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by giaour 5y ago
It's undeniably more efficient to maintain a motor pool with a centralized mechanic shop. I get that the taxi experience was not ideal for you, but Uber did introduce a lot of inefficiency into the livery market by decentralizing maint
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by giaour 5y ago
> and frequently forced the drivers to do or pay for their own repairs on the cars. I'm not saying the old medallion system was great, but I thought the cab companies back then owned all the cars. (Source: my in-laws owned a medalli
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by giaour 5y ago
Isn't the joke that the particular piece of toast always postdates the particular slice of bread it was made from? I.e., toast is the best thing since sliced bread because first we had sliced bread, and then we toasted it. It's a
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by giaour 5y ago
Source reputation is an important heuristic for determining whether a given piece is content is likely to be spam. If a web property is demonstrated to be routinely publishing falsehoods to sway public opinion, you don't think that sho
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by giaour 5y ago
What matters is that SEO spamming techniques are used to force it to go viral. It's not about sides, though one side in this conflict uses spam much more than the other.
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by giaour 5y ago
We're arguing the same point, I think. The GP was arguing against a straw man that only one kind of spam should be downranked.
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by giaour 5y ago
I don't know what you're basing that last sentence on. Disinformation is infamous for leveraging black-hat SEO techniques. CF for example https://policyreview.info/articles/analysis/disinformation-o...
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by giaour 5y ago
... are you saying Russian disinformation does not have obvious indicators of SEO manipulation? That would be a pretty big change for them.
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by giaour 5y ago
Your assertion is not falsifiable, but I would otherwise take the other side of that bet.
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by giaour 5y ago
Did DDG say they're upranking "good" propaganda and downranking "bad" propaganda? What I understood from the tweets is that DDG is downranking propaganda. Russia happens to produce a lot of it, so they'd be mor
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by giaour 5y ago
Lot of hot takes and hostility in these comments, which is honestly kinda surprising. If your reaction to this news is negative, ask yourself, should DuckDuckGo downrank SEO spam? Then ask yourself how disinformation written to "go vir
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by giaour 5y ago
Copper is more reactive than steel. Copper cookware (with some rare exceptions) is lined with another metal to prevent food from direct contact with copper during cooking. Traditionally, a thin layer of tin is used for this purpose, though
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by giaour 5y ago
I thought this was actually an important source of dietary iron in the early modern period, though that may be apocryphal.
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by giaour 5y ago
That makes sense. Are RSUs parked in a legal sense (i.e., are they actually held in escrow from grant to vest) or is this just common practice?
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by giaour 5y ago
I don't think so, since it's technically future income. If you quit or lose your job, unvested RSUs are revoked, and there are probably other circumstances on the employer's part that could have a similar effect. I once worke
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by giaour 5y ago
I realize that stock splits theoretically don't change anything for shareholders, but is that also true of RSU holders? Is an RSU a share held in escrow (and thus the number of shares should go from 1 to 20 for each RSU), or is an RSU
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by giaour 5y ago
I did this early in my career and ended up underpaid in an unfulfilling job. As a candidate (especially one without sufficient experience in the industry), it's difficult to tell if a recruiter is good or if they're just looking t
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by giaour 5y ago
True, but the merchants with separate prices tend to be smaller organizations, since they need to fly under credit card processors' radar to do this. For a mom and pop shop, they may be willing to do the extra labor to make back the 3%
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by giaour 5y ago
There is a labor cost to accepting cash (or, to a lesser extent, checks) that you don't incur when someone pays with a credit card. I recall reading some dubiously sourced research claiming that it costs most businesses more to accept
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by giaour 5y ago
I don't think they're obvious, and this comment strikes me as baseless innuendo. What precisely are the incentives for multinational corporations to censor news about American cyber malfeasance, especially given how acute and prol
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by giaour 5y ago
Maybe? That would reduce the risk to the holder, but it also reduces the usability of the network, since you'd need to coordinate beforehand with potential users. That of course opens up the possibility that one of the users will give
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by giaour 5y ago
When you set up Google Auth for a site, you can capture the seed value and back that up. 1Password has TOTP (Google Auth protocol) support baked in if you're looking for a way to use TOTP without relying on a single physical device.
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by giaour 5y ago
Wifi hotspot locations can be triangulated, so if the regime has penalties for sharing information they want to suppress, this could be a dangerous plan for a civilian within the regime to undertake.
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by giaour 5y ago
That's funny, I remember Roger Stone staging fake protests to stop court-ordered recounts until the Bush team ran out the clock. Guess memory is a fickle thing!
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by giaour 5y ago
Meh, other languages manage to assign multiple meanings to single tokens and depend on context to resolve ambiguity. PHP's issue here is that it refuses to do so, which is how we ended up with the backslash as a namespace delimiter.
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by giaour 5y ago
> Also other measures can be taken, like stocking napkin dispensers and condiments on tables so that trivial requests don't over-burden staff. Condiments and napkin dispensers on the table are hallmarks of fast casual and otherwise
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by giaour 5y ago
If the cash is evidence (e.g., marked bills from a bank robbery), then it doesn't matter who is holding it at the time of seizure. This doesn't come up often with cash, but it can: https://www.theatlantic.com/techn
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by giaour 5y ago
The only concrete example I could find is https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna26959902 (though to be fair my research here consisted of checking the references on the Wikipedia page for "Marked Bills"). The import
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by giaour 5y ago
That said, congress could fund this tomorrow if they wanted. Budgetary concerns apply to executive actions in this arena, but the whole idea sounds like it's necessary and proper for smooth interstate commerce.
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by giaour 5y ago
> why do governments not make a habit of funding/creating really high quality tax software for businesses/individuals to use? In the US, jurisdictional/funding issues are the biggest blocker. There is no federal sales tax,

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