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by lhorie 5y ago
I mean, many small towns have local food joints, but people driving by the highway will still stop at the McDonalds. I think Uber is kinda the McDonalds of transportation; travelers pretty much never want to bother finding out what the loca
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While I didn't want to pry into the exact unit economics, being in a children's party and all, he did say he worked ~10 hours a day. But also he was very proud to share that he had paid off over 16k of debt despite the high CoL fo
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by lhorie 5y ago
> Tokyo taxis have world class service, and it is perhaps not a coincidence that Uber has only a tiny presence there Funny you mention this. I actually had a bad taxi experience in Japan of all places: asked the hotel to call for one mul
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by lhorie 5y ago
Anecdotes are not data etc, but my daughter attended a friend's birthday party recently and the friend's dad told me he had been out of work due to covid so started doing Uber and was bringing in $3k/week and had managed to p
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> crap service is made up for with liberal refunding Uber has crap service? I was under the impression the whole point of Uber becoming so ubiquitous as to become a verb was that you could actually get service at all in a timely fashion
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Never mind the lost opportunity of naming a burger "The 100g'er" (and paying less in meat costs to boot)
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So if I'm reading this right, this seems to be about PERM applications. For context, PERM certification is a required step in the green card application, where a company sponsoring a green card applicant must demonstrate that they post
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> Decimal comma instead of a period, spaces for thousands separators, or currency sign after the number instead of before it? I'll bet you 5 000,00€ they're European. Most of South America also uses commas for decimal separator
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While I can see where this idea comes from, it seems a bit... self-defeating in a way? At least pragmatically speaking, there's an obvious difference between your point of view and that of the universe: if it's all a big illusion,
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> the universe is conscious, because our conscious minds are part of it Getting some GEB vibes here (Is the anthill conscious?) but I do think that characterization is a bit off. I tend to think of it from a different angle, considering
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by lhorie 5y ago
I don't think "comforting" is an apt description of pantheism; in fact, it postulating a cold mechanical universe (as opposed to the idea that a God must necessarily be omnibenevolent) is often cited as a criticism of panthei
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by lhorie 5y ago
As someone who dislikes boomboxes in public, I have to say bikes are the one place where I think playing loud(ish) music makes sense. Unlike cars, bikes are very quiet and if a pedestrian comes out jaywalking from between parked cars, the b
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by lhorie 5y ago
I think it's a byproduct of a deep cultural thing. In East Asian countries, there's a strong culture of respecting your elders. In China, it seems this sometimes manifests in a peculiar way where people getting older start to act
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by lhorie 5y ago
My impression is that radio taiso is quite a bit tamer than dancing grannies. The former is usually mellow with slower tempos and relaxing uplifting vibes and it's really meant to be something for all ages; the latter is closer to elec
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by lhorie 5y ago
Hmm I think this might be yet another case of colloquialisms. You could most definitely say "O Portugal é lindo" or - in full colloquial fashion - "Vamos pro Portugal". Even for Timor-Leste, one would still use the mascu
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In Portuguese, articles have the additional function of conveying the gender of the noun. Interestingly, the presence of articles is not actually mandatory, but adding them gives a more colloquial tone, whereas removing them provides a more
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by lhorie 5y ago
"Japanese" is definitely a noun, so it's not grammatically incorrect to say "I am a japanese", but it does sound weird. This is probably related to idiomaticness. In the US, usage of words like "an american&quo
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by lhorie 5y ago
I feel like this idea that the limit must be set in stone comes from anchoring bias. Obviously drinking 10 bottles of beer in one sitting will get you totally wasted, so there must be a limit between 0 and 10 bottles. Where exactly is it? W
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by lhorie 5y ago
Relevant thing I saw a while back: CLI design guidelines[0] > Confirm before doing anything dangerous. A common convention is to prompt for the user to type y or yes if running interactively, or requiring them to pass -f or --force other
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As I mentioned, I'm not criticizing the news reporters, I do respect what they do. This thread originated to talk about individual reactions to news. If you read aboud injustices and go out on the streets and protest and that actually
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I admit my view is somewhat cynical, but I feel compelled to ask: what has this "national conversation" achieved? Can you draw direct relationships between a choice between two actual candidates and how your change of vote affecte
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Yes. The one nuance in this case is to evaluate these factors as the receiving party, to determine how relevant the content is to you personally. E.g. for the police chief of that department, knowledge of this incident is very much necessar
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You're clearly getting swayed by the emotive nature of this specific episode. Are you saying you were not aware of police brutality before? Can you say that knowing about this specific episode is as useful to you as reading documentati
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The sooner you realize that news are a form of entertainment rather than information, the quicker you can reprioritize your attention towards actually informational resources. The Socrates three sieves test is a good tool to evaluate whethe
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by lhorie 5y ago
> The concept of pure functions is at the core of FP. Only in the subset that you consider canon, not generically for all FP. Wikipedia is quite authoritative, FWIW. I agree that the React team has made some flat out wrong claims (e.g. i
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This article[0]? Sorry, but that's not an authoritative source, it's literally just some random guy talking on the internet :) No offense, but your argument is kinda self-defeating if you are trying to claim that two out of the t
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Sorry, but you're missing the forest for the trees. This is what wikipedia has to say: "Functional programming is sometimes treated as synonymous with purely functional programming, a subset of functional programming"[0] In F
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There are a number of people that dislike hooks, many of who are vocal in React threads. Basically the entire classes-are-fine camp do, and there are a few of us in the "the React team doesn't appear to understand the functional p
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> Throwing Promises for Suspense is basically Algebraic Effects I wish Dan Abramov hadn't made this analogy[0], they're nothing like algebraic effects. The core idea behind algebraic effects is more similar to something like de
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You shouldn't write tests like this; there's a high likelihood that the test will be flaky or not representative enough of production, and if the test fails, you often get completely non-actionable error messages. If you just wa

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