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by manarth 10y ago
I started wondering how wash.io had seemingly driven out so much local business, and thought: perhaps they were undercutting the opposition - cleaning at cost or less - in order to build market share? Their website is still showing prices:
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by manarth 10y ago
That's partly economic: to be effective, you'd need to provide all of the at-risk population with boots, whilst with antivenin, the cost is treatment for those affected. It wouldn't surprise me if the cost of prevention was h
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by manarth 10y ago
Here's a transcript of the intercepted call that they played: > You have reached the 310 airlift squadron C-37 aircraft, tail number 0028. > To call the CSL press 1. > To call secure telephone number one, press 2. >
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by manarth 10y ago
My office still has machines with PS/2 ports, keyboards and mice ;-)
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by manarth 10y ago
> Doesn't work with thumbdrives One of the comments suggested "Thumbdrives probably aren't a risk (probably) since the circuits involved are small" , but the article itself says that they do work: "USBee off
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by manarth 10y ago
> I can't remember exactly what my interest rate was but I know it was fixed BELOW the central bank rate at the time The current calculation for the interest rate on UK student loans is (RPI + X)% (where X varies from 0 for people
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by manarth 10y ago
> time-relative statements like "since last year" And then omitting the publication-date from the article.
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by manarth 10y ago
The Bloomberg article reported "In February, Uber earned an average of 19¢ per ride in the U.S., according to previously undisclosed financial documents" then added "Not included in Uber’s profitability calculations are in
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by manarth 10y ago
Only a few months ago, they were reporting that they had hit their Q2 2016 goal (of running profitably in the USA) [1][2]. Guess that didn't last long. [1] http://uk.businessinsider.com/uber-says-its-profitable-in-th...
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by manarth 10y ago
That makes sense…and I think that's where the potential security vulnerability comes into play - if you allow untrusted users to upload SVGs, then they could potentially be uploading javascript to your site, offering a vector for XSS.
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by manarth 10y ago
> "<svg> may not work for people like me who disable javascript. It introduces potential security issues" SVG works for me with JS disabled (using Firefox on OS-X). Do you have any pointers on when/why SVG wouldn&#
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by manarth 10y ago
A quick peruse of the web will show that knowledge of these tips is far from widespread.
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by manarth 10y ago
Global warming also increases the number of extreme weather events, so we can't necessarily extrapolate winter => winter + 1ºC, so therefore we need less heating.
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by manarth 10y ago
As well as adding to the already-confusing mess of timezones and date calculations, daylight savings can change frequently, and sometimes at very short notice. This year, Azerbaijan decided to cancel DST, and agreed the cancellation just 10
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by manarth 10y ago
"The coffee will be bitter/weak/mediocre/disappointing." Closely followed by: "I'll be branded a coffee snob for criticising the coffee." Who am I trying to kid, I clearly am a coffee snob.
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by manarth 10y ago
> "parasites are generally a bad thing" There's some evidence to suggest parasitic infection can prevent or reduce some diseases, such as asthma or Crohn's disease. One study published in an ATS journal concluded:
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by manarth 10y ago
> > Which would you expect to have the most? > Cars, by a significant proportion - because there are far more of them than bikes. Personally, I would expect bikes, based on what I routinely see whilst walking to and from work.
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by manarth 10y ago
> you can cycle to a train station, hop on the train with your bike, and cycle to work on the other end Sadly, since May 2016, you now need a reservation - at least 2 hours in advance - for a number of First Great Western routes [1]. A
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by manarth 10y ago
> The highway code is a simple guide to the road traffic act, and it contains best current practice, but people are not required to follow the highway code. True, but failing to follow the highway code can result in legal liability. Fr
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by manarth 10y ago
> > Cyclists need to learn red lights apply to them to. > As do motorists. Cars go through red lights all the time I'd suggest an experiment: find a central location in a city, and sit down next to a traffic light. Ideally
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by manarth 10y ago
> "why is the MA taxi industry waiting tax ride-hailing apps? Why not just ask every taxi driver for $83?" I guess it's because of fragmentation: the "MA taxi industry" is an amorphous unidentifiable mass made
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by manarth 10y ago
Many frogs and reptiles carry salmonella, so total eradication would require much more than vaccinating chickens.
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by manarth 10y ago
$0.19 a ride in the USA (not including “interest, taxes, and equity-based compensation for employees").[1] Although it's possible that after interest, taxes etc, that they're not even profitable in the US yet. [1] https:&#x2
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by manarth 10y ago
> "the tax will produce…$1.5m/year" If that's $83 per taxi-driver, then I agree: handing that $83 to the driver will not have a significant effect. So rather than use the tax to directly subsidise taxi-drivers incom
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by manarth 10y ago
> "Most human edits will be good, unless the data later changes" One concern is the date of the bot's data-source/satellite imagery. - Bot reviews satellite data, creates building. - Human notices that the building&
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by manarth 10y ago
> "You want them to track your privacy settings so they can be applied. Oh but then they are tracking us!" The privacy settings do not need to be transmitted back to Microsoft. At the start of the upgrade, the installer could
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by manarth 10y ago
> "There is starting to be a debate in the OSM community about allowing robot edits into the map" What do you think about a hybrid: bot detects and recommends changes, which are then queued or tagged for human verification? I
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by manarth 10y ago
Unless the smoke was causing damage: > “a trespass may also occur when intangible matter, such as particles emanating from a manufacturing plant, cause actual and/or substantial damage to the [property].”
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by manarth 10y ago
What I find most interesting here is the relationship between extremely old laws and evolution in technology. The court seemed to suggest that using old laws to tackle a new issue wasn't appropriate: > "If the Nevada Legislatu
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by manarth 10y ago
I've always understood the expression in its literal sense. Joan of Arc is a well-known example who was executed in this way.

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