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bluGill

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  • Is the game show "Deal or No Deal" rigged?

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  • They need people to win big - if someone really does win big that fuels the dream for everyone else who won't even get on the show but still dreams how their life would be better if they won big. They need most people to win something that looks big, but isn't "too much". The only people they want to lose are people that every viewer hates - and those people won't be selected to go on anyway. They don't want too many big winners as then winning big goes from a hype worthy event to another person got some money, but those big winners fuel the dream and keep the show alive so long as it doesn't happen so often it becomes a yawn.

    Creating a game show is about the circular optimization: more viewers = more money from advertisers. Money can be paid in prizes or go to your pocket.

  • Personalized pricing can backfire on companies, says study

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  • Lowest price is the one thing your business plan cannot do. Finding the best value, or bse quality would be useful businesses. Dollar store and walmart already have the lowest price locked up, you need a eifferent niche.

    all retail is about buying thing for someone else at the bottom.

  • Volkswagen Planning Subscription-Based Horsepower Upgrades

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  • more horse power means more stress - the car will break more. Not only wouldn't I buy it I'd pay less for a used car if anyone ever paid for it.

  • Volkswagen Planning Subscription-Based Horsepower Upgrades

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  • Legally those mods only void the warrenty if the mod caused the problem. The law goes back to the 1970s in the us and applies to a lot more that they want you to think

  • UK government suggests deleting files to save water

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  • Everyone hates it when they have to change. Everyone wants someone else to change.

  • UK government suggests deleting files to save water

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  • You alone are nothing, but everyone else like you adds up. Private airplanes of the billionaires in total to less fuel than commercial airplanes. Not that billionaires shouldn't reduce their consumption, but the "common man" even though insignificant alone still adds up to a lot.

  • Could a nuclear bomb be delivered and detonated via a truck or boat?

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  • That was Einstein's probosal to fdr in 1938. nobody was interested. When the English checked the numbers they realized it was airplane size and encouraged the us to build on. Airplane bomb bays are small, a row boat could haul little boy around ( though it is likely to capsize if the seas are not perfect calm)

  • Schools are using AI to spy on students and some are getting arrested for misinterpreted jokes and private conversations

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  • Just don't allow an ai on the jury. If you are on a jury tell tpe judge you want the prosecuting lawyers disbarred for wasting your time.

  • 19% of California houses are owned by investors

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  • adding options for people who need to live someplace but buying isn't right for them.

  • Your favourite piece of selfhosting - Part 1 - Operating System

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  • Truenas core because I'm a bsd guy at heart. with that all but dead I'm trying to decide between bare freebsd or xigmanas.

    I have a arch linux box for things that don't run on bsd.

  • Bought my first house and started to investigate some temperature issues

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  • Try to get a total of r40.

  • How many musicians we got here on Lemmy?

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  • Why talk about it when you could bee practicing or playing. most discussions feel like people who don't like it enough to practice and so theyeare not good and in turn are 'blind leading blind'

    i play mandolin, at an okay. I dabble in many other things.

  • Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict

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  • That is an issue.

    i just realized that I didn't finish the thought. Once self driving is statistically safer we will ban human drivers. Some places it will be by law, Some the more subtile insurance costs, some by something else.

    We need to figure out liability of course. I have ideas but nobody will listen so noebuint in writting.

  • Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict

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  • We have numbers already from all the human drivers caused death. Once someone makes self driving safer than humans (remember drinkingiisia factor in many human driver caused deaths and so non-drinkers will demand this be accountee for.

  • Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict

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  • That is a low bar. However I have yet to see independant data. I know such exists but the only ones who talk have reason to lie with stastics so I can't trust them.

  • Tesla loses Autopilot wrongful death case in $329 million verdict

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  • What jury results do is cost real money - companies often (not always) change in hopes to avoid more.

  • Any recommendations for peertube frontends?

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  • Whichever peertube instance you are viewing the video from. Makertube, urbanists.video are two that I use

  • Any recommendations for peertube frontends?

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  • The website works fine. I don't understand the app obcession people have. Though newpipe is an option if you must

  • From games to reminders to drink water: The rise of 'streaks,' rewards that keep you hooked

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  • Sure after a fashion you can work out some basics. don't confuse that with knowing the language.