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by frobozz 6y ago
That's all very well, but to buy a family-sized home within a half hour walk of my office, I would need a salary north of £250k. Renting an appropriately sized home is not cheap either.
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by frobozz 6y ago
B - They have done so. Their 2015 NYC stats had several commercial hosts excluded, making it look as though they were still just a way to make a bit of pocket money from your spare room.
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by frobozz 6y ago
That article is from 2014. This one from 2017 says otherwise. https://skift.com/2017/03/10/airbnbs-growth-is-being-driven-... In the US as a whole, 64% were renting out an entire home unit. Obviously, some
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by frobozz 6y ago
Calling it "sharing economy" is doublespeak. Most AirBnB hosts and Uber drivers are not just occasionally letting spare space in their homes or picking up strangers who happen to be going the same direction. AirBnB hosts are shor
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by frobozz 6y ago
Open Source surveillance means "looking for/at stuff that is openly published" - e.g. looking on warez sites for keys being shared.. I'm pretty sure the term has been in use since the 1940s
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by frobozz 6y ago
Yes, but "not going back to the way things were before" is not the same as "remaining exactly as they are now". There are plenty of shades in between. You can want to go back to visiting museums and galleries and pubs,
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by frobozz 6y ago
Absolutely! Try writing a simple calculator app with ML and you won't even have marked up enough training data by the time I have written it algorithmically. When it's finished, the ML one won't be as reliable. I've been
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by frobozz 7y ago
The trouble with the idea of false negatives in hiring is that you can't really define what they are. Every job is likely to legitimately reject good candidates. Most hiring is for a specific position. If you get 10 viable, or even exc
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by frobozz 7y ago
Most Userdir URLs like that just go to 404 pages anyway. That is the bigger problem.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Totally agree. > If you make engineer feels safe and engaged but don't actually address the bug count, you have not actually solved the problem. Even more - I don't think you can make that engineer feel safe and engaged without
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by frobozz 7y ago
This. I used to grow veg before commuting and children got in the way. Last time I tried I didn't have the time to keep on top of the weeds. I hope that now we are all at home all the time, I'll be able to do a bit of hoeing an
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by frobozz 7y ago
> are you seriously arguing that heavily taxing insanely wealthy people is unethical? I don't think that is what allovernow is saying at all. > There's a point where it becomes unethical and/or counterproductive...but w
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by frobozz 7y ago
You can't rely on voluntary donations to produce a stable income. A charity doing this would have to vary the amount paid out based on receipts. In hard times, donations and payments will reduce. This will reduce the effectiveness o
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by frobozz 7y ago
But that's the point I'm trying to make - Over my career, I have inherited bad code in both styles - "prefer objects" and "prefer functions". In my experience, bad objects tend to be a nightmare. Bad free fun
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by frobozz 7y ago
> This is a pretty easy code smell to reject in code review. It is if the code was reviewed. If, OTOH, it just grew until something needs to be done (like the object with 60 public methods that I'm currently trying to refactor), yo
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by frobozz 7y ago
That implicitness is part of the problem. In an object, all the functions implicitly take that state (or explicitly don't if you mark them static). So instead of namespace::function(arg1), you now have namespace::function(obj, arg1), e
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by frobozz 7y ago
Drownings are rare, I would say that 1-2% of something rare is very rare.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Pretty much anything that people might use in the water has that - vests, armbands, beachballs, whatever.
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by frobozz 7y ago
And how good the work is. In the Beeb, I worked on interesting projects, for a worthy cause, using a tech stack chosen collectively by the team. Many of the projects instigated by the team, rather than pushed on to us from elsewhere. Sinc
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by frobozz 7y ago
Fortunately Finland has a healthcare system, so there is no difference to the employer.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Gas. In fact, I don't think I have ever lived in a home with electric heating as the main source. I have, however, lived in a shitty rented flat with a crap landlord and needed to buy a portable electric heater because the CH was rubb
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by frobozz 7y ago
The same is true of English. Hence people with orange hair being called redheads, and the orange-breasted Robin is called "redbreast"
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by frobozz 7y ago
The diet industry is worse. Those companies where you count some kind of points as you eat and pay membership to turn up for a weekly weigh-in and pep talk rely on the good habits being poorly embedded so that you get fat again without the
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by frobozz 7y ago
That's true. I have only lived in walkable areas. This is because I have not owned a car until recently. I understand that public transport and minicabs are poor in tiny villages where the only amenities are a pub and a church, but I
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by frobozz 7y ago
I remember life before Uber and I'd never heard of Seamless, until your comment. These businesses genuinely just used VC funding and exploitative contracts to undercut perfectly viable existing services. Before Uber, I'd take pub
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by frobozz 7y ago
> it is the service workers themselves who prefer working for tips. I'm sure they'd prefer a sensible wage + tips, over a sub-minimum wage supplemented by tips.
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by frobozz 7y ago
Size of spend by pharmaceutical firms does not necessarily indicate more or better R&D is going on. Factors that could reduce such spending without impacting research output include: * Lower costs (e.g. salaries for early career researc
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by frobozz 7y ago
Your current behaviour should mark you for fast track promotion. https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
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by frobozz 7y ago
My "big time gap" example is explicitly a non-car use case. The visiting example for me is normally a non-car use case. If going by car, I would probably pick these things up close to home and carry them all the way.
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by frobozz 7y ago
I have not conducted a survey, but they strike me as reasonably common desires. On a 4-5 hour road trip, I want to take the kids to see a castle or something somewhere around 1/2 to 3/4 of the way. Even just wanting to have lunch

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