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by gerikson 5y ago
Myanmar has a +30m delta too, as has Australian Central Time and Newfoundland. As mentioned elsewhere Nepal has a +45m delta. edit OK I crunched the numbers Country / Pop. / Timezone * Afghanistan 32.9M UTC+04:30 * Central Aust
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by gerikson 5y ago
Probably for the same reasons mentioned here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28929226 They're easily confused with I and U, respectively.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Automation is a long way off. It would have to very efficient to compete with a pool of driver-owners who would be motivated/desperate to undercut the automated fleet owners. Those will have to own the vehicles, be responsible for main
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by gerikson 5y ago
Expanding on 'dawg, it's generally only profitable to rent if you're a company devoted only to renting, and the regulatory regime punishes the landlord with only a few units. This is because rents are not market-based, but in
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by gerikson 5y ago
No, there are private and council-owned landlords.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Thanks for expanding, I do admit writing from a parochial perspective.
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by gerikson 5y ago
My comments were made from my experience as a renter and condo owner in Stockholm, Sweden. I did speculate that similar norms were present in the Netherlands, but I must confess I have not studied the issue deeply.
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by gerikson 5y ago
I'm pretty sure the waiters are paid competitive rates and are free to seek other employment. So comparing them to literal slaves is disingenuous.
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by gerikson 5y ago
A flat owner is not an atomic actor. If you purchase a flat, it's under the implicit assumption that you or your family will be the only ones occupying it. I live in Sweden and most "condo" associations (bostadsrätt) have rul
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by gerikson 5y ago
I agree, but Beanie Babies and the tulip mania are more well known in pop culture.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Thanks for clarifying.
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by gerikson 5y ago
The prizes are awarded by different institutions. Science prices including economics by Kungliga Vetenskapsakademien. Literature by Svenska Akademien. Peace by a committee in the Norwegian parliament. These reflect the conditions at the tim
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by gerikson 5y ago
So the B in BRIC should be Bitcoin now?
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by gerikson 5y ago
Obviously "smoothness" means something other than "differentiable everywhere", but I'm at a loss to know what.
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Why Nothing (Even the Air Force) Can Kill the A-10 Warthog(19fortyfive.com)
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by gerikson 5y ago
Author here. My partner is blind, I am well aware of the issues of accessibility online. I strive to use best practices (like semantic markup) in the online content I produce. I believe a balance can be struck between pleasing presentation
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by gerikson 5y ago
Author here. Treating a paragraph or block as a logical unit is what I am used to. It works in Markdown, HTML, Latex, and basically every word processor. Treating a single line as a logical unit is just as valid, technically, but it imposes
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by gerikson 5y ago
Author of linked post here. I've noticed that at least in the client I use (amfora) URI are not treated any differently from text and the client can insert a line break in the middle of them, making selecting the URI to paste it elsewh
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by gerikson 5y ago
The article was originally published in the Washington Post.
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by gerikson 5y ago
I don't see any cheering. It's reporting on the consequences of a serious data breach.
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by gerikson 5y ago
Morocco isn't that far south, it's on the same latitude as the American South. I missed them being on permanent "summer time" (UTC+1) except Ramadan. Our customers deal with contact centers and they do a lot of business
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by gerikson 5y ago
Lobste.rs isn't a general link aggregator, anything not related to computing gets booted quickly: https://lobste.rs/moderations
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by gerikson 5y ago
I have personally been involved in fallout from last-minute changes to DST in * Jordan * Russia * Armenia * Turkey Morocco suspends DST during Ramadan. Because legally you cannot predict the start and end of Ramadan (it's determined
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by gerikson 5y ago
Didn't Brazil postpone their DST changeover due to national exams? Or was that Turkey? Thank $deity we don't have customers in Samoa. Sadly this kind of last-minute decision to change the DST rules is quite common!
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by gerikson 5y ago
> If all he did was selling phones, what charges could there possibly be? He pleaded guilty to racketeering charges. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdca/pr/chief-executive-communi...
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by gerikson 5y ago
I'm impressed that IKEA just goes all in on the umlauts and doesn't make any concessions to ASCII-tics. "Sjömärke" means navigation mark, and is generally a buoy or similar that marks a hidden reef. It's very apropo
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by gerikson 5y ago
Not only that. The government also took over the payment of the first 14 days of sick pay - previously paid by the employer.
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by gerikson 5y ago
The authors raise that very point multiple times. > The Beatniks gave way to the Hippies who, to their credit, offered an affirmative vision for the world. Many were in it purely for the rebellion of drugs, sex and faux-Eastern spiritua
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by gerikson 5y ago
The Romans held Greek culture in high regard. It was unthinkable for an educated man to not know Greek. And of course the "Greek" part of the Empire survived for a thousand years after the Western part petered out.
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by gerikson 5y ago
This is an interesting service to track this sort of thing: https://hackernewstitles.netlify.app/

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