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Only if the shop workers can handle basic arithmetic.
I've lost count of the number of times I've seen large packs of things selling for more per unit than smaller packs. In some cases, you could buy the equivalent of 150% of the larger pack for less than the cost of the larger pack. 
But then I wonder whether there's a diabolical marketing strategy behind it: make people think you've made a mistake, and they're getting a bargain, and they'll probably spend more money.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Well, almost. You forgot to add the price for getting rid of the remaining two thirds of a liter. Don't litter! 
Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!
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This is a trick question, does the 3.15 include sales tax? Do we have to calculate future dentist and healthcare costs associated with carbonated beverages? Can we deduct any recycling income of the container? The grocery stores I go to charge 99 cents for 1 liter bottles and 1.59 for 2 liters so its not a per liter comparison. Figuring that all out in a few seconds seems pretty difficult to me. I don't blame people at all. I feel bad for the smug people who blurted out 1.05 without even thinking the whole thing through.
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Ready is better than Perfect.
Ciao,
luker
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Quote: Nine times seven, thought Shuman with deep satisfaction, is sixty-three, and I don't need a computer to tell me so. The computer is in my own head.
And it was amazing the feeling of power that gave him.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I'd suggest the person writing the article goes back to basic charting skills. There's two columns, with two different numbers, and there's no clue as to why those two columns have different numbers!
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Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Artificial intelligence is the only remedy for natural stupidity. - CDP1802
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Oh Dear - a pet peeve of mine.
I have experience in a store (shop, shoppe) an employee who counldn't figure out a 10% discount without a calculator.
Being innumerate, although not quite as bad as illiterate, is a major problem - and oddly, in US culture at least - an attribute that is spoken of with pride - as thought it were membership in a club. TV News presenters will often make remarks about how they could never do some trivial mathematical thing as though they were proud of it.
Morning cartoons, for the most part, make fun of those who are smart/educated. Even there, the attractive cartoon characters art typically jocks/jockettes.
For my own kids, I wouldn't let them use calculators until they were taking exams where the speed edge was such that the needed it to compete. By high school, two of them were happily competing in regional math competitions and had friends with similar interest. (And played the real D&D with them - imagination required). Similarly, they couldn't own a video gain console. They were allowed to play but couldn't own one. That easy way from getting from "Now" to "later" was taken from them. They'd have to think of something to do (actually, they read).
But the current hopeless hordes? They were developed to be mindless consumers. They make it a point of pride that they'd spend $1K on a telephone before their friends. That, somehow, counts as an accomplishment. An ability. A super power.
Not meaning to sound egotistical, but in a way I'm glad - they're always the smartest person in the room. Mitigated, of course, in that it may be by default.
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Using artificial intelligence, researchers have created a tool that crawls privacy policies on popular websites like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. But the software’s findings are not as detailed as those done by humans. So it also just clicks "accept"?
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In the YouTube example (Usable Privacy | YouTube[^]), toward the end it basically states that Google can violate the privacy policy if they have a "good-faith belief" that it should be violated. In other words, it's all a charade.
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The next feature update for Windows 10 is coming soon, here's everything you need to know about the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update. So you'll be able to identify it when the update is forced on you
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Scientists from Microsoft Research have proposed using existing commercial aircraft flights and air routes to provide worldwide internet coverage at much lower cost than proposed solutions such as Google’s Project Loon (which uses balloons) and Facebook’s Aquila efforts (which uses solar-powered aircraft). Aren't the chemtrails enough for them to do?
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I proposed to my wife with a ring. Microsoft has upped me again. I can't compete with an airplane and wifi coverage.
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And yet the airlines will figure out a way to charge even more for your in-flight service. 
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The Windows Server team just announced a first preview build of Windows Server 2019, the latest version of the server OS to be available in the second half of 2018. So, 2019 won't be the Year of Linux?
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This is the second time an open-source version of webOS has been released, the first coming under the failed tenure of HP back in 2011. But now it's twice as open (source)
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Java SE 10 (JDK 10) is here but that’s not the only reason to celebrate: this is also the first release in Oracle’s new six-month cycle. I know you've been waiting so patiently
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IBM has released its list of predictions covering five technologies that IBM researchers believe will literally transform the world over the next five years. Because if you want to know what's trendy, ask IBM
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Egads, it's bad enough using "transform the world" but to prefix that with "literally" is a figurative step too far.
I predict that in five years people will still be asking; why is IBM still around?
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The Federal Trade Commission is investigating whether Facebook violated a government privacy agreement by allowing Cambridge Analytica to obtain users’ personal data. "If you're not paying for something, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold"
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When you finally plow through all the articles, you find that the author of that app has stated that the data was useless. (Which may help explain why Amazon's "clever" algorithms simply recommend more of what you just bought or even looked at, which is quite funny when you just went gift shopping for your nine-year-old granddaughter.)
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By allowing traversal of a full 3D representation of the game world, DirectX Raytracing allows current rendering techniques such as SSR to naturally and efficiently fill the gaps left by rasterization, and opens the door to an entirely new class of techniques that have never been achieved in a real-time game. "Eighties, I'm living in the eighties"
Sorry, I'll always think of those old ray traced marbles when the technique is mentioned.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Sorry, I'll always think of those old ray traced marbles when the technique is mentioned.
You have a checker(board)ed past, apparently.
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It's all teapots to me...
Utah teapot - Wikipedia
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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I remember watching the Pipes screensaver, as they'd occasionally throw that teapot up on the screen. 
TTFN - Kent
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