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by IncRnd 4y ago
The very act of selling over the web in an automated fashion makes the sale cheaper for Wizz compared to selling via a ticket agent. And, no bit of code costs Wizz £10 per sale. Ad revenue isn't needed to recoup sale-costs, because tho
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> "The use of automations for booking (robots) require additional hosting efforts and for such activities, Wizz Air applies a system surcharge fee", Wizz Air explained to Skift on the issue. We know that is only superficially t
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by IncRnd 4y ago
The first example in that doc is Sublime Text. "Unfortunately the only thing going for Sublime was that it was first-to-market with a few novel ideas, most notably multiple cursor editing." That was clearly written by someone who
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by IncRnd 4y ago
In many cases I use opensource. In a few instances I want a company that supports their products, makes bug-fixes, and is responsive to the concerns and needs of my company. In yet other cases, I need to prove the utility and deterministic
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by IncRnd 4y ago
I imagine there is a lot more than just publishing costs, such as advances to obtain a particular author (and audience), marketing costs, etc.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
You seem to be describing anything but the lowest common demoninator as unwanted complexity.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
There are many 10x developers as well as even 20x or higher. Many. There are also many who aren't, averages being what they are. In their own ways, they are similar to people who speak 10 different languages and who can also take to a
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Many of these things, dates of the start (or end) of laws + rules + EOs, are regularly set with a timeframe years away and right after the next President sits in office. There is a real pattern of this.
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Nobody is talking about Jargon on the front page of HN.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
You say that from the standpoint of readers at this HN blog page, but this blog post is the top blog post and first one seen on https://blog.ethereum.org/ . Many people who want to understand what they are looking at prior t
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by IncRnd 4y ago
If anyone wonders why many "regular people" are uncertain about doing anything with cryptocurrencies, look at the top of this article for the reason. It's not that people are incapable of understanding the subject, but that t
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Tim, would you please make sure the right people approve my app? I just sent for approval a wicked cool app that makes old phones new. And, as we know every old phone is a new phone about to be purchased - wink, wink! So, here is the app I
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Some of Indiana is on the Central Timezone and some is on the Eastern Timezone. This is definitely an issue!
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I suppose you could have 31 days plus an hour. This depends on how you are tracking time and if that includes free-running counters.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
In that case, the best you can hope for is to centralize time on the server. The IoT devices can keep local differential time or contact the server (or a log server or somewhere else) at the time of the event. It's kind of messy, since
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by IncRnd 4y ago
I think they are talking about the End Of Period for a month. Whatever batch or closeout type processing happens during that time period can flow into the next year, despite it being flagged/tagged/marked with the last month of th
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> Kids for some reason love to mess with their system clocks. They are cheating at games!
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Don't worry. The Druid will handle that.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Not exactly. An order of magnitude change doesn't always mean 10x in base 10! 15 and 150 differ by an order of magnitude but so do 15 and 180.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
10x is literally the difference of an order of magnitude. An order of magnitude is an exponential change of plus or minus 1 in the value of a quantity or unit. The term is generally used in conjunction with power-of-10 scientific no
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by IncRnd 4y ago
No, it's not just you. When you "times" something it is multiplication, not division. The phrasing is a logical impossibility, where the reader has to guess the intent of the author - of which there are several interpretation
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by IncRnd 4y ago
You changed my comment in your quote. You quoted me as having written, "not what happened HERE". But, I wrote, "that's not what is happening HERE" in present tense. This is currently happening, which is present tens
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> That’s making a lot of assumptions, imagine the CEO of IBM set up his own company which he the sold to IBM. That kind of transaction is just ripe for conflicts of interest. But, that's not what is happening HERE, which is closer t
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> Of course, it would be better if there were no deductions in the first place, and the government just paid for content if it wanted to pay for content which was then automatically in the public domain. You are arguing in favor of gover
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by IncRnd 4y ago
By that logic, your posting uses public funds. The government could have taxed your comments, but they didn't.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Many people forget to include the makedep utility in their makefile. Makedep creates additinal dependency targets, so that source files depend upon the header files they include.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
2019: An opinionated approach to GNU Make, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21812656
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by IncRnd 4y ago
Got it! Everyone should be able to express their thoughts.
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by IncRnd 4y ago
This is not well reasoned. Sending emails can be easily spoofed, because sending doesn't fully check the identity of the sender as being in control of the email account. There is discussion of various technologies like SPF or DKIM, but
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by IncRnd 4y ago
> 1. Punishment mechanisms here are kind of complicated, but in short, you're punished for mainly 2 reasons: being an offline validator, or for an attestation violating. A malicious actor can cause the network to slash a validator&#

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