edwardwatson

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by edwardwatson 3y ago
To offer an alternative perspective: I'm gay and live in a minor city in the UK. It's very unlikely I meet other gay men through my hobbies, it's just improbable unless you live in a major city. So the dating apps are very us
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by edwardwatson 5y ago
Even if they have internal counsel (I haven't checked but I'm sure a company as large as Booking.com does), for decisions which have for reputational harm, it's useful to lean on advice from X prestigious third party. The sam
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by edwardwatson 5y ago
Many will also pay a few dollars per booking to a distribution system that makes their inventory available to travel agencies and other resellers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system
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by edwardwatson 5y ago
Counterintuitively, it's even worse out of London where salaries are lower. In Nottingham, a 15 minute bus ride to work costs me £3 (so I cycle).
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by edwardwatson 5y ago
I'm in the UK and have never met someone called Alexa. Is it really a common name? Perhaps it is in the US, but it's not like Amazon chose a popular human name e.g. Sarah, Ben, etc. Of all things I am suspicious of why they would
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by edwardwatson 5y ago
But there are significant sums invested to fund research. In many ways it's a similar transaction to the VC. An investment into 'bad' research does not help the university or funding council reach their goals e.g. to raise th
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by edwardwatson 6y ago
Python is as popular as it is because it's free, not because it's good. If companies had to contribute, many would pick something else.
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by edwardwatson 6y ago
I have a base spec 2017 iMac and it runs City: Skylines smoothly. It's not a particularly hungry game.
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by edwardwatson 6y ago
I tried to replace WhatsApp with Signal, by telling all my frequent WhatsApp contacts I'm moving to signal and they should download it if they want to talk to me. About 10% of contacts moved to Signal. I lost touch with the rest and Si
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by edwardwatson 6y ago
I got redirected to the Tailwind CSS site. Hacker News has left its mark.
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by edwardwatson 6y ago
My 2015 MBP bricked when upgrading to Catalina. Thankfully I managed to recover back to High Sierra via Disc Utility/Recovery Mode. I upgraded to Mojave and now refuse to upgrade it any further. I have an iMac which will be staying on
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by edwardwatson 6y ago
Iceland is small with no land borders, making it less profitable and more difficult to sell drugs there. Similarly, alcohol is incredibly highly taxed there, perhaps more than any other country outside Scandinavia. Very different conditions