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The Bad Economics of Wtfhappenedin1971(singlelunch.com)
40 points by novia 3y ago|42 comments
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Amazon's Just Walk Out technology rolls out to hospitals, with 'badge pay'(aboutamazon.com)
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by novia 3y ago
I'm a big fan of solar and renewables, but at the same time, in the past there have been massive volcanic eruptions that have blocked out the sun for extended periods of time [1]. So in my mind, the post you were responding to makes a
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by novia 3y ago
have you heard of lexapro?
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Your comment brought this article to mind. https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/seeing-like-a-bank/
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Oh gosh, thank goodness. Firing up Firefox with a question burning in my brain to be answered only to be delayed by a browser update was the most annoying thing to me. I'll give them another shot.
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Did Firefox update at the end of the desktop browsing session instead of the beginning yet? If not, no, it's still not a good time to switch (back) to Firefox.
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Teams is dominating only because they bundle it with their other services. In my personal opinion, as someone who loved Skype before Microsoft got involved with it, Teams is complete trash, and impossible to work with in a business environm
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> It helps that both the Mights and the Wilseys have family money. (Matt Might’s father is the president and C.E.O. of Cable One, the cable-television division of the former Washington Post Company.) Since 2012, the Mights have devoted m
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When it has a relatively stable personality. When it has distinct handwriting. When it falls in love. When it can dream and generate its own goals. When it can learn how to play any game, but its personality is reflected in its play style.
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> For most of the year, due to the cold and snow, the bike lanes are unused and are not convertible to anything else. Sure, some people still bike in the very cold months but that's an extreme minority that inherently includes mostl
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> Dealers have been warning of slowing EV demand for months In 2018, I went to several car dealerships in North Carolina with the intent to buy an electric car. Not one carried them. The salespeople claimed, "there's no demand,
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Microservices [video] [humor] [2020](youtube.com)
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Kenna. I was sort of underwhelmed by them at the time, but having worked with other third party security service vendors since then, in comparison, they're really top notch. Their documentation is amazing and the customer service reps
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In my experience the bozos were absolutely not the newbies. Maybe you work in a job that is dedicated to engineering only, but what happens is that often in a company of non-engineers, some kinda reorg happens where a person ends up on your
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Disproving the Bystander Effect (2019)(newatlas.com)
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by novia 3y ago
You made your request sound important to implement when you already have a workaround that doesn't take very much time... This is why feature bloat is a thing
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Taxing the trucks hauling around freight containers? Their vehicles were always the ones tearing up the roads the most anyways, because they were heavier. Now electric cars are heavier and giving them a run for their money, but still. Compa
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Anecdota: SLS always causes mouth sores aka canker sores for me. My inner cheeks and gums were covered in them before I figured it out. It was a very painful existence. Other people online reporting that cutting it out helped them saved me.
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Your comment has me thinking of the time during the pandemic when there were supply chain issues and Amazon was trying to find ways to encourage people to buy less stuff for once. I wonder if we are still having issues on the supply side an
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Both of the cars were stopped beside each other at a stoplight when the pedestrian was crossing the road. Here is what a human driver could have done in this situation that the Cruise car did not: 1) Look over at the other driver for whom t
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by novia 3y ago
Airbnb hosts should charge less. It's not a coincidence that every single standalone unit has a combination of water damage and teflon pans in the kitchen that are scratched to hell. Hosts always act surprised when you tell them about
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by novia 3y ago
Please stop making the world worse with search engine optimisation.
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A onewheel is supposed to self-balance at all times. A nosedive would be when it failed to engage in the expected self balancing behavior, rendering it suddenly unrideable.
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Similarly, out in Atlanta, Walmart closed both of the main stores [1] and cut hours for several of the remaining stores surrounding the city. [2] I suspect all these store closings have less to do with theft and more to do with rent and cos
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The rationalists are luddites
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Neopets used to officially support translation into languages besides English. Now it does not. I wonder if having to comply with international laws is the reason they backed off.
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https://portal.neopets.com/news/sept23-flashgames They're working on fixing it apparently
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Their main user base is driven by nostalgia. Hopefully their attempts to modernize don't go so far as to alienate their existing users. Right now they have a god awful synthesis of three types of GUI wrappers for their webpages, so as
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Miro is amazing. Many companies use ServiceNow. I'm sure you've already heard of IFTTT.

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