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Depends on the item value. It's usually closer to 10%

The higher margin on the left is what amazon charges for fulfillment (which can be quite a lot).

I always wonder how many people actually do this. It has to be a pretty significant difference for me not to actually buy it at the store.

If I'm at the store and i can put something in my cart and buy it then I'm not going to order it online and wait for delivery to save $5. Also delivery is extremely unreliable these days...

does this apply when both dave's discount stereo and steve's discount stereo are subsidiaries of the "Dave Steve Stereo Corporation"?

Maybe they both outsource inventory and order processing to the parent company only having distinct sales and marketing.

> Amazon used the sales data to understand her product was popular, and went right to her supplier and cut her out of the equation.

This is not a new thing either. Or unique to amazon. This has been going on for decades (or as long as retailers have had own label products). Every Walmart/safeway/target/kroger branded product is essentially a clone of somebody else's product that they figured out they could do cheaper.

Years ago my MiL was selling her baked goods directly to a local grocery chain. They then decided to bring baking in house and came out with an almost identical product line.

If you have a product that is easily copied/reproduced (and not patentable) then a retailer can remove your margin by doing it themselves and in this case your value becomes the brand/brand recognition and not the product itself.

if you do this you absolutely need to turn off your main breaker.

> Housing can be affordable while going up in nominal terms.

Housing cannot be affordable if it goes up in real terms though. In an ideal world house prices would increase 1:1 with wage growth from an affordable baseline.

There are 2 ways to fix it: either crash the market or introduce policies which will cause either stagnation or below inflation growth in housing prices for at least 20 or 30 years.

> No one from September 2019 would believe you if you told them about the work from home policies in place right now for millions of people who were expected to be seated at their desk at 9:00 (or 8:30) until 5:00 three years ago

There were lots of us who couldn't believe that so many employees had to be at a desk from 9 - 5 in industries where it made very little sense.

Don't members of the meetup group already have access to the members list for that group?

Thought that was a core concept?

So electric vehicles might end up being part of the solution here. The new ones are starting to come with v2g.

i wish pintrest could be scrubbed from the internet

Coming from the UK I'm always amazed that many (suburban) Americans don't have 6-8 ft fences surrounding their back yard.

The data doesn't include SMRs and MSRs which could be extremely compelling both from a cost and time to build perspective (or they could be a dead end).

Current gen LWRs are problematic for all sorts of reasons but i wouldn't rule nuclear out of the fight just yet. Especially when you take into account china's track record of delivering nuclear plants at a competitive price.

> And... unless you're in a marginalized minority group, you really aren't in a position to know how racist people are.

My experience is that people are more likely to share racist views with other people of their ethnic group but would likely never be overtly hostile to a person of a different race.

Also, I think if you are in a marginalized group it's extremely hard to disambiguate racism from general assholery.

If you don't get hired for a job you'll never know if it was because the interviewer was racist or because he just didn't like you

> There are legit nazis in the world, and they’re a truly unpleasant bunch

Used to play airsoft with a guy who had a totenkopf tattoo. He wasn't pleasant at all. Not sure anyone wanted him there but so long as he didn't break any of the rules they weren't sure if they could refuse him service.

Though as a counter my friends dad has a bunch of neonazi tattoos under his hair (he doesn't shave it any more) and was a very solid bloke who had a troubled path getting there.

Even the actual neo-nazis can reform.

it's old, but had i discovered this i'd be tempted to automate something to deliver 20 pizzas every day to a homeless shelter and see how long they took to catch on...

> But they seem to be fine with providing poor service to the children who are ahead, which should be unacceptable.

This is one of the reasons I hated school, when you can read the book, understand the material and complete the work in 20 minutes and you have an hour allotted and then just have to sit there it makes you dread going in every day.

This wasn't the case in every subject but when it came to maths and science it was just painful.

where is this? I've lived a few places and never heard of something so generous.

It's normally closer to 1-2 weeks per year. Also in the UK, ireland and france they put a very low cap on the weekly pay.

> In fact we would have such a huge surplus of homes, most people would be able to easily upgrade.

given that more than 95% of homes are currently occupied we would not have a surplus. while some of your suggestions could have a place there is no replacement for building more homes

There are 2 aspects to this. Development should absoulutely be a thing this is investment in the same way investing in a manufacturing company is investment.

Buying/building property to rent should absolutely be a thing as well. There's a service there. But the idea that i buy a house now and in 5 years it's worth more than i paid for it (relative to income) needs to die

Yes. They could have just set the memory limit high enough to handle that workload. There's really no different.

it confuses me that he lists brackets as [] but not for ().

() are brackets [] are square brackets and {} are curly brackets.

certainly if you're from the UK and in maths class grew up being told about: BODMAS - Brackets, Orders Division, Multiplication, Addition Subtraction

I believe PEMDAS is more common in the USA

Well the headline i believe is technically accurate. Given that lifter type devices are aircraft but not aeroplanes.

It's certainly an iteration rather than a complete revolution but seems like an important step. Certainly something like this would have more practical application, a basically silent drone that could fly over a battlefield would be a huge win.

Afaik The holes in the faraday cage must be smaller than the wavelength you seek to block. If a faraday cage were to block WiFi it would also block your cellphone.

The CPAP is extremely useful if used correctly (rather than just enforce compliance). It allows a clinician to monitor remotely for all sorts of issues and follow up with the patient.

There are a whole bunch of issues that can occur that a patient may not be aware of because they are asleep. Generally I wish we'd all use some kind of sleep monitoring system or at least we started routine screening for sleep disorders

completely agree here. As someone who has done a fair amount of snow and ice driving in some quite unpleasant conditions never once have quick reflexes helped: low speed, correct use of controls (copious use of engine braking, starting in higher gear etc.) and the ability to make small measured corrections have seen me all right.

Even then I've come close to crashing three times (would have been a small crash though) twice due to slopes that weren't safe to descend given the conditions and once because a family of deer crossed the road in front of me, i was not able to correct course to avoid them or use the brakes - doing either would have led to me losing control - luckily i was doing < 15 mph and the deer stepped out of the way at the last second.

So i need to find someone who's fit, normal weight, and happy and steal their poop?

> normally sighted people or even people with "normal" nearsightedness, farsightedness, or presbyopia benefit from adequate contrast.

Makes me think of the oxo good grips kitchen utensils. They were designed designed for people with poor dexterity and as a result have become easier for everyone, this has made them extent l extremely popular

> You do, however, typically need to set “low power standby” or whatever in the options somewhere - it’s usually not enabled by default

i had the opposite, i had to disable the low power standby (which was on by default) so i could wake it over the ethernet or via HDMI-CEC

> how would natural selection work in a world where individuals live forever?

So it would likely be pretty unchanged from our current levels. Just about everyone survives to produce children these days (with some people i wonder how).

Also i don't think when people say conquer death they mean true immortality, they mean Negligible senescence i.e. we are no more likely to die due to aging, people would still die (accidents, violence, natural disaster etc).

> You're better prepared for zombies.

Not really. In the case of zombies you want to be high up with a good view around all of your entry/exit points. Going into a tunnel is a good way to get stuck in a tunnel.