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by corin_ 6y ago
A policy against contacting mail recipients? They're already allowed to knock on the doors of our homes to deliver something that doesn't fit through the letterbox, or requires a signature...
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by corin_ 7y ago
Yeah it's pointless now days, modern tonic water is very different to the what they mixed with gin basic when quanine was the purposes rather than a mild flavouring.
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by corin_ 7y ago
If the result to the user (getting a machine that leaves them with clean air except 1 type of polutant at exactly the level that polutant would be without the machine), is it really different ethically based on whether the machine leaves th
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by corin_ 7y ago
Would it be unethical to provide a free filter that takes out all particles, then re-adds one specific pollutant back into the air at the exact same level? On the one hand, the machine is specifically administering the pollutant to humans;
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by corin_ 7y ago
It's not impossible for that to be a clever decision by Amazon (although I'm not saying it's likely, I have no idea about the numbers). The ultimate goal of the advertising is return on investment, not making you feel interes
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by corin_ 7y ago
Personally, I love Keybase and it is my #1 choice for communicating with a few people, but bugs are far too frequent for me to consider it for a business. It's getting better, but not close being business ready imo.
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by corin_ 7y ago
> as does any microsoft employee reading that dump. Is it illegal to accidentally receive medical data, if there's no evidence that Microsoft (or whomever) hasn't asked for it or specifically marketed themselves as being comp
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by corin_ 7y ago
You're right about how Facebook did it, but I'd describe it as a pedantically different thing, not a very different thing. It's just a different method of artificially restricting who can sign up. And to your edit: "It&#
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by corin_ 7y ago
How is it proven not to work just because one or more times it hasn't worked, especially with an example as notable as Facebook on the other side? There are pros and cons for sure, and perhaps you're right that on balance the cons
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by corin_ 7y ago
Somewhat related though very different, there are restaurants called Dans Le Noir ("in the dark") - founded in Paris but now in several countries, though so far I've only been to the one in London. You choose one of a few set
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by corin_ 7y ago
I guess it depends on your definition of "journalist", but the author of the piece you linked definitely wouldn't call himself one. He's a comedian, actor, TV writer, etc. and for the Guardian he writes humorous columns.
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by corin_ 8y ago
That doesn't mean that contacting MEPs "doesn't work", you can't expect them to change their opinion immediately based on receiving one email from one of their constituents.
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by corin_ 8y ago
Just wanting the raw information is a nice idea but it's not a realistic one, as even the choice of what data you are presented with introduces potential for bias, and if you aren't presented with specific parts of full data then
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by corin_ 8y ago
Some of the population would pay more towards BI in taxes than the amount they receive as BI (just as some of the population gets taxes more than they receive social benefits currently).
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by corin_ 8y ago
> FakeSpot seems to spend put a lot of emphasis on analyzing the reviewers, probably looking for accounts who appear to be participating in one of these review rings. Presumably this (and the fact that Amazon can analyse them too) leads
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by corin_ 8y ago
There may be other reasons, but trying to look like you’re doing a good job can be a conflict, as while higher crime rates might justify higher budgets in the future, they’d also lower the rate of solving and preventing crimes which are see
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by corin_ 8y ago
There are many premier league teams doing a lot more than Leicester when it comes to statistical analysis. They did indeed win the league with a budget far below many of the normal contenders, but it was a mixture of good management, luck,
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by corin_ 8y ago
There is actually some reason to believe that imagining can increase the strength, for example this study: https://web.archive.org/web/20170814100324/http://jn.physiol...
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by corin_ 8y ago
I don’t think you are disagreeing with the person you’re replying to. Your point that it can be discrimination without affecting all people of <x description> matches their point that one person of <x description> can’t speak fo
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by corin_ 8y ago
I’m not a local or an expert in this area, but do spend a week or two at least once a year in the mountains, either the Lake District or Wales, so have had a few conversations about this in the past. > ”as the trees were felled thousand
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by corin_ 9y ago
Devil’s advocate: maybe the “results” from that spend are measured in how many people they persuade not to try to flee bail, rather than how many Julian Assanges they arrest. Of course that’s a metric that can’t really be measured, it may b
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by corin_ 9y ago
I use ipchicken.com, works over http for public wifi signins, and has added benefit of showing me whether I’m connected to wifi/4g/vpn via IP’s reverse DNS.
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by corin_ 9y ago
Why not allow people to remove just the connection to their account but not the content itself? We all make mistakes and say things we later regret, sure the content forms part of a bigger picture which should be preserved but shouldn’t we
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by corin_ 9y ago
Starting expensive and then expanding for the masses can sometimes be a better strategy than starting affordable and then adding premium options. For one thing, you can build more hype from “the company that used to make only stuff I couldn
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by corin_ 9y ago
If you don’t know what the effect on your 50/50 decision would be depending on how the stock market performs, why are you so set on that decision as to not want advice if it were offered? If you don’t know the effects, how do you know
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by corin_ 9y ago
He couldn’t get unemployment benefits if he chooses to leave a job, but if this job didn’t exist then he could, so it’s very misleading to suggest that if Amazon hadn’t provided this job he would have “no job and no benefits”. (I do think t
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by corin_ 9y ago
It varies by country, and by what companies offer to different consumers. I'm not an expert in this area, but a few examples I know of: - In the UK, Visa/Mastercard are the most common networks used for bank debit cards, using the
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by corin_ 9y ago
Don't try to generalise banking/credit cultures across Europe, some countries may be the same as each other but there's a wide variety. According to https://merchantmachine.co.uk/visa-mastercard-amex/ th
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by corin_ 9y ago
Well there's two opposite ways that have historically been tried to avoid unionisation - you can make sure employees are all happy enough not to want it, or make sure they're too scared of losing their jobs should they support it.
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by corin_ 9y ago
I downvoted you for your rudeness but not for your sentiment. You could have disagreed civilly.

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