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by notable_user 7y ago
Merchants have to pay a decent sized fee on every transaction, and that fee is definitely passed on to the consumer via higher prices. But it’s also (arguably unfairly) equally passed on to consumers paying cash.
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by notable_user 7y ago
Household income.
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by notable_user 7y ago
Almost certainly they detected the earthquake and decided not to notify people because it was too small to warrant a notification.
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by notable_user 7y ago
Not just Silicon Valley, Boeing has had similar problems. I imagine every industry with manufacturing has been affected.
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by notable_user 8y ago
The article makes it seem like this hasn’t been studied in depth before (maybe just in the UK?). Sound like they were just trying to get baselines, and the next step would be to understand the whys.
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by notable_user 8y ago
They explain _exactly_ how it works in the 2nd paragraph. 100% of the tip goes to the dasher, and then the base pay scales to hit the “minimum”. That’s obviously lame, since you’d have to basically tip over the minimum to see the pay change
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by notable_user 8y ago
The real take away is that they’re sending all text typed in, including credit card and social security numbers, unencrypted to a third party.
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by notable_user 8y ago
Even “ships from and sold by amazon.com” products are comingled with potentially conterfeit products, unless a brand pays extra money for them not to be. No way for the end user to know if they’re getting comingled product.
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by notable_user 8y ago
Baseball is a very local sport, you play the teams nearby you considerably more than you play any other teams. Also, as others mention, they’ll play multiple games in one location.
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by notable_user 8y ago
Most people probably shouldn’t have coffee after 4PM.
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by notable_user 8y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by “address the root issue”. The root issue is that batteries degrade over time, for everyone, not just apple. iPhone’s did a good job hiding that away by degrading performance along with it. The same thing still
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by notable_user 8y ago
You’ve clearly never lived in a city like LA or New York. Sometimes it takes 45 minutes to drive a few blocks. And Boring Company plans on using parallel tunnels, for safety and for increased capacity (two directions of travel).
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by notable_user 8y ago
It’d be fairly easy to designate a spot on every block for scooter/bike/etc parking. Much easier and space efficient than creating parking spaces. Here’s an example that Santa Monica is trying: https://www.10news.com&#x
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by notable_user 8y ago
Most things outdoors are visible from space with a high enough resolution/zoom camera. I’ve always thought the statement “viable from space” was closer to meaningless rather than exaggerated. “Visible from space with the naked eye” wou
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by notable_user 8y ago
Sails are crazy efficient, and are most effective when wind is blowing across the bloat. So if you point a fan across the boat you’ll get a forward force vector and sideways force vector. Edit: Based on the summary of the episode provided i
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by notable_user 8y ago
Prices will go up and it’ll balance out.
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by notable_user 8y ago
I’m not a grafter myself so I don’t know the specifics. But I do know it’s not cheap. Labor intensive and I don’t think the branches are cheap, despite them growing on trees. And yes, loss of production is a huge hit to an orchard.
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by notable_user 8y ago
It’s a curse if you were a small orchard happily growing another apple variety. No one wants your apples anymore so you have to rip out all your trees an plant new one. (Side note: Really you’re grafting new branches.) That’s a lot of capit
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by notable_user 8y ago
There’s not many options for what it could be, so it’s pretty easy to figure out. The color is most important, with some additional info like utility (which are few and welol known) and width.
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by notable_user 8y ago
Milk is pasteurized differently in the US vs Europe. I’d bet that has the most impact on taste.
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by notable_user 8y ago
This only protects when the lid is closed, but many people leave the lid open on their desk. I would love to see a light come on if the camera or microphone is receiving power, and then only turn on power to these devices when a program req
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by notable_user 8y ago
Gay marriage rights and now weed legalization are two recent examples of policy that I don’t think would have been possible in America (at least for a long time) without decentralized government. People got used to the idea in some more pro
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by notable_user 8y ago
SpaceX is a Los Angeles based company, and Elon Musk also lives in Los Angeles. I’m not sure if that counts as Silicon Valley.
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by notable_user 11y ago
The dockworker union is too strong.
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by notable_user 11y ago
It's NOT open source as per the readme: "I purposely have not added an open source license to the project and am intentionally retaining copyright for the code, meaning that it may not be redistributed (in code or compiled form) w