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by anjc 10y ago
I love it when people think they have a simple solution to something, but gradually converge onto the complicated solution that they were trying to avoid. Like "why is this C++ sockets implementation 30k LOC....I could write that in 30
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by anjc 10y ago
Very cool
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by anjc 10y ago
I figured ;) Good article.
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by anjc 10y ago
It just shows how fast the web moves (or how old I am) that someone can write "Then the Web happened...pages were giant jumbled messes of template and jQuery." There were plenty of new paradigms and new headaches before the JQuery
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by anjc 10y ago
When people with no social skills run companies.
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by anjc 10y ago
GDSs have been so prevalent for so long in the industry that their use surely counts as the new 'direct sales', no? Like if I phone up an airline directly to book, based on an advert I saw which was funded by them directly, the ai
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by anjc 10y ago
> One thing the aggregators do well is offer a consistent and more flexible search than the airlines' own sites which are often pretty terrible. That's the classic benefit of intermediation in an industry, which is the ability
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by anjc 10y ago
As far as I know too the OTA can legitimately under-price the supplier's products down to their wholesale price right? Which I'm guessing would mean that the largest volume OTAs should have better deals due to lower wholesale pric
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by anjc 10y ago
> Do aggregators change prices based on geographic location of the buyer? The article mentioned an experiment with higher prices for OSX buyers. They offer different products at the very least. CarTrawler is a car rental aggregator and t
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by anjc 10y ago
ITT: people who've increased their wealth through ownership of shares telling other people not to increase their wealth through ownership of shares.
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by anjc 10y ago
Please give me my bytes back.
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by anjc 10y ago
I wish that people who rail against MBAs, as if they're a cult that should be demonised, would take 3 minutes to look at the classes and topics that you cover in a typical programme. You'll quickly see that they aren't progra
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by anjc 10y ago
Even if you could magically make everywhere have the same cost of living and have the same pool of talent, you're then left with a situation whereby it's cheaper to operate companies in some countries due to proximity of natural r
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by anjc 10y ago
> It was never fair for the US worker that got paid 3x the salary for doing the job in the US instead of overseas ?! By this argument it's unfair that Indian workers get paid more in the US than they do in India, as this is unfair t
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by anjc 10y ago
The analogous part that's unfair would be the illegal importation of cheaper labour from emerging economies who will flip burgers for a wage that doesn't allow for an acceptable standard of living (meaning that they can only aff
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by anjc 10y ago
Ok so then you feel that it's possible that it may increase net-fairness, but that it could be be unfair to some parties? So with regards to the indictment described in the OP, it would be very clearly unfair if indigenous workers were
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by anjc 10y ago
I mean I largely agree with you so I'm not sure what the issue is. With regards to unemployment going down, it is (like the Single Market) a complex issue. There's economic growth yeah, but we've also just had 5+ years of net
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by anjc 10y ago
> You blame unemployment on immigration, yet there's barely no unemployment. At all. You must be trolling but I'll say it once again, I know the general state of western economies. I understand that we are NOW in a period of lo
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by anjc 10y ago
>Hence why unemployment is going back to pre-crisis levels in Ireland, right? You don't need to keep saying variations of "western economies are improving". I know what's going on in the world. > The wealth gap bet
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by anjc 10y ago
I don't have to remember it, it's the stock response dished out to people who've actually been affected by it and have seen it first hand.
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by anjc 10y ago
Of course they're at a low now at the peak of the recovery, fuck me. I'm not claiming that immigration increased massively and affected employment levels all within the last week. I'm talking about the changes that have occur
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by anjc 10y ago
Western European unemployment. Check out the demographic increases in western European countries. Ireland's population has increased 50% in 10-15 years and a majority of it is accounted for by immigration from poorer countries within t
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by anjc 10y ago
Your own comment contradicts what you're saying: > an increase in the share of migrants in the labour force increases unemployment for those with skills most similar to the migrants in the short to medium term (over a period of 5-10
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by anjc 10y ago
Fair to who?
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by anjc 10y ago
There's no contradiction here. You're mixing up two markets, and many concepts (you seem to be ignoring law, for example).
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by anjc 10y ago
Every time a thread comes up on whether H-1B visa fraud exists there a cohort of posters who maintain that they've never seen it and that people who say that it happens are just racist and xenophobic. Remember this thread, and ones lik
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by anjc 10y ago
Yeah I'm not sure you've paid attention to the effect that this has had on employment levels in several European countries, and on adherence to employment legislation.
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by anjc 10y ago
I mistakenly thought that there was some sort of relationship between ZEC's Zk-Snarks implementation and Ethereum's future one. So yeah this makes sense.
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by anjc 10y ago
If Ethereum is going to implement Zk-Snarks, and there's already an enterprise alliance with the Ethereum Foundation, and Ethereum offers benefits like smart contracts and so on, why would enterprises use ZSL? (Genuine question)
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by anjc 10y ago
> Hopefully 5 years from now, we'll all be looking back in disbelief at what we used to put up with to build web apps. We've all been saying that for 20 years when it comes to web dev :/

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