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Yup, they call it "commingling". So even if you make sure it says "sold by and ships from Amazon", and Amazon itself only buys from legitimate vendors, you could still wind up with…

That may have been true once, but no longer thanks to "commingling": "Sellers on Amazon can pool their goods with the same exact goods offered by Amazon itself, a practice known as…

Excel and COBOL will both still be around in 50 years. The entire global financial system depends on them, and will probably continue to do so at least until the Cyborg Uprising.

You might already have read this, but Daniel Yergin's The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power is a great overview of all the ways lust for oil has messed with so much o…

I wonder how much of that is due to the strong disincentives to misuse of health data by providers. I suspect many people are more willing to be honest with health care providers a…

A large part of this is the new rules on contamination that exclude a lot of material. 0.5% is China's new limit, while a average city with curbside collection could never meet tha…

This is a good point and also worth pointing out (in the US at least) that most ophthalmologists will be covered under your medical insurance not your eye insurance (if any) becaus…

> "how the EU is hobbling the UK" Sorry if I'm misreading, but do you mean "how the EU is being hobbled by the UK"? In the sentence above it sounds like the EU wanted the agreement…

It looks like when the script fed the titles into the Goodreads API, it picks the most common (popular?) book with that title. Since the subtitles were stripped out it got confused…

"Securities traded on a national stock exchange, regardless of price, are exempt from regulatory designation as a penny stock"[1] Blue Apron is on the NYSE [1]"SECURITIES AND EXCHA…

"5. He operated under a cloak of secrecy..." Well, they say He works in mysterious ways...

Yes, not to mention that nearly every casino/hotel on the Strip is owned by either Caesar's Entertainment or MGM Resorts. They are huge publicly-traded companies who want to minimi…

This is a good point, in fact recently there have been a spate of articles claiming that millennials are saving too much (in cash at least) and not putting enough in the stock mark…

Yep: "Dunder Mifflin Infinity" - Season 4 Episode 3/4

> Another said: "The target grows every year." Whenever I see examples of impossible-to-meet goals I'm reminded of reminded of this classic "I Love Lucy" bit [0] with the chocolate…

> To the point where you wish you hadn't started but the sunk cost of time invested is such that there is no way back either. "All causes shall give way. I am in code Stepped in so…

Indeed, dog walkers are even listed in that article (from over two years ago) as being prone to "platform leakage". From the fourth-to-last paragraph: "As soon as you find that cle…

Investment Science - is that the one by David Luenberger? Green cover?

This is another dupe of the discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14637873

"Judge William Alsup, who is presiding over the case, ordered Uber to search more thoroughly for the documents." Judge Alsup always winds up with the most interesting cases :-)