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by fleddr 4y ago
"But despite all the missteps and stress, the results might justify all the pain. I expected the new website to increase sales by 10-20%, but it’s been closer to 40%." Should have put this in the beginning of the article. As for a
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by fleddr 4y ago
Nope, I would expect it to do close to nothing to inflation. The current inflation is primarily caused by high energy prices, secondary by shortages (semiconductors, grain, vegetable oils, etc) and third (delayed effect) higher wages due to
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by fleddr 4y ago
Because a suppression of price would also suppress new development? Why would a builder build anything in an area of low profitability, in a backdrop of rising costs and worker shortages? So how come there's ample low cost high quality
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm struggling to make sense of the cause and effect in the article: "The high cost of property taxes have long pushed away speculative investors as it has pushed the carrying cost beyond what is profitable to hold as a passive in
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by fleddr 4y ago
Bluetooth is absolute garbage, I hate it with a passion even if overall it works in 90% of cases. Just the other day I was connecting my phone to a mobile speaker in the garden. The phone is an inch away from it. Still doesn't connect,
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by fleddr 4y ago
I can't really say, at that age I had no idea what fragmentation means so any issues with it would not register. Statistically though, I imagine reordering to be the most frequent operation. Deletion should be rare since it's a pu
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by fleddr 4y ago
Interesting how so many people comment on the aesthetic but not on the unique capability of MiniDisc: the TOC. You can delete and reorder tracks and this new state is written back to the disc. There's nothing else that does this. You c
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's not what "taking something personal" means at all. It has nothing to do with the amount of recipients or whether you're a person.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I think a part that is missing from the "national security" aspect is not just the data harvesting, in particular what you can do with it: manipulate the narrative. Maximize division, influence elections, spread misinformation, ce
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by fleddr 4y ago
Fully agree.
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by fleddr 4y ago
That's not how it works at all. Say a machine gets installed at work that increases productivity by 20%. In a sane system, you could now work 20% less for the same output, a vast improvement in quality of life. In reality, you might lo
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by fleddr 4y ago
Your exact example is explained in the article, might try reading it. A computer getting faster is development, not growth.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I didn't mean it that way, but even if taken literally "don't trust your kids" is solid advise. Meaning, you cannot trust on them to navigate an online world full of harm and bad agents. It's not the kid being unhea
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by fleddr 4y ago
Pretty much for all online accounts his son has, he has access. So he regularly logs in and checks activity. He also has some special app to monitor Playstation chat/voice but I don't know what it's called.
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm technically a Roman Catholic. My parents told me that if I performed the rituals, like communion, I'd get a new bike and it would make grandma happy. My father's belief system: Dad: "It's freezing in this church
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by fleddr 4y ago
Maybe, but in that case they could just say "married couples live longer". I really think they're referring to the communal feeling of religion. Forget about the religion itself, it's an incredibly effective way to get t
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by fleddr 4y ago
1. Indeed a controversial finding as 1-2 drinks a day being favorable was a classic finding which somehow got debunked about a decade ago. I suspect not because it isn't true, but instead because of the wildly different context. Stress
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by fleddr 4y ago
Yet I challenge you to find one more effective. Whether by force/dogma or voluntary, a uniformly religious community connects at least weekly and includes all. Through this meeting, you get to know pretty much everybody, what they do,
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by fleddr 4y ago
We live in a timeline where conspiracy theorists turn out to be right and now this.
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by fleddr 4y ago
A way to summarize it: undo many of the "advances" of the last 50 years, and live the longest. Perhaps they weren't really advances after all.
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by fleddr 4y ago
"Knowing your sense of purpose is worth up to 7 years of extra life expectancy." Uh-oh. "Research shows that attending faith-based services 4 times per month will add 4 to 14 years of life expectancy." Looks like my athe
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by fleddr 4y ago
Must be nice to live in such an alternative universe. In companies where I've worked, a few Fortune 500 ones included, there is this thing called "budgeting". More formally called AOP, Annual Operating Plan. Your team, IT dep
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by fleddr 4y ago
Technically, the poster is still correct: there's no such thing as "natural" human rights. Rights do not exist in material reality, they're entirely cultural and thus made up. Not even the international declaration of hu
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by fleddr 4y ago
How so? Almost every European country is in the 15-25 weeks zone. Many extend that significantly based on case-by-case consultancy between doctor and patient. In high-income countries 90% of all abortions are done BEFORE 12 weeks.
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by fleddr 4y ago
Note that in moderate/colder countries (taking the Netherlands as an example), heat pumps are not a solution when your house is not up to modern insulation standards. Which is true for almost all houses older than say 15-20 years. The
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by fleddr 4y ago
I have friends with children in the age of 12-14, one of which excessively monitors his son's online behavior. He's shown me results of his monitoring and it pretty much ended the debate. Weird old guys contacting his son, excessi
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by fleddr 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. Yes, the "patriarchy" is female. I switched to a 4 day work week 10 years ago, unrelated to children (we don't have them). On the 5th day I work on my personal projects. To this day I have to "explain
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by fleddr 4y ago
"There was a study, which I can't find right now so I'm hoping another person will help me out with the citation, that showed women were less satisfied with stay-at-home men than vice versa." There's a million studi
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by fleddr 4y ago
Not to worry, I had no intention to make that distinction, it was clumsy phrasing, this isn't my first language. To be clear, there's nothing more meaningful than being a mother. So yes, a full-time mother is contributing to socie
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by fleddr 4y ago
I'm not pretending that at all. Women don't want stay-at-home-husbands. A particular movement of women may claim that or believe it is right, but that doesn't make it true.

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