Yossarian_Lives

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by Yossarian_Lives 12y ago
Citymapper is excellent, especially their mobile app's get-me-home feature (ideal for instant bus combos after the tube's closed). However, it's not designed for the vaguer queries -- nearby cafes, haberdasheries, etc -- at w
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by Yossarian_Lives 12y ago
My pet peeve as a Londoner; the disappearance of the transit layer when searching for a place. If you've not searched for anything, New-oogle Maps will happily show you the card that lets you activate the transit layer and superimpose
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by Yossarian_Lives 12y ago
I don't know if you're a Londoner, but for what it's worth, I think Uber's promotion (poorly conceived and worded as it is) won't be read that way in London. The tube workers are split between a number of unions, th
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by Yossarian_Lives 13y ago
The sports stats on ESPN / Politics on ABC angle is hard to argue against. I like to think though that corporate parent Disney is really looking at the bigger picture here; how Silver fits into its Marvel and Star Wars acquisitions. Se
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by Yossarian_Lives 13y ago
I think people forget that the EU exists somewhere between Federal-style government (the US for example) and pure international organisations (The UN, etc). You can look up where its sole and shared competences lie in articles 3 and 4 of th
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by Yossarian_Lives 13y ago
For all the invisible handers, let's not forget the London olympics where certain security roles were contracted out. The company involved failed to recruit sufficient numbers of personnel by a significant margin, failed to train adequately
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by Yossarian_Lives 13y ago
Only now do we begin to appreciate the Machiavellian dimensions of the Summly acquisition!
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by Yossarian_Lives 14y ago
I'm inclined to agree with your premise, but your analogy implies that it's as a result of our pre-synchronisation that there's no FTL (faster than light) communication taking place. Entanglement is weirder than that though as Bell inequali
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by Yossarian_Lives 14y ago
I know there will be a lot of people feeling extremely vindicated in their suspicions that if HBO offered Game of Thrones for legal download they would rake the money in. Let's take a second to work through the counter-argument though. Inst