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by dominicr 8y ago
Similar in Norway, where there are times of the year companies basically shutdown or run on minimal staff. In Norway this is July, Italy has similar for August. But ultimately I think it's culture as much as policies. The US, and lesse
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by dominicr 8y ago
You mean something like Blendle? https://launch.blendle.com/ Basically top up your credit and pay per article from a range of news sources. Although it's not (yet?) as integrated, featured and wide spread as it needs t
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by dominicr 8y ago
Agree. My last Coldfusion contract rate was good, better than the .Net guys. I've had the same for Teamsite contracts: name your fee and which 5 star hotel you want to stay in.
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by dominicr 8y ago
Also: Algorithmic justice can only be considered justice if the training data are proven to be just.
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by dominicr 8y ago
In a situation where commuters are incentivised to drive electric cars this could do quite well, but it's passenger limitations really limit the market. You can't drop off the kids at school on your way to/from work. Making a
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by dominicr 8y ago
^ What indigochill said. In addition, for Reddit it seems a paying subscriber is worth 20 non-paying subscribers and is a more secure form of income. So I imagine they're exactly the type of user they want. Why would the subscription m
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by dominicr 8y ago
That makes me like Reddit more. I wish more social media would allow me to pay to access a version of the service that wasn't centred around advertising. Even with adverts Reddit doesn't feel like it's manipulating everything
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by dominicr 8y ago
Because if a seat is sold twice but only used one that's more profit than if every seat is only sold once. Most businesses maximise profits, not passenger experience (and those that work on passenger experience do so because they'
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by dominicr 8y ago
A few years ago I was doing a security audit on a site and found this very problem. The marketing department had access to the Google Tag Manager account and added several (!) almost identical user tracking plug-ins. They were capturing all
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by dominicr 8y ago
I also think often the reaction isn't to the original source, often the reaction is to the reaction of others. Many people running around shouting "Fire!" without having even seen smoke.
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by dominicr 8y ago
Also Uber allows the drivers to get customers wherever they are. After a long trip they can work that area for a while and maybe make their way back home. With a local taxi company if a driver is out of the area they serve then they have no
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by dominicr 8y ago
I don't know the details but it could because in many countries there are different licenses for taxis that can pick up off the street, as opposed to licensed car services that can only be pre-booked. Uber tends to operate as the latte
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by dominicr 8y ago
I would say that what enabled this in Oslo and similar local apps was a (relatively) respectable taxi industry. Taxi drivers had to agree to be honest about pricing and practices to standardize on an app and there are still plenty of places
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by dominicr 8y ago
I think the issues are: - they were collecting data from users who were below legal age for responsibility and/or local laws about collecting data about minors. - The general public know very little about everything. Companies have a m
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by dominicr 8y ago
Same for me. From reading only a few Chinese/Asian books I think the problem is that each culture has its own style of writing fiction and Chinese books tend to have a slower pace and more introspection. You also get that in some Engli
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by dominicr 8y ago
Good comparison, in that there were chapters in both sets of books that I had to persevere through. But that paid off in the Hyperion Cantos but unfortunately I never felt the reward was worth the work for Remembrance of Earth.
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by dominicr 8y ago
Lots of credit card companies have restrictions on where they can be used. Cryptocurrency is an obvious example. The problem is that there are a lot of laws around gun purchase, especially globally, and the legal repercussions (federal and
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by dominicr 8y ago
As in 2nd amendment right? Stripe's policy here seems to not affect your right to own or carry a gun at all. Most companies have massive T&Cs which, if we ever read, we'd have objections to. As Stripe is a middleman in payment
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by dominicr 8y ago
I remember the financial unattainability of some of their larger figures & sets from when I was young. Considering that they're a profitable company, do you think the low salary is partly because they know people will work there be
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by dominicr 8y ago
Yep. If you really want to try to persuade them don't expect that the harder you push, the more likely you are to succeed. The opposite is true. Mostly we make decisions based on a gut instinct and then look for evidence to back that u
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by dominicr 8y ago
TL;DR answer: because they're different things. Using bamboo for building houses tends to result in using different building methods & architecture. Which can look amazing (see http://ibuku.com/ ). But I doubt it&#x
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by dominicr 8y ago
I was wondering how these worked, especially without a screen, and found a view point on this article that mentions the functionality of early word processors from IBM: "...it was not a modern word processor that allows you to type an
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by dominicr 8y ago
How nice it must be to be so big that you don't have to worry about helping the "competition".
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by dominicr 8y ago
I worked remotely 3 or 4 days a week when my first child was born. A lot of this is repeating what's already been said but doing so in order to add more data points to the advice ;) - First, a big benefit of working from home is if you
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by dominicr 8y ago
I think this misses who the intended audience of this simple password advice is. Hint: it's not us. Normal people's passwords are terrible! It's the site name, their name, "password123" or a single word with a numbe
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by dominicr 8y ago
> So its easy to copy, is regularly copied, but none of them made any market-share gains? Maybe it's not so easy to copy? In Uber's case there are a lot of successful copies of the app based taxi service, some of which have pus
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by dominicr 8y ago
Uber is a technology company with a taxi service attached. I don't know if everyone investing in Uber, or writing about investing in Uber, appreciates that and the resulting risk. Investors should be hoping for a pay-off from developin
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by dominicr 8y ago
"I found that the manufacturer did not use the part I specified, but something else." - Everyone who works with manufacturers needs to watch out for this, especially if they're in the East. I knew a small scale bicycle manufa
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by dominicr 8y ago
Glad to hear this from Cloudflare > encourages us to hire the most curious, smart, and kind individuals This is important. Having hired developers with a range of experiences I've found that it's often the more junior developer
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by dominicr 8y ago
The oil fund is a result of that as much as a cause. Only a small percentage of the country's spending is from that fund. The aim of the fund is to save for the future and the government is only allowed to spend some of the profits. Wh

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