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alwaysdoit
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- alwaysdoit parentTBF, for the more popular shows, they are spending that money on an English dub (which is considerably more expensive).
- This almost always means "security patches" but the general public almost always interprets this as "feature updates" and tech journalism never manages to draw the distinction.
- If they really wanted to, they could offer two versions: one which includes a charger, and another which does not and donates $5 to an environmental charity.
- Why do some people believe that deliberately and carefully trying to fix a problem and inadvertently introducing an unforeseen side-effect is worse than deliberately choosing not to do nothing about a disease that leads to sickness and death?
- I am a pretty big advocate for good faith communication and think the article is right that it is necessary. The thing that disheartens me though, is the asymmetric nature of the problem: good faith communication is hard. It takes time and patience. Bad faith communication is easy. You can write 20 bad faith drive by comments in the time it takes to post one thoughtful reply. And due to the wide open nature of most of these platforms you're rarely interacting with the same person twice. So it's hard not to feel that that effort is entirely going to waste.
- Commercial property tax rates (incl rental) should be higher than residential. All things being equal, it would be preferable for someone to own the house they live in, rather than pay rent to another party indefinitely for exclusive access, and our tax code should incentivize in that direction.
- I guess you're going to volunteer to feed them the human blood they need to reproduce, then?
- No it's not, it's looking to enshrine that standard by law for everyone. Nothing is stopping consumers from demanding phones that are self-serviceable, they just simply aren't willing to accept the tradeoffs involved (larger size, worse thermals, higher price, etc). If you disagree, there's an unserved market segment wide open for you!
- > To the extent that interpretive canons accurately describe how the English language is generally used, they are useful tools. … [But w]hen this Court describes canons as rules or quotes canons while omitting their caveats and limitations, we only encourage the lower courts to relegate statutory interpretation to a series of if-then computations. No reasonable reader interprets texts that way. [Alito in concurrence]
Why would it be horrible if there were a well-defined grammar for legal texts?
- Disagree. The abandonment of advertising in favor of paywalls in media is directly contributing to the increase in polarization and consumption of disinformation. Quality journalism is getting harder and harder to access. People might subscribe to one or two, but they are unlikely to shell out for a publication that does not align with their preexisting views. Meanwhile the propaganda and fake news remains free to read.
- If 401k contributions are included in earnings, why shouldn't pensions be?
- I actually lost money when the first company I worked for sold.
At settle, I received a wire transfer for $7.22. The bank charged me a $15 incoming wire transfer fee.
- The NYT has been doing really, really well financially the last 4 years. Their stock price is up almost 300% since 2016--not the only metric, obviously, but it certainly gives some indications of how concerned investors are that it will stay in the black.
Other, smaller papers are not doing nearly as well.
- If you repeat the process many times will it reduce that error rate, or are the errors non-independent?
- Pairing maybe?
- Yeah, it's weird that the discussion has centered around censorship, rather than like... why didn't law enforcement shut this down sooner? Or at least properly prepare for it?
- No, but it's automatically the right tradeoff for everyone.
Security measures are always a tradeoff between convenience and security. Not everyone's tradeoffs work out evenly. Sometimes backups are a more important risk to mitigate than government surveillance.
- Children are often placed in a caretaker position over dogs--they sometimes help feed it, take it out to the bathroom or on walks. They don't spend much mental energy thinking about the needs of adults, the adults tend to do that for themselves, often out of sight of the child.
It's not surprising that the child would lean towards protecting the animals that they see as under their care, or needing more care than adults.
- Right, and a willingness to experiment on new things inherently implies some of those things will be cancelled.
If cancellation is an unacceptable outcome, they need to have a higher bar up front before launching, and fewer things will launch.
- It also raises the baseline across the board by injecting a new competitor to every ISP and wireless service in the world
- Well, many of those people also don't get to take Federal holidays off. See "Black Friday", "Presidents' Day Sale", etc.
- Google licenses the lyrics through a third party, LyricFind, which in turn hired people to transcribe them. In a small percentage of cases, those transcribers did not do their own work and instead copied lyrics from Genius.
- Even if you have the best compensation in the market, sometimes people leave just because they want something different. I agree with your general point that we should be willing to pony up to keep people, but ensuring your system is straightforward for other people to pick up and maintain is also a good practice.
- Agreed. The news functions like a monitoring system with an extremely bad alert configuration.
- I'm not making an ideological assumptions there. I'm just referring to the status quo. The proposals I've seen are along the lines of "let's ban or add obstacles to advertising-based models", not "let's build a publicly funded Google search". I'm not saying the latter is an impossibility, but it's a much larger undertaking, and if you do the former without the latter, the effect will be as I said above--the poor lose access.
- You can have a condescending attitude about it if you want, but the reality is advertising-backed business models make services available to people who would not otherwise be able to afford them.
The ramifications of creating barriers to advertising is ultimately taking these services away from the poor.
- > only give premium services to the most valuable users?
Almost certainly. What people often miss in this discussion is that advertising is progressive--it's a transfer of value from richer people who can and will pay for both the service being used and the product that is being advertised to poorer people who cannot.
- > Reduced Work Hours
> If your employer has reduced your hours or shut down operations due to COVID-19, you can file an Unemployment Insurance (UI) claim. UI provides partial wage replacement benefit payments to workers who lose their job or have their hours reduced, through no fault of their own. Workers who are temporarily unemployed due to COVID-19 and expected to return to work with their employer within a few weeks are not required to actively seek work each week. However, they must remain able and available and ready to work during their unemployment for each week of benefits claimed and meet all other eligibility criteria. Eligible individuals can receive benefits that range from $40-$450 per week.
> The Governor’s Executive Order waives the one-week unpaid waiting period, so you can collect UI benefits for the first week you are out of work. If you are eligible, the EDD processes and issues payments within a few weeks of receiving a claim.
- This is a good mathematical analysis. But here's another way of looking at it: the hot hand fallacy is stating that every shot is strictly independent. You don't have good days and bad days, every day is exactly average. Which is ridiculous, especially in the negative direction:
- A player could be sick
- A player could have an minor injury they are playing through
- A player could have not eaten properly before the game
- A player could have been practicing a new shooting form and not quite adjusted properly yet
If you can have bad days, by definition all the other days are good days even if they are only "normal" days.