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by uremog 10y ago
I recall NPR did a story about how Kid Rock tries to fight scalpers. http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/06/27/196277836/kid-r... TLDR; The best seats are raffle-only. The next best seats a
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by uremog 10y ago
If you live in a high crime area, you secure your house even if you have to put bars on your windows. Then you can campaign for a safer neighborhood. It's not a requirement, or a demand, or blaming the victim, it's just sensible
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by uremog 10y ago
I had removed all the Win10 upgrade files and registry keys, etc from my box at one point, yet somehow - probably during an update - the files have come back. It is now showing me that pop-up again.
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by uremog 10y ago
So... everything is Wrestling. Except for Wrestling. "Everything is about sex. Except sex. Sex is about power."
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by uremog 10y ago
I have a researcher friend whose paper was rejected from publication because another paper had similar research. The thing is, that other paper cited a draft of his own paper (the one that was denied). Fights over "who came first&quo
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by uremog 10y ago
That's funny, I had no idea they sent those emails even though I've had Amazon for a long time. Thanks.
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by uremog 10y ago
Or the ever insightful: Q: [Any question] A: I don't know.
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by uremog 10y ago
I'd guess topic knowledge would also be a big deal. If someone reviews a pocket knife who has never used one in their life, it will be a different review from someone who hunts often and sharpens their own knives.
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by uremog 10y ago
I don't think it's SO bad. There's still an opportunity to protect it and learn from it without completely destroying it.
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by uremog 10y ago
Spending time marking it is just a means to an end. Even if you hide (or don't have) all the markings, it's still classified. The end being, proper handling.
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by uremog 10y ago
Does one get into the credits for such usage? If so, do some people use stage names for such things? Note: NOT interested in knowing their name.
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by uremog 10y ago
Sir Davey McDaveface, even.
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by uremog 10y ago
I'm not sure what law you can make to change people's favorite choice of Instant Messenger.
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by uremog 10y ago
Last time I came back to the US, customs stopped me before leaving the airport because I had "undeclared food items". Yes, I had a bag of snack sized Oreos and nothing more.
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by uremog 10y ago
There's certainly much more in TFA but I do appreciate the effort of the summary.
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by uremog 10y ago
Just to add, really poor people can't afford to shop for sales. Right now, I have all kinds of stuff that will never go bad and I can use eventually, that I bought on sale (paper goods, soap, etc), sitting in my basement. And I haven
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by uremog 10y ago
It's not. They are free to make up their compensation. People are free to say negative things about that compensation. And the company is free to fire those people.
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by uremog 10y ago
It's ok for them to just not make cars if they can't make them right.
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by uremog 10y ago
I think it's more like you create demand for them. I doubt any of your bill actually goes to the creator directly in most licensing setups. Or is that wrong?
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by uremog 10y ago
Isn't it somewhat the same with humans though?
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by uremog 11y ago
The parent in TFA actually wasn't that far off from a legit solar oven.
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by uremog 11y ago
While I think the parent underestimates the impact stated, I also think the point was that the experiment can be done at home by nearly anyone with the will, science fair or not, privilege or not.
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by uremog 11y ago
I always thought that came from the error rate of old radar guns?
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by uremog 11y ago
I know some people who drive as a side-job and only get on during surge pricing.
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by uremog 11y ago
I know some past male coworkers who were general assholes to both men and women. But out of those, the women got it much worse. Like in the article, these men were often in some kind of "good ol' boys" club - friends with i
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by uremog 11y ago
One time I saw a farmer's market stall being set up. The people were taking produce out of bags that looked a lot like what they sell at Costco, and repackaging it into cute little bundles and crates. (NOT trying to say that they all
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by uremog 11y ago
Even just from an economic standpoint, I think such fines should be far higher. Sometimes it takes lab tests to determine fakes from real foods. Also, I disagree - consumers shouldn't have to know the market. One could argue that t
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by uremog 11y ago
Not to be mean, but I don't recall hearing that in economics.
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by uremog 11y ago
Lol $300 is a speeding ticket in some places. Pretty useless even as a first time punishment.
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by uremog 11y ago
At the very least, storing any indication of entropy will tell you which passwords are more likely to be the worst.

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