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by incongruity 5y ago
I use both modes, but I see what you're saying. (More in a minute) but suffice to say, Amazon used to be good for discovery. It isn't now... Still, I hear you – and I get your strategy for, say, athletic shoes or a new TV or may
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by incongruity 5y ago
Amazon is turning into the fast shipping version of Ali Express. More and more fake / manipulated reviews and a sea of pseudo-English garbled brand names slapped on what looks like identical goods are making it exactly the experience y
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by incongruity 5y ago
At its peak point of customer experience value (which Amazon has definitely past), Amazon was great because it was generally easy to find a good set of options for whatever you were looking to buy, in one place/one search. Now, it’s fu
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by incongruity 5y ago
Considering many other workplaces are similarly space constrained, people often can be contagious before showing symptoms and the extreme transmissibility and pace of the delta variant? Yes, it may be a closer analog than you seem to think,
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by incongruity 6y ago
If I understand correctly, Apple would only get 30% of the in-app subscriptions but not those from outside the app? If so, I think there are likely multiple motivations here. Apple has long been willing to force certain standardizations in
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by incongruity 6y ago
This is some time cube level self rationalizing wackiness. Seriously - If energy is lost, that contradicts your previous claims. You like you use language reminiscent of thermodynamics but you seem to suffer significant misapprehension of
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by incongruity 6y ago
That’s an eminently reasonable proposition but that is far far from insisting on dogmatic application of a zero-sum rule where it demonstrably does not apply. One of the most interesting proofs of this is the measurable change in the Earth’
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by incongruity 6y ago
1) All models are wrong but some are useful. 2) What you are espousing here really isn’t all that useful other than as a way of playing “ooh gotcha” in arguments with others 3) Energy is only zero sum in closed systems and the earth is not
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by incongruity 6y ago
Coordination problems can become technical problems - or be caused by technical decisions. Moving a system/network of actors from one system to a new, incompatible system? You need to coordinate the switch so it all happens at once. Ca
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by incongruity 6y ago
When three of the biggest names in America’s economy try to combine forces to upend another sector of the economy, that’s definitely news. When it fails, it’s even more so.
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by incongruity 6y ago
Well - they do actually do that and under certain circumstances, they are used precisely for that. I find the puritanical mindset a little bit of an overreach here.
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by incongruity 6y ago
As are dentist visits and prostate exams - but even those things ultimately add value. HOA’s arguably do so as well even if they’re often hated.
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by incongruity 6y ago
Speaking as someone who had a core role in organizing PyCon US a decade+ ago and was active with the PSF for some time, I’ve never seen an organization more dedicated to good stewardship and inclusiveness at scale. I’m sure there are other
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by incongruity 6y ago
But a restaurant association (like the one mentioned in the article) could definitely foot the bill to get a class action started.
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by incongruity 7y ago
If you’re on a boat and someone falls overboard have you killed them if: 1) You don’t have a life preserver to throw them? No 2) You don’t have a life preserver to throw them and you don’t look for one? Regrettable, but still probably not.
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by incongruity 7y ago
That progression mirrors many others - but more recently, it makes me think of 3D printing and related making technologies like laser cutters and CNC mills. Good 3D printers can now be had for under 1k USD – and if you can tolerate some t
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by incongruity 7y ago
None of those things had meaningful impact - either at scale or in newsworthy level awful for a smaller group... without that, the story wasn’t sticky and didn’t scare the masses. E.g.: When a wave of echo users are blackmailed after their
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by incongruity 7y ago
That in no way means that Ned’s work hasn’t impacted yours or that you haven’t used his work without being aware of the dependency. Just say’n is all.
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by incongruity 7y ago
Which is why their compliance process wasn’t rigorous enough. As others have said, requiring evidence of University IRB review (which it doesn’t sound like they did) would have been a way to require more safeguards. Yes, bad actors could an
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by incongruity 7y ago
I’d instead say that it is legitimate as long as it continues to align with and perpetuate the interests and values of its people. To that end, if our government has strayed from that in significant ways, it delegitimizes itself and we, the
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by incongruity 7y ago
As much as I want to applaud the wit here, the truth is that it really doesn’t - that phenomenon is quintessentially human. We (as a species) will go cognitive miles to avoid actually facing embarrassment or admitting to being fooled. Your
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by incongruity 7y ago
Is this confounded or bound up with things like fake news or bad science -- would I, if I owned a platform – call it π-Chan –be prohibited from banning users who espoused anti-vax ideas because I firmly believed they put society at risk (or
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by incongruity 7y ago
Well, since you’re asking - Daily - news sites’ front pages are bookmarked on my mobile but often typed as well.
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by incongruity 7y ago
It’s absolutely fair to blame excel. It obfuscates the code in favor of displaying the calculated values - it’s designed to hide the code - which, along with a number of other design decisions, makes it really hard to build an error free
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by incongruity 7y ago
And a good way to possibly build towards a buyout if Amazon decides it wants a larger retail presence. I'm not saying they should do so but it sure seems like a starting point for Kohl's.
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by incongruity 7y ago
Having been a customer in this exchange, it looks like all Amazon systems. Amazon sold goods seem to be eligible - All? I'm not sure but that's handled by Amazon, so no load on Khol's and everything is shipped back to Amazo
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by incongruity 8y ago
We saw/feared where it would go and now it’s gone there. Was it there 10 years ago? I don’t think so. At least not so explicitly.
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by incongruity 8y ago
At the end of the day, if money buys access and money tends to accumulate in a power law distribution it means that access - and thus influence or even speech are not equally distributed. So, while it may not be a bribe, it’s hard to see it
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by incongruity 8y ago
So, I must be missing something but all that re-engineering was to put a larger engine on the airframe but still have ground clearance, while on the ground, correct? What was stopping them from increasing clearance by increasing landing gea
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by incongruity 8y ago
The Socratic method might be a viable option - ask questions. Ask if they have concerns. Ask where their hard-stop lines are. Be friendly about it - attacks don’t help things but conversations can, even if it doesn’t look like it in the mom

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