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by hrktb 8y ago
Booking.com has gone the other way, integrating private apartment rentals in their hotel listing. I’d imagine they saw it coming and as a customer they seem to be doing fine. Also as they are one of the king of the hill, any move in the mar
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by hrktb 8y ago
At that size you can rent family hotels (or apart hotels, or vacance homes, whatever they call it). They can be a bit further from big city, meaning you’ll need cars, but for that tradeoff you’ll get decent service for cheaper than standard
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by hrktb 8y ago
I think with enough time spent in a specific car, most drivers don’t really look at the numbers and more at the general direction of the dial. Basically your “under 60” example. It’s facilitated if you mentaly divide in quadrants: you can
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by hrktb 8y ago
Stopping distance is not an issue if you don’t need to stop in the first place. That means good road maintenance, no abrupt turns, properly protecting access (even from wild life, which can mean underpass for big animals), easy way out for
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by hrktb 8y ago
The difference can get very thin and yet no law gets passes though. For instance there is a no-banking list in most countries: you won’t be able to use any banking service in that country if a single bank puts you on it. That’s usually a de
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by hrktb 8y ago
That's a move some creators are at least seriously preparing for. And building a patreon user base is a good step for that.
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by hrktb 8y ago
I think it all depends on how this happens: > don't need to work at all For instance some people currently don't need to work. They are primary care-givers or already retired to give a few. But we don't put them into ghett
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by hrktb 8y ago
Dedicated cameras, whatever their sizes (e.g. gopro), don’t have a mandatory shutter sound. Actual upskirting has little to do with it, phone makers/carriers decided to add the sound to preemptively deflect any issue that could slow t
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by hrktb 8y ago
I’m intrigued how you see it going. Currently most employable people are working, and there’s huge wealth inequalities. Do you see people percieving it worse if they didn’t need to work ?
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by hrktb 8y ago
> If someone offers you something of value for free, politely say "no thanks" and run the other way. You are explicitely asking people to think for themselves and understand what’s going on. From this point of view I think tha
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by hrktb 8y ago
Nothing in the notion of union stops competition or talent/skill expression. A lot of people only associate unions with factory workers kind of jobs, it’s not. Think of journalists or performing actors unions for instance.
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by hrktb 8y ago
This is not just about desktop and phone though. I ask my iPad apps to be as dense and powerful as my desktop apps. In particular, the screen sizes are mostly similar now, processing power is on the same ballpark, and if anything the iPad h
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by hrktb 8y ago
For me one of the issue of the current names is that their definition change too much depending on the context and the person interpreting them. For instance if you say someone your arm is 'broken', they understand something is de
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by hrktb 8y ago
I think at some point people will go to jail because they turned off and on their phone before and after a horrible murder that happened nearby.
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by hrktb 8y ago
To give another angle, my iPad Pro cost around 1000€. The iPhone X is about the same price. Event taking into account miniaturization, waterproofing and just “luxury” tax, it’s insane that both products cost the same when their capabilities
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by hrktb 8y ago
Scrolling is also horrible, as would be quickly switching between different files.
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by hrktb 8y ago
What’s frightening is that most people agreed with his views, but weren’t willing to commit to them because of practicality. I of course am one of them. Decades later, I think we are still at a point where following his ideas come at a very
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by hrktb 8y ago
My main beef is how in parralel to the pure data and experiments, there’s all this commentary going back to other events (Chernobyl) or expected results (“ours models would predict") to seed the ideas that some of these data is just no
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by hrktb 8y ago
I’m a bit frustrated by some of these arguments. In particular there is all this “expected” part about low level of radiation that _should_ lead to low effects. That all fine, until we get the numbers of actual cases, which are higher than
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by hrktb 8y ago
As other commenters point out, most PHP written today goes through a framework that negates most of these points (single entry point, modern architecture, code is precompiles/cached and optimised, simple and intuitive goes through the
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by hrktb 8y ago
Perhaps their thinking is that you can already find the Pi in bazaar kind of shops full of electronics parts and really aimed at tinkerers. This shop could be more for luring new users and making it look simple for a first approach.
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by hrktb 8y ago
I am in line with extremely corrosive (as you say harrasment, bullying etc.) or straight illegal subreddits to get banned. The strange situation for most of us is that while doing the window dressing they left a spiked bat and a swastica f
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by hrktb 8y ago
GP’s comment should be taken into context: the CEO is not just a cool dude, he does stupid stuff like rewriting in DB user comments making fun of him. Why can the CEO even technically get access to the data ? Same with communities, a lot of
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by hrktb 8y ago
They invested as part of their partnership [0] to provide a successor to Hipchat after Stride was DOA. [0] https://www.atlassian.com/blog/announcements/new-atlassian-s...
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by hrktb 8y ago
Street names usually have cultural connotations. In the best case scenario they are very safe choices, that are then reused basically everywhere, sometimes in several places in the same town. I have seen countless of french towns with &quot
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by hrktb 8y ago
I think it’s more a question of in which direction you do the work. Reading a book is a bottom up process. A movie/comic is top bottom: from visual/sound info you parse what’s happening, characters motives, what direction everyth
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by hrktb 8y ago
It’s fine, it’s a nightmare with or without street names. You already shouldn’t assume streets to have names and also accept arbitrary strings. If you really need something reliable (i.e. it needs to be accepted by an external authority or
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by hrktb 8y ago
Street names comes with a bagage of issues that are not just “change” though. And they are no necessity, which is why it’s a vote in the first place.
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by hrktb 8y ago
> (In many cases) We know what the mutation is. We know what a healthy gene is. Do we? Do we really ? The best argument I’ve seen until now pro gene editing is that we foundamentally lack understanding of what the genes really do relati
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by hrktb 8y ago
I partly agree, but another half of it is people with interesting stuff yet very poor technical skills. Some people just like to create stuff all day and have a ton to show, but only ever learned enough computer skills to do their hobby and

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