IkmoIkmo

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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Had this experience in Western Europe as well, but Uber refunded me on short notice (after me asking).
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Of course it applies, you're just describing the outcome of an even stronger effect counteracting inflation. Inflation simply means an inflation of the money supply. If you give everyone 1 trillion dollars tomorrow, hypothetically spea
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I'm not sure the comparison is that significant. We tend to omit two aspects when we deride price changes: One is just inflation. No need to explain that. In 15 years at 3% annual inflation rates, the $500 becomes $780. Second is that
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yup, the notion we have 2000 pound private vehicles that seat 4 but are occupied on average by 1.5, which sit idle for 22 hours of the day and take up prime real estate nearby humans due to their very function design, running on toxic fumes
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> NL is 2nd-largest food exporter (in a bunch of markets) in the world, after US [1]. No it's not, it's a relatively tiny food producer with high yield rates per unit of area. Take their best yielding crop, tomatoes, they'
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yes, but the author isn't the only user. There's millions of users in 12 years, their cumulative work is gone.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Same in the Netherlands, we have Amazon, sorta-kinda, but there's barely anything on it without expensive multi-week international shipping... literally never heard of anyone using it. And there's absolutely nobody who talks about
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
In a world where Apple chooses to invest scarce cash in A or B, with B being low-margin, and then choosing B. Not in a world where Apple's cash isn't so scarce that it has to choose either, but can choose both. The real question i
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Yeah some of it has just gotten too silly, especially the notifications of ín your 'neighbourhood' which aren't even in my city. Maybe this is based on US car culture, I don't know. But they're notifying me about fr
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
One of the big failures I think is for FB to not push friends lists more. The default is that you have 500 people on FB that you sort of know, and that you don't reject people that add you but you barely meet. So you end up not feeling
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Seems kind of silly that they hyped it up as some kind of mathematical savant genius story, when it seems like they just took a simple lottery system (x numbers give y combinations, which sell for $1 per combination, for a total payout of &
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I'm not sure what we disagree on really. As I mentioned, both immigration and tourism only work in balance, I haven't attempted to exclude immigration from a topic that has issues which is sort of the impression you seem to have g
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Might be different in the US, in Europe it's not too uncommon to talk about calvinists, particularly in certain countries like the Netherlands it's a well-established term (which is even used there to describe Dutch behavioral cul
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I mean, it's about $43 a month extra for private use as opposed to $15 for the standard edition, it's not nothing but for someone who can afford a >$100k car it's not a 'huge extra cost' imo. In any case I'd
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
That's five times the 15m annual visitors today. (not tourists, visitors... for comparison, about 7m people visit the Eiffel tower each year, so it's more like 10x tourists, but let's assume 5x) On the contrary, I don't
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Colleges will remain in business as long as businesses will use college degrees as a meaningful qualification to hire talent. Data has shown that companies have continued to use degrees beyond their relation to actual tasks for the job they
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I'd love to use that! Keep us abreast in case you decide to work on this.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
> (nor a couple of other things). Some other fun ones to mention: didn't let you copy/paste text (for the first 2 years of iPhone), didn't let you record video, and didn't let you make a selfie while looking at the sc
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Seems quite obvious that it was meant as '7 or '07 or 2007, as alluded to in the text itself (iPhone launch in 2007), probably a typo.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
rip
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Basically everyone had summer jobs. But how many kids in a class of 30 will have a profile with 20k followers? I'd guess one at best, likely less. (average) I know a ton of teachers and am friends with a bunch of people with monetised
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
I still think summer vacation is one of society's worst inventions. It creates so many problems in different fields, like the summer education loss. Overtourism is just one of them.
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Not really... I absolutely wouldn't mind a Chinese looking individual, bringing and showing his culture, and learning mine, speaking my language, becoming my friend, colleague and neighbour. But I sure as hell get annoyed if a Chinese
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Well yes that and, many in the world have gotten ridiculously rich. You don't see middle class tourists from Malawi flooding the Vatican Museums despite them having access to the same information on their smartphones, you do see it hap
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Traffic works quite the same for cars as it does for bikes in that from 8-9 and around 6 you have a huge number of cyclists rushing to and from work, school etc, and it can get pretty crazy. You don't really experience that as a touris
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
This is really underappreciated. I'm a big fan of diversification, and it can be very important to lower your risk-appetite if you're relying on your investment income in a short-medium timeframe (e.g. if you're planning on r
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
The fact they should've called it the Minor Leap One! All jokes aside, it was shrouded in mystery and there was some marketing material that showed, as another poster described it, modern console level graphics, when in reality the pro
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
If a tree was fungible, it'd be great news. In reality, we're replacing trees that you could let 5 people wrap their arms around with 'trees' that you can wrap a size z pants' belt around, replacing biodiversity wit
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
You're not wrong in that the land value often isn't in line with the shacks. But a few things to consider: One is that shacks tend not to be built by the owners on their own land. i.e., they're not paying for the land, theref
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by IkmoIkmo 8y ago
Sure, discussing this topic is important. Let's not act like it's not discussed and researched daily, in my experience the entire narrative of migrants is completely dominated by this particular debate, we barely discuss anything

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