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Notwithstanding what I understand about the publishing industry, I'm talking about the marginal cost of distributing a .mobi or whatever versus manufacturing a printed book, not the entire cost of publishing an eBook.

I can't think of any publishers that are also in the business of printing and distribution. Those are entirely separate industries. There is almost no way for publishers to lose money because of tech that makes it cheaper and easier than ever to get books to consumers while retaining unprecedented control over pricing (fixed, never discounted or remaindered), resale (prohibited), and lending (also prohibited). Publishers sell eBooks for the same price as print books but pay almost nothing to produce them. That's a big bump in profits.

I don't see how any publisher is losing money on their back catalog due to scanning by Google, either. Google doesn't sell or even offer access to the full text of most books they scan, certainly not any that are under copyright and still being sold by publishers. Out of print books are by definition not earning money for publishers, so it wouldn't make any difference there.

It was confusing to me. I assumed it was about some kind of collaboration or integration, not an acquisition.

LoJack stays in business mainly by selling their product to dealers who then demand auto buyers pay for it whether they want it or not.

How do hidden trackers "prevent" theft? If a thief steals your bike and is notified that it's being tracked, they're probably much more likely to abandon it somewhere, at which point you can recover it. This seems like a safer bet than trying to hunt them down yourself. (It should go without saying the police are not going to go get your bicycle back for you even if you do hand them the GPS coordinates.)

Possibly an example of: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sector_light

In the most material terms, they're probably more distracted than two people who are both present and chatting which isn't great for anybody's experience. People also tend to be shouting into the phone, worse if they're not using headphones so you get to hear the other person shouting back.

At a psychic level it also kind of sucks in ways that are harder to describe.

Lots of domains don't necessarily point to anything as obvious as a website for perfectly normal reasons, either.

Netflix 4K streams seem to top out around 25Mbps and I'd guess other services are comparable, so 1Gbps is still a lot of bandwidth for even large multi-streamer households. I think a lot of families will reach the limits of cheap, basic wifi routers before they start actually pushing against their bandwidth caps in these situations.

My issue in the past with cable gigabit service was the relatively tiny upstream bandwidth of 20-50Mbps. This made for some challenges a few years ago when suddenly everybody in the house was on Zoom all day long.

I'm basically allergic to pandas. My old job used a shared "utility" library written by someone who imported pandas in order to...write Markdown into log files.

Usually one company will own the trademarks and license them to the other, so only one of the companies is responsible for managing the IP. E.g. the Rolls-Royce IP is owned by Rolls-Royce (the aerospace company) and licensed to the company that builds Rolls-Royce-branded cars (currently BMW). The contracts probably stipulate whether and how the spin-off has to handle a logo redesign or whatever else.

I was asked to do that for a state government job that paid above market, so it's not just retail. It was awkward and I would probably decline to do it again unless for some reason I still really wanted the job.

Many years ago, I had to complete a long personality inventory AND about 45 minutes of "what would you do"-type scenario simulations to apply for a job at...Kmart!

Then the manager no-showed when I came in for the interview.

It's entirely up to the hospital and the collectors they use (if they use any at all) how aggressively they pursue unpaid bills and whether they will involve your credit report to encourage people to pay. If you've mostly been going to the same places (or as another comment said, live somewhere where it's not as easy to send medical bills to collections), I can see it not really being a problem for you.

That's not always the case. Some hospitals will still keep a record of the unpaid bill on your account even after they pass the debt to a collector, and the collector will report whether you pay to the hospital.

The practice and billing parts of the system are usually mostly separate, so the person checking you in for your appointments may not know or have any way to see that you have unpaid bills and you won't necessarily be denied care for it, but there's no real standard here either.

If the hospital/provider sends your bill to a collections agency, then it can definitely show up on your reports. Especially so if you are actually sued for the debt, in which case the judgement is also a public record.

I've had this happen a couple times in the past when I was in treatment for cancer and underemployed. One agency reported the collections action and it went on my credit report (no indication that it's medical debt or anything else, so I imagine it would be up to the consumer to contest these things with the bureau?) Another collector didn't, so I never paid the bill or heard from them again!

Phenylephrine is a popular topical and suppository treatment for hemorrhoids.

Mostly just the DIV with a giant string of base64-encoded JSON in a data attribute that looked pretty ugly. Website visitors were of course basically none the wiser if it all worked.

The comment in the first link about Yahoo embedding a giant b64-encoded JSON object in the URL reminds me of something horrible I did in a previous job.

To get around paying our website vendor (think locked-down hosted CMS) for an overpriced event calendar module, I coded a public page that would build a calendar using a base64-encoded basic JSON "events" schema embedded in a "data-events" attribute. Staff would use a non-public page that would pull the existing events data from the public page to prepopulate the calendar builder, which they could then use to edit the calendar and spit out a new code snippet to put on the public page. And so on.

It basically worked! But I think they eventually did just fork over the money for the calendar add-on.

Plus the latest version of the software. I would still be using Office 2013 if I had to pay what I paid for it to upgrade every release (multiplied by the half a dozen or so O365 licenses I'm currently using.)

See also: The Clock.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Clock_(2010_film)

Looks like there's a lot of emphasis on children's theater and education, and it's one of maybe two such majors in the US. Sounds like a great program!

I can't understand your last sentence, which is undermining your point about the low value of language education...

That's an...optimistic point of view, especially given the departments being threatened are not the source of the university's financial troubles and this "transformation" process doesn't promise to address the things which are.

The administrative bloat and incompetence is why they're in the position to cut academic programs in the first place. You seem to think the tail is wagging the dog.

Not sure how accurate this list is. Acting is both unimpacted and eliminated according to this post, for example.

I don't have a hard time believing that mining is not as productive a field as it once was. It's a shrinking part of the WV economy.

This is nonsense. WGS and philosophy probably cost nothing and just aren't on the radar. They want to eliminate the higher ed administration program.

WVU is about to become the world's first vocational school with a D-1 football program.

Also being dropped are MS and PhD programs in math.

https://provost.wvu.edu/files/d/62ea2c4f-99bd-431d-9e97-7199...

I can think of a handful of things that it might be nice or convenient for someone to be able to access (subscription services and whatnot), but I agree that it seems legally unwise to encourage anyone to try to log into my financial accounts and move money around after I die. Naming a beneficiary is a sounder strategy.