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by pwinnski 4y ago
You did technically use the word in your statement ("...all that money,") but you also implied that the example of James Daunt said more than "James Daunt is a good hire if you run a bookstore company," which might or mi
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It seemed like 90+ or more of the traffic I ever saw at the Amazon store near me was returns, including me every time I visited. I doubt Amazon saw those as profitable, and they either didn't track well how much my purchases (and I&#x2
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This is the flip side of the current CEO's focus on letting local stores make their own decisions. When the decisions align with your interests (like my store's excellent manga focus), it's great! When they don't, like y
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I used to practically live at the Half-Price Books stores in my area, but for the last couple of years I've been a member at Barnes & Noble too. The thing that made the membership an easy decision for me was the manga section, but
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I'm puzzled where you see that "key insight" in the linked article. I came away with the feeling that the key insight was: if you want to sell books, you must love books. Did you use the present tense to describe the past, b
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Do you realize that sometimes people make choices because they have moral or ethical concerns? It is not always about sending any sort of signal to others. It is very rarely about sending any sort of signal to others. In fact, the phrase &q
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Most people can eat a chicken sandwich without anyone they know ever knowing it. I've eaten many meals completely unobserved by people I know. Also, it's easy enough to dispose of a half-eaten sandwich if you spot someone you know
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by pwinnski 4y ago
The emphasis in that comment was on Musk's failure with X; he was kicked out of PayPal and only collected the money after he was long gone.
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That last statement is an assertion lacking evidence, and as counter-evidence I offer every accident Tesla’s “autopilot” has been involved in. If drivers always paid good attention, I’m sure we would have fewer collisions. I’m not sure we
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Welcome to where many of us have been for years! I'm glad you're driving more safely now.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
If you limit yourself to the equipment that humans have, how do you expect to outperform humans? Would we accept 40k deaths every year in the US from self-driving cars, too? For that matter, I don't think the cameras installed in Tesla
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Why do you would it ever change, in 100 or 1000 years?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Putting functions in the wrong place is still a thing. Having to refactor or rewrite things because of decisions made at an executive level is still a thing. Over-complicating code has always been a thing, too. Admittedly, "Information
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by pwinnski 4y ago
As one of the comments on that thread points out, every desktop browser seems to allow text input, and every mobile browser is obtuse like iOS Safari.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I know a number of "hardcore pirates" who pay for nearly every streaming service you can imagine, but never use the services. Instead they provide some sort of "moral cover" for their piracy. Whatever works for them, I g
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Your hatred for Wikipedia is driving you to make extreme statements. In case you're not aware, this might be time to step away from the subject. Or not, live your life.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
It sounds like we are not seeing the same banners. You keep paraphrasing, definitely not quoting, what sound like dire pleas for survival, and yet any banner I see lacks any of that.
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The ad-filled internet being pushed by Google and crew, overtaking everything, it sounds like.
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Your experience seems very, very different from mine. Why scroll past banners rather than closing them? Every time I see a banner, I dismiss it for a week, and I don't see one again for a week.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I think you're conflating a few things. On your point 1, it is incredible normal for non-profit organizations to spend quite a bit of money on fundraising. They do this because spending less brings in less, and bringing in less means t
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I don't have a history of calling things dumb, but you wrote this: > admins create these highly specific instances with peculiar rules, and people who want to create a profile there have to submit themselves to a highly limited set
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Anything I can find in the US, I can buy cheaper in China, or higher quality in Europe. The US is neither the cheapest nor the highest quality for most things, although it provides a reasonable trade-off of the two for many things.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
Sure, it's easy to come up with a filter that automatically excludes a long list of great cars. For example, are you aware that the cheapest Tesla available to me with a range over 300 miles is $56,160 plus tax, title, and license[0]?
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by pwinnski 4y ago
To make my second point even stronger, I've noticed that the site I linked doesn't even include two popular newer mastodon hosts, iKnox[0] and Elestio[1]. 0. https://iknox.com/products/mastodon-hosting 1. ht
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by pwinnski 4y ago
This is the dumbest assessment of the fediverse I've seen in a month full of dumb assessments of the fediverse. For all the talk of peculiar rules, I haven't seen any servers with peculiar rules. There seems to be a general unders
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by pwinnski 4y ago
My bad on the sources, I searched for links to support my memories, and didn't pay close attention.
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Twitter gives people who want to micro-publish to many millions of people very easily a place to do that. Of course, since Twitter stopped providing simple reverse-chronological feeds, it's unclear how many people would actually ever
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I don't think much of this is true. While corporate credit unions did participate in TARP[0], for example, that's not the common perception. Not only were they primarily corporate credit unions rather than consumer credit unio
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Indeed, it's the colloquial name for nazi stormtroopers, and by extension and popular usage, any modern fascist.
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by pwinnski 4y ago
I've been driving a Fiat 500e for a few years, and I love it, but nobody would consider it competition for Tesla. My new 2023 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, on the other hand, it's amazing. And so inexpensive!

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