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by max76 8y ago
I'm unsure about the Detriot specific case (it might have an unusual number of road crossings on very high traffic streets) but I'd suspect it would reduce congestion by taking cars off the road. Most commuter trains have this eff
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by max76 8y ago
I always feel like there is a lot of optimism in the term end-game capitalism. I don't think we are close to a fully mature capitalistic society.
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by max76 8y ago
A cartel is when a few organizations control something of economic value and act as a single entity in the market. For example, the 1973 oil crisis was caused when OPEC proclaimed an oil embargo. OPEC, controlling the oil market, acted as
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by max76 8y ago
Do you know a better card that always gives 2% cash back, no cap? It doesn't always give 2% cash back, it only gives 2% cash back for places that offer Apple Pay. A significant portion of my CC chargers are at places that don't o
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by max76 8y ago
I'm pretty sure Apple announced all the hardware last week, and tomorrow's event will be all about services.
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by max76 8y ago
This is black and white thinking. There is a wide range of possible positions between "motivated only by personal profit, with absolutely no feeling for their fellow humans" and wanting to build a union.
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by max76 8y ago
It's the term "fix" that I don't like. It assumes the opposite state is broken.
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by max76 8y ago
Defiantly thinning, but not bald[0]. [0] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Elon_Mus...
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by max76 8y ago
I don't feel like baldness is something that needs to be fixed. To me that sounds the same as saying the genes for blonde hair can be "fixed".
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by max76 8y ago
I only saw a handful of alcohol vending machines when I was in Japan (2018). I heard a rumor they are being phased out. EDIT: Found a source "In May 1995, to prevent underage drinking, the All Japan Liquor Merchants Association decide
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by max76 8y ago
> (thanks to unions) Is there additional information about how unions lower the quality of public education inside the United States?
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by max76 8y ago
> There's also the anecdote of one of the founders of AA, who quit alcohol through psychedelic therapy. Bill Wilson quit drinking in the 1930s, and experienced LSD in the 1950s. While he talked about LSD therapy for alcoholics in p
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by max76 8y ago
Why do you plan on using Street Performer Protocol?
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by max76 8y ago
The highlight here isn't just that Big Tobacco was very good at marketing unhealthy products, but that their core competency is (was?) marketing addictive products to adolescents.
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by max76 8y ago
Using an LTE Apple Watch exclusively will address all time management concerns while still allowing you to do things like order an uber and stream music.
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by max76 8y ago
To my understanding this is not illegal, and the ethics are debatable. I don't think Netflix is comparable. The App Store is a market place, where things are bought and sold. Netflix is not a consumer marketplace.
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by max76 8y ago
I've spent a lot of time thinking about monetization on voice-assist apps. This is a challenging problem, and I suspect it's holding AAA quality 3rd party support for the platforms behind. There is no stand alone (from a mobileapp
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by max76 8y ago
China Daily is in their "Least biased" category despite the fact that it is an English language publication owned by the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and published by People's Republic of China. I thi
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by max76 8y ago
Facebook growth numbers haven't been strong lately, but it's still growing [0]. With 2.3B monthly active users 15M isn't much to worry about unless a specifically profitable sub-population is doing the leaving. [0] https:&#
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by max76 8y ago
Every new idea takes priority over the previous ideas meaning if anything is actually done it is poorly done. I've seen lower branches pick ideas they think will most benefit the business and work those but the lack of sync between the
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by max76 8y ago
The headline is ambiguous.
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by max76 8y ago
1) Who employed at my local Wal-Mart does this now? Most people are expected to be able to do those things at Walmart. 2) Why do these job duties need a new title? The article suggests that the new job title is designed as legal protection
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by max76 8y ago
"In 2005, Walmart faced outcry over a leaked internal memo that proposed cutting soaring health costs by, among other things, requiring that all jobs include some physical activity." I wonder to what degree the high cost of health
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by max76 8y ago
The question was raised by a politician. Her motivation is to generate fear in the public in order for people to support her recently purposed legislation. Regardless of the validity of the question I have serious concerns about the contex
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by max76 8y ago
How does a group form an industry wide union? The level of coordination required seems very very high.
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by max76 8y ago
With the quality of his work and the proven market for his niche (Harvest moon) he was all bug guaranteed a good release. The unknowns where how much time it would take a single developer to make such an ambitious project and the degree of
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by max76 8y ago
I would consider op-ed to be a subset of articles. Is that incorrect?
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by max76 8y ago
I'm disappointed that Bloomberg published an article that points out all of the problems with unregulated social media but doesn't purpose specific regulations that could be helpful for most of the problems they point out. What ca
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by max76 8y ago
I never personally wrote meta-SQL but it was used at that office and I read it. I didn't see beauty. When I read the code and understood it I felt terror.
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by max76 8y ago
If catting 10gb of files takes 5 minutes than catting 500gb of files takes 250 minutes. This is, of course, an over estimation of how long it takes to look at data on a disk. It's also the most trivial thing you can do with data, rea

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