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by wh0knows 3y ago
I was referencing the article which seems to indicate it’s more than just a buy box issue. > Today, Amazon tells sellers that if it detects a lower price for their products on any other online store, they will be punished, which is to sa
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by wh0knows 3y ago
Amazon isn’t recommending “more expensive” items to consumers, it’s offering different products. It should be recommending the best product for the user at the price it can offer the product at. The fact that the product exists $1 cheaper
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by wh0knows 3y ago
Reddit already made an exception for accessibility focused apps, so your last statement is not accurate. For your first point, the moderators don’t own the subreddits they moderate, so the users should not have to attempt to recreate a comm
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by wh0knows 4y ago
> I'm supposed to believe that the cost to Twitter to deliver ad-free and tracking-free text streams is higher than the cost for Netflix/Google to stream unlimited HD video to all of my devices on demand. The price is not based
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by wh0knows 4y ago
I went through an Air Canada lost baggage fiasco this Christmas. The bag was lost for 9 days, with zero updates on the tracing report. The last update was in the connecting airport. We managed to find it, sitting placed at the destination a
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by wh0knows 4y ago
They usually attach a barcode wrapped around a handle AND a sticker placed somewhere else as a backup. The warehouse had thousands of bags, it would be an unprecedented number of bags to have both lost their bag tags, the backup sticker,
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by wh0knows 4y ago
Most of the money made by credit card companies is from the transaction fees paid by the merchant. Credit card companies would still be immensely profitable without receiving a cent of interest. [Edit] This was my understanding but some fac
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by wh0knows 6y ago
While hydrogen might end up "being the future" this prediction has as much substance (perhaps less as there is no scaled up application of the technology) as Musk's claim. Just want to make the point that the idea of hydrogen
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by wh0knows 6y ago
I don't think this is true, because if our civilization collapsed there would be an abundance of resources that we previously harvested at the surface
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by wh0knows 6y ago
It is just shocking that you would be on mongoDB and move away from it for horizontal sharding. As some one who has never used mongo that seems like the only reason to use it
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by wh0knows 7y ago
It's incorrect to assume that the existence of signature validation would kill this use-case. Similar to how the existence of HTTPS does not kill the ability to transmit data over HTTP and visit sites with no certificate or a non-trust
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by wh0knows 7y ago
On Instagram the poster matters, on Reddit the poster does not. This means it's completely different. A random made-up user on Instagram will have no audience, a random made-up user on Reddit will. Additionally, Instagram has an o
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by wh0knows 7y ago
I don't think this article is very useful. It doesn't adequately provide an introduction to OCaml code (or adequately explain what a given code snipped is doing) and yet frequently defers to just code to explain a concept. It&#x2
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by wh0knows 7y ago
I would say you are in the minority of consumers, most will just chase the lowest price. Additionally, most people will look at third-party repair shops as a way to get a discount from Apple's prices, not to pay more.
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by wh0knows 7y ago
This isn't necessarily true. If a 10m pop area has a 70-30 split, it's still better to campaign there than a 5m pop area with a 50-50 split. In absolute numbers it's still 3 million supporters versus 2.5 million supporters.
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by wh0knows 7y ago
I had heard about him a few times and I avoided listening to it for the same reason, the show lengths were a complete non-starter. But I decided to give it a try and for the topics/guests that I found interesting the show lengths see
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by wh0knows 7y ago
It sounds like you're describing a much different biking culture than is the one in the Netherlands. For a minor stop here it will take less than 10 seconds to park a bike. Usually there's bike parking or a stand on the street r
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by wh0knows 7y ago
I would argue yes. Happiness is just a chemical reaction in your brain, whether it's through natural environmental factors or drugs, it's the same reaction. The issue is that we've yet to find a drug that can provide unlimi
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by wh0knows 8y ago
I think you're getting the sentiment mixed up. People aren't sacrificing their own wellbeing in order to increase their company's, but rather, they find the work they do personally sayisfying and rewarding. For instance, I
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by wh0knows 8y ago
No, the author is making a sweeping generalization about ALL tech startups in an article published on a news website. The commenter on a forum is simply asserting that these facts are not true about ALL tech startups, and it's perfectl
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by wh0knows 8y ago
Take a look at the FIRE community, or anybody who is interested in a self-funded retirement. Most people who are the ones renting and investing large amount are not buying single stocks, they are buying broad index funds that encompass the