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by lozenge 4y ago
Merchants pay the interest because they see larger basket amounts and therefore more revenue. If the cost to them increases then it can reach a point where it's no longer attractive.
842.
by lozenge 4y ago
I always used this but how do you add patches to the same output?
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by lozenge 4y ago
Probation is more symbolic these days. 6 months is also the length of time you need to hold a job to get a mortgage or sponsor a partner's visa.
844.
by lozenge 4y ago
That's an issue of labelling regulation which applies to every product. And, I've never seen such a label.
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by lozenge 4y ago
This might be true for the first time people buy a touch screen car, but after that they'll swear off them. Unless they never used any alternative...
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by lozenge 4y ago
Life insurance already has a different cost by age (mainly the age you first take out the policy)
847.
by lozenge 4y ago
Even normal phone numbers have a (low) price that varies by country and can change over time, so what would the default be?
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by lozenge 4y ago
On one level it doesn't matter why we find it more annoying to overhear a phone call - we just do. On another, psychology studies found "When trying to concentrate on a test, students found that overhearing someone talking on the
849.
by lozenge 4y ago
A set is even if you can pair each element up with another element. A set is odd if you can pair each element with another element and have one element left over unpaired. Then infinity is even and odd.
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by lozenge 4y ago
Honestly, even as a meat eater I think a good bean burger tastes better than 90% of those "fake meat" burgers. The long time vegetarians I know were annoyed when restaurants started replacing vegetarian food for vegetarians with v
851.
by lozenge 4y ago
What constitutes this "type of case" and are you confident a judge won't create a new distinction separating this one from previous ones? The most famous case decided in consumers' favor was about recording tapes from TV
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by lozenge 4y ago
That website has a popup when I load it from the UK. "We use essential cookies to make our site work. With your consent, we may also use non-essential cookies to improve user experience and analyse website traffic. By clicking 'Ac
853.
by lozenge 4y ago
Analytics are necessary - without analytics sites' design would be much worse. They don't meet the legal definition of strictly necessary. They don't really "track you" in any meaningful way - the most interesting i
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by lozenge 4y ago
Luckily, gov.uk has credibility without resorting to jargon. Because it's got a special TLD and a crown icon on every page. And it's the government.
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by lozenge 4y ago
Your comment reminds me of the idea of reification explained here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G77ev9pks4I Film grain doesn't mean anything, except what the public have been conditioned for it to mean back when it
856.
by lozenge 4y ago
I suspect nobody involved in the production process is watching their shows at the bitrates that they will actually reach customers with.
857.
by lozenge 4y ago
If you increase the payoff of the bet, it might prevent the poorest from becoming destitute, but the relative effect (where wealth concentrates in a few people) intuitively would still be present.
858.
by lozenge 4y ago
Your source doesn't address the amount of tax collected from the ultra wealthy in relative proportion to their wealth. It only addresses the amount as a percentage of the federal budget.
859.
by lozenge 4y ago
According to Microsoft's trademark lawyers, it definitely isn't VS Code.
860.
by lozenge 4y ago
That doesn't make sense to me as there are next to no changes between VSCodium and VS Code. Unless these extensions were closed source Microsoft-authored?
861.
by lozenge 4y ago
Right, I just realised the GitLab Web IDE is running fully in the browser, so there is no Terminal. Maybe they are considering a later version which is more like Codespaces, letting you develop and run your code, keeping the browser as the
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by lozenge 4y ago
They have one, it's called GitHub Codespaces. (Remember, nobody wants to sell software any more, only services). Microsoft's strategy is to build a moat around VS Code/GitHub. Compared to GitLab, they have: * Brand recognitio
863.
by lozenge 4y ago
I'm not buying a $800 device to immersively Zoom. However, people pour hundreds into devices to play video games all the time.
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by lozenge 4y ago
This seems reasonable. The only reasons the buttons were removed was because of paranoia over COVID spread through surfaces. This was done hastily so they made the simplest change possible, adding the walk to every cycle. Now they've h
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by lozenge 4y ago
At every hour of the day people have to wait for a walk signal. Nobody is just randomly walking into the road and trusting "the system" to stop cars for them.
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by lozenge 4y ago
I think it's a stable form of price discrimination. Super price sensitive - subscribe to one service and switch service every month. $5-10/month. Typical - subscribe to three services and cancel one every few months and swap anoth
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by lozenge 4y ago
They reimplemented GitHub Codespaces without GitHub
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by lozenge 4y ago
I haven't seen any improvement in Spotify in years. Still can't organise songs in any meaningful way, can't rate songs, playlists suck, shuffle is broken, and they keep pushing podcast content when I never listen to podcasts.
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by lozenge 4y ago
License it to who? If they prove the model then investors will be lining up to give them the capital to expand.
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by lozenge 4y ago
They still have fans and relationships, but they are in particular niches, rather than being "the" stars of the platform like Mr Beast or Markiplier are for YouTube. With Vine, famously all the stars were comedians and they basic

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