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> Ingvar Kamprad, founder of IKEA, had a hard time remembering numbers and numbers And also numbers I assume. Does it mean something like “endless stream of numbers”? I’m very surprised that they have 2000-3000 new products every year. C
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> Sure, quality and security suffer, but Sure, it gave you a bad E. coli infection, but look how much of it you could eat. You use a very selective or narrow definition of "better". The "worse" gets swept under the ru
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> This is highly debatable. Unfortunately the author never even tried to debate. He made a big mental leap from "you can build entire neighborhoods and immediately remodel them with a click" to "the houses are better"
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On the other hand archive.is is notorious for not working for many people. I am trapped in an endless reCaptcha loop, being repeatedly asked in Thai or in Japanese or any of these random Asian languages to mark "whatever" in the p
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Don't generalize. You have "principle propagandists" who just prosternate for free and become someone else's mouthpiece because their propagandist upbringing taught them so. But what you're replying to is nothing li
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A network of cameras where everything they record everywhere is logged and searchable is exponentially more powerful and dangerous that a patchwork of individual, unrelated cameras. > What’s stopping a company from paying these people
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> I don't know how the app will behave when it can't reach the server half the time Immich has automatic URL switching, so it detects which network it's on and select between the internal and external URLs. When I'm n
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To convert between chirality would be an additional complexity hurdle. Like you said, current life generally doesn’t do it at any level of evolution with very minor exceptions. I am wondering if the concern is that the evolutionary pressure
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> These signals, known as beamforming feedback information (BFI), are transmitted without encryption, meaning that anyone within range can potentially read them. > By analyzing that information, the system can generate images of peopl
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The proposal tries to go against the current trend of US isolationism which burned a lot of good will with the rest of the world, and gain a bit of soft power back. Noble goal, but I’m not sure who wants to align behind the US today and ris
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Until recently Apple only allowed Webkit on iOS. In the EU and Japan now they allow proprietary engines. But this means Mozilla needs to put in all the extra effort to maintain yet another branch for iOS with all the features, for an even m
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Probably very inaccurate numbers but the trends could be okish.
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Always follow the manufacturer’s instructions. Most CGMs are going on the back of the upper arm but some were put on the lower back, or other places. The manufacturer develops the CGM with a very specific placement in mind and they make sur
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Education is essential in general. But as far as the classic definition of "success" is concerned (usually revolving around wealth of some kind), education is like luck. It could make the difference between 2 people in otherwise i
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I read it as “we can see with our imagination”. We build, we invent, we follow our “hallucinations” whether they come from drug use or just an active imagination giving revelations.
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> It is what the stores are having a hard time accomplishing. It's a proxy for what the stores have a hard time accomplishing. The goal is to fulfill demand. Do you genuinely need the explanation why a store's goal is to sell
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> I disagree. If an endpoint is open, my assumption is The famous "innocent as long as their assumption was" defense. "If the window is open, my assumption is" works the same way. The law is clear on this, no need to
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Not in this case. You're citing Economics 101 without addressing the situation from the article. The current primary supplier had a temporary setback caused by a fire in mid-March and operated at reduced capacity, before going back
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> it slows down how fast the supply sells out This is not the goal. The only mitigation that could make sense is to impose limits per person or household to avoid someone hugging all the supply. > This allows there to always be supply
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I don't know where you got that honestly. The situation here is that there is a temporary supply shortage. If you raise the prices to drop sales and guarantee you have stock it means you priced out most of the people. You narrowed your
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Raising the price doesn't increase the supply, it just selects who can access it. Most of the people will still not get it, just for a different reason.
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> a conventional single-main-rotor helicopter that weighed 13.3 kg (29.3 pounds) and hauled 51 kg (112.4 pounds) I think this was the sweet spot for now and we'll need to wait for anything that maintains that ratio at double the car
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I think we're both thinking of different examples and drawing wider conclusions. I'm thinking of a company losing the data that makes it money, you're thinking of losing the customer data and thus their trust. Probably equall
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And to be clear, this isn't an "I just walked through an open door" situation. This is getting in the house through a 2nd floor open window, destroying some items and putting some of your own in their place. > the bot expl
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The difference between "ethics" and "security and compliance" is that the latter is something that hits inside the company, while the former usually hits outside of the company. Poor security practices harm your teams, y
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I forgot to mention, my bad, I used some random numbers. The EU "nutrition claims" numbers are here [1]. If you want to claim "less salt" then it must contain at least 25% less. For most other ingredients it's 30%,
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> the beef portion of the hamburger patty is "100% PURE ALL-AMERICAN BEEF" But the claim isn't about "the beef portion". If what you say is true it would give a competitor the chance to say "McD's burge
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> Judaism is an extremely stupid and dangerous religion Religion has nothing to do with it. This is the extremist ideology that lives in some people and their need to leave a "legacy". Those people would have been extremists no
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> they've still robbed you of years of your life and hundreds of thousands of dollars in lawyer fees. Intentionally giving a duress PIN which you know will wipe evidence - information you were just asked for by some law enforcement
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Almost 50% of the energy consumption of the German chemical industry is natural gas. Its competitiveness is at the mercy of countries with no duty to Germany and they're the root of the supply chain. > let the free market do its thi

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