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We've been able to return most Amazon Prime items to Kohls here in SoCal for a while. When you drop off the return they hand you a 25% off coupon for anything in the store. There h…

There was actually a podcast by Radiolab recently that discusses how and why this is not the case. It's counterintuitive for sure, but pretty interesting. https://www.wnycstudios.o…

Care to share what types of tools do this? I'm genuinely interested. I haven't come across a log management tool that uses AI to detect abnormal conditions based on the log message…

Agreed - this really only benefits product creators who want actual emails so they can send (spam) them with newsletters, product updates, etc. Requiring a valid email is rarely so…

Not all PII is inherently "sensitive" though. Meaning not everything that can be used to actually identify you needs to be encrypted and protected. I don't know for sure but I don'…

None of the data that was available sounds like sensitive PII so I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised by this. I would probably think that rider/driver feedback isn't PII at …

You are literally describing Chariot. Everything except for the sleek black color. https://www.chariot.com/

It's really a convenience thing for me. Yeah I could go to the store on my own. But by the time I come up with new/interesting recipes for the week, plan out all of the ingredients…

Haha, but that doesn't matter! You just have to beat more other people than I do.

This was a fun problem. I wish I spent a little more time on it. My solution and approach was pretty similar to the OP, code and write up here: https://github.com/mattdodge/538-rid…

It's certainly good for beginners who are looking to get into competitive programming. The problems can be somewhat challenging to someone not familiar with algorithms or computer …

Great timing considering Google Code Jam Round 1 starts tonight too

This is the shortest one of the solutions so far. Wonder if it's the shortest possible? (Other than empty = empty)