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Comment Re:Missing the important pledge (Score 1) 79

NPR's Planet Money looked at a grocery store in Norway. They had a reporter sitting in the store's HQ, and they had received a secret shopper report that a particular product (can of mushrooms in water) was 0.20 Kroner less at a competitor. The reporter watched the price get updated in the chain's central database, then ran down to the store that was below the HQ and saw the shelf tag change about 9 minutes later.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2024%2F03%2F06%2F1197958433%2Fdynamic-pricing-grocery-supermarkets

That particular store has a policy of not increasing prices while the store was open, they could only lower them.

Stores will have to set good policies and follow them. Stores open 24/7 will probably have to have set times to raise prices.

Comment Use the Austrailia Airbnbsite (Score 4, Informative) 65

Lifehacker just pointed out that you should use the Australia AirBNB site to show the full price of places. (yes, you can have AirBNB Austrailia show the price in USD if that's what you need.) The site displays the full cost, including fees.

Just don't book it through the Austrailia site. Then you get hit with VAT.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2Falways-check-the-australian-site-before-booking-an-airb-1849751018

Comment Re:Default Settings (Score 4, Interesting) 281

Comment Re:Fifth amendment (Score 3, Informative) 216

They weren't talking to his doctor. They got records from a third party (the pacemaker manufacturer).

Now, the interesting bit that you can't discern from TFA is whether the pacemaker data was specifically downloaded for purposes of the investigation or if the information came out on routine interrogation. I'm guessing the former since you only check the pacer if you think there is a problem or perhaps twice a year. If the downloading of the data was compulsory, that opens some entertaining legal questions.

Latter.

Pacemakers are typically tested quarterly when in working order, monthly when in low battery state when the device supports transtelephonic or inductive testing. Yearly in-person checkups are also typically done. (Transtelephonic: Patient wears a device on each hand or wrist, device communicates with remote servers over a POTS system. Inductive: Patient places a device over pacemaker and initiates remote reading, device communicates over phone, cellular, network, or internet to remote servers.)

Some "remote monitoring" platforms support automatic daily to 3-week intervals and send results to the manufacturer accordingly. (Source, PDF)

Comment Re:Basic income (Score 1) 674

If the amendment is passed properly, they can't cite a now repealed amendment to throw out the new one. What you suggest would clearly not be allowed since that logic could be used to throw out any law passed. They can't rule on anything without a case before them, and the case required would only be possible after the new amendment passed.

Nice try, but thanks for playing.

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