cwkoss

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by cwkoss 4y ago
lol, I think the comment you are replying to had the opposite meaning of how you interpreted it.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Samples are funded by the expectation that some will follow through with a purchase and justify the free distribution of those samples. Websites with ads are funded by the expectation that some will click through, make a purchase, and justi
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by cwkoss 4y ago
By your own logic, shouldn't you avoid eating samples for products you have no intent on purchasing?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Many middle class seniors sell their homes to pay medical or long term care expenses.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Perhaps the housing market is obese from low interest rates, and will be healthier after a bit of dieting. Society would be healthier if the housing market wasn't managed to be a retirement fund. Would likely end homelessness.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Was destroying the US slavery industry a good thing? Would you have protected those jobs instead? I don't think celebrating the destruction of that institution makes me an extremist...
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Destroying immoral jobs is a societal good.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Ads cause psychological harm to people. They are engineered with the intention to make them feel insecure and make worse decisions with their money.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The analogy would work better if the lettuce was infected with parasitic worms that make the victim more likely to spend money on lettuce.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Do you think people in costco should avoid trying samples if they don't intend to purchase the item?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The ads on the bottom of CVS receipts are incrementally increasing their costs. Do you feel a moral obligation to read each one?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Seems like they work in ads and are grappling with the moral cognitive dissonance of their income stream....
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by cwkoss 4y ago
The vast majority of modern day ads are a cancer on society that are engineered to maximize the insecurities and desires of the viewer. They try to make you feel as unhappy as possible so you'll make a purchase to soothe those negativ
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by cwkoss 4y ago
That isn't a property of fiat currency, that's a property of the bank/credit card you use. Someone could make a service with delayed settlement that is denominated with Bitcoin, and it would work just the same. If you pay som
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Why are low mass stars the most useful for a galactic civilization? Why expect usefulness to cause absolute bias rather than a moderate one?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Or only play sports games
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I think the main issue is that hall monitor types are attracted to the power, and so if a HOA gets taken over by people who like judging others without any other major obligations, they lose sight of the reason for the HOA rules and enforce
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Neither of the two real estate agents I've worked with batted an eye when I asked to exclude any property subject to an HOA. If enough of us do this, the price of HOA properties will drop due to decreased demand and people will more br
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by cwkoss 4y ago
A number in your head is portable. So with the exception of the 'border crossing' use case, I agree they are functionally the same thing. I suspect a lot of more of the 0.1% have gold hidden than many would expect. I've met t
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by cwkoss 4y ago
All the fresnel lenses i've seen have the focus in the center of the panel, because they only expect you to use one at a time. I would imagine it wouldn't be too hard to make an array of n^2 (9?) fresnel lenses where they each ha
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by cwkoss 4y ago
That's an awesome tribute. I'm sure your dad would be proud.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Name a currency that scammers don't get fools to part with.
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Bitcoin is the first (and most stable) theoretically unseizable currency. You can store bitcoin in your brain, get persecuted by your national government for criticizing their actions, travel across a border, get kidnapped, offer up a deco
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Is there a recipe of 'off the shelf' components that could be mixed together by a layperson and have a high likelihood of being an order of magnitude more durable? Or is the tailoring of the mix to the environmental conditions goi
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Maybe you could do a 10 year stock grant that is fully vested regardless of employment, and grant the same amount at the same schedule each year (or more frequently) so number of options is proportional to length of employment?
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'd be interested in making some concrete objects that can last 1000 years. Could anyone suggest some resources or search terms to learn what 'forever' concrete entails in our modern scientific understanding, and how much mor
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Interesting, I think moderation of big subreddits is one of the worst things about reddit - its unpaid labor, so the only people willing to invest the time tend to be petty tyrants. Ex. there is a moderator of major sub who likes to leave d
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by cwkoss 4y ago
I'm an English speaker, who is learning Japanese as a second language. I've found it difficult to get tiktok to recommend japanese-language videos to me - will usually only do so if I follow an account. I think there is a languag
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Tiktok is pretty good at reflecting yourself back to you - it gives you more of what you give your attention to. Did you go into tiktok 'rubbernecking at the car crash'? If you watch bad content, it will serve more bad content to
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by cwkoss 4y ago
Would be interesting to develop an executive/managerial compensation structure that functions like a 10-year call option. Maybe it could feel a bit like TV show 'residuals' - even if you leave the company you'd still ge

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