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Re:Ubiquiti Networks Breach by kenniskrag on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:46PM (#25736514)
> That phenomenon is called counter-signaling, which I first ran into listening to Dan Jurafsky making the point that if a menu uses the word "fresh", its a low-brow restaurant. A high-brow restaurant would never use the word "fresh" -- the freshness is implicit in the other signals. https://kelley.iu.edu/riharbau/cs-randfinal.pdf

source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25713050

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Re:Ubiquiti Networks Breach by jiveturkey on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:02PM (#25736881)
Italian franchise[0] restaurant in Sacramento has this huge neon sign in their window: "health inspected". Neon. It's just that one instance of the store. Not that I've seen them all, but never seen that signage in their other stores.

[0] Maybe not technically a franchise. Not sure. There are a bunch in California.

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Re:Ubiquiti Networks Breach by emmelaich on Monday January 11, 2021 @10:50PM (#25742043)
There's a bar near Union Square, SF, which has a sign including the words

> .. never had any safety issue so far

It's the 'so far' which really tickles me.

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Re:Ubiquiti Networks Breach by MasterScrat on Monday January 11, 2021 @04:46PM (#25737742)
Reminds me of a restaurant in Goa, India, which proudly advertises: "Vegetables are cleaned with clean water before use!"
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Re:Ubiquiti Networks Breach by jkaplowitz on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:32PM (#25741510)
In India and many other less developed countries, proper culinary hygiene is very far from universal, and contaminated water is common. It's less absurd of a statement than it would be in the US.
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Re:Ubiquiti Networks Breach by Daho0n on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @05:28AM (#25744858)
Well, it might be a sign seen in a restaurant in Flint, Michigan :)
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Re:Ubiquiti Networks Breach by KirillPanov on Monday January 11, 2021 @09:38PM (#25741550)
Well, it's not like Sacramento has a Ganges River...
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Re:Ubiquiti Networks Breach by aksss on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @03:04AM (#25743731)
That’s cool, I read his book, The Language of Food, and think about these things all the time when reading menus now; and then like an annoying pedant, nudge my wife and point it all out.
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