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by glofish 7y ago
I think the "for-profit"" by a "multi-billion dollar corporation" thought process is clouding your judgment. It is such a trite and overused argument. Why does it feel so different to you if the accident was caused
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by glofish 7y ago
I don't get it. One seems to be a free trial, the other a paid service. Is the complaint that if you cancel your free trial it ends right away instead of running for a year? They are canceling the trial - the user wants it to end!
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by glofish 7y ago
Do you think that the situation is due to an arms race kind of scenario? -If everyone but one stopped advertising then the one still doing it would reap massive benefits? So advertising is a form of obstructing the competitor.
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by glofish 7y ago
But I did. The same amount will be worth less in the future! That's really all there is to it. A certain amount of money is not value, money is a number that has a value associated with it, that value will continuously change depending
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by glofish 7y ago
The answer is simple - trivial even. As I mentioned before a dollar today should be worth more than a dollar next year since, if you are smart, you can make that dollar work for you for a whole year. Hence the inflation.
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by glofish 7y ago
Excellent point - Low inflation is a good thing - it is a sign of a properly functioning economy. A dollar today should be worth more than a dollar tomorrow. Too much inflation is not a good thing is usually sign of systemic failures of t
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by glofish 7y ago
These guys are geniuses. Just like that - leveraging their platform and influence they have minted 4 billion USD worth of new kind of money. Out of thin air. What will be the ultimate kicker if it ends up working - in the sense that there i
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by glofish 7y ago
Basically they lost 10% of their gross bookings. Does this mean that raising the price by 10% has them breaking even? Maybe. It does show the immense potential though, their bookings are so large that 10 percent change would net them billio
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by glofish 7y ago
I am simply responding to what others also called out, that none of the evidences the poster claimed to exist were indicative of corruption, hence the logical and reasonable assumption that the poster is misusing the term, obviously I can o
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by glofish 7y ago
> The problem is that the rules are not applied evenly and transparently. Of course not. Never are, again you are not saying much here. Also with the billions of wasted dollars. Of course, but that is a natural consequence of dealing
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by glofish 7y ago
the magnitude of it matters. Order a Big Mac - does it look like the ad? Probably not. Drink a Cola, does it feel like your life has turned around, probably not. is advertising dishonest - of course, but we all know that and we learned to d
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by glofish 7y ago
I am not sure what you are getting at. Are you saying the research paper got their conclusion and with that title wrong? In my opinion, for anyone that cares about the scientific accuracy content of the paper titled "The Myth Regarding
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by glofish 7y ago
But is it true? The numbers feel awfully skewed - common sense tells me can't be right. Then I did a Google search, found this: "The Myth Regarding the High Cost of End-of-Life Care" from 2015 https://www.ncbi.nlm.
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by glofish 7y ago
Why couldn’t I likewise argue that they would actually be lower (e.g., by closing loopholes)? Well for one, there is no incentive to lower taxes. Loopholes have nothing to do with the ease of submitting a document. Loopholes exploit the v
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by glofish 7y ago
> The first person I know to complain like that in writing was Socrates who lived to see the fall of Athens/Athenian hegemony in 404BC. He wasn't exactly wrong. What? Wasn't he completely, utterly wrong though? Isn'
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by glofish 7y ago
I think the issues that you mention were overly conflated. People do not need to get "involved" into legislating beyond voting for someone representing them - and choosing the person they believe will do so. People do most certain
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by glofish 7y ago
users can do a QR code or facial recognition scan to receive up to 31 inches of toilet paper The introduction of these smart toilet paper dispensers has reduced toilet paper use in Suzhou’s public restrooms by 80 percent A valid use-cas
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by glofish 7y ago
I will disagree here, science usually is quite biased! There are always lines of thinking that get into fashion, where exaggerated claims are more common. Climate change is one of those fields. Everybody and their little sister want to be a
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by glofish 7y ago
The strength of the lobby is purely attributable to the policial will that wants to allow that lobbying to be effective. The main argument I heard against simplifying the tax code (and allowing automated free filing) is that it would eventu
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by glofish 7y ago
The genius of Python is that it treads that fine line between allowing too little or too much control. Between being too strict or too liberal. Between trading speed for clarity and simplicity. It is the ideal programming language for an in
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by glofish 7y ago
I just gave you an example, there are many statistical measures that have that particular requirement. If it is not normality then something else. Every statistical measure makes assumptions, most of which never quite hold true. That was my
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by glofish 7y ago
The fact that there are other instances when people make subjective decisions is not quite relevant in this instance. We are talking about the case when authorship on a scientific publication is insufficient evidence that someone had any co
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by glofish 7y ago
Do you think a recommendation letter is a more objective and better evaluation of what someone actually did? That there is less embellishment, less subjectivity in it than a scientific paper that was meant to reflect on your work as a scien
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by glofish 7y ago
A cynical view - alas it captures the truth. It is very easy to point fingers, to blame it on funding, blame it on journals, blame it on media, but in the end: - scientists decide who gets funded - scientists decide who gets published - sci
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by glofish 7y ago
First and foremost, we are talking in general, about young scientists. Do you think they all know what they sign up for? I for one, having seen many hundreds of them, I don't think so. Then I will say, job offers are not relevant here.
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by glofish 7y ago
This is a variant of "the carrot and stick" approach that happens to be very short on the carrot and be very large on stick. Very unlikely to be effective. Time and again people think that when they have a problem it must mean the
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by glofish 7y ago
The real problem with science is the same as in politics. We, the other scientists (just like the voters) incentivize certain behaviors and with that favor a certain type of scientists (and politician) to prosper. There are all kinds of sci
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by glofish 7y ago
While it is true that nobody forces you to work for low pay - there is definitely misleading advertising at play. Most young people that pick science do not understand the "real" rules of science, and what it takes to "succee
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by glofish 7y ago
Yeah but then you have different problems. Hundreds of authors on each publication. Whose contributions are real and who is just cruising?
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by glofish 7y ago
that is the cliche definition of insanity: "doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." probably the most common mistake students everywhere make. They keep taking more courses - it never helps just makes

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