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The ills Aldi combats are work that costs the money, like stockers and baggers. But making customers do the work, Aldi can make more profit and/or customers can save money by doing their own elbow grease
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The only "innovation" with the trolleys is that USA used to be a wealthy enough country that it was OK to pay cart collectors. It's not a stupidity thing, it's a poverty thing.
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Buy 2 get 3 free, must get all 5, is the best I've seen. And it's so stupid cheap you can't decline.
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That's not what happened, and you should reflect on what made you think such an absurd claim is true. Target noticed she was pregnant before her father noticed. https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2012
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Sure, maybe it could be useful. But why is it hidden where no one knows it's there to be used?
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7y ago
The way it works today is just as simple. The OS automatic asks permission to run the program.
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You played AC/DC on multiple videos, and deleted all your originals and other copies after uploading it to YouTube?
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But the older work doesn't, and nearly all recorded music is already covered by Disney's forever copyright just because of the history of when the technology was invented.
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People who spend thousands of dollars on music tend to be people who buy expensive phones that don't allow SD cards. But 128GB phones have enough storage for most music collections
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Why do publishers agree to rights reversion? It reduces heir opportunity to directly profit and it increases competition for their other books they sell.
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Why not raise pigs or chickens, for a simple and more reliable meat source than chasing deer with a car? If hitting a deer is needed to feed a family, then all the people who don't get lucky starve to death.
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Is it not trivially explained by network effects?
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They are meant to educate students for success in the world, and success for the world. Of course they are social engineering laboratories; that's in their charters. They are schools, not prize contests.
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It's supposedly a aptitude test. Not a ability test
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IRC is also terrible for conversations.
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Hills are known to promote mentally stimulating play.
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Kids feel safe when they don't know what the dangers are. My kid would feel safe sticking his hand in a pan of boiling oil
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I don't want my daughter to learn about diving into the concrete floor of a pool, or smashing her head into a concrete play structure, by trial and error.
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The discussion is about quadriplegia, not scrapes and bruises.
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Is there a plausible universe where he wouldn't say that?
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No idea if this is true, but Tesla might have a contract for X batteries at Y$ but only end up needing Z<X for its car sales. In every industry it's a good idea to find a use for excess materials.
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Yes. Manufacture is a multi stage operation. Transportation costs (waste) is balanced against production cost at each stage. Tariffs are one (synthetic) aspect of production costs. This may be a hint that the tariff structure is inconsiste
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> They also discovered that vegetarians and vegans were at higher risk. Surely it's far more likely that the causation goes the other way? Or is there a hypothesis that trying vegetarianism promoted overthinking / overcaring a
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What is the difference between diabetes and a mental illness, and why would eating disorders be less mental than other disorders? In other words, why wouldn't all mental disorders be more like diabetes?
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Remember that on mobile by default google pushes the feed on the search page instead of leaving it blank. Desktop is spared the indignity, for now.
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It's a label on the map, like a road name. It may be unwelcome, but it's not dangerous.
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That makes it an unpaid ad.
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This is happening a lot across the US, but should happen more. And doing so doesn't put the books part at risk, as some fear; and it might turn people on to books by proximity.
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Unitarian Universalisy is exactly the church for atheists who see the value in the non religious parts of church. The problem is most people don't understand the value of this, so most people won't get it unless they are driven t
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7y ago
Do you prefer to deploy a new software to your servers by manually copying the bytes, or using a robot?
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