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by fwlr 4y ago
The only difference is price. The money we get from a third-party site after they take their commission comes out to the same as what we get direct, so the guest is simply paying the third-party site’s commission (usually around 10-12%). It
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by fwlr 4y ago
No. Yes, there is space for small niche sites with certain angles, but all of those sites will still be owned by one of the big two parents. There isn’t even much space for a niche player intending to eventually get bought out by one of t
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by fwlr 4y ago
I believe commissions are pretty standardized at 10-12% by now; OTAs have been competing on commission in the fight to sign up hotels. The most likely reason you might get a better rate from a third-party booking site than from the hotel di
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by fwlr 4y ago
I wish I could have found the writeup, it did a much better job explaining it than I did. Including the rounding thing obfuscated things; they had cases where the paper rounded to one or even two decimal points and that number wasn’t achiev
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by fwlr 4y ago
Generally, no, loyalty programs from hotels are not a scam. Or, I guess, it’s probably most accurate to say that they do not have to be a scam to be profitable, some places may run them as a scam anyway. Speaking from the other side of th
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’m a receptionist, handle about 150 bookings a week. Two-thirds direct, the other one-third are third-party booking sites. Booking.com (Agoda, Priceline, Kayak) makes up about half of that one-third. The other half of the one-third is equa
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by fwlr 4y ago
It can be fooled, and genuine data can sometimes not follow Benford’s law for a variety of reasons, but it’s a good tool in the toolbox for quick examinations. There is another technique (which I can’t find a write-up of, unfortunately) tha
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yes, everything except incandescent bulbs and space stations are pas sous vide . That’s where I find the humour: sous vide is simply an imprecise term for referring to a particular cooking method, but as it has escaped professional kitch
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by fwlr 4y ago
Great demonstration that the process of cooking is rather general and encompasses more than most people associate with their concept of cooking. Cooking is just applying heat to food. Stovetops, grills, and pans conduct that heat to food us
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by fwlr 4y ago
To add on to this, it can in fact be much more complicated than both styles put together and still look correct if done well. If you’re on iOS Safari, try scrolling to the top and then slowly pulling the page down (the universal iOS Safari
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by fwlr 4y ago
The spinner on the page is definitely designed to pulse; it is segmented and each segment has varying contrast (via brightness) to create the illusion of rotation. I don’t think segmentation alone is enough to justify pulsing rather than
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by fwlr 4y ago
Draw a convex polygon which satisfies the conditions 1. Every point on the edge of the polygon is in water 2. Every point on the land in question is inside the polygon And then sample some very large n points uniformly/randomly from
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by fwlr 4y ago
Yes, if you grew up being told that the continent is Oceania, and all the people around you were also told the continent is Oceania, then Australia is indeed the biggest island. Language is fun like that.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The article states that Greenland is the largest island. This may conflict with a common belief that Australia is an island; as an Australian, allow me to explain (it’s actually quite interesting!) Australia is a continent, so it cannot be
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by fwlr 4y ago
Also true of someone who graduated from law. (It is interesting to note that all three - law, medicine, and architecture - have licensing requirements involving an imposing exam separate to the degree.) My point is not to agree completely w
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by fwlr 4y ago
There’s a great quote from a recent TV show that summarizes the putative value of a college degree: The whole point of a college degree is to show a potential employer that you showed up someplace four years in a row, completed a series of
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by fwlr 4y ago
For about a year I had a side project involving learning a lot about encoding (with ffmpeg) to cram as much resolution, quality, and detail into short videos while keeping them under 3 megabytes. Most of my source material was from YouTube
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by fwlr 4y ago
The actual triangle is much better when you don’t add in the common admonishment/instruction “pick two”. I have no idea why that’s added in. The much better instruction is “pick a point on the triangle”. If you want it as good as possi
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by fwlr 4y ago
I’m pretty sure a mass spectrometer will actually do what we want here, we don’t need a magic wand. Drug dealers leaving solvents in because this suggestion makes no distinction between different cutting compounds? I propose that we do draw
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by fwlr 4y ago
”Individual cards should be extremely brief, but your deck as a whole can be as repetitive as you want.” Huh! I struggled with using Anki for pretty much this exact reason, always spent too much mental energy figuring out the “correct” nu
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by fwlr 4y ago
In case it’s not clear, I am in favor of prohibition! The exact lesson I draw from the failure of alcohol prohibition is that drug harm isn’t a major factor in drug users’ choices; you can’t (ethically) reduce demand by making drugs more ha
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Methamphetamine (meth) is a stimulant. The FDA- approved brand-name medication is Desoxyn®.” https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2020-06/Methamphetam... (pdf) Adderall is regular (non-methylated) am
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by fwlr 4y ago
(In case it’s not clear, I’m not actually a fan of illicit drug use. I view this proposal as roughly about as dystopian as the current practice of safe injection sites where trained professionals watch users inject whatever tainted drugs th
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by fwlr 4y ago
The street purchase requirement is not totally performative. It requires dealers to be standing around on the street carrying books of tickets that are highly illegal to possess, thus allowing police intervention. Under the extra step propo
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by fwlr 4y ago
Cheap enough! According to https://harmreductionjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1... mass spec machines are between $5000 and $1m, and commercial labs offer services for between $5 and $100 per sample. Presumably
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by fwlr 4y ago
Replacing individual drug doses with clean versions at the point of consumption is not “distributing drugs” in any sense except rhetorical, so I should simply reject that comparison. But in the spirit of discussion, I will instead say: why
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by fwlr 4y ago
And 60,000 deaths per year in Canada from food*. My uncle has smoked 2-3 packs a day from when he was 15 years old. He is 70 now. Somewhere between one and two million cigarettes in his lifetime. Many health issues, of course, but could you
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by fwlr 4y ago
A proposal for upgrading these “safe use sites” (if we’re going to have them, might as well have good ones): The use site has a (24/7 guarded) attached pharmacy with government-produced clean heroin, meth, etc. Users can trade in their
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by fwlr 4y ago
iTerm2 is GPU accelerated since 2018, yes. Other terminals on Mac that I know of (Kitty, Alacritty, Warp) are also GPU accelerated.
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by fwlr 4y ago
I never thought about the fact that we’re emailing what are almost full webpages to each other. Or, well, to be precise, companies are emailing webpages to us.

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