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by logifail 4y ago
> The problem is WN doesn’t interline with other carriers I've not had the pleasure of WN, but have used several European LCCs. There are some situations where good travel insurance is possibly the only thing you can rely on. Fix
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by logifail 4y ago
Many airlines don't allow as much leeway in their self-service rebooking as they grant their own staff. This is perhaps ok if you're flying a route with many flights per day, but if you need even a minor reroute due to a cancellat
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by logifail 4y ago
Bear in mind that many airlines allow ticketing staff at the airport (that is if they didn't get rid of them all, yes, I'm looking at you, British Airways at LHR) much more leeway in terms of rerouting, particularly on other rou
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by logifail 4y ago
> It's obviously fine for techie early adopters, who like the new shiny and are willing to put up with a lot "Buttons beat touchscreens in cars, and now there’s data to prove it": https://arstechnica.com/ca
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by logifail 4y ago
> better collision avoidance Mark I eyeballs still in use here, touch wood they're apparently still working ok. Was driving round greater Innsbruck in the snow 10 days ago, someone was coming downhill on a snowy sidestreet too fast
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by logifail 4y ago
> on an ICE car when I'm confronted with, say, the same clunky dashboard nav system, it seems more frustrating that, year after year, it's still just as bad I drove my first ICE vehicle for almost 10 years. The driver experien
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by logifail 4y ago
> But the software has stagnated [..] I've only owned ICE vehicles (lifetime total: 3, 2 of which are parked outside right now), and have only ever rented ICE vehicles (lifetime total: several hundred, the latest of which is in the
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by logifail 4y ago
> Can't imagine being there in lockdown for months We are friends with two separate Italian families who struggled with Covid lockdowns. The first family live in Florence and were stuck in a tiny apartment with two young girls and w
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by logifail 4y ago
> Dads basically spend the first 2 years loving their child but primarily supporting Mom, because the kid is so dependent on mom (literally physically for a period of time too) FWIW although this might be common, it's not always tru
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by logifail 4y ago
> car registration, etc... we require strong ID'ing Can you elaborate on what you mean by "strong"? I've been involved in precisely three car purchases over the last 20 years, and I don't recall what was involved
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by logifail 4y ago
> A company being registered somewhere is no more than a PO Box and some paperwork Quite, which is why it seems so odd for any company to even consider skipping these steps [EDIT: or not wanting to share that they've been done]. I
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by logifail 4y ago
> The company is apparently registered in the Cayman Islands If that's true why would they be coy about it? There are loads of jurisdictions where every single company invoice has to state the company's registration details (re
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by logifail 4y ago
> [Binance is] the biggest crypto exchange in the world, yet has no geographical base (Sorry for sounding clueless) they're a company without a physical (street) address? Are there (m)any instances of legitimate companies without an
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by logifail 4y ago
> Search Google images for Mickey Mouse, is the results page a possible liability for Google? In 2018[0], didn't Getty force Google to change how Google Images presented results, following a lawsuit in 2016[1]? [0] https:/&#x2
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by logifail 4y ago
> outside fairly basic [...] vehicles in their base trim without options Nothing wrong with basic vehicles "in their base trim without options", we have two parked outside the house right now, and the vehicle we owned before th
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by logifail 4y ago
> Lawsuits by the families of the fallen? Umm, maybe. Except we all know that that's a truly terrible way to persuade corporations (with deep pockets, lots of lawyers, and even more lobbyists) to do the right thing, isn't it?
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by logifail 4y ago
> I care if it’s better than the driver checking their phone, blowing through stop signs, etc. As a cyclist, I reckon that it’s the most selfish 10% of drivers that represent 90% of the risk We have a(n imperfect) mechanism to catch and
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by logifail 4y ago
> there's been a rise of extremism all across Europe There's certainly a rise in talking about stuff being "extremist", but how much of this is genuine? The incentives (more outrage, more views, more clicks, more ads)
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by logifail 4y ago
> That's the state of ML today I guess <shrug>. It's only as good as what it was trained on [..] Errm, that's not quite what this is about. Most (all?) of the training material's references are, well, real.
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by logifail 4y ago
> If the process is complex (write a detailed ticket, wait for feedback, get some manager's nod, etc.), buying a domain and deploying it yourself is orders of magnitude cheaper and faster [..] Isn't this basically the very defi
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by logifail 4y ago
So why is using .govuk.digital for internal services - while still having to purchase and renew the actual govuk.digital domain - preferable to, say, setting everything up under .internal.gov.uk?
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by logifail 4y ago
> it was an internal domain That may also be (tangentially) true, but someone also paid _actual_ money to register the _actual_ .digital domain. Was this 'someone' really uk.gov? If so, why?
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by logifail 4y ago
> Assuming you live in a place where you can buy SIM cards without showing a personal ID, which is most countries I had understood that the majority of countries now required SIM card registration. Plenty of EU member states do (at lea
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by logifail 4y ago
> The domain assets-origin.production.govuk.digital "looks" very much like a phishing url, even if it's internal .digital is a real TLD, and govuk.digital is an actual domain, registered by "Government Digital Service
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by logifail 4y ago
Outdoors on a cloudy day can give excellent results too, especially if you use a camera where you can manually control the exposure.
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by logifail 4y ago
> Most people who answer telephones for a living are not paid to answer telephones. They're paid to answer customers. If I'm speaking to someone who's worked too much for their capacity (whatever that is) and I get a curt,
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by logifail 4y ago
> Experiments like this are designed to find out where that inflection point is, and the evidence that's coming in so far suggests that the inflection point is somewhere below 40 hours. More research is needed, but that's exact
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by logifail 4y ago
> I do think it would be different Q: If a cow-orker isn't at work on a given day, for whatever reason (sickness, holiday, part-timer), why would one expect to be able to contact them?
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by logifail 4y ago
> there's always a pushy person asking you to make an exception, or a deadline, or "this time works for the CEO and we need you there." Never that simple without widespread buy-in My OH has been on official sick leave and
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by logifail 4y ago
> HN’s response was no, because that would “gut the threads the account had participated in” I participate at Flyertalk, and a good friend of mine had a major falling-out with them a few years ago. As a leaving gift, he wrote a script to

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