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by creer 2y ago
The parent does mention there was nobody at the front to greet customers. Then nobody who considered fixing the situation. Do you feel the problem (sorry, "norm") contributed to improve or lower the bottom line of that business? D
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by creer 2y ago
My thinking in these kinds of situations is "Seems like one more business that thinks they make too much money", with the obvious consequence of not coming back except under extreme duress (like, someone in the party really insist
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by creer 2y ago
Truly great concept except this "sometimes" of point (1) gets sacrificed to political expediency, and Keynesian stimulus ends up being the normal and expected rather than an emergency measure. It's hard to resist and not to a
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by creer 2y ago
Some photos show the work continuing even with a ship surrounded by a little water.
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by creer 2y ago
in the examples, the payment arrives not because it is "forced" - in US law it wouldn't be "forced" until much, much later. The payment arrives because the alternative is worse (by some calculation). Exactly as for
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by creer 2y ago
Besides the other remarks, in the case of the fine article, it's a matter of the police going out ot their way to deliberately violate local law. Not ingenuity.
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by creer 2y ago
Ordinance version 3 starts "Ordinance amending the Administrative Code to require that City departments acquiring surveillance technology, or entering into agreements to receive information from non-City owned surveillance technology&q
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by creer 2y ago
> "Police officers’ efforts to skirt these bans have not been previously reported and highlight the challenge of reining in police use of facial recognition." NO! They highlight a systemic issue in the US. Where day to day corr
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by creer 2y ago
"The End of Everything: How Wars Descend into Annihilation. The book— and this conversation— charts how and why some societies choose to utterly destroy their foes and warns that similar wars of obliteration are possible in our time.&q
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Are African Prices Too High? Balassa-Samuelson-Based Hot Take(global-developments.org)
1 points by creer 2y ago|0 comments
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by creer 2y ago
Once when it happened to me and the whole gang responded, the "lead responder" was clear that he considered that this was a bullshit call and that WE totally had the right to do what we were doing and HE was sorting out a nuisance
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by creer 2y ago
Some cop noticed the beer, most likely - and they were one of the good guys. Another one might have taken this opportunity to start an in-depth "investigation" (read "bullying spree") to figure out who sold the beer and
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by creer 2y ago
What's wrong with city neighborhood - if anything a "downtown" business area that has places open and people around? A common solution around here.
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by creer 2y ago
It's not entirely impossible to get fined or arrested for calling the police in the US but you have to go extremely far out of bounds. Calling the police because there are kids near the school (hehe) is completely acceptable. If anythi
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by creer 2y ago
It's all the more surprising from China, right? We frequently hear of the struggle that people have to go through for - generally - "presenting grievances" of all kinds. It's possible that in some cases "nail houses
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by creer 2y ago
Same as in the US then, incorrect headline and so far it's not about whether wetware or software invented but whether someone insists on listing software as the inventor on the paperwork.
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by creer 2y ago
It's still an issue for most publishing on the internet. How to fund it. Advertising is still the obvious, easy way. Not much else comes to that level of available funding. Subscriptions are next - but then again most of them only if y
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by creer 2y ago
It makes you approve nothing, but for sure in the US it makes you a target for the vocal moralists. Leading to boycots (which might kill you), dubious free publicity (which you might feel is worth it or not), and extra regulation (which mig
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by creer 2y ago
Moral majority or vocal majority?
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by creer 2y ago
They are leaving money on the table. More than that, they have funded deliberate efforts to find out the non-conforming site and kick them out of their network and that's not free. It's a deliberate, active decision and its cost.
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China's nail houses: the homeowners who refuse to make way – in pictures(theguardian.com)
22 points by creer 2y ago|3 comments
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by creer 2y ago
It's not a state but a very local issue (cities, neighbordhood districts). Indeed some cities do okay. The states, like California currently, can try and influence but the cities are resourceful stubborn and corrupt and still can block
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by creer 2y ago
"Slowing things down" also directly translates to "more expensive". Both by having to hold the property in the meantime (or rights to it) - cost of money, and by having to bride layer after layer of consulted people and
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by creer 2y ago
I noticed currency conversion by bank transfer between euro and dollar
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by creer 2y ago
Some fees higher, some fees lower, seems like.
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by creer 2y ago
This has been puzzling to me for years now. This was Walmart's position to lose (the battle is not over, sure). Walmart was destined (?) to be the local place where many things would be on the shelf, in and out, with minimal hassle (be
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Walmart's Reign as America's Biggest Retailer Is Under Threat [to Amazon](msn.com)
4 points by creer 2y ago|1 comments
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by creer 2y ago
Still current for some countries: 2 weeks ago, a shopper clearly confused half to death barely manages to make themselves understood to me in 3 words of english: They are asking what is the price of the bag of oranges. Because there were 3
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by creer 2y ago
We can both recognize that it's amazing AND that we can do better. Is the solution to stop carrying blueberries or to demand better?
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by creer 2y ago
"Grazing" versus "learning" - for lack of better terms is for me a more useful distinction. Probably because of the volume that we consume, there are each day 2-3 "fine articles" that I find really interesting

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