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by creer 1y ago
> 20%, 50% or even 100% markup for such a product I don't know that this is realistic. Like you recognize, there ARE usually boutique higher quality products - at significantly higher prices. There are also nearly always product man
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by creer 1y ago
In the world of propaganda, every success is your success.
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by creer 1y ago
That's an interesting and useful observation (and now I'm curious about the origin in Vietnam and China). But it does not follow from that that US credit card providers' position is not grounded in religion.
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by creer 1y ago
The history of the US and "adult materials" goes so much further than potential disputed credit card charges.
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by creer 1y ago
See cryptocurrency payments. So the good news in this direction is that bitcoin et al are very much making progress at these businesses. As far as I can see, many - perhaps even most - such businesses now accept 2-5 forms of cryptocurrencie
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by creer 1y ago
> there's really nothing puritan about American business culture. [...] utterly amoral. What? Puritanism is not about some kind of blanket purity to be recognized or expressed from any angle, perspective or religion. And in American
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by creer 1y ago
> Adult content is considered a high risk merchant category > It has nothing to do with any sort of puritanical premise. But I have no problem with the parent poster. I'm here hoping for conversation. The argument though is one w
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by creer 1y ago
That seems disingenuous. (1) in this case, this is a not a tiny fly-by-night wannabe game company. (2) which is good for paying back (or never seeing) the money of chargebacks. For a new company, the risk of chargebacks might rest on a cred
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by creer 1y ago
> you can't study the effects directly. That's also not true. By now there are so many similar but different situations that you can look at. And there are so many massively multiplayer games which are fantastic economic worlds
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by creer 1y ago
> Inability to predict outcomes does not mean "unscientific". That would really be an unfair accusation against economics.
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by creer 1y ago
> degree=employment I also don't understand this. For years now, social media has been flooded with objections that this is not the case. Where were these people who didn't hear this message? But it goes further: the young peop
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by creer 1y ago
> Competing in category [...] Also, this is not true. These are categories huge enough to be meaningless. They are stock market classifications (at best) which do not reflect market competition.
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by creer 1y ago
These are statistics. 1. It's not a problem if one of them does not reflect you specifically. 2. You never use just one. It is a problem if the measure needs ongoing adjustment to keep some kind of meaning and if this adjustment is par
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by creer 1y ago
> Yeah, no one wants some abandoned open source project for a defunct business. That's not true. The OP mentions there are current users. Some of the current customers might be able to use ANY distribution to patch problems for a wh
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by creer 1y ago
Yeah they say that. They also write "they’ve spent months digging through the mess". Wait, what? They spent months not telling anyone. Something is fishy here.
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by creer 1y ago
First to me, hiring from a job posting's crop of CVs is going at it the hard way: of course you get 100s of responses. If you have alternatives available: network, recruiter, user groups, trade show, anything really, then use that at l
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by creer 1y ago
The refueling idea is so that for example you don't need to carry the fuel needed to get to the moon or Mars all in one rocket. You just need to carry enough to get to the refueling orbit - which is much less.
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by creer 1y ago
To be fair, there is now a thorough understanding and computing capability for doing statistical failure analysis. They are not doing this at random. And SpaceX is NOT testing everything in actual flight. See engine testing, pressure testin
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by creer 1y ago
Covid-induced zoom, online classes, work from home. - So it wasn't a new development but a change in the circumstances which made existing tech finally widely adopted.
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by creer 1y ago
> strategic / economic point of view? This is very much what you want from a BUSINESS lawyer. And what the author apparently didn't understand. You, your business, the other guys ideally - nobody in here should be there for tic
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by creer 1y ago
How about the salaries of employees being paid to create a new line of business? Say, the business runs restaurants and you decide to break into the tax software business. Can you avoid taxes on restaurant profits right now in order to buil
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by creer 1y ago
It was a very explicit change with its own very specific paragraph. Some stuff can be unintentional. This could not.
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by creer 1y ago
> phased in over a long period of time Obviously?! Phasing in changes over long periods would solve lots of problems - at usually low cost to society it seems. You could - if anyone cared - educate the population on the time frame for th
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by creer 1y ago
> Peak Oil [...] Everything they said was true. I feel even some of the premises were wrong: The root idea is obviously correct: "finite reservoir means finite oil, means peaky exploitation curve" - nothing earth-shattering the
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by creer 1y ago
Good questions. The ideas of "limits to growth" (small l) are fascinating and important. And the initial report and book "Limits to growth" should of course not be the end of the discussion (and it's not). Even if (
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by creer 1y ago
> the only times I've seen them in the news This speaks more to the news than to Waymo. If you want more viewpoints, look for cyclists speaking of their preference for encountering waymos instead of human drivers; look to reddit for
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by creer 1y ago
For whom? In which country?
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by creer 1y ago
Hmmm. In the case of submitting resumes in response to job postings, there is the issue of the software that ingests these resumes. I have always wondered if some keywords were toxic with some of these. Or whether they latch on (parse) some
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by creer 1y ago
> I want a good image search engine + database. You would think we'd be there already. But search as a field has died. Hopefully temporarily but pretty dead. This is interesting because good search is supposedly how Google make thei
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by creer 1y ago
Do gaps matter these days? If anything, everyone knows there have been layoffs; there has been job hopping; there have been startups named "Yo"; weird platforms and languages; political jobs; volunteer gigs... Is a resume that jus

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