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  • icydefiance@lemm.eetoADHD memes@lemmy.dbzer0.comNothing but truth
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    2 months ago

    MAP (minimum advertised price) is often different from MSRP, but otherwise this comment is correct.

    In some industries, like RVs or auto parts, the vast majority of products have a MAP. The manufacturers also have bots that scan the internet for MAP violations, and they’ll blacklist a vendor if they don’t fix the price within a day or two. (Which is really annoying when there’s a false positive and I get blamed for it.)

    I think it’s partly so high volume vendors can’t put smaller vendors out of business by just reducing their margins as much as possible, and it’s partly because the manufacturer doesn’t want their products to look like they’re really cheap. Customers feel better about finding a “great deal” on an “expensive” product.












  • Postgres normalizes table and field names to lowercase, unless you put them in quotes. It’s also case sensitive.

    That means if you use quotes and capital letters when creating the table, then it’s impossible to refer to that table without using quotes.

    It also means if you rename the table later to be all lowercase, then all your existing code will break.

    Still a much better database than MySQL though.


  • Close encounters of the racist kind is a good read. Here’s the most relevant part:

    Consider the H2 series “In Search of Aliens,” which, before its demise, promoted the work of Jan Udo Holey, a German writer whose antisemitic books have been banned across Europe. (Holey’s pen name, Jan Van Helsig, is a blunt Dracula reference, i.e. Jews are bloodsuckers.) The History Channel’s long-running series “Ancient Aliens,” meanwhile, features David Childress, whose books cite and build on the work of James Churchward, who promoted an ancient empire called the “lost continent of Mu,” whose “dominant race” was an “exceedingly handsome people, with clear white or olive skin.”

    The history channel is entry level nazi propaganda.