joe5150

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by joe5150 2y ago
Notwithstanding what I understand about the publishing industry, I'm talking about the marginal cost of distributing a .mobi or whatever versus manufacturing a printed book, not the entire cost of publishing an eBook.
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by joe5150 2y ago
I can't think of any publishers that are also in the business of printing and distribution. Those are entirely separate industries. There is almost no way for publishers to lose money because of tech that makes it cheaper and easier th
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by joe5150 3y ago
It was confusing to me. I assumed it was about some kind of collaboration or integration, not an acquisition.
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by joe5150 3y ago
LoJack stays in business mainly by selling their product to dealers who then demand auto buyers pay for it whether they want it or not.
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by joe5150 3y ago
How do hidden trackers "prevent" theft? If a thief steals your bike and is notified that it's being tracked, they're probably much more likely to abandon it somewhere, at which point you can recover it. This seems like a
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by joe5150 3y ago
Possibly an example of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_light
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by joe5150 3y ago
In the most material terms, they're probably more distracted than two people who are both present and chatting which isn't great for anybody's experience. People also tend to be shouting into the phone, worse if they're
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by joe5150 3y ago
Lots of domains don't necessarily point to anything as obvious as a website for perfectly normal reasons, either.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Netflix 4K streams seem to top out around 25Mbps and I'd guess other services are comparable, so 1Gbps is still a lot of bandwidth for even large multi-streamer households. I think a lot of families will reach the limits of cheap, basi
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by joe5150 3y ago
I'm basically allergic to pandas. My old job used a shared "utility" library written by someone who imported pandas in order to...write Markdown into log files.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Usually one company will own the trademarks and license them to the other, so only one of the companies is responsible for managing the IP. E.g. the Rolls-Royce IP is owned by Rolls-Royce (the aerospace company) and licensed to the company
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by joe5150 3y ago
I was asked to do that for a state government job that paid above market, so it's not just retail. It was awkward and I would probably decline to do it again unless for some reason I still really wanted the job.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Many years ago, I had to complete a long personality inventory AND about 45 minutes of "what would you do"-type scenario simulations to apply for a job at...Kmart! Then the manager no-showed when I came in for the interview.
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by joe5150 3y ago
It's entirely up to the hospital and the collectors they use (if they use any at all) how aggressively they pursue unpaid bills and whether they will involve your credit report to encourage people to pay. If you've mostly been goi
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by joe5150 3y ago
That's not always the case. Some hospitals will still keep a record of the unpaid bill on your account even after they pass the debt to a collector, and the collector will report whether you pay to the hospital. The practice and billin
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by joe5150 3y ago
If the hospital/provider sends your bill to a collections agency, then it can definitely show up on your reports. Especially so if you are actually sued for the debt, in which case the judgement is also a public record. I've had t
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by joe5150 3y ago
Phenylephrine is a popular topical and suppository treatment for hemorrhoids.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Mostly just the DIV with a giant string of base64-encoded JSON in a data attribute that looked pretty ugly. Website visitors were of course basically none the wiser if it all worked.
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by joe5150 3y ago
The comment in the first link about Yahoo embedding a giant b64-encoded JSON object in the URL reminds me of something horrible I did in a previous job. To get around paying our website vendor (think locked-down hosted CMS) for an overprice
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by joe5150 3y ago
Plus the latest version of the software. I would still be using Office 2013 if I had to pay what I paid for it to upgrade every release (multiplied by the half a dozen or so O365 licenses I'm currently using.)
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by joe5150 3y ago
See also: The Clock . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)
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by joe5150 3y ago
Looks like there's a lot of emphasis on children's theater and education, and it's one of maybe two such majors in the US. Sounds like a great program!
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by joe5150 3y ago
I can't understand your last sentence, which is undermining your point about the low value of language education...
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by joe5150 3y ago
That's an...optimistic point of view, especially given the departments being threatened are not the source of the university's financial troubles and this "transformation" process doesn't promise to address the thin
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by joe5150 3y ago
The administrative bloat and incompetence is why they're in the position to cut academic programs in the first place. You seem to think the tail is wagging the dog.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Not sure how accurate this list is. Acting is both unimpacted and eliminated according to this post, for example. I don't have a hard time believing that mining is not as productive a field as it once was. It's a shrinking part of
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by joe5150 3y ago
This is nonsense. WGS and philosophy probably cost nothing and just aren't on the radar. They want to eliminate the higher ed administration program.
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by joe5150 3y ago
WVU is about to become the world's first vocational school with a D-1 football program.
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by joe5150 3y ago
Also being dropped are MS and PhD programs in math. https://provost.wvu.edu/files/d/62ea2c4f-99bd-431d-9e97-7199...
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West Virginia University to drop 32 majors including all world language programs(wvgazettemail.com)
217 points by joe5150 3y ago|342 comments

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