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by lurk2 2y ago
> And the line of text with "Windows Update is committed to helping reduce carbon emissions" is as superfluous as many other controls as well. I mean nice for MS, but it really doesn't belong there. I agree with you wholeh
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Why would you want to continue doing business with a company that treats you like that? They might have a practical monopoly on these services. Most cities are going to be serviced by only Lyft and Uber, with one having more drivers th
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by lurk2 2y ago
> If you just missed the train you paid a lot more. That doesn’t strike me as malicious. If you just missed the train, other users probably did, too. How did you find the price differentials with Lyft?
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by lurk2 2y ago
Price discrimination isn’t a subcategory of dynamic pricing. Dynamic pricing is equivalent to what is colloquially referred to as surge pricing, whereas price discrimination is based on the buyer’s perceived willingness and ability to pay.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Dynamic pricing implies charging two different concurrent customers different prices for the same good or service. That is price discrimination, not dynamic pricing. Price discrimination involves charging more or less based on the buye
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by lurk2 2y ago
Surge pricing in theory incentivizes more drivers to operate during peak times, reducing wait times for passengers. If you’ve used these kinds of apps in regions where they aren’t popular, it can be quite common to not have anyone pick up y
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Seems it isn't the first time Microsoft leads open source maintainers on, trying to extract information about their projects so they can re-implement it themselves while also breaking the licenses that the authors use. Can’t they
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by lurk2 2y ago
Consider changing your landing page to reflect the price (“Only $5 Annually!”). The reason I asked was because the way it is now makes it look like the service is being offered for free, which made me think it was a phishing scheme.
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> The oldest evidence we have of widespread metallurgy comes from the tip of South America around approximately 5000 BC. Which predates metallurgy in Eurasia by thousands of years. There are archaeological finds in Europe dating smelting
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If the service has no monthly fee, how is it being paid for?
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by lurk2 2y ago
> A telesync (TS) is a bootleg recording of a film recorded in a movie theater, often (although not always) filmed using a professional camera on a tripod in the projection booth. The audio of a TS is captured with a direct connection to
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by lurk2 2y ago
I think there’s a perception that hydroponic systems are less resilient as well as an erroneous belief that they are more complex than soil (their supply chains might be, but the systems themselves are not).
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That’s one of the things I’ve always liked about Twitter and Instagram Reels; length restrictions force the content to be more economical. YouTube rewards the opposite behavior, so I find that I don’t spend as much time there.
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by lurk2 2y ago
It was a plain question and not immediately obvious from the first few seconds of the video nor the title of the video what the answer was. The video itself had no relevance to the discussion. The appropriate response was “The Perks of Bein
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by lurk2 2y ago
All of these books have always been widely accessible in the western world, and I suppose that’s my chief objection; these books have been banned, but they have never been seriously challenged in the west. They are safe to publish and dis
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by lurk2 2y ago
> This is not written by either a journalist or a librarian I never claimed that it was.
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> You can choose to vote for independent MPs, right? Not if they can’t afford to run a campaign.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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> What is so insulting to me about those AI-written messages is that they take less time and consideration to produce than they do to consume. This is as long as the article needed to be.
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by lurk2 2y ago
Are you hesitant to believe that there are smart people using LinkedIn, or are you hesitant to believe that they will take the time to engage with you when you write to them?
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Keep moving the goal posts = I provide proof, but then those aren't real bans. You didn't provide any proof. This is a list of 19 books, almost all of them were banned for violating obscenity laws. Those that were banned for
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Which specific books are being banned? Where are they being banned?
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> Even if my experience wasn’t common, books banned by the local or state government or by other governments around the world certainly make it into those displays. For example?
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by lurk2 2y ago
> 1. Keep moving the goal posts. No goal posts have been moved. No common person understands the word "ban" to mean "removed from circulation by a school district." > 2. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wi
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> Inside the United States. Show me one that was banned at the federal or state level from being either owned, read, possessed, transmitted, and / or sold. This is what an ordinary person understands when you say that a book has bee
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They are not resisting anything.
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Where have these books been banned?
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Which specific books are being banned? Where are they being banned?
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This reads like the sort of self-congratulatory articles journalists were fond of writing about themselves in the late-2010s, just as public trust in journalism was reaching an all-time low. I suspect the same thing is happening with librar
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You know this isn’t true.

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