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by stordoff 7y ago
"PAX Plague" is a common one for PAX.
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by stordoff 7y ago
The article mentioned in other comments ( https://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/04/making-crash-ba... ) seems to go into it: > First and foremost, they didn't follow PlayStation's library restr
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by stordoff 7y ago
Really depends how big it gets, not how big it gets currently. We're still taught about the Black Death, and that was nearly 700 years ago now. (though it does seem absurd to suggest it'll get anywhere _near_ that scale)
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by stordoff 7y ago
I don't see why they _couldn't_ - they specifically say "All of your listings or shops may be promoted". Even if they don't, it still falls into a similar trap. A few weeks prior (when I was still looking for cheape
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by stordoff 7y ago
That's one scenario. I can very easily gin up some numbers where it doesn't make sense: - Organic Orders: 500 - AOV: 20 - Gross: 10000 - Margin: 15% - Net: 1500 A nice little side business. Nothing amazing, but a little extra inco
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by stordoff 7y ago
On any sales within 30 days of an ad click. Genuine scenario from a few months ago: I'm looking at some shelving on Etsy, I mention it to my mother (using a specific seller's name) to double check it's right for what we need.
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by stordoff 7y ago
To what end? They're still at capacity, Etsy take a bigger cut, and they might not be particularly interested in making more money. Some sellers (I suspect especially on a marketplace like Etsy) might be happier making a product _every
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by stordoff 7y ago
> If you’ve made more than 10,000 USD (approximately 7,800 GBP) in sales on Etsy in a 12-month period [...] you’ll be required to participate for the lifetime of your shop That's not exactly what I think when I read "biggest se
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by stordoff 7y ago
1209 (it celebrated its 800th while I was there, so the date has stuck with me). It's not in the Western Hemisphere though - it's about 0.1E.
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by stordoff 7y ago
They are in the Western Hemisphere though, hence the pedantry (presumably).
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by stordoff 7y ago
To which precedent to you refer? Most are catalogued in Erskine May.
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by stordoff 7y ago
_Up to_. It's subject to various considerations (Article 83): > (1) Each supervisory authority shall ensure that the imposition of administrative fines [shall] be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. > (2) [...] When deciding
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by stordoff 7y ago
I'm not sure in what world fraud is equivalent to a permanent debilitating injury, but even if it it was, that doesn't make it right. And even if it did, how do you know it's the right person? There are 5 people in my house (
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by stordoff 7y ago
> considering a brand new, never used item, which has had the box opened[...], I would definitely consider that "new I'm not sure how that is ambiguous when used specifically calls out "Open Box". (and FWIW, the artic
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by stordoff 7y ago
> saying it's probably his fault with no evidence The seller denied the return (against Amazon's policies). The buyer should return the item, but the seller slipped up and the buyer was entitled to open an A-Z Guarantee claim.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> S-2.2 Cancellations, Returns, and Refunds. The Amazon Refund Policies for the applicable Amazon Site will apply to Your Products. Subject to Section F-6, for any of Your Products fulfilled using Fulfillment by Amazon, you will promptly
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by stordoff 7y ago
How do I order something if I can't make a contract with a company? It's a contract of sale.
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by stordoff 7y ago
I think there's a way to pair them directly with the hub. I did it recently when I only bought a hub and outlet (no remote)[1], and it worked fine. One rumour I've seen a few times is that the Hub was an afterthought[2], which is
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Would you be willing to have your Nation broken up into multiple pieces because some Tom, Dick or Harry doesn't like the way it is now? As someone who conceivably sees this happening to his country in the relatively near future (E
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by stordoff 7y ago
> It is not tyranny, when it involves terrorism I'm not sure I would otherwise bring this up, as it's of tangential relevancy at best, but to return to GP's point, could the prelude to Indian independence (c. 1900-1920), a
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by stordoff 7y ago
Based on my experiences with benzodiazapines (diazepam, tamazepam), there's definitely a feeling of "More of this would be _great_", even at very lose doses when I'm not really noticing it doing a lot else. With weak opi
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by stordoff 7y ago
I think it's clear that it's not the intended meaning, but I can see how it might be misread as that. "and overall seem to have done everything in their power" did make me wonder for a brief second if the first two thing
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by stordoff 7y ago
> simply because the person receiving them believes it will Perhaps somewhat bizarrely, maybe even if they know it's only placebo: > In these four studies patients were randomised to receive open label placebo (pills described as
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by stordoff 7y ago
FWIW I don't know anything about the author, other than having scanned a couple of articles from time to time (I don't recall anything I couldn't glean from reading this article), and it read fine (and was interesting to boot
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by stordoff 7y ago
It's probably going to vary from user to user - even streaming on my local network (1Gbps wired), playing with a controller feels less than great.
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by stordoff 7y ago
I'd be interested to know if this has changed recently - the Xbox One and PS4 are both 1.6GHz/1.75GHz 8-core machines.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Do you know what "readily achievable" means legally? It's quite clearly defined in statute (and includes cost): > The term "readily achievable" means easily accomplishable and able to be carried out without
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by stordoff 7y ago
> I can't readily access it, so nobody should have it Where do you draw the line though? If accessibility is not a requirement of doing business, disabled people can't access a large proportion of places, either out of indiffer
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by stordoff 7y ago
> The data obtained by Motherboard and PCMag includes Google searches, lookups of locations and GPS coordinates on Google Maps, people visiting companies' LinkedIn pages, particular YouTube videos, and people visiting porn websites.
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by stordoff 7y ago
They can instruct the browser to log/leak HTTPS keys: https://textslashplain.com/2019/08/11/spying-on-https/ NB this article also notes the selling of data - from the article it cites: > Jumpshot

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