Well it will reduce impulse purchases. I dont remember exact number, but a high % of crisps sales are not planned purchases.

My suspicion has always been that people would probably rarely chew gum from single small packets if it wasn't there where you line up for checkout. Instead, they'd buy the same-size packets that come in bunches of 5 or whatever, and usually cheaper per pack anyway.

You often see batteries there along with them with the gum and chips/crisps. At least batteries practical sense - the last moment things people tend to forget, but actually do need or want.

What's the point of specifically looking for dumb TV?

Is it because of tracking stuff? If so... Why just not connecting it to internet achieve same effect as having a dumb TV?

Or is there something else? :)

I even tried to change my name too FUCK CCP, and it went ok. But then I got into a problem:

https://imgur.com/a/JbUclhL

Is there like only one xi jingling in the whole china? If not, what at others supposed to do?

Others probably use Chinese characters, not a romanized version.

> Is there like only one xi jingling in the whole china? If not, what at others supposed to do?

Change their surnames

You might be right. Just to test I signed up for it, set it the exact same password, and 45 seconds is long past, but I don't appear to be banned.

I think the fact that she is a western journalist who speaks out against the CCP makes a reasonable explanation that her account is more 'watched' then the average account.

Well I would imagine they would just automate such thing?

And why would you do fuckery with a journalists password? Seems like especially stupid thing to do

We should definitely suggest this to our mayor :D

Tangent: it is somehow so pleasing to me in this context that I can recognize your username as a Lithuanian surname. Gives the internet anonymity some flavor, I guess :)

(for everyone else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithuanian_name )

If that were Zuokas, definitely.

Aaaah the only Ig Nobel Prize winner in Lithuania!

For those following along from the side, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art%C5%ABras_Zuokas#Awards_and...

>I’m not even going to go into it. I don’t want to end up on Hacker News again bitching about Catalina.

Whoops

Well if they do it for cheaper, won't it as well open them up to the same 'unfair advantage' accusations?

Can you elaborate?

They own a bunch of chrome extensions that track all the websites you visit and queries you enter into google

So you think he is spending hundreds of millions out of goodness of his heart? Just so he would get the chance to help average citizen?

>One study attempting to estimate the effects of self-driving cars on car use behavior simulated a family having a self-driving car by paying for them to have a chauffeur for a week, and telling them to treat the chauffeur service the way they’d treat having a car that could drive itself.

>The result? They went on a lot more car trips.

That's kind of pointless 'study'. Of course I will take a lot more trips for some time after getting chaffeur/self driving car, just for the novelty of it. One family for one week does not really tell anything