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by jacobr1 4y ago
There are plenty of people that will gleefully try to correct you if you write Burma rather than Myanmar these days. I don't think it is a _good_ trend. But it really is a trend.
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Hah, no, I'm the type of person annoyed by such things and thus aware of them.
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Without an injunction, the default remedy to civil matters are damages. With an injunction the action can be compelled or prohibited and failure is now subject to _criminal_ penalty. It is one thing to be a manager at a company getting caug
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by jacobr1 4y ago
While I don't think this was intended - there is a movement to use place-names as preferred by their inhabitants, rather than their "colonial" names. Regardless of the historical context or the merits of linguistic descriptiv
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Wouldn't that also apply to pasteurized cheese? Cultures are usually introduced which I would expect to outproduce bad bacteria just like with raw-milk cheese.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> I don't care what statistics say about assertions and possible changing circumstances for cyclists safety. Why not? Shouldn't we want to increase cyclist safety? Wearing helmets does that, both the data and common-sense concu
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by jacobr1 4y ago
It isn't a circumvention - you can't buy the products in the app. If you try to go to the product page of a digital product it redirects you to a browser - but importantly you can't actually even see the product in the app so
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by jacobr1 4y ago
And it isn't like quality Android phones are somehow niche, hard to find, or cost more. The competitions is strong and Apple only maintains its lead (in fairly short 1-2 year product cycles) with innovation. If it stopped innovating or
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by jacobr1 4y ago
With the benefit of hindsight was breaking up Standard Oil worth it?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
This is one of the problems with polarization. The legitimate points of one side get grouped in with all the other ridiculous crap. Every law, every program has a cost. Many times this costs are worth it. And there are plenty of times where
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by jacobr1 4y ago
More the study of human behavior under the environmental conditions of markets, or groups within firms. You can study animal behavior in the environment of a zoo, as opposed to say, a savannah or jungle.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
While this is generally true for any regulation ... for small businesses we do have one approach to address the problem of regulatory compliance: outsourcing to specialized firms. For example small sites can just use an identity provider (m
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Two factors: 1) Humanely raised 2) Efficiently killed (done quickly with limited/no pain). One can argue the cruelty of eating animals regardless - but there very much is a difference between tightly caged factory farming, pumping anim
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by jacobr1 4y ago
That is standard restaurant markup over retail: 200-300%. So a $20 wine you get a wineshop should be priced $60-80 in a restaurant. One secret is that most nicer restaurants allow you to bring your own wine, provided you pay a "corkage
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Not mixing between years, but you can mix between different vineyards of the same year. As long as the wine comes from the same region you can keep the branding. There are plenty of contract vineyards that sell to different wineries to enab
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by jacobr1 4y ago
One of the big differences in this category (cheap wines) is consistently. You can genuinely find great wines, but there is much greater variance in the quality year to year, or within variety of the same winery. In other words, the followi
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by jacobr1 4y ago
How much of that is health code enforcement rather than demand?
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by jacobr1 4y ago
There probably are objectively 4 categories of wine that pretty much everybody will agree with when given a blind test: bad - wine that actually has gone bad (skunked, turned to vinegar or some other faul) low-quality - jug wine (high sugar
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Also interesting was this recommendation: "Keep using Tailscale! The speed and quality of Tailscale's response to our report is unlike any vendor interaction I have experienced, and suggests a deep commitment to keeping their cust
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by jacobr1 4y ago
I love our local farmers market during peak apple season. There are maybe 20 varieties to try across the different farms, more if you consider each farm's variant it own thing. Sadly we still have covid restrictions preventing food-tas
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> Even the classic Red Delicious You are right about the flavor profile - but Red Delicious gets its bad rap from being mealy. Now that might be due to historical transport and storage practices during the era when Red Delicious reigned
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by jacobr1 4y ago
And even there was a "real" airport - you'd face considerations like "Theseus ship"
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by jacobr1 4y ago
> Just being pedantic here, but there's not limitation on, say, homicide. There is though ... the lifetime of perpetrator.
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by jacobr1 4y ago
War reparations from the conquered/losing side appear in history now and then.
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you still need counterparties
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by jacobr1 4y ago
https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started
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No, but companies internally re-org all the time. And one of the big motivating factors is to re-align incentives so that internal responsibilities are split into discrete, measurable areas. It seems like re-org success has mixed results -
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I prefer to work for companies where this is the case. I get enough equity compensation that finding creative solution to deliver business value _is_ my job and thus am indirectly compensated with the success of the company (even if the ove
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The 12 month extension was going to get the managers who proposed it fired. So they couldn't actually propose it - thus the cliff. Instead they needed an alternative. Of course a better discussion would have been a frank reevaluation w
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by jacobr1 4y ago
Why does anyone think this is a solvable problem? Once there is sufficient notability only authoritarian censorship or jailing is going to work, to increasing degrees of force up to executions (and even then that won't silence supporte

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