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by jancsika 3y ago
> Much of what Amazon does is what other retailers already do. Walmart and Costco subsidize free shipping by raising prices on the third party businesses who sell through them? Because that's what the article is about.
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> This is nothing new; it’s been happening forever and will continue to happen, we just have a new reason to drive a race to the bottom. The joke about the pinewood derby was that you could always tell the one kid who actually built hi
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How can you reliably differentiate their local stuff from the oil that's mixed with imported oil, or even know whether the imported oil is EVOO? IIRC they're no longer certified by the COOC. Given the massive amount of fraud in th
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by jancsika 3y ago
> I've always been satisfied with my grocery-bought olive oil, but also curious as to what "good" olive oil actually tastes like. There's an initial flavor that can be idiosyncratic to where the olives were grown-- to
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by jancsika 3y ago
> So, if there's nothing inherently wrong with rancid olive oil, and people are getting a year's supply for $20 already, then what exactly is the problem? I mean, if you thought you bought a new Iphone but it's actually an
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by jancsika 3y ago
1. Essentially, the first time they press/smash a bunch of olives they can easily slurp/ladle out a bunch of the oil. 2. The remaining crushed olive junk still has oil in it, and they apparently have various industrial/chemic
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by jancsika 3y ago
Stranger Things pitch warble effect turned up to Eleven[1] at about 5:40! That effect always evokes Vangelis on Blade Runner <- analog synths <- Buchla, who could have implemented steady pitch but apparently designed the oscillators
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by jancsika 3y ago
Your comment is also not well-defined. Are you claiming that many people you know who are maxing out their 401k, HSA, and Roth IRA literally speak the words "paycheck to paycheck" to describe their financial situation?
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by jancsika 3y ago
> People like to take out their anger on Facebook/Tiktok but the bigger issue is that human communication doesn’t work well at scale. How long did it take CSS to be able to center something vertically on the page? Going to go out on
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> This rarely leads to a theory that stands the test of time. 1. The simplest explanation is usually the best one. 2. The simplest explanation is usually the easiest to comprehend, discuss, and-- if applicable-- test. This leads to faste
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by jancsika 3y ago
The pattern on HN is less nuanced. A story or thread gets a bunch of low-effort comments, possibly ones that are bigoted or conspiratorial depending on the content of the story. Then the entire story is flagged and frozen to further comme
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by jancsika 3y ago
> and the people who see the post first will be people who spend too much of their lives on Reddit Except that every OP by default gets their inbox lit up by responses, typically unmoderated, in the order they were received. So a perso
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> If you really want to prove it to yourself, it's not too hard. Perhaps. But proving it to anyone else at all is a hell of a leap in difficulty from there.
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First sentence of top comment: > Don't get discouraged by people being a bit condescending, it's a cool discovery. But as of this moment, my reading returns zero condescending comments. Probably everyone here at HN had the same
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by jancsika 3y ago
I think blank slate HN'ers who want to cleverly build from first principles are in a sense like the problem C++ of trying to import the banana class and accidentally bringing in the entire world. But with the blank slaters it's mo
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by jancsika 3y ago
Ooh, I've got one: Classic anarchism is when I share knowledge about how to make your own toothbrush. Communism is when I get stabbed in the back because I didn't help them take over the toothbrush factory.
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Trust: I already have to trust Mozilla to design, write, and maintain a minimally safe browser written in a memory unsafe language that also properly supports Ublock Origin just so the web doesn't appear like a bunch of blinking Las Ve
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> But what you are saying is just that the “range” of morality is handed down by nature. Yes, but for the generous interpretation of what I wrote. E.g., you can't build a moral system that requires cordoning children off in indivi
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by jancsika 3y ago
> What is meant by moral relativism in this case I think is merely that morals do not come to us handed down by God or Nature as Chomsky claims, but are a constant choice made by people over a potentially infinite range. I didn't ge
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> If Mr. Curry had known to assert his status and rights under the Privacy Protection Act, he would probably be entitled to damages from the agents who searched and seized his data. Lawyers and only lawyers-- is there some kind of workab
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by jancsika 3y ago
> Reminds me of a school class mate who had a very low success rate with girls, and switched successfully to better odds by a similar strategy: "If you talk about you, and your life, and where you come from for ten minutes, and she
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> You can get considerably more powerful mini PCs for less than a 4GB Pi5 with needed accessories that is upgradable, has further software support, and includes all of what you need to get with a Pi. Name three, please, with emphasis on
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What's the failure rate in small- vs mid- and large-sized companies? Is it really any different?
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> People had to physically take the input away from him if they were pairing with him because there was nothing anybody could say to stop him, and if you tried to tell him it wasn’t right then he’d just be pasting the second code snippet
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> I have had basically zero desire to cook (or really do much of anything in complete honesty) for the last couple weeks and I am super thankful for "processed" things like Huel. I'd never heard of Huel. Just looking at th
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> When he asked for an explanation, John Cage said the he did not have to throw coins "because my mind is random." Was Cage claiming some kind of spiritual musical connection from choosing pitches based on the I Ching? If not,
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by jancsika 3y ago
> A 60 or 70 year career as one long project of psychoanalysis, with the seeds in earlier works getting ever better formed and expressed later. Two different counter-examples: 1. Mozart. Once he was a late teen, the masterworks just popp
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by jancsika 3y ago
In Cocaine Bear nearly none of the people mauled by the bear in the first half of the movie were drug users. The maulings seemed randomly chosen, save for the two kids. I'll go ahead and speculate that aside from the kids, the second h
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Imagine listening to an architect speak, finding out in the middle of his boring 2-hour lecture that he's 4000 years old, then at the end hearing him refuse to answer a question about how he designed Stonehenge because he's sick a
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Go work retail somewhere that doesn't try to hard-sell people. Most places will start by giving you some training materials on how to initiate friendly, non-threatening interactions with the customers. These are basically to burn some

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