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by raz32dust 6y ago
I can relate, but considering how much we exploit animals, including agricultural animals, breeding, raising and killing animals for food, using rats and monkeys for testing etc., this would not surface in the priority list for fighting ani
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by raz32dust 6y ago
There is a visceral pleasure in the "bigness" of it. The roar of 4 engines, how it stood far above all the smaller jets, like you are in a semi truck in the middle of the road surrounded by compact sedans. More economical planes a
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by raz32dust 6y ago
People who hire these companies are typically not competent enough to recognize a broken product.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
It does. That's why I bumped the orders to 200. Despite selling more, the restaurants are making less. Of course these are random numbers that came to mind, but this is my understanding of the issue.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
> Why have all these restaurants signed up if 25% is so unfair? Here is my impression of the problem: Say the restaurant was taking $10 for each order, making $3 in profit per order. i.e, cost is $7. Before delivery apps: 100 orders&#x2F
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by raz32dust 6y ago
That makes no sense to me. Why can't they charge people ordering from Treasure island higher?
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by raz32dust 6y ago
> "consumer advocacy and anti-monopoly are practically the opposite thing." Only true in the short term. Long term, monopoly prevents competition and is bad for consumers.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
No, they don't. What a certain symbol glorifies or does not glorify is not something you can measure objectively. It is an intersubjective reality. i.e, if enough people believe that pyramids glorify slavery, then it does! At the momen
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by raz32dust 6y ago
It makes sense right? It's so ridiculous to see Biden and Bernie battle it out in "Stage 1", and then only one of them gets to go against Trump. Instead of Biden, Bernie and Trump and everyone else just run together in a race
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Disappointed to not see any mention of ranked choice voting. I think the winner takes all system leads to a two-party duopoly and makes it difficult for intermediate positions to win. P.S: Yes, I know Australia has ranked choice and they al
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by raz32dust 6y ago
I think large companies definitely have a lot to gain by building good software designed to last, and the best companies do place value in doing things right (I worked in a couple of monopolistic giants). Especially infrastructure has to be
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by raz32dust 6y ago
This is not forever. We will likely have a vaccine at some point, may be within a year or two. We will also keep getting better at treating it over time - in identifying susceptible populations, developing cures, and hospitals being better
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by raz32dust 6y ago
You can adjust your public profile to only expose the minimal details and have the recruiter connect to you for anything more. I agree it would be great if LinkedIn had a way to have a purely private profile that is only shared on demand, v
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Digging into the referenced source [1]: > This result seems to suggest that, even though performance in light mode may be better in the short term, there may be a long-term cost associated with it. So, don't start switching all your
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by raz32dust 6y ago
I suspect you are an outlier. Amazon takes ~50% of online shopping market share [1]. Admittedly it is lower than I thought. I expected it to be closer to 70%. Google for search is actually at 71% [2]. Either way, I think 50% is enough marke
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by raz32dust 6y ago
This has been discussed in threads below, but the jist of the issue is that Amazon is pretty much a monopoly as an online product discovery service. If they put their own products at the top, people will end up with no way of discovering ot
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by raz32dust 6y ago
We now have a big unplanned experiment. We will see within the next few days if the protests lead to significant spikes. Personally, I think that the virus probably doesn't spread that easily outdoors, so while we will see a spike, it
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by raz32dust 6y ago
That's actually a far better source! You should probably post it as a direct reply. Also love that you can break down the data by several dimensions
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by raz32dust 6y ago
I did some digging around for this info, and I think this is important. In 2018, 55 police officers were murdered in the line of duty [1]. In the same year, police officers shot 995 people to death [2]. [1] https://www.forbes.com
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Stop watching the news for entertainment . Start watching the news as a means of learning the truth. Change passive consumption to active consumption. Involve your critical thinking, discuss it more, understand opposing viewpoints, be re
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Non paywall version (different site but same topic): https://www.politico.com/states/california/story/2020/05/21/... Is there any objective evidence that SAT favors wealthy people. I mean, I am
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Thing is, I have very limited usage. I don't really use or want the budgeting facilities. I just want a simple app to keep track of expenses. I even considered building my own little apk (I use android) which will just sync from mobile
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by raz32dust 6y ago
I paid once as well, but was forced to upgrade to Catalina for other reasons. Felt cheated, but I understand why they do it.
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by raz32dust 6y ago
I've been using YNAB. I want to switch out because YNAB is too expensive. What I miss with open source alternatives is the mobile app. I don't like to link my bank accounts, so I enter expenses manually whenever I buy anything. Th
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Tesla autopilot is a joke compared to what Waymo intends to do. For Tesla, autopilot is just an add-on, a cherry on the cake that is a good-looking, hi-tech electric car. For Waymo, full self driving has been the one and only focus. On th
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by raz32dust 6y ago
This is a big deal, especially given the apparent polarization on this issue. I would love to (1) See the statistics being used by the government, with clear goals when stay-at-home orders can be lifted. (2) How does the govt. plan to enfo
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by raz32dust 6y ago
+1, I was very grateful to MIT OCW because when I learned Linear algebra, I could not have afforded it. Later when I got a job, I donated to OCW and I bought his book full price from his own site [1] just as a tribute to the guy. [1] https
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Politics is definitely important here, because at the end of the day it is a question of values. If the majority of the nation wants to keep business open even at the cost of hundreds or thousands of lives every day, that is a question of p
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by raz32dust 6y ago
It is not so simple. Some examples: If there is no lockdown, companies are not forced to have employees WFH. So while you may be OK with getting the virus, I might not be, but I am no longer free to not go out since I might lose my job over
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by raz32dust 6y ago
Agreed. Especially with the Musk stunt, too many people in the bay area and CA are questioning the continued SIP, and it would be good for the government to come out really transparent in how they are making the decision.

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