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by wycy 7y ago
It's much easier for a company to do $goodThing if all other companies are also forced to do $goodThing. It's not necessarily good business sense for Uber to unilaterally do it while the competition saves money by doing $badThing.
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by wycy 7y ago
> - It is actually 1.98% because when you apply it to a statement credit you are not really paying off the full total. You get a straight 2% back, daily, with Apple Card. You get a straight 1% back, daily, with Apple Card (except for App
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by wycy 7y ago
Regarding "designed to help customers lead a healthier financial life"--the difference is that, via the app, the card encourages you to pay it off and to not overspend. That's probably about it, though.
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by wycy 7y ago
That office building alarms are worse is all the more annoying since they theoretically shouldn't need to wake people from sleep.
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by wycy 7y ago
You can probably rest assured that that won't happen. The type of thieves interested in quickly/easily/silently breaking into your car are probably not the same as the type of thieves who are willing to turn it into a violent
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by wycy 7y ago
The New Yorker likes to add the diaeresis in words like this--it's just their style. They do the same with reëlection and other double-vowel words where the second vowel takes a different sound.
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by wycy 7y ago
> I was told several time (and experienced) that Americans love to say yes, and not follow through, which is a pretty rude thing in France. "Why don't we have lunch one day?" "you should come to my house!" "
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by wycy 7y ago
Are you doing both IF and OMAD (on different days obviously) or have you switched entirely over to OMAD?
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by wycy 7y ago
I would imagine that we must know that by now. We should be able to just see on a brain scan whether the pain centers are lighting up in response to pain.
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by wycy 7y ago
Can you elaborate on the way you were manipulated?
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by wycy 7y ago
Not all users, but a large coalition of very vocal users--far more vocal than the coalition that likes any given change. I'm in the apparent minority of people who generally likes most UI redesigns. - Like you, I also liked Windows 7 i
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by wycy 7y ago
With that rationale you literally can't change anything ever. Version 1.0 ever after. It is better if it ultimately just takes time for them to like it. The same people who initially hated it will most likely grow to like it. When we
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by wycy 7y ago
People do hate change, regardless of how much better that change is. I don't think I've ever seen a UI redesign over which users didn't get into a massive uproar. I certainly saw the massive uproar any time FB introduced a UI
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by wycy 7y ago
No, an easy solution is to make it worthwhile to work by increasing the minimum wage. The bottom has been so eroded that full time at minimum wage works out to $14,790/yr--and you seriously want to lower minimum wage? Less than $15k fo
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by wycy 7y ago
Apple seems like they could be vindictive enough to get into the business of selling their own modems, and to do so at prices that undercut Qualcomm, despite low cost hardware being way outside of their normal business model. Overall, I&#x2
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by wycy 7y ago
I have an iPhone with an Intel modem and can confirm: it is flaming garbage. It's fine in good service areas but in the event of subpar service it basically just craps out entirely. Qualcomm modems seem to handle the same areas just fi
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by wycy 7y ago
That the refactored version tries to perform math using the value of an enumeration also makes this feel unrealistically absurd.
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by wycy 7y ago
That doesn't seem to matter. In DC we have speed cameras everywhere and it doesn't matter whether your face is visible in a photo, the ticket will be issued to the plate and must be paid by the owner regardless of who was driving
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by wycy 7y ago
Where in DC? I've never seen it.
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by wycy 7y ago
My license expires after just 6 years I believe, but it can be renewed without retesting or anything, so unfortunately expiry doesn't solve the problem (at least in the US).
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by wycy 7y ago
It seems like absolute common sense that as abilities degrade as you age you should have to retest for drivers licenses periodically. Perhaps with greatly increasing periodicity with increasing age. However, any politician who proposed or a
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by wycy 7y ago
My biology knowledge is admittedly weak, but a question for those who might know: a lot of the discussion here is about how we only know of "life" based on nucleic acids (DNA). However, prions seem to replicate themselves without
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by wycy 7y ago
That still just sounds like regular extinction to me. "Event horizon" or some other "cliff" type of nomenclature is fair too in light of the inbreeding effect of very small populations. But "extinction vortex"
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by wycy 7y ago
But how is "threatened by extinction" an "extinction vortex"?
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by wycy 7y ago
It's not just the verbatim aspect, part of the issue actually is the distinction between laptop and paper. When you hand write notes, another piece of information you store in your mind is where on the page you wrote it, and what it
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by wycy 7y ago
What sort of equipment are you using for monitoring your HVAC system performance?
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by wycy 7y ago
I liked the use of the Mazda touch screen for the purpose of entering an address (while stopped) into the Nav system--so much easier than using a wheel to scroll across a keyboard--but otherwise it wasn't necessary. They could obviate
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by wycy 7y ago
Sure, but that's the always-acknowledged reality. Either you're paying for the product, or you are the product.
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by wycy 7y ago
Is this because Samsung simply sent you a phone that hadn't been wiped and was still signed into all these accounts, or was it really just auto-signed in due to phone number? I did the Samsung Ultimate Test Drive as well and don't
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by wycy 7y ago
I would be extremely hesitant to ever fly on a 737 MAX again because, even when MCAS is fixed, software is being used to fix a fundamental physics problem. I'd fly on other Boeing planes without worry, though.

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