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This is believable. I have a personal anecdote regarding "Priority Delivery". This was about 2 years ago. After watching the driver go to another business and house before me, I messaged support and they refunded this priority delivery fee. The driving tip and base pay accusation can be easily verified by testing tip amounts and asking drivers what they are awarded.

To want to cleanse references to "Indigenous motifs or symbolism" as a community value brings about a touch of shame in me. It mostly weakens cultural memory and the ability of later generations to stay connected to the worldviews that these motifs carry. Taking away the symbols is like taking away the memory-keeping. Without them, it's much easier to forget the culture.

Let Google decide 2 years ago

There were a few things that need to be clarified as to how addresses are recorded. The author says:

Because of Google, our address wasn’t even present for the USPS

In fact, USPS has its own database of addresses which Google most certainly solicits their data from. I know because I have dealt with customers who have found the same issue. We urge anyone with this issue to direct the issue to the USPS Address Management System Offices to file their address. Other services like those from Auctane (ShipStation, ShipEngine) references this data too.

https://postalpro.usps.com/ppro-tools/address-management-sys...

52 Factorial 2 years ago

With this, you could invent a very unique magic trick where your spectator well-shuffles a deck of cards, then you can secretly swap your deck with one of the decks from your collection to reveal that yours was shuffled in the exact same way.

I'm working on a to-do list and time management application that I prefer to keep secret for now. If anyone here is using an app like this, I would love to know what you would like to improve. And if you're not using an app like this, I would love to know why not?

American flag sort 2 years ago

The obvious solution to this is to pre-compile a list of all possible Unicode strings up to the required length, sort them, and create a lookup table using their indices. I wonder for what kind of project this would be useful.

Can we calculate how many bits of entropy we are saving in this compressed form? There seems to be (n-2)! ways of writing a word in a different way that is still readable.