes Is Evolving(laist.com)
10 points by clairity 7y ago|3 comments
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by clairity 7y ago
a couple of years ago, i finally upgraded to a proper home theater system, with everything connected through a yamaha receiver, and i am pleasantly surprised at how well CEC works (given the many complaints i saw online). since i'd vow
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by clairity 7y ago
fun article. i have to quibble with the conclusion however. cockroaches (hexapods) have been observed to use four and then two (hind) legs as they run faster and faster, which implies that contact time (with the ground) seems less important
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by clairity 7y ago
there's still a bunch you can buy. apparently many "toxic" plants are only mildly toxic for cats/dogs. i don't think they make much difference for air quality, but i bought some "air purifying" plants and
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by clairity 7y ago
(part of) how we mitigate unfettered power is pitting powerful entities against each other. the answer isn't "government!" or "law enforcement!" or "corporations!" but rather more even distributions of pow
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by clairity 7y ago
to go a little deeper, corporate charters set out the values and goals of the company, as amended by the board from time to time, so it's whatever the (amended) charter says (it doesn't have to be solely profit-seeking). executive
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by clairity 7y ago
> "That entity is not a person." the (current) supreme court doesn't agree, and their opinion carries a tad more weight. corporations are basically super-persons in the eyes of the court, since corporations intrinsically f
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by clairity 7y ago
i don't know how "unknown" it is, but i accidentally ran across the novel comfort woman by nora okja keller at the library a few years back and found it heartbreaking, on a subject few americans know much about. https:&#x2
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by clairity 7y ago
in NYC terms, LA is maybe 20% manhattan and 200% of the other boroughs, plus a whole lot of long island mixed together. the multi-modal areas are mainly medium density (~3-8 story buildings) so LA walkability is more queens and brooklyn rat
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by clairity 7y ago
many parts of LA are less multi-modal, often by choice, like much of the westside, beverly hills, etc. but many parts are quite multi-modal, like santa monica, westwood, palms/culver city/mar vista, downtown/arts district, bo
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by clairity 7y ago
good idea. i'd go further and advocate a government option for every utility-type service, like banking, internet, healthcare, etc. businesses would be free to compete with these government services, but they'd also provide a comp
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by clairity 7y ago
it's pretty functional and thoughtful for the wealthy. instead we need a congress responsive to the long-term common interests of the citizenry and not beholden to the singular interests of the rich.
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Parrots Show Off Selfless Behavior(nytimes.com)
2 points by clairity 7y ago|0 comments
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by clairity 7y ago
and that's the systemic sexism--the systemic choices about what should, and what doesn't need, to be paid for. why don't we instead have a society where all childcare is paid labor and we just "pay ourselves" for ot
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by clairity 7y ago
yes, the employer is beside the point. the implicit assumption that women's work is not valuable is still (structural) sexism. that was the point. edit: e.g., > "Choosing to take on the burden of childcare is choosing to spend
3050.
by clairity 7y ago
to compare it to playing video games all day is (unwittingly?) falling prey to the very systemic sexism you're trying to fathom--that "women's work" such as childcare is not "work"--that it's economically
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by clairity 7y ago
> "Induced demand does not suggest that supply is less than demand - it implies that demand is "flexible" to meet any supply conditions." that's the exact interpretation i'm refuting. of course supply is les
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by clairity 7y ago
> "...realize that a car takes space, this all falls apart." that's accounted for in the foot-second metric. by a (very) rough calculation, we'd only need to double road foot-seconds to alleviate most congestion. that
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by clairity 7y ago
induced demand is often (intentionally?) misunderstood as demand being literally insatiable (and by extension, "why bother?"), but really, we're just severly underserving the market, and there are very limited price signals w
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by clairity 7y ago
it's still probably due to basketball, where ACL tears are one of the most common injuries (after ankle sprains of course). many tendon and ligaments can't easily repair themselves (and where they can, it's slow), so the tear
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by clairity 7y ago
yes, weird. i own (or have owned) 8 of them, but hadn't heard of #1 either.
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iOS 13 app tracking alert has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry(appleinsider.com)
781 points by clairity 7y ago|451 comments
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by clairity 7y ago
huh? cafes stay open late in LA. even most starbucks are open to 10 or 11pm. a number independent cafes stay open to 11pm or midnight, with some doing things like poetry/art/music/other events in the evenings. there are a bun
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by clairity 7y ago
in LA, you can find excellent versions of every type of asian cuisine (thai, vietnamese, japanese, korean, filipino, indian, cambodian, bangladeshi, etc.), not to mention other cuisines like ethiopian, mexican, salvadorean, etc., for a rang
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by clairity 7y ago
yes, and that’s basically the model of emergent behavior in many (all?) complex systems, such as human societies. the population exhibits properties that only some of the members exhibit, and some members diametrically oppose.
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by clairity 7y ago
it's a bedrock principle of our constitutional framework that we know who is exercising political power, to avoid corruption and tyranny. it's why we have 3 co-equal branches of government that must make their deliberations and de

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