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At least one source gives shoplifting as the plurality of shrinkage at 36%, with employee theft close behind at 30%. But if theft isn't prosecuted, this would seem to affect incentives for both shoplifting and employee theft. https:&#
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>Maybe the journals should get together and all their editors can decide to not publish research such as [insert literally anything here] This is a terrible idea. Scientific publishers should not be in the business of restricting the dom
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It's plausible that a language could expose some general logic behind instruction-level parallelism and cache management — even register renaming — without being explicitly tied to the way one particular architecture does that. I have
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>if C is not a portable low-level language, what on earth is? This question doesn't have to have an answer. The author of TFA apparently believes that a low-level language is one that effectively and clearly exposes the execution
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The study says that TDEE is generally constant from 20 to 60. Multiple studies have shown that on average people do a terrible job of estimating their food intake ([1], [2] for example), especially when they aren't actively monitoring
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Surprisingly, I thought it would be this: https://www.pnnl.gov/news-media/efficient-dehumidifier-makes... Two new dehumidifiers from two different USG labs licensed to two different companies? And they told us that ind
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Your child is very likely to outlive you. In fact, to some, this is a major reason to have children. On the other hand, your pet will die in your lifetime, unless you are very old or die unexpectedly. So most people are probably prepared fo
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For boats, fuel cells can make sense. But air travel not only requires a high energy density but also a high power density, and here the fuel cells are relatively weak even by car standards. The alternative is to burn hydrogen, which introd
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37681004
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Only about a quarter of divorce is related to infidelity.
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Things like apartments are not even so consistent. Building codes in America are highly ineffective, whether for content or enforcement I don't know. But the last three apartments I lived in were just awful. Noisy and falling apart at
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I'm not terribly familiar with these ecosystems, but for a news broadcaster it seems like a massive advantage that Mastodon is highly accessible to a non-logged-in user.
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>the very strong link between poverty and (certain types of) crime [0]. "Very strong" is not a very useful description. Quantitative explanations are important. Unfortunately, your linked paper is not available. This one is: h
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Your threshold for clear evidence may vary. I found several studies, including an attempt at a randomized trial measuring the effects of screen use on the optical surface: http://doi.org/10.1111/cts.12933 "Effects
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>One (admittedly completely conjectured) explanation: Anyone motivated and healthy enough to travel to another country, where there's another language, with nothing but their shirt, is going to be very productive. Supposing that thi
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If you think it's so easy to measure academic bloat, why not go do it? Someone should start an index of wasteful spending by university or something.
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It's bmim! For those who don't pay much attention to ionic liquids, 1-butyl-3-methylimidazolium, or "bmim", is one of the most common — if not #1 — ionic liquids used in organic chemistry. This property is rather unexpec
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One possibility I have been thinking about is to locate desalination in an area with extreme tidal variation, particularly the northern Gulf of California (which coincidentally happens to be in a very thirsty region), where natural flows mi
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From your second link: >The results of this literature review suggest that heavy caffeine use (≥ 300 mg per day) during pregnancy is associated with small reductions in infant birth weight that may be especially detrimental to premature
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You're looking at it backwards. Orlando is the tourist destination. People fly into Orlando from all over the world. They're already at the airport. Taking a day in Miami now fits into their existing travel plans.
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To me the biggest problem with GPL is compatibility. The majority of coding effort is commercial and will be for the foreseeable future. If the frameworks are GPL then the commercial interfaces will likely be incompatible with free software
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Italics mine: >The study, described as "a wake-up call", also estimated that exposure to the toxic metal causes young children in developing countries to lose an average of nearly six IQ points each. >Their model estimates
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"Toxic masculinity" was a perfectly reasonable concept when it was originally defined as a kind of social norm . If we interpret "masculinity" as "behavior socially expected from men", then this trivially exte
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Commenters seem to be analyzing this as though it were a steady-state phenomenon. But it isn't. The article clearly states that this is a result of increased costs along the supply chain that appeared due to disruption during the COVID
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The Wikipedia article is a good place to start: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_needed_to_treat So e.g. assuming a fully causal association with bipolar disorder (unlikely due to the strong genetic influence on bi
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>These findings may inform policies regarding the legal status and control of cannabis use. But not without NNTs. For depression, OR = 1.8, NNT = 12 (assuming 10% lifetime incidence, this is very hard to estimate due to the difficulty in
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> such as monopoly power. The article does mention monopoly power, but it uses instead the term 'network effects'. These are not exactly the same, but in the realm of social media and similar platforms, they're very close.
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The problem is that the "repugnant conclusion" is a matter of definitions. A moral theory is (basically) freely chosen: you can change the definitions whenever you like. Not so for B2C SaaS. The utilities are always measured in do
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I don't really think that any of those are as important as comments, though. Comments are indispensable for a self-documenting config file. Trailing commas and so forth are merely convenient. JSON with comments wouldn't be perfe
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One time a doctor at the on-campus clinic looked at my blood sugar reading said I might be prediabetic. This was an early-morning appointment at a time in my life when I wasn't very used to that and had rushed out of my dorm while scar

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