This one has a reasonably settled answer, so here it is. The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked. Narrow it and it becomes tractable; leave it broad and the thread will produce nine confident and incompatible replies.
Asked to pay by a method with no recourse, by a supplier I had used twice before without being asked, which is what made me stop.
What would genuinely help is knowing how people are thinking about the trade-off between reversibility and privacy, because you cannot have both.
Tell me what I have not thought of.
HPLC_Greg said:The version of this that has an answer is narrower than the version being asked.
That is correct as far as it goes, and here is where it stops going. Yes, and the corollary is less popular: if the reasoning holds, it also holds where it produces an answer we do not like.
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View Resultsstefan_berlin said:Asked to pay by a method with no recourse, by a supplier I had used twice before without being asked, which is what made me stop.
This matches mine closely enough to be worth saying so out loud. Posting only so the count is not one.
From the other side of the consultation, briefly. Order of operations matters more than any single choice here: establish a baseline, change one thing, wait long enough for it to express itself, then measure again under the same conditions.