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by yojo 4y ago
I just Google the business and email them. Usually they're able to take me off their mailing list. Also as I recall, there was a coupon mailer that did not participate in the DMA. The flyers show up with branding from Vericast/Sav
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I personally always line up multiple offers when job hunting. Much better for negotiations. In all cases I’m sure one of the companies I turned down would take me back if my first choice turned out to be a dud. YMMV, but it seems like there
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by yojo 4y ago
This is meaningful and deserves more prominent placement. If you’re going to rug pull someone paying out $10k+ certainly takes some of the sting out. I would love to have an offer rescinded with pay. If the company’s prospects are really
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by yojo 4y ago
I went down this rabbit hole a little. It does seem like the specific formulation of AKG may matter. The commonly available supplements are L-Orthinine Alpha-Ketogluterate (OKG) and Arginine-Alpha-Ketoglutarate (AAKG). The study in questi
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by yojo 4y ago
Per the article, American supermarkets have the same profits (~2%) as cheaper European ones, but much higher fixed costs. Some of these costs are the cost of inputs, but that only explains so much; wholesale food prices are much lower tha
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by yojo 4y ago
Maybe it’s just early days? I remember in early internet times webcomics were one of the few niches where creators were trying to make a living on the internet. At first it was “easy” - ad rates were super inflated in the dot com boom, and
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by yojo 4y ago
Exact same pattern here - 2 pre-k kids, wave after wave of illness since January, still yet to see a positive covid test. I guess it’s good that their immune systems are getting a workout, but all this illness and accompanying missed school
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by yojo 4y ago
I did the same thing with my range hood. Just no reason for those things to have electronics in them. There’s a Canadian company Victory that sells a couple PCB-free models at prices that are reasonable.
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It has to do with the probability of a given die roll occurring. There are three ways to make a sum of ten with a pair of six sided dice: 6-4, 4-6 and 5-5 There are five ways to make the sum of eight (ditto for a sum of six). 6-2, 2-6, 5-3,
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by yojo 4y ago
There is a distinction between “fine” art, and what I’ll call “working” art people with artistic ability produce for money. Think graphic designers/illustrators/etc Fine art is going to be okay. Authenticity has always been a big
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Reminiscent of Reddit’s “The Button” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit) Which, incidentally, was conceived by the Wordle guy. Impressive cultural impact there.
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I got a vintage Gillette handle off eBay - it definitely has heft. Could be worth trying a different set of blades. The Astra Platinum were the Reddit hive mind recommend at the time, but this was ~8 years ago. I’m also wondering if it migh
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The “once you use it correctly” is worth highlighting though. I tried the double edge safety razor. Got the brush, shaving cream, big pack of Astra blades. Watched a bunch of YouTube videos on technique. Spent way more time shaving. Nicked
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by yojo 4y ago
I highly, highly recommend this book: https://www.amazon.com/Sleepeasy-Solution-Exhausted-Parents-... You can probably borrow it for free at your local library, you certainly don’t need to own it. It’s easy to follow, both
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by yojo 5y ago
My last boss worked at a sandwich shop in college (Pasadena, CA). One shift he knocked over a 5 gallon bucket of olives, which spilled all over the floor. He was mortified, but the owner seemed unperturbed. He handed him a broom and a dustp
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by yojo 5y ago
I entered into my marriage assuming my partner was negotiating in good faith. If she says something bugs her, it bugs her. Collectively we can either spring for Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for her, or I can pick up my pants after I shower.
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by yojo 5y ago
If it is unimportant to you, and important to her, then splitting the difference doesn’t mean doing it your way half the time. If it instead is important to both of you, then you have a fundamental problem that you need to sit down and work
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by yojo 5y ago
I’m not an expert on the market, but I don’t think there are many carbon offsets sold as “we will plant and maintain an acre of forest in perpetuity.” And frankly it’s not something any organization can promise. Governments change and clear
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The problem is at some point the tree dies, decays, and releases the carbon it was holding. Contrast to an oil deposit which, left undisturbed, might never release its carbon.
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I take issue with the speaker not influencing whether a statement is or is not “x-ist” There are truths that are empirical (math, physics, etc), but most controversy that includes “x-ism” is about things that are subjective and don’t bucket
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by yojo 5y ago
The literal quote is about the “x-ism” of the statement, not its veracity. He goes on to extrapolate about truth later.
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I think you’re injecting a lot into my comment that wasn’t there. I never talked about cancelling anyone. I talked about whether speakers are always equally qualified to make the same statement. Here’s an example: There are words that have
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by yojo 5y ago
Woo boy. Generally liked the concept for the essay, but this piece jumps out as problematic (or just poorly written): > The clearest evidence of this is that whether a statement is considered x-ist often depends on who said it. Truth do
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by yojo 5y ago
Thank you. I wasn’t aware of this, it makes perfect sense.
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I don’t know how counting sessions or source of click matters. You still don’t know whether the customer would have ultimately found you without the ad. Put another way, the only way to tell if a customer will still find you without the ad
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by yojo 5y ago
If you’re full e-commerce the only metric that really matters is conversions. How do you know your ads aren’t just taking credit for customers who were going to buy anyway? You can get great CTR and conversion rate running ads against your
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I’ve always figured it was some combination of selection and survivorship bias. Selection because only workaholics or super-strivers generally make it to that level. Survivorship because the only ones you see working are by definition the o
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Thank you for this. I was hoping someone would contribute a better explanation than my own vague intuition.
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Again, I will hand-wave about complexity. A larger memory and the ability to load/unload large corpora rapidly implies a very different kind of cognition than the one we enjoy. I’m not saying you’re wrong, only that I can imagine a rea
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I think AGI is usually equated with “superhuman” intelligence, though obviously not a requirement. If superhuman intelligence were easy, why aren’t we already more intelligent? Being smart has already demonstrated considerable fitness benef

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