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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10680 on: November 22, 2019, 10:17:57 AM »
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-11-22/new-york-s-free-parking-spots-are-worth-upward-of-6-000-a-year
This whole article is basically one big fallacy.

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giving away for free something that appears to be worth more than $6,000 a year doesn’t make a lot of sense.
All his calculations  for the value of the parking space are if you actually have a space. He's basically saying that because it would cost you 6k to have your own space you should have to pay for the right to have to play the same games and deal with the same headaches you  have now trying to find parking.

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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10683 on: November 26, 2019, 10:40:09 AM »
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ephraim-mirvis-what-will-become-of-jews-in-britain-if-labour-forms-the-next-government-ghpsdbljk?region=global

https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2019/11/26/world/europe/ap-eu-britain-brexit-election.html?searchResultPosition=8

"Corbyn, a champion of Palestinian rights and frequent critic of the Israeli government, denies his party is anti-Semitic and says he denounces all forms of racism."

 >:(

Classic misframing of the issue at hand to make it seem like the Jews are just mad about someone supporting Palestinian rights.

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« Reply #10684 on: November 26, 2019, 11:25:53 AM »
The question is who will have more votes, governments and parliaments, the UK over Brexit or the Israelis over their issues?
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« Reply #10685 on: November 26, 2019, 02:43:50 PM »
"Corbyn, a champion of Palestinian rights and frequent critic of the Israeli government, denies his party is anti-Semitic and says he denounces all forms of racism."

 >:(

Classic misframing of the issue at hand to make it seem like the Jews are just mad about someone supporting Palestinian rights.

https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1199403727930691584

Infuriating.

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« Reply #10686 on: November 26, 2019, 02:46:54 PM »

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« Reply #10687 on: November 26, 2019, 02:59:04 PM »
Anti seminism??
You'd expect WP to proofread their tweets.

heh heh, didn't even notice that part.

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« Reply #10691 on: November 28, 2019, 06:44:12 AM »
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Re: Interesting Articles...
« Reply #10696 on: December 02, 2019, 08:17:59 PM »
https://www.fastcompany.com/90437753/shopping-online-this-black-friday-beware-a-third-of-online-reviews-are-fake

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Amazon told the Journal that 99% of the reviews on its site were authentic and says Fakespot can’t tell this because they don’t have access to Amazon’s proprietary data.

Utter nonsense, I can attest to the fact that most reviews are fake. I know someone who has been receiving "mysterious" packages from Amazon for a few years now, stuff that she never ordered and most of the time pure junk and sure enough a glowing "review" by the "verified purchase" shows up.... Pathetic!
If it's not free shipping it's not worth it.

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« Reply #10697 on: December 02, 2019, 10:14:48 PM »
Utter nonsense, I can attest to the fact that most reviews are fake. I know someone who has been receiving "mysterious" packages from Amazon for a few years now, stuff that she never ordered and most of the time pure junk and sure enough a glowing "review" by the "verified purchase" shows up.... Pathetic!

That's why the way to look at reviews is from the bottom up. First look at 1 star reviews and work your way up from there. If the 1 and 2 star reviews are more about the seller than the product, they might be irrelevant if the seller if it's a different seller (or relevant, depending on reviews for other products by the seller in question). Then there are nonsense complaints. Also if the 5 star reviews seem too professionally written, they should be ignored.
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« Reply #10698 on: December 02, 2019, 11:45:30 PM »


Also if the 5 star reviews seem too professionally written, they should be ignored.

You place way too much faith in the fakers

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« Reply #10699 on: December 03, 2019, 12:57:24 AM »
Also if the 5 star reviews seem too professionally written, they should be ignored.

You place way too much faith in the fakers
Correct. "[Stating things eloquently] seems to be Yehuda57's job around here :)".  So don't give that away now for some fools.
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