@aakashgupta The other second order effect of a generous return policy though is it can attract abusive customers.
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Peter Green
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The companies still making you sit on hold for 45 minutes to dispute a $12 charge are spending $10 in labor to save $12 in product costs while losing a customer worth thousands. The math has never made sense. Amazon just runs it correctly.
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Run the math on why Amazon does this and it gets uncomfortable fast.
A single customer service phone call costs $7 to $12 fully loaded. Agent salary, software, hold time, QA, escalation risk. The average refund request on Amazon is for an item under $15. Half the time it's under $8.
The refund is literally cheaper than the conversation about the refund. Amazon ran this calculation at scale and realized that fighting a $9 return costs more in labor than just eating it.
Phillygirl@24tog
The best thing about Amazon is they rather refund you than have a conversation about it
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@matthewhodg @NicholasLe81575 But it's extremely difficult to do both. You need lots of passing places and careful timetabling, or you need to bite the bullet and have seperate tracks for trains of different speeds.
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@matthewhodg @NicholasLe81575 Well kinda,
Given a two track railway you essentially have a choice, you can provide turn up and go frequences OR you can privide local, semi-fast and express services.
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Many of the UKs great cities have perfectly adequate rail corridors that see nowhere near the service they need to deliver a good service.
Giving these corridors TUAG service (4-6tph) should be a gov priority under GBR, whether that takes the form of metro, light or heavy rail.
Tom Forth@thomasforth
The three new railway stations in Birmingham finally opening is great news. A near-guaranteed 15 minutes to New Street vs. a very-optimistic and unreliable 38 minutes (at peak time it's 48 minutes) on the bus is a game-changer for many.
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@rushicrypto Becauae a world war is far more tham a hamdfulmof cpuntries bo,bing each other. It's the major powers of the world actively fighting each other and dragging the rest of the world into the fray.
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@VahnAeris @rationalaussie You are confusing electricity with energy in general.
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In France, we get 80% of our energy from nuclear power ignorant fool.
We are the only country besides the US with a nuclear aircraft carrier, the best fighter jet in the world, and enough nukes to wipe out any country down to the cellular stage of evolution.
But yeah, go punch a kangaroo, you little US vassal country without history.
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Europe is genuinely retarded. I really don't know why they think they have any negotiating power in any of this. The region is bankrupt, they produce nothing, they have no intellectual talent, they are a net energy importer, and they have practically no defenses. They are totally, utterly fucked. The last place you would want to be right now is Europe.
I cannot for the life of me understand how stupid you have to be to be a European 'leader' and not understand how fucked you and your people are. If they are not panicking, they should be.
Harold__Finch@HaroldWren22
Most Europeans have no idea how absolutely furious with Europe America is. This is not just another disagreement. Betrayal is not something you just let slide. And the mouthy responses from Europeans are pouring gas on that fire. They have misjudged the situation gravely & it will have grave consequences for Europe— economically AND militarily.
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@iky_fwjett If I pee while sitting down, the pee will not end up in the toilet.
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i worked with a guy who refused to pee sitting down. i asked him what about when he's taking a dump, and he said he stands to pee first then sits to shit.
i said that's just fucking crazy, and he said "chicks sit to pee". i said "chicks sit to shit too, why don't you shit standing up?" and he just got angry
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@Videohistorian @opiumhum Surely it's not rocket surgery to check applications against a persons conscription obligations and service record and grant them if there are no outstanding obligations.
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@opiumhum I can’t imagine how this would possibly work from an administrative standpoint, even if people were voluntarily complying. Just not thought through at all
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Germany quietly changed conscription laws and now any man between the age 17 and 45 is obligated to obtain a permit from the German military if he wants to leave the country longer than three months.
Sascha 🍉|🇻🇦✝️🌹🕊️@Pasolinis_Asche
"Freiheit"
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@IsaacKing314 More stages means you get to dump structural mass earlier, but unless you do asparagus staging with crossfeed, it means you get worse engine utilisation, and it makes recovery/reuse more complex,
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Why does it seem like rockets are trending towards *fewer* stages? More stages is theoretically more efficient, so as technology improves I would have expected chasing efficiency gains to lead to more stages.
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@deus_lemmus @_trish_xD The kernel can only use what the hardware gives it. In general memory protection works with page granualrity. So if you want a hardware checked guard between allocations each allocation needs to get it's own page.
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This is because malloc() is a little retarded. You have no way to know exactly the number of bytes you're actually getting back, since it doesn't have a reporting system. Most of our problems are because there isn't a good kernel system for maintaining safety between allocations, where it really belongs.
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malloc(0) is legal C.
let that sink in for a second.
some compilers return NULL. some return a valid pointer you can't dereference but CAN free().
both behaviors are correct according to the C standard.
you can allocate zero bytes of memory, get a pointer to nothing, and then dutifully free that nothing.
and the language just shrugs and says "yeah that's fine."
this is why C developers have trust issues.
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@SandyofCthulhu Lots of people enter countries as tourists or students or whatever and then fail to comply with the terms of their entry.
Visa processes try to block these people, but it's far from a perfect system,legitimate visitors WILL be refused and illegal immigrants will slip through.
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How does Japan get “illegal” immigrants? Doesn’t everyone have to arrive at an airfield or port, and show ID?
Or do people sneak in via cargo containers, motorboats, and light planes?
Taya@travelingflying
Illegal immigrant who attacked someone in Japan gets deported. Immigrant: “I don’t want to go back!” Immigration officer: “It doesn’t matter. We’re taking you. You’re lucky we even have a plane. We’re taking you no matter what.” Japan is not messing around.
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@RO8s @ESpeaksFreely Anticipation of shortages causes shortages, smug observers like to label this as "panic" but really ot's just a bunch of people making individually rational but overall destructive descisions.
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@ESpeaksFreely If this is happening, it's panic buying, not shortage! The oil tankers that were the last to leave the Straights before they closed have not yet arrived in Britain, so oil should not be short yet! Soon, yes, but not yet...
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Went in to pay for petrol, I’ve just been advised to not do long journeys if possible, and to ensure that when filling up for a journey, to make sure to have enough to get back, as you can now not rely on other stations in unfamiliar areas to have fuel.
Lady in front of me in the queue says she was turned away from the Tesco garage because they had SOLD OUT!
Queues for garages are spilling out onto main streets, and if you can get fuel, it’ll now cost an arm and a leg.
Meanwhile, Starmer was directly asked today if we should start preparing for shortages of any kind, and of course he acted as if there is nothing going on.
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@beniduboss I don't read french, but often "roam like at home" type deals have fine print limiting the proportion of your time you can spend roaming.
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The French Elon musk just released a mobile data plan that’s 19.99€
It offers unlimited data in all red countries
In Switzerland the cheapest plan by the leading provider for unlimited data and 0 roaming is 69.90 CHF
How did Niel pull this off lol
I bet I am gonna see Swiss friends with French phone numbers in the coming months lol
Xavier Niel@Xavier75
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@davepl1968 @caballerobrah And the difference between "ypu can't change this" (const in C/C++) and "noone can change this" (const in rust)
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@davepl1968 @caballerobrah People vaugely understand the idea of borrowing but don't fully appreciate how it interacts with pervasive shared mutability.
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If you use the STL, you can write safe code in C++
Everything is object, allocator, and algorithm-based, and that's it.
You NEVER call malloc or free or use strxxx() functions. You never see, access, or operate on memory directly.
It's different than regular C++, but less different than Rust.
lagz@lagz152507
C++ get a bad reputation for its memory safety issues, truthfully if you actually take the time to learn the standard library and modern C++ style/features you can get code safety as good as languages like Rust
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@mccartjonathon @andymke @svaneksmith At least in the UK there are plenty of small shops that don't have any contracts with the brands they sell. Such shops commonly have multipack items sold seperately, or items sourced in foreign countries.
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@andymke @svaneksmith They’re uniquely coded. This wouldn’t work. Ntm, bc it happened in Europe it’s going to be easily identifiable bc of the packaging (language & coding)
Plus, no business is gonna risk their contract with Nestle. Reps know what you should in store bc they use their own sales reps
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So you've just stolen 12 tons of KitKats. You are going to
a. Sell it on the black market for a massive mark-up
b. Stash it in the bunker for end of days prep
c. Construct a Kit Kat Club out of actual KitKats
d. Not sure... Did not fully think this through
KITKAT@KITKAT
Regarding recent press coverage
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@PositivFuturist The standard B is right scale for devices like that, small enough that it can be fitted in, large enough to be robust.
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@PositivFuturist In general small cheap devices had captive cables, when designing the B connector the designers were almost certainly thinking of devices like printers, scanners and external hdds.
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@MrPitbull07 Still available where I live, though tjey only delivery every other day now.
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My wife says this never happened. Does anyone else remember when milk came in glass bottles and the milkman would deliver it to your doorstep before sunrise? You’d leave the empties out for him to pick up!
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@Jonath4nH @i2cjak Mpst chips don't have a fully arbitrary pinmux.
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did you know? if you accidentally fuck up and swap SCL/SDA on a board you can use Zephyr's I2C bitbang driver?
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