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| no reason not to hike up the prices

Because they're happy with the income they're making from it probably. Not everything has to make the absolute maximum amount of profit possible.

What percentage of books get a second print run on a printing press? And what's the process for that? Do they have to reset each word for the second run? I genuinely don't know how a physical process like typesetting can result in increased accuracy on each print.

Not sure why you have something against the flyover states. I'm sure there's more shoddily constructed condos in Florida/California/New York per capita than there is in the Midwest. Same goes for cheap high calorie food.

Of course, the same can probably be said about the large population centers in China too. More people concentrated in one area tends to mean more poverty in that area and all the things that come with it.

I've backed most of GeekClub's previous KickStarter campaigns and received everything I had put money towards including an extra set of kits for one of the campaigns for some reason. The kits are generally pretty good although the instructions are less great in my opinion. From what I can tell in the comment sections, a lot of the people the complain about not getting items are people that never filled out the surveys with their shipping information. Of course, with it being KickStarter, buyer beware is always the rule.

You may also like Will Wight's Cradle series. It's an american style of Xianxia/Cultivation novels but very good. The audiobooks are also highly praised.

Absolutely not. It should be abstracted out enough that it can be applied to all purchases and not just ceiling fans. Otherwise, you're going to be duplicating effort for the next purchase and you don't want to have to repeat yourself.

WebOS was absolutely amazing. The Palm Pre on the other hand felt like plastic trash. I was young enough when it came out that I was dependent on my parents to buy and pay for my phone still and I dragged my dad to a Sprint store at 5:00am to make sure we were first in line to get one so they didn't sell out. When we got there I figured I must have the wrong date because we were the entire line.

I used that Pre until the plastic shell started falling apart and by then the writing was on the wall that it wasn't going to be the next big thing for phones and I regretfully bought my first Android phone with my own hard earned money.

> We really shouldn't be trying to go any further until and if they can predict the island of stability with high confidence.

I don't know much about chemistry since I haven't done anything with it in the last 20ish years. What need is there to be able to accurately predict it before attempting to synthesize it?

> it still take the same amount of work to produce what we consume

Does it? Seems like if we don't have excess value going to shareholders, less work could be done to provide the current level of value for things people are consuming.

> As an extreme example, imagine trying to find a stable husband and raise a family in a world in which every other woman treated sex as being valueless and beautiful women wandered the streets naked and giving it up to passers by.

Sounds easy enough as long as you consider men may have some motivation other than to have as much sex as possible.

It's also highly toxic to aquatic animals as well and does come off a bit when put in the wash.

> he separation machine is powered by employees on their break time

Did they finally allow warehouse workers actual break time? Weren't they were peeing in bottles or something for a while because they didn't have time for breaks while still making quotas?

> Nb: I recently took a trip to the USA and was appalled that they play full volume video advertisements while you’re filling up with gas. At least that’s not a practice that’s caught on elsewhere.

On most of these pumps you can push the second to top button on the right side of the screen to mute the ad.

According to the guy that owns the gas station down the street from me, this gets tracked and if the owner/advertisers see that enough people are muting the ads and they're not profitable, they'll stop paying to have them play at the pumps.

Oh there's way more than just the big three too. For instance, many online payday lending companies run a credit check through alternative credit bureaus. There's quite a few of these types of niche credit tracking companies that most people never run across.

I know of two companies that provide this. My experience is with software written for government entities by a third party. Every time we cut a new release, we would have to go through an escrow process to provide the services with a VM image that would allow our clients to build from source our entire software stack along with the ability to host the software either in house or in the cloud. It was a very expensive and time consuming processes and my ex-employer charged a fortune to any clients that wanted it.

https://nationalsoftwareescrow.com/what-is-software-escrow/

https://softwareresilience.nccgroup.com/software-escrow-serv...

One of the McDonald's near me has been using the order taking software in one of the drive thru lanes for a while now. It's such a better experience compared to probably 90% of the employees that have been taking orders there.

It doesn't have someone whisper/shout through the speaker because they don't know how loud they need to speak to be heard outside. It speaks clearly and can be understood which is not always the case with the bored and disinterested high school workers the store tends to hire. And my personal favorite is that I'm not greeted with "McDonalds! Thank you! Order please!" which seems to be the standard greeting they're training employees with at that location.

I've only had it get an order wrong once (though the food does still get made incorrectly about 10% of the time) at which point it quickly switched over to an actual person to complete the order. You can tell it's more efficient too because at busier times, the non-human order taker lane moves cars through at a two or even three to one ratio.

Overall, I'm surprised that more locations haven't switched to the software already and especially that other drive thru businesses haven't begun testing the software out here.

There used to be a service called CDARS that would do this. It's now known as IntraFi Network Deposits and covers some other services as well.

https://www.intrafinetworkdeposits.com/

Health issues cutting his career short ensured he won't be in consideration for most people. That said, he truly was phenomenal. Absolutely one of the most amazing to ever play the game.

Per https://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/accreditedinvestor.asp#... the requirements to be an accredited investor are well within reach of quite a few software developers. Apparently I qualify despite being in the Midwest where salaries are lower than the coast and I'm not a particularly great developer.

Based on these requirements I would guess that 10% of the population could certainly qualify given that a quick Google search says that almost 9% of the population are millionaires.

One of the things I always heard when getting into software development is that the hard part isn't writing the code but rather figuring out what problem to solve. Now the hard part is going to be figuring out what problem to solve and how to tell the AI to solve it. If you're already good at the first part, the second part should be what you focus on and you'll likely become very in demand.

Many small businesses use their FB page exclusively because they aren't big enough to bother with a real website. There will be a lot of pain for many small employers and their employees if FB software were to go away.

I've been fired once in 15+ years of writing software. Nobody has ever asked me why at any interview since then.

Additionally, as someone who has been on the hiring side, unless you're getting let go from multiple positions in a short (fiveish years) time span, I don't care. Most people get fired at some point in their career. It can be for so many reasons that it doesn't mean anything unless it forms a pattern.

The last thing I can say about it is make sure you have a very good explanation of what happened just in case someone does ask. Don't put all the blame on the employer/boss/team. Take some responsibility but make it clear that it was a one off situation that you have learned from and won't be repeating. The fact you understand why you were let go and what you learned from it so that I won't have to fire you for the same thing is a big plus when I'm considering if I want you on my team.

And the banner asking you to install their PWA because you wanted to read one article on their site. Also don't forget to enable push notifications so they can tell you when they post a new update.

Pretty sure the Supreme Court has ruled that only US citizens, regardless of jurisdiction, are afforded rights laid out in the Constitution.

> just chess

Ah yes a game that reinforces that lowly peons should be sacrificed in battle so that the 1% can come out on top. No possible conflicts in morality there /s

Tears of the Sun for me. Bruce Willis and his unit made them seem absolutely badass.

I would think that any positive effect could be reversed by essentially giving the opposite. Want to decrease inflammation? Get a younger gut biome. Mess up and get an older gut biome and you probably end up with increased inflammation.

There is also evidence that fecal transplant recipients take on physical and mental traits of the donor.

Quoting from https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-05-09/faecal-transplant-sid....

"There have been people who have taken on the shape of the donor, such as if the donor is either overweight or underweight they've become more like that."

"There's even been reports of some people who have never been depressed getting a transplant from someone who's had depression and ending up with their first episode of depression after that."

I know this was a joke but there's quite a few medical conditions that recent research seems to think can be cured by a poop enema. There's surely a market for a company to do screening, storage, and sales of feces in a similar way to sperm banks. As for price, if you can get it approved by insurance, 1 BTC may end up being cheap!

This is only the second time in fifteen years of professional development I've seen someone say they work with DataFlex. What makes the language attractive to you compared to all the other languages that are around and see significantly higher adoption?

If you're willing to print enough cash to pay for the smart people to come to you, you can probably import them. It seems to be more the exception than the rule that people dislike a country so much that no amount of money could get them to go there to do research on the topic they're interested in.