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by logifail 3y ago
> People do that because it takes 15 hours to travel ...and those annoying time zones and the resulting jet lag* If we could magically get from Europe to Australia in 5 minutes, I doubt that that many people would use that as an excuse
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by logifail 3y ago
Q: As an outsider, how is one to tell if this approach is the right one? There seems to be a certain amount of dissent. "Mass tree-planting programs in the desert often cause lasting damage to the ecosystems they are purportedly trying
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by logifail 3y ago
> Look at this way the “billable rate “ for a moderately sized company senior management would be in the range in thousands of dollars/hour, so 10-15 hours saved could be one way to price this service Thanks to in-flight wifi you ca
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by logifail 3y ago
> I thought that was still pretty normal I had to remove shoes at security at both JFK and SFO recently.
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by logifail 3y ago
> Many European and all Canadian airports do Despite shoes not needing to be routinely removed at most (all?) European airports' security checkpoints?
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by logifail 3y ago
> Coming to the US you have to go through the special US pre-clearance zone that has extra security This may once have been true but I don't believe it's the case any more, at least not at the major European hubs I've been
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by logifail 3y ago
> UK to Australia in an hour Q: How much more would customers pay for this compared with - say - business class on the same route?
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by logifail 3y ago
> immigration and customs are simplified If you're eligible, there are plenty of us who aren't. I waited well over two hours at JFK last month. > security is a breeze I never did work out why it's OK for aircraft to fly
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by logifail 3y ago
> Striking at the eSIM moment is a slick move, though I bought two data eSIMs to cover my trip - each one only covered one specific country. To my frugal mind it wasn't worth paying the extra to upgrade to a 'global' data
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by logifail 3y ago
> The cohort Venn diagram is world travelers who can’t afford a global service? People who can pay for a flight but would rather watch an ad than pay for service? At this point I laughed, as I don't have global service, yet have fl
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by logifail 3y ago
> with as much diversity as New York City if not more I'm not sure Singapore is anywhere near as diverse as NYC: NYC (2020): 30.9% White (non-Hispanic) 28.7% Hispanic or Latino 20.2% Black or African American (non-Hispanic) 15.6% As
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by logifail 3y ago
> What does society look like to you on the other end of this? Q: If you look back a few centuries, what does society look like to you?
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by logifail 3y ago
> Even in places like Tokyo, they have to limit their use of A/C because it' so energy intensive due to the crazy amount of heat from the urban heat island effect. I was in Singapore on Friday, for one day. There's air-con
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by logifail 3y ago
> I wouldn't mind a checkbox I could select to make it give diversity-enriched output (Genuine question) how would one propose to diversity-enrich (historical) data? Somehow I'm reminded of a quote from my daughter who once tol
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by logifail 3y ago
> This seems pretty non-functional and while I applaud, I guess, the idea that somehow this is more fair Fair to whom ? > racists trying to make an uberimage It's a catastrophically flawed assumption that racism only happens in
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by logifail 3y ago
> No, this is not how this works. I fear this attitude is partially responsible for the fall in support for what I guess we can call "centrist" parties. The harder this issue is pushed, the more the radical parties win support
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by logifail 3y ago
> The reason people are trying to get to the UK from France (and other countries) is they are trying to apply for asylum in the UK Why is applying for asylum in the UK more appealing to them than applying for asylum in France? > But a
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by logifail 3y ago
Q: Is France "safe" compared to the UK?
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by logifail 3y ago
> It wasn’t safe by any definition of the word, but a fair deal safer than the place they came from (Playing devil's advocate) why would this not also apply to those refugees fleeing to Europe? Isn't Rwanda "a fair deal sa
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by logifail 3y ago
> that Rwanda is a safe country to which asylum seekers can be sent Putting aside whether the UK government's approach is a sensible one (which in my view it isn't) we should be aware that: "the UNHCR, with financial suppo
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by logifail 3y ago
> movie references I was once tasked with reverse engineering a competitor's product, figured it might take a while but within minutes of running strings on one of the binaries it became clear one of the engineers must have been a m
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by logifail 3y ago
> laptops on classes where you need them Apart from lessons directly about computing and/or technology - of which there may be a handful of hours per week in a regular highschool - the number of subjects which "need a laptop&
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by logifail 3y ago
> you'll have almost zero chance to use anything modern If you're developing for an embedded system, you may not want to use anything "modern".
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by logifail 3y ago
> Shipping of raw resources is cheap Cheap in terms of money, maybe. Less so in terms of emissions: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1291468/international-sh...
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by logifail 3y ago
> How would you know if a crime has been committed or not unless you actually find out the truth about the event/situation? How would the police get involved unless a crime has been reported?
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by logifail 3y ago
> when the cattle are sent to the slaughterhouse Data isn't "sent to the slaughterhouse". Ever. Data can be annoying that way.
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by logifail 3y ago
> We should not assume OP's note-taking methodology to be equivalent to regular typed notes, because the interaction is substantially different. ...just as we should not assume the OP's note-taking methodology using a device to
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by logifail 3y ago
> The meaningful difference between handwritten notes and typed notes is not the device itself[..] That's one hypothesis. Another would be the device [or lack of] is indeed the meaningful difference: "Handwriting likely facili
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by logifail 3y ago
> I assumed people raised on typing would memorize better that way. But the experiments seem to contradict my worldview As another article[0] puts it, "going old school works because your brain is old school". 'Handwriting
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by logifail 3y ago
> I'd like to see a similar study with people allowed to touch type This one compared 'a paper datebook and pen, a calendar app on a digital tablet and a stylus, or a calendar app on a large smartphone and a touch-screen keyboa

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