themagician

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by themagician 3y ago
There is an anger in the US that a lot of people don't understand, including most Americans (and myself). It is very, very multifaceted. There is no single cause. Everything from politics to car culture and the way our cities are desig
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This is the most American thing I will read today.
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by themagician 3y ago
There is a CertAin large SaaS company that partners with retailers and sells them on this kind of bullshit. They don’t CAre. They ChArge the retailer and the seller thousands per month for their platform and technology.
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by themagician 3y ago
Not necessarily. Walmart also offer DSV, which is a bit of a nightmare.
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by themagician 3y ago
Amazon Retail (Vendor Central), Amazon Marketplace (Seller Central), and Amazon Brands (Amazon Basics, Pinzon, etc.) probably need to be separate companies. You also have decide where Amazon Ads and Amazon Registry will live. Currently thes
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by themagician 3y ago
Nothing, really. But you have to actually sell the product. On Target only one person can sell an item. Only one listing for that item can exist. It goes to whoever lists first.
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by themagician 3y ago
Walmart and Target are actually much worse. Target is perhaps the worst of all, believe it or not. If a scammer creates a listing for a particular UPC, they own it within the Target system basically forever. Even if you approach Target as t
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by themagician 3y ago
Ah, yes. My mistake.
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by themagician 3y ago
Anyone else remember a while back when the notarization sever went down and basically every internet connected Mac on the planet suddenly couldn't open ANY application?
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by themagician 3y ago
I prefer a separate numpad. Always have. I like it with the loud clicky switches because I can hear a double tap mistake. You can also then move the main keyboard over and use one hand on the arrows and really blaze through a spreadsheet. 1
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by themagician 3y ago
I have a bunch of things at the office set to automatically turn off at a certain time or on command. It's helpful in that I don't leave something running that really shouldn't be, like a laminator, overnight. After that I de
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by themagician 3y ago
macOS has felt “feature complete” to me for years now. There is nothing I really want from an OS. I only upgrade for the security benefits and so I can keep all my systems on the same release, since new systems can’t be downgraded. I actual
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by themagician 3y ago
It's not nonsense. Perhaps many don't, but most ask (at least where I am). They literally ask you when you go in for a cleaning if you want fluoride and then charge you. My current dentist charges $40. My last dentist (Orange Coun
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"This has, to our knowledge, caused no ill effects since." That's the kicker. Damn near everything has side effects. How and why the FDA approves some things but not others is a quagmire, but the truth is that almost everythi
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by themagician 3y ago
Because they can charge $40-$80 (or more) for a fluoride treatment. It's actually how they make money on cleanings. If you don't opt for the fluoride treatment it's a wash.
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by themagician 3y ago
And those $100k homes will go to zero. Rural Japan and Italy both face this today. The homes are dilapidated and free. I generally agree though. Population decline is going to decimate areas at a scale and with a speed I don't think an
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by themagician 3y ago
Hope? If housing prices decline in the US the way they have in Japan it's going to completely change… everything, and not in a good way. Housing is the primary savings vehicle in the US. Almost everyone relies on values increasing in p
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by themagician 3y ago
This is going to happen in a lot of places over the next 30 years. Italy and South Korea are also in big trouble. Unless we really ramp up immigration in the US, it's going to happen here too. On the plus side, everyone complaining abo
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by themagician 3y ago
By the time this is a problem the currency has collapsed and no one is using it anymore.
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Probably wasn't a "deepfake" just someone decent with impressions and a $99 mixer. After compression this will be more than good enough to fool just about anyone. No deepfake is needed. Just call the person once and record a
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by themagician 3y ago
Almost everywhere else in the world high BP is anything above 140/90. Doctors generally won't recommend medication until you are consistently over that. In the US they continue to revise numbers down to prescribe more medication a
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by themagician 3y ago
*in the US.
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by themagician 3y ago
Women can more readily get attention, but not necessarily the kind of attention they want. Women also become emotionally invested in fictional characters or celebrities. Same, same, but different.
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by themagician 3y ago
So true. What sucks is you have to pay the Adobe tax even if you 100% move your workflow away from Adobe, because inevitably someone is going to send you an .AI file or .PSD.
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by themagician 3y ago
> I don't understand how they can make something as good as Procreate and sell it for $15. Because they knew it was that good. They also had first mover advantage. They probably said, "Well, if even 1% of everyone with an iPad
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Might want to fix that.
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by themagician 3y ago
I don't' think Apple will bother with "custom" or even scaled iPadOS versions of most applications anymore now that they have Stage Manager.
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Malice is, in many ways, a key ingredient to success in many spaces. While people will rarely admit it to others, many who are successful often operate knowing that wealth is something you take not something you make. The more you understan
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Software and hardware move too fast now. Even if you buy it, there is no guarantee it runs properly in 4-6 years for whatever reason. If Apple had LTS versions of their hardware and software that guaranteed backwards compatibility for 15 ye
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We know many animals (and even plants) communicate without language. There is no reason to suspect that whales even use language.

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