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squaresinger

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  • Kernel Community Drafts a Plan For Replacing Linus Torvalds

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  • Btw, most browsers allow you to disable video auto-play in the settings.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • If the model is high rebates at some times (e.g. an article costs €50 instead of €100 for part of the time), then you do save money buying when it's at €50.

    But you have to remember that €50 is the price at which the seller would usually sell the product. That's the price that their price calculation says that it should be sold at. Otherwise they'd not be making profit.

    So the alternative model is to always sell the article at €50.

    Or to put it differently: The seller does the price calculation and comes up with €50 being the price where they would need to sell it to make profit and the price that the customers would still buy it at. It's the optimal price, and the price they should be going with.

    Instead, they sell it for €100, so they can discount it to €50 and put a big "-50%" sticker onto it. Hardly anyone who has the choice buys at €100, everyone waits for the sale, when it's put to €50. And then more people buy, because they think they have made a massive deal, because they have gotten a €100 item for only €50. They are going to tell all their friends about it, it might even make it into news articles or stuff like that, and then more people buy.

    The other option, which is illegal in some countries but legal in others, is to just fake the "full" price all together. The product is always offered at €50, but the sticker says "€100 -50% super sale!"

    You can see stuff like that on Aliexpress. Pick some article that has a 50% rebate during some sales holiday (e.g. Black Friday). Then look at the article a week later, and in almost all cases the non-rebated price next week will be the same as the rebated price during Black Friday.

    People just love being lied to. It's really sad.

  • OP is shocked that an import tax is not paid by the exporter

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  • That's a really big issue, tbh. People don't get how prices work. You see the same with promotions/sales. A lot of shops/companies will often put their products on sale for 25%, 50% or even more off. And people think they will actually save that amount of money. Instead of realizing that in most cases the sales price is the regular price, and the regular price is inflated by the sales price amount so that if the product is sold the seller still makes the same margins.

    In a former job the company started expanding to Asia, and we got a sales guy from Singapore to represent us in Asia. He said that if we aren't selling with at least 60% rebate, we have no chance of selling stuff in Asia. So we created a new price list for Asia with all the prices tripled.

  • How to become a team/department lead?

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  • As lower/middle management, you are crushed from both sides. Upper management demands from you what to do, and the people under you hate what you are forced to implement. It's actually really annoying and difficult. I was department lead and went back to just developing.

  • My country's police just busted a dangerous 3d printed weapons manufacturer.

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  • This is the really weird thing. If these knives were made of metal and in a kitchen drawer, nobody would think of them as being weapons. But since they are 3d printed, that's novel enough to warrant some panic or something...

  • TIL getting married young during the European Medieval times was rare.

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  • Once again a reminder that the "experienced past", so the way we think the past worked, only covers a very short timeframe.

  • Switch from American tech companies !?

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  • Jollaphone would be an alternative. Not a good one though.

  • Can’t wait for the head(amame) package to arrive

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  • Would be cool if you dropped a line or two to tell us what we are looking at.

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 2011 09 08

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  • No skepticism, only surprise at how that was so long before the AI epidemic.

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    Questions

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  • This. Being sassy towards the person who decides on your application isn't so much "getting back at them" as it is a self-own.

    But (hate to be that guy) it's likely fine, because this really doesn't sound like a story that happened at all.

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal 2011 09 08

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  • Do I read this right? That comic is from 2011?

  • ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism

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  • Depending on the circumstances, yes, that would totally be illegal.

    It's called "aiding and abetting". In most countries it's illegal to convince someone to do something illegal.

    If you are someone the victim sees as an authority figure (especially if the victim is a minor), a bunch of other other charges can be added too.

    In Canada, the UK or the USA, for example, someone who "aided or abetted" someone to commit a crime can be punished exactly as if they had committed the crime themselves.

  • Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’

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  • Hmm, kinda? A lot of industrialization went hand-in-hand with losing customizability and things made to fit.

    A while ago I talked with a woman in her 90s and she said that when she was young, no serious TV moderator would have worn an ill-fitting off-the-shelf clothing.

    The same holds true for all sorts of articles: custom-made shoes, custom-made furniture, custom-made houses, for example. All that is relegated to the luxurity sector and most people just go with ill-fitting off-the-shelf industrial goods instead.

    AI kinda fits into that department for many tasks. Low-quality translations, low-quality texts, low-quality work, all off-the-shelf and ill-fitting but cheap and mass-produced.

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  • Everyone forgets Africa.

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  • We had that here too. For a week. Then it all sorted itself out. Mostly because people got their panic buying out of their system and everything returned to normal.

  • hell no!

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  • At my job:

    We do have a linter and tons of automatic tests. Changes are generally quite safe, not a lot of manual tests are necessary.

    Meanwhile, a trivial change requires a whole day because the developer has to adjust dozens of tests and get them through a pipeline that takes hours to run.

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  • There's been various methods for blocking sperm from travelling down the vas deferens that managed to get through studies and then just got dropped.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vas-occlusive_contraception

    Edit: This is what Wikipedia has to say on that topic:

    Despite this, pharmaceutical companies are reluctant to lose market share of a thriving global market for female contraceptives and condoms which bring billions of dollars of revenue each year. Initially, RISUG attracted some interest from pharmaceutical companies. However, considering that RISUG is an inexpensive, one-time procedure, manufacturers retracted.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_inhibition_of_sperm_under_guidance

    That kind of procedure would wipe out most of the contraceptive industry. And of course that can't be allowed.

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    I don't get why they're okay with this

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  • Looks like it's actually available by default. The json thing is for the language server which does linting and autocomplete.

    To activate syntax highlighting just select the language of your choice by pressing the language name on the very bottom right corner of the window and choose the correct language.

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  • What do you want to say with it?

    We are talking about men not wearing condoms and you point out that it's only men who can and don't wear condoms. Like, yeah, of course, because its only men that can wear condoms.

    So that point of the argument becomes a tautology without actual direct meaning. It turns from being an argument into a pure attempt of framing/manipulation, and that's not good style in a discussion.

    Apart from it not making any sense in the context of this discussion, the argument itself is pretty flawed in general usage too. The general chain of discussion is usually like this:

    • A: I am making a wild claim that characterizes all members of group X to be Y.
    • B: I am refuting this claim by saying that only a very small amount of the members of group X are Y.
    • A: It's not all members of group X that are Y, but it's always members of group X that are Y.

    So it shifts the argument. It goes from "All X are Y" to "Some X are Y", while not acknowledging that shift. It's a variant of the Bailey and Motte fallacy.

    The "it's always X that are Y" inversion is usually done in a tautological way.

    "Not all muslims are islamist terrorists, but it's always muslims that are islamist terrorists." -> Sure, because to be an islamist you need to be a muslim, but there are tons of non-islamist/non-muslim terrorists too.

    The point is to throw off the person you are talking to, because that tautological part cannot be disproved, and that might make someone stumble in posing a counter-argument.