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by jarek 11y ago
> BTW the most popular Lem quote in Poland is "Before I used the internet I had no idea how many idiots there are". BTW there is no source for him actually saying that, it is all attributed and unsourced. It is a neat quote tho
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by jarek 11y ago
It is completely standard to seek to launch over the ocean. The spaceports in Florida and Guiana are where they are because of that and because it is easier to launch towards the east. Where launches aren't over the ocean they are usua
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Where "very basic" means if you have any sort of ID and an address that won't change for five days, you can get an account and a debit card, be able to send and receive transfers from anyone in the UK with no fee, and use mos
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Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_Challenge , https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tube_Challenge
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Someone needs to invent and found something like a Pinterest but for text. Might not need that much VC founding and the scaling possibilities are endless, lots of content on the web to curate! Could call it a web directory.
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by jarek 11y ago
Small point: the phonetic association of Cmd-R is great for English speakers, but much less meaningful to users who don't know English
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That's true in both cities. http://duruk.net/accents-and-blowhards/
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The Economist doesn't exactly target poor people either
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Good luck getting anywhere in Manhattan if you practice total deference to pedestrians and communicate that you do (e.g. by looking like a Google car)
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... probably not the least because "the vision" tends to get lost in pivots and priority shifts
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Correlation isn't causation in either direction in this case. Among the many reasons for long hours for finance, productivity and profit are quite low on the list. "Face time" is a phrase for a reason.
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Sure, but for offshoring, a salaried position is a whole different ballgame than a contract you can not renew after 2 months
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How to tell a B.C.-raised person on the internet: They call Toronto or Waterloo "east coast" ;) Waterloo is not a commuter school, a 45-minute one-way commute would be really bad. Schools outside the GTA are similar, few people de
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It doesn't in the UK. Canal and River Trust instructs to keep to the right: "On all waterways, the rule of the road is to drive on the right. ... When you do meet an approaching boat, keep to the right and pass ‘port-to-port’ (the
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> is that trains were invented and first implemented in the UK while metro was first implemented by French people. As with any invention, attribution to any one person or even nation is difficult; the UK did have the first machine-powere
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This article from BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28352045 says "Telling people how to walk is simply not British" and I can anecdotally confirm there is no observed rule in London. A bloke once told m
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There's a sample of the Polish pronunciation on https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Maciej
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> I think your conspirator's OP comment "As a non-OSX user, I don't care about your UX" is more vain. Sure it's vain. We all have personal priorities. People suggesting that Mozilla spend time developing the perf
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by jarek 11y ago
As a non-OS X user, I would very much prefer Firefox developer time to be concentrated on things other than platform-specific UI code.
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"Individuals Reporting: 34" This data is shit. If your skills are anywhere near programming Facebook circa 2004 you will be making way more than £25k.
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> This is a country that is doing everything it can to create laws which increase the cost of transportation and reduce the ability to get a ride. Which country? The country Blablacar came out of?
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by jarek 11y ago
Speaking of remittances and mobile, you can top up a Chinese mobile account from London. No idea how the fees are though.
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You misread. I don't expect outside contributors to call the shots. b00gizm referred to "people inside Apple who really want feedback and contributions from the community to improve their language" and I suggested that those
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> Believe it or not, there are people inside Apple who really want feedback and contributions from the community to improve their language. That's not hard to believe. But far more important whether those people are the ones ultimat
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> Uber's biggest asset is the installed customer base. Incidentally, this is why car manufacturers like Daimler and VW are running carsharing systems
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American reality, so with a healthy dose of classism, racism, and general political failure. "Residents cite a lack of maintenance almost from the very beginning, including the regular breakdown of elevators, as being a primary cause o
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Interesting, I was able to read the article just fine on my 2011 Kobo touch. 800 MHz ARM Cortex A8 and whatever Webkit was around in early 2011. The border animations are off but all the text and plain images work. Whatever effects they&#x2
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With all due respect to the project, I don't consider a 150-person community a city. Letchworth is closer but it's still not going to tip the scales or become a second Newcastle or London anytime soon.
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Of course, people hired after their second interview are more likely to be mediocre, because people with more options are more likely to not re-interview (like mxcl https://twitter.com/mxcl/status/60868728386950348
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> Could one design a new city from scratch? Yes, but the result is Milton Keynes.

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