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by mathgeek 3y ago
Knowing how hard Walmart presses their suppliers on price, I would be surprised if there wasn’t some amount of compromise between the two companies here. I haven’t looked at model numbers but it wouldn’t surprise me if it’s a Walmart exclus
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by mathgeek 3y ago
> Be on the lookout for the signs discussed above, as well as other, unusual activity, which could mean something big is about to happen! While it can be fun to fantasize about what every little oddity means, I’d recommend against making
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by mathgeek 3y ago
You’re mixing up flying _in_ an aircraft with _flying_ an aircraft. The author is referring to the latter.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
I can’t even imagine a world where a dictator would purely use that power to solve the climate crisis and then return power peacefully.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
The math here, for those wondering, is that “informed host has a 0 chance to pick the car” becomes “ignorant host has a 1/3 chance to pick the car”. Contestant’s original pick is still 1/3 and the unpicked door goes from 2/3
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by mathgeek 3y ago
As someone who also prefers the taste that comes along with spice, best reasoning I have heard is folks who don’t like spice cannot even taste the flavor that comes with it, so they associate milder peppers as tasting better. I.e. when you
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by mathgeek 3y ago
Obligatory and correct: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
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by mathgeek 3y ago
His obituary has the answers you are looking for: https://www.mkdfuneralhome.com/obituaries/william-post#obitu...
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by mathgeek 3y ago
> You can construct a hypothetical where someone gets lucky, and you can construct one where someone has reason to suspect the minerals are there and invests in the land. You don't even need to construct the scenario where someone w
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by mathgeek 3y ago
> I guess TT could and should negotiate to pay on the % of the time the song is listened. E.g. if a recording lasts 300 seconds, 10 views lasting 30 seconds should pay the entire royalty as in Spotify/Youtube. This doesn’t work beca
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by mathgeek 3y ago
278 also runs through Manhattan. I assume the previous poster really means something that excludes Randalls Island and the Heights.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
My comment was not in relation to my own situation. That aside, the situation you describe emphasizes my point. If the company is paying more for folks to live near the office, then the costs of travel for remote workers can and should be l
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by mathgeek 3y ago
> It's hugely expensive to do this and that money would be better spent on more important things. Unless the company is compensating folks for living closer to offices, they are likely just transferring those costs to the employees’
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by mathgeek 3y ago
I consider the fair market value as an input to the “I was treated fairly price”.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
In the case of used car transactions, the “fair” value isn’t affected by either side’s financials. If a company or an individual has lots of free cash flow or a mountain of debt, the fair price isn’t affected.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
It could be seen as pro consumer, but it also could be seen as anti competitive. Spirit going under would open up space for a new competitor to potentially move in. An analogy would be two competing gas stations at a very busy intersection
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by mathgeek 3y ago
This happened to us with a first model year vehicle multiple times until the dealership received the necessary software upgrades. It was quite frustrating to be stuck at a busy fuel pump for 10 minutes until the software systems restarted p
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by mathgeek 3y ago
I'm pretty sure getting accepted to MIT also puts it out of reach for many, many people.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
I recommend trying to actively watch just about any ad out there and trying to find one that doesn't show or sell you the idea of something unrelated to that product. They are rare. For example: most ads for prescription medicine these
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by mathgeek 3y ago
You can, but the catch is getting accepted to MIT first.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
Non-compete clauses are often part of severance packages. You can choose not to take it, naturally.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
As someone who suffers from motion sickness since I was a child, as well as with the earlier headsets, the advent of passthrough mode has been delightful. Seeing the world around you is a game changer in that sense.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
The main issue with smoking as “shouldn’t I just enjoy it” are the secondary effects on other people. There are ways to mitigate some of those (e.g. not smoking when anyone else is present) and others you have to choose to ignore or not con
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by mathgeek 3y ago
AI generated book covers are also a thing at this point, which reinforces that age old idiom. Even legitimate writers will still find value in generating their covers.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
This seems like a space with a problem to solve: identifying AI-generated fiction and rating how much of a given work fits that classification.
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by mathgeek 3y ago
Exactly my point, thanks for elaborating the example!
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by mathgeek 3y ago
Consider it for how processed a specific brand of food is, rather than a general food. Right now most specifications don’t get more specific than organic, free range, grass fed, vegan, all natural, no preservatives, etc. I suspect the probl
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by mathgeek 3y ago
> That may not matter to Velcro (TM) Surely you know from reading the article that it's actually "Velcro® Brand". It's easier to follow than most telenovelas. We get it, hook and loop isn’t in our everyday vocabulary,
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by mathgeek 3y ago
Anecdata is recognized by the Oxford English Dictionary [1] and has been around since the 1940s. That being said, the usage here probably doesn't mean what the downvoted commenter was implying. [1] https://www.oed.com/d
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by mathgeek 3y ago
Open source software (literally the OSS part) is a subset of FOSS, as it always has been.

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