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by jonknee 8y ago
Restaurants being required to show calories may change menus in a way that cannot help but have an effect for everybody. It incentivizes having lower calorie options, disincentives healthy sounding but not really items like some salads and
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by jonknee 8y ago
Do you mean added corn syrup? Cornstarch is useful in the kitchen, but isn't super common in processed food (I assume they have better thickeners!).
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by jonknee 8y ago
There are certainly people who can afford it, but at that level there is literally no reason to. With that kind of cash people come to you, there's no reason to try and rush across the globe in a cramped jet to make a meeting. The uber
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by jonknee 8y ago
Opposing evidence: carriers continually find new ways to show a lower price and then make it back up in fees (like some US carriers charging for carry on luggage). This is specifically because people sort by price.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Yes, AdWords and related advertising products are quite sophisticated in terms of targeting. Walmart (and Amazon!) already use this.
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by jonknee 8y ago
I have a problem buying a product marketed as new and it turns out to be recycled and inferior to new (lower expected life). I have no problem buying something knowing it's recycled and has tradeoffs, since I can buy it in the times th
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by jonknee 8y ago
Here's one on Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Tickminator-Removal-Remover-Prevent-D...
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by jonknee 8y ago
That was also the case back when Concord was in service...
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by jonknee 8y ago
> I'm certainly a big fan of solar power, but rooftop solar is a little silly. Rooftop solar would make sense if we had some shortage of land and couldn't just fill up empty fields with panels, but that's not the case. It&
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by jonknee 8y ago
The same thing that used to happen to you before everything was a subscription--you will run insecure software.
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by jonknee 8y ago
No, it will decrease the amount of money they have to pay out in dividends though... Theoretically the yield would decrease since the share price should increase as shares are bought back. That said, they did also announce a dividend increa
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by jonknee 8y ago
They have the cash and people generally invest in AAPL for reasons other than having a stake in a bond fund, so it makes some sense. Buybacks vs special dividend are debatable, but impossible to say what is better until you see the future s
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by jonknee 8y ago
Some scale for the new $100b buyback program... Larger than the market cap of all but 51 of the S&P 500 (with one of those being Apple!). That's nuts!
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by jonknee 8y ago
That ARPU is on a quarterly basis...
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Because they are far from the only store and it's easy to get a Chromecast wherever you are? You can't buy one at the Apple Store either, but that's fine.
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by jonknee 8y ago
Amazon seems to have displaced other large low-paying companies than it has mom and pops (who were already gutted by Wal-Mart and the like). In fact Amazon props up tons of really tiny businesses that sell through its platform.
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by jonknee 8y ago
To put this in some scale, back in 2013 Randall Munroe estimated[[1] that Google had 10 exabytes on disk. That has to be significantly greater these days. [1] https://what-if.xkcd.com/63/
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by jonknee 8y ago
I'm fully aware, just talking about optional spots in popular areas where it's easy to re-balance bikes to.
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by jonknee 8y ago
> This is a loss for the country as a whole. Is it? It seems like that’s the direct result of increased productivity. Even if it’s a loss for the people who would enjoy that life, it seems like tons of cheap food made available for every
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by jonknee 8y ago
Did you read the post? What society is there that we can go ask right now who hasn’t mastered fire?
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by jonknee 8y ago
I’d like to see the city take away some street parking spaces and convert them to bike parking spaces. You can fit a lot of bikes in a parking space meant for a car.
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by jonknee 8y ago
> What is the deposit amount for those bikeshare companies in Seattle? $0 for Limebike. Your first ride is also free and they’re aggressive with promos (invite someone else, you each get $3 in credit, etc).
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by jonknee 8y ago
> Kansas is dying because its biggest industry is failing. It's not failing, they're producing more than ever. It's just automating. We've been doing that to agriculture since it was developed. Coal mining isn't
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by jonknee 8y ago
Average household net worth is meaningless. Charles Koch himself is worth ~$60,000,000,000 which comes out to a cool $55,562 per household in Kansas. And that's just one guy!
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by jonknee 8y ago
You need more than internet access (which is probably not all that great in much of rural Kansas!) for people to want to live somewhere. I mean you can get that anywhere, why pick perfectly flat wheat fields? The small towns were a byproduc
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by jonknee 8y ago
Kansas was never bustling, the rust belt was.
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Well it's not like you have awesome urban living around corn fields either. Huge fields and few people kind of get in the way of vibrant towns.
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by jonknee 8y ago
This is much less interesting than the rust belt decline or any other number of dying communities. Kansas used to need a lot more people to support farming and thus had enough people around for small towns to have a little life to them. Now
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by jonknee 8y ago
Like most things Google, I don't think it's that simple. It seems to rank on multiple factors including distance, rating, if you've been there before, if you've saved it, popularity and surely lots of other signals. My s
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by jonknee 8y ago
Yes, because the list shows you stuff like the name of the place, its address, ratings, hours and all sorts of other stuff. Plus the full screen map view is a short swipe away.

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