mattbee

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by mattbee 6y ago
Isn't that because they're expected to meet insane delivery schedules with severe consequences for their pay if they can't make them?
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by mattbee 6y ago
In the UK they already add VAT to their commission fees, which is what Airbnb is "selling" e.g. if you pay £100 for a stay in a UK-based short let, Airbnb's fee on that might be £15, of which £12.50 is their fee, and £3 is 20
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by mattbee 6y ago
Airbnb already charge VAT (in the UK at least) on the host service fees, i.e. the 15% of the transaction they keep for themselves. So Airbnb already charge for their service, and they're taxed on it. What's new is taking GST (or V
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by mattbee 6y ago
Canada still has an exemption for small suppliers not to pay sales tax, so this provides a strong incentive for those to find ways to take bookings outside of Airbnb. Does an owner-operated web site count as a "digital platform"?
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by mattbee 6y ago
This reply works for a lot of self-improvement advice I read on HN.
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by mattbee 6y ago
Cards on the table: I am making this game because this game needs to be made. This is not made because this is fun game, but because it is NOT!
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by mattbee 6y ago
Yes, Zen in the UK supply them, and I was surprised how good they are. The web & mobile app UI are well-designed, and it's updated automatically every couple of months.
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by mattbee 6y ago
I wrote a custom network block storage server.
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by mattbee 6y ago
I enjoyed Derek's writing while I ran my own business, but he's forgotten the difference between having millions of dollars in the bank and living comfortably, and living hand-to-mouth with the tiniest of buffers. He's liter
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Cloudflare: Why are booter services hard to trace?(cloudflare.com)
4 points by mattbee 6y ago|0 comments
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by mattbee 6y ago
Triangular console cartridges? Nice... https://obsoletemedia.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/ColecoT...
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by mattbee 6y ago
For a few years before I sold my small (UK) company, our employment contracts had a bonus clause in. It guaranteed a bonus payout from a pool of 5% of any future sale, based on a multiple of years service (up to 5) and salary at the time of
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by mattbee 6y ago
I'm really enjoying The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell, and it blew my mind that this part of the story is true!
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The Zambian space programme of the 1960s(rmg.co.uk)
3 points by mattbee 6y ago|1 comments
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by mattbee 6y ago
Yeah! I'm sure that's happened in software in less sophisticated, but maybe more understandable ways. Lane-keeping & auto-braking software - which loads of cars have - is absolutely terrifying to think about, and I'd be
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by mattbee 6y ago
If you know that displaying unofficial highway signs will cause "self-driving" cars to swerve off the road, it's not much different an act from dropping breeze blocks off a motorway bridge. I've no idea whether that&#x27
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by mattbee 6y ago
Both good points - so this kind of crime would likely be indistinguishable from a random, terrifying software failure, with the blame falling on the car maker.
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by mattbee 6y ago
This is clever, and Tesla's software is awful, but anyone doing this for real, with intent to divert cars from the road etc. would be committing a pretty serious crime.
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by mattbee 6y ago
People in the UK are writing their names & mobile numbers down at the door to most restaurants now - just one big long piece of paper that everyone can read. I'm sure people say it's important in the abstract, but not in pract
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by mattbee 6y ago
From - err - memory, the OS used some of the memory protection in hardware, but it didn't use it with security in mind. I'm pretty sure an application could rewrite important kernel tables below &8000. And if you were using a
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by mattbee 6y ago
I did the fun part of a RISC OS emulator 20 years ago - http://riscose.sourceforge.net/ - i.e. WINE but for RISC OS applications. It got as far as being able to run the RISC OS C compiler, compile and run its own output for
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by mattbee 6y ago
This is good advice but it's more tightly expressed in The Mom Test by Rob Fitzpatrick (my all purpose response to most SaaS sales blogs).
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by mattbee 6y ago
I've also seen the negative sentiment to the v2 docs. I've been hesitant to jump in on the community site because I've seen a lot of - very polite, like yours - RTFM responses, citing the work you've put in etc. I am pr
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by mattbee 6y ago
Bsuthuncs has a lot to answer for.
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by mattbee 6y ago
Oh that looks great (but.. lol) I'd lead with "Share your family's photos, access them everywhere you want them" rather the rather conspiratorial "corporations cannot be trusted". At least if you want to app
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by mattbee 6y ago
Answer: because journalists don't get to write the headlines to their articles. Clickbait means deliberately withholding a key piece of information from a headline ("you'll never believe what this area woman found in her pian
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by mattbee 6y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20020806023145/http://www.aleph1... was the announcement but - the main work was adding VESA 2.0 support to the BIOS from the spec, organising sharing the screen memory with t
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by mattbee 6y ago
Yes we spent £20k to win our registration, but could have lost the mark entirely - I can't imagine what that would have cost instead. It's a tricky expense to justify when you're bootstrapping, but if you're funded at al
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by mattbee 6y ago
I had a bit part writing upgrades to the PC emulator, getting Duke Nukem to run. On the boot time - 2s was only realistic until you owned a hard drive! Then there was a boot sequence that was more like 15s after the drive span up, bringing
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by mattbee 6y ago
Sheesh Data, find something you like and listen to it! Repeat .. Enjoy falling down Wikipedia holes to read about the music you like. Go out to gigs. It'll go in but your knowledge will be different to everyone else's Though if y

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