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by waqf 9y ago
Please enlighten us with your wisdom as to what reasons for liking a piece of art are acceptable, and what reasons are unacceptable. To put it another way, when you walked into the restaurant you committed to paying a premium for one sensor
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by waqf 9y ago
You can still donate (blood, at least) for research purposes, if you can find someone who's collecting it. Bonus, you get $50–100 instead of a cookie!
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by waqf 9y ago
No, all of it sucks. But there is admittedly a difference: the rest of the stuff you are picking up after AirBnB's failings, but for the CC you are mostly picking up after the failings of the international consumer electronic payments
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by waqf 9y ago
For nine-figure fraud? What would you propose instead? (It's fraud when you take advantage by ignoring the established legal rules that everyone else is playing by, however suboptimal those rules are.)
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by waqf 10y ago
Overturned how?
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by waqf 10y ago
You are correct to forget this kitten, but that doesn't in any way mean you shouldn't research ways to stop kittens dying.
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by waqf 10y ago
Have you looked at the work in the 2000s on preventing medical errors, e.g. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/31/health/31safe.html ?
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by waqf 10y ago
Library Genesis is your friend. ( http://libgen.io or http://gen.lib.rus.ec , among other mirrors.)
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by waqf 10y ago
Did you read the first few lines of the page? Or pretty much any of the captions? > Most tourists only experience the political smokescreen of Pyongyang; I had the privilege in visiting all corners on one of the longest tours ever exec
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by waqf 10y ago
> airline industry got a lot of stuff just right the first time Not quite the first time: by looking at 1958, the start of the jet age, you have deliberately set as your starting-point the exact point at which they got things right,
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by waqf 10y ago
Here is David Moser also arguing that the Chinese writing system is objectively inferior: http://pinyin.info/readings/texts/moser.html
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by waqf 10y ago
And in fact, written English has changed very little in the past five hundred years or so: it's easy to read Shakespeare and not too hard to read Chaucer, although their pronunciation would have been considerably different. Before tha
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by waqf 10y ago
$$$ MAKE MONEY FAST $$$ What I mean to say is, Usenet's social model hardly prevented it from drowning in a sea of low-value content.
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by waqf 10y ago
> Even though he was clearly alive and well and way taller That's not relevant, because they probably weren't suspecting him of being the Supreme Leader, they were suspecting him of having a reason to conceal his identity (or
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by waqf 10y ago
I would be very interested to see software that turns horses into zebras, but I don't believe this is that, this is just software that manipulates images.
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by waqf 10y ago
Let's caricature this a little bit: suppose it were a rule of the EU that each national government had to appoint half a dozen people to receive a million-euro salary straight from EU funds (that means, of course, from funds that ultim
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by waqf 10y ago
I don't think it's fair to blame the voters. If there were influential elections that nobody was voting in, then a few hardcore members of the electorate would see the potential and be all over them. It seems much more likely that
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by waqf 10y ago
"forcibly", not "forcefully": http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/forceful.html
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by waqf 10y ago
Because immortality is quite plausible, but the idea that your portfolio is not guaranteed to continue to return an inflation-adjusted 4% over the long term is inconceivable.
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by waqf 10y ago
The author seems to think that ludology vs narratology is the same as procedural vs static content, which I don't think is true at all. You can easily make an open-world game with static content, you just need a lot more static conten
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by waqf 10y ago
Yes, but I don't think they're competing on refund policy. It sure isn't what's in large print in the ads, and besides, the policy is mostly dictated to them by the credit card network (which isn't so competitive, i
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by waqf 10y ago
Is there really an effective market in credit cards' willingness to refund? Aren't credit cards preferred mostly because regulation require them to refund the user in a lot of cases? (Also, what's with that weird US regulati
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by waqf 10y ago
That's incredibly evil, but I'm sad to say that after some thought I believe you. It's hard to think of another reason why the ban would be given as a list of specific airports — and it just so happens that American carriers
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by waqf 10y ago
[duplicate comment, admins merged two stories]
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by waqf 10y ago
Istanbul Atatürk has a security check to get into the airport. Guess what, the terrorists simply attacked the people in line at the first security check!
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by waqf 10y ago
Wasn't the Treaty of Rome the one that de Gaulle successfully lobbied to keep the UK out of? I'm no Brexiteer but this seems entirely appropriate.
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by waqf 10y ago
> Nearly all airline tickets seem to be sold at very different prices for exactly the same good. There's nothing illegal about the same product being sold at different prices at different times. Or at different prices from differe
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by waqf 10y ago
That's true, but selling marginally different "models" or "editions" of the same thing, in the hope that people will self-select according to their budget, is called market segmentation and is ubiquitous across many
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by waqf 10y ago
Sufficiently targeted ads are indistinguishable from honest search results: that is, if Google gives me the perfect result then I don't care what money changes hands behind the scenes (although yes, I do still care what's being do
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by waqf 10y ago
This is really missing the point, because if I objected to Google mining my private conversations to advertise to me I wouldn't use Gmail. The problem with ads on Google Home this week is serious, but it isn't related to "Goo

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