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by munk-a 5mo ago
I thought I was very clear above - my alternative is that even under the best light there were still clearly bad actions carried out by bricks and minifigs. When there is a grey zone I find it helpful to work out what the most charitable i
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by munk-a 5mo ago
It isn't - deprecation of held goods is always a risk and if you're working on consignment then that comes with weird financial liabilities. If there's a flood and you lose your inventory it sucks - if there's a flood a
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I have read that article and a few other sources since the first few ways I heard about this story were heavily biased. I have not yet seen B&M confirm that the contract that was leaked is genuine - it is incredibly unlikely that they
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by munk-a 5mo ago
They absolutely are and a good lawyer, I'm sure, could audit the accounts and find some misdeeds - the issue is that the auditing and even getting access to those records in court is extremely expensive. To my knowledge there isn&#x27
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by munk-a 5mo ago
The store in question was a franchise so potentially the liability will be limited to just the assets of that franchise. But there's a lot of weird stuff here and it looks like the corporation may have (in a legally questionable manne
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Yup, if I worked in a field where consignment was an option I'd refuse to do it - it's a huge headache. So I'd absolutely believe that the corporation has a policy against accepting consignment offers and might have a case t
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by munk-a 5mo ago
"Can't" is a really bad word to use and I am not certain if "they" here are the corporation or the liquidator. If you're talking about the corporation I think that any sensible neutral party would probably come
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I have absolutely no doubts a court would consider it impossible to transfer goods under consignment to a different entity free of the burden of the consignment contract. So the corporation trying to reach into the franchise to grab these
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by munk-a 5mo ago
You pay for everything you build - the more complexity you put into it the more that costs over time. Dependencies need to be updated, language/framework upgrades usually break something, new features/requirements introduce addit
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Most of the ones I'm thinking of are just corner stores - it's not a brand or chain to my knowledge. An example might be Bazar Gran Puerto, El Puerto de Sta Maria, CA, ES.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
We have a durable queue built into postgres to handle some complex notification-ish logic. It's worked excellently and while there are services various cloud providers would love to sell us to do that it's extremely cheap to run.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I know your mileage may vary in different areas of Europe but in Italy and Spain you'll find a plethora of random general stores that resell Aliexpress sorts of goods at a very low markup over direct ordering. The stock variety is obv
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by munk-a 5mo ago
From what I've seen YT takes "Don't show me this channel again" very seriously but the effect appears to be limited just to you. It would be very silly for YT to fail to enforce that preference as a user who is willing
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by munk-a 5mo ago
It's a tool. Tools can be used for good or ill. This tool is the hotness right now so it's quite overused in a lot of poorly fitting situations. This particular usage serves no socially beneficial purpose and needs to be regula
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by munk-a 5mo ago
This is a case of psychological exploitation - in a free market of algorithms the current dominant flavor on platforms would win for the majority of people. As unpopular as it may be in this forum the real solution here is government regul
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I don't mind a GUI (as long as it isn't an obnoxiously large ribbon or anything) - but if I'm doing work my input device is the keyboard. I don't want to interface with software through moving a mouse pointer when I can
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I don't disagree that Bombardier commercial aircraft was struggling before that tariff - but it absolutely was the nail in the coffin. They actually ended up selling off the C-Series to Airbus for 1 CAD as a symbolic f-you to Boeing o
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Without the second election of Trump? It's likely. Canada's aircraft industry got majorly burned by the US in 2017 during his first administration and Biden didn't significantly reverse the impact in any way.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
They could refuse to supply replacement parts though and while reverse engineering critical replacements was easier in 1936 it was still a serious concern (especially when it came to figuring out where the capacity to do so would come from)
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by munk-a 5mo ago
> Even if American equipment is superior I'd mention that whether a piece of tech can beat another one on one is a consideration but a larger concern is how maintainable your fleet is. Canada is specifically moving to grow ties wit
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by munk-a 5mo ago
It's funny - the problem with outsourcing is the same problem as AI and it's all a huge callback to the early 2000s. Companies are astonished by just how much money can be saved without realizing the damage to their product. Som
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by munk-a 5mo ago
The mob boss doesn't charge me interest on my loan - he just really likes receiving expensive gifts from me.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
There are a lot of things short of death that we don't want to encourage either. There is a huge grey zone here that I frankly don't want to entrust to private entities.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I'd argue that it doesn't actually benefit them now since they have more access to comfort than they could ever conceivably consume in their lifetime but I do absolutely agree that they think it benefits them because people who ha
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Unclear arbitrary rules are the best way to rapidly induce a chilling effect. If the enemy is the science happening then a lack of clarity is a highly effective tactic.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
IA is sort of caught in the middle of a conflict it didn't ask for, here. The same tools that allow IA to do it's work are also used by Google to scrape and resell the news. There are ways to allow one usage without the other -
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by munk-a 5mo ago
Google glass released in February 2013 and "I, glasshole" was written in December of 2013 which was a good formulation of ideas that had been floating in the tech sphere for a while. That's less than 1 year into their run th
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I'm glad you're so forward thinking. It is a genuinely better alternative to ICE engines for numerous reasons. The best world would be significantly lessening the need for cars but electric is a clear win over gas.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
The dosage makes the poison - but if it sticks around in the body dilution may slightly alleviate effects but at the cost of more widespread buildup. This is out of my field so I'm not certain if that's a concern here.
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by munk-a 5mo ago
I think you underestimate how many users loathe that "Generated with AI" box. But for me the bigger question is why they're going all in on this instead of a gradual rollout or a new tool offering.

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