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by pakitan 7y ago
No, these were obviously examples. Our site sells expensive products that require a certain level of "visual appreciation", just like paintings. No one would buy something like that, without being able to see it.
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by pakitan 7y ago
> but that is the system the people have decided they want The people haven't decided anything. As usual, someone comes up with an absurd law, or an absurd interpretation of the law and there are not enough people affected to bother
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by pakitan 7y ago
Would a blind person be interested in a painting or car insurance? Another reason I'm sure about it is if there was genuine interest, there would be calls from blind people - "Hey, I'm interested in your products but I'm
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by pakitan 7y ago
Because currently there is no accepted definition of "fixed" (accessible) site and if they caved, people could come after them for various technicalities forever.
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by pakitan 7y ago
> This is no different than outlawing racial discrimination. Yes, it is. Racial discrimination requires a special effort not to serve specific part of the population. Accessibility regulations ask you for investing time and money, that
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by pakitan 7y ago
The racket goes like this - a lawyer firm, specialized in this type of "work", finds a token blind person and sends you a letter to the tune of "On date such and such, our client visited your site and it wasn't accessibl
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by pakitan 7y ago
> It's really not hard to make your websites accessible at a basic level. Follow the standards. Do you follow the standards? If you show me a web site that you've developed I'll show you a site with multiple violations o
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by pakitan 7y ago
> inability to easily digest raw meat Humans digest raw meat just fine. Cooking does help a bit but not that much as to suggest it's an evidence for us being herbivorous. It's more about taste and safety nowadays. I'd sugg
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by pakitan 7y ago
Mass extinction of what? I haven't heard of a tree that's so invasive that it kills everything in its way, animals and plants alike.
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by pakitan 7y ago
As others mentioned, discoverability is an issue, as well as monetization. I doubt the frozen channel makes a lot of money but even if it's 100 bucks per week or month, it still helps. If he hosted the videos on his own site, he'l
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by pakitan 7y ago
Hmm...let's see. I know absolutely nothing about the quality of US-vs-Chinese steel but, assuming everything you say is true, that means companies buying steel are perfectly fine buying low quality steel. And they will be perfectly fin
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by pakitan 7y ago
It will definitely help some US businesses and will definitely hurt others. The same way import tariffs on steel are good for US steel companies, they are hurting the US companies who are using that US steel in their products. And that&#x
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by pakitan 7y ago
> Erdős never married and had no children
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by pakitan 8y ago
Bitcoin trading is already essentially banned in China.
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by pakitan 8y ago
> If you're massively overweight and someone tells you to just go for a run, you're going to get hurt Massively overweight people can't run, even if they wanted to. Their "run" speed is slower than my "wal
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by pakitan 8y ago
I'd suggest you read the actual study. It's way more nuanced and detailed than the 2 sentence summary I provided. And no, I don't think it provides a 100% guarantee that running is safe but that's not what I'm expe
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by pakitan 8y ago
Well, I don't have the time to go through the whole thing but on a first glance: 1. Seems like they identify someone as runner or walker based on a questionnaire filled. After X years those people fill another questionnaire to indicate
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by pakitan 8y ago
It says they followed runners and non-runners for 18 years. Presumably, that means they monitored the same bunch of people over the 18 years and the effect you mention would have been noticed, if it existed.
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by pakitan 8y ago
> To deny someone admission due to poor academics is to deprive the university of revenue. I understand and agree this would be the case for low ranked universities but the article supposedly refers to an Ivy League uni or at least somet
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What happens after rich kids bribe their way into college? I teach them(theguardian.com)
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by pakitan 8y ago
We're sued right now by a troll law firm for breach of ADA. I'm not even sure there is such thing as "compliant". ADA basically says "well, we're not accessibility experts, just follow WCAG 2.0 and you'll
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by pakitan 8y ago
Kim Nilsson's work is as good and unbiased as it comes and it pretty much explains everything you need to know about the missing coins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l70iRcSxqzo https://blog.wizsec.jp&#x2F
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by pakitan 8y ago
So, if you buy bank shares today and it turns out the bank has been insolvent for 2 years already and management was hiding this from investors, this is totally fine, as long it's not an established bank but a "startup" bank,
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by pakitan 8y ago
I'm pretty sure I'm not confusing anything. However you want to define "music" and "radio", both are passive consumption. Sure, there might be some types of music that engage your brain more than others but tha
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by pakitan 8y ago
It's funny the result sounds slightly controversial because music doesn't have the bad rep that TV does. If the study's conclusion was "Watching TV significantly impairs creativity", everybody would be like "d&
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by pakitan 8y ago
So, does that mean that if OpenAI's text generator turns out to be as "dangerous" as it's being marketed, we can all just switch to Finnish as lingua franca and Skynet won't have a chance? :)
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by pakitan 8y ago
The article says Kikkoman has tried to replicate his process but wasn't able to.
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by pakitan 8y ago
Yes, I'm talking about speculating though the difference is basically just in the holding duration of your stocks. If you're trading every day, that's speculation. If you buy and hold for 10 years, that's investing.
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by pakitan 8y ago
The house is your broker and their commissions plus the spread - the edge. So, the edge is very well known.
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by pakitan 8y ago
The more appropriate analogy is that trading stocks is like gambling. And it's not even analogy. Unless you really know what you're doing, trading stocks is gambling, just with less house edge.

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