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weird that you bring milk up as an example, because this is an industry where regulations tend to make sure milk prices stay high and production stays low; really there are not man…

But, are these approved by the American Ladder Institute? https://www.americanladderinstitute.org

How is that different from say broadcast TV or any other media though? Or are you saying that ads are their product as well?

Actually looking at other things the woman making the "toxic wasteland" comment wrote, I certainly don't agree with her on everything, but I'd say she actually makes a lot of good …

What is particularly toxic about this comment though? I would actually agree that there won't be many poor/minority people participating, but that has more to do with the challenge…

TBH, I find it difficult to see value in that particular line of research: it stands to reason that there would be a link between advertising and consumption in all age groups, so …

Sure, it might not be general purpose, but the "niche" is really quite large: there aren't too many websites written in Excel, but there aren't many written in C++ either :) I am r…

I'm much more of an emacs than vim user, but the "wrong IDE" part is not quite true. Most IDEs support the common languages that you've listed, but once you go a bit further into d…

I think you are right, but: how about tools like Excel, which is very non-linear, and yet it seems to be easier to pick up, and less intimidating, for complete newcomers compared t…

TBH I see a plenty of the arguments on the other side too, whenever a company does something people disagree with, there are calls for regulation. Even further, there are lots of p…

Do we actually know what data has been leaked/illegitimately retained/whatever you call it? A lot of the discussion revolves around friends data -- was all friends data accessible …

Well maybe not to that extent, but to my knowledge things are not that bad in Japan yet :) Let's just not confuse market share with monopoly (in economic sense of course, which is …

Of course; I know very little about Japan's antitrust laws, it's really beside the point whether they are democratically defined or not. It's on Amazon to argue about their interpr…

True, and definitely an argument to consider full numeric. I am sure they've thought about that already and decided against though, so I didn't want to go that far. Also, in practi…

After reading their evaluation document, I kinda see the use case. I personally find the mix of letters and numbers a little annoying though. I think it would be better to use only…

I don't really see why this is necessarily unfair, unless there is literally no other way to reach consumers other than through Amazon: shouldn't their own product pages show up in…

Link seems broken atm :( Regarding the efficiency though, I would think (even disregarding new users of LaTeX) it would really depend on the length and content of the paper. For lo…

It might be even worse. I actually doubt they'll allow you to get your info deleted, even for a fee, unless forced by law: it would only be worth it for them (as in, producing reve…

Have wild rabbits been mostly dealt with in Queensland? Because if not, it's not obvious to me how a relatively tiny additional source of escaped/released pet rabbits would make a …

I don't think English spelling not being perceived as phonetic does much here. For example, a lot of Russian speakers think Russian spelling is phonetic, and yet there has been no …

He's not suggesting to ignore the risk; his claim (that I cannot really evalate) is that Houston's approach is not inferior to zoning.

What's so controversial about this (other than perhaps the "if you beleve")? Seems like a pretty factual statement, the shift from coal to gas is currently the primary driver of CO…

This is not really new; just think of all the stuff that came out of AT&T labs...

I am honestly puzzled at why you believe this to be the case. I'm not even sure it has ever been the case. Consider, for example, how chemical weapons have never been used in WW2, …

Of course not; surely it is a condition of your food service license to allow inspectors on premises, so you'll lose it if you don't let them in (I doubt you'll get charged with a …