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megy
8y ago
There should be an instant ban from driving, you are not allowed to continue your journey, and for at least a week after. Plus fine. It is ridiculous how lenient the laws are. 40,000 people die every year on our roads.
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8y ago
Building more cars is not going to be anyone survive. We need to get away from individual transport.
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8y ago
Yes, just as nothing about the existence of a no-free licensing arrangement dis-includes water from making you wet.
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megy
8y ago
So, no different to most products then? We mainly stick with the ones that work.
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8y ago
> If anyone is promising a 20% or greater improvement over the current leaders, I immediately file it away as a scam until I see extraordinary proof. Ha, this is just silly. Ok, so what percent were IBM promising? How do you ever reduce
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8y ago
Sure, you can do that. They will not do it, but you can certainly try.
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8y ago
> The simple verison is that small resorts really do operate on minuscule budgets. Yes, all small companies are like this.
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megy
8y ago
Why? They cause congestion, the take up space, they need to be taxed.
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8y ago
We paid for it, but only drivers get to use it. And when they aren't using it, they are off limits. And on top of that, they are incredibly dangerous, with a million direct deaths a year. And in a lot of cities, roads take up more spac
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megy
8y ago
Great, that is enough for you. That is meaningless to anyone else, who does not know you.
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megy
8y ago
This is rubbish, even one report can ruin a reputation.
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8y ago
I know, only a million people are killed on the road every year. Imagine if drivers were desensitized!!
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8y ago
You don't have pockets? A bag? I have one on my bike, wrapped around the handle bars.
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8y ago
Force touch is so good I had to switch the laptop off to convince myself it wasn't actually moving.
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8y ago
I got that too. I had no ads, but I did have a link to other apps that I made that were similar (It was a city travel guide app). That counted as an ad apparently. Yeah, I can see there point, so I changed the link text.
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8y ago
It might be the result of developing it on a fast internet connection in the office where the ad loads up straight away.
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8y ago
The solution is not to obey the click of the content change 0.1 seconds before the click.
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8y ago
> You can't get good results through bad means. Like a 5 day work week from 6 days? Like 8 hour work days? Like safe conditions for workers. All things unions helped deliver.
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8y ago
> They had seminars on how to work less and push back against complaints. Work less? Or work 8 hours a day, 40 hours a week? There are plenty of examples out there of people who think that is the bare minimum. > They directed the mem
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megy
8y ago
I am on mac. I run all 3 browsers. Chrome feels the most sluggish, with firefox the clear winner.
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megy
8y ago
What would you imagine with differentiate +/- people to sin users?
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8y ago
How is that telemetry relevant? The bug needs to be fixed no matter how many people use it.
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megy
8y ago
You can mock, but if someone bought a house, and paid a lot for it so they can view the river, then this is a reasonable concern.
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8y ago
It really seems to be a thing to have a story these days, no matter how true it is.
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8y ago
> took a few screenshots (23, hardly earth-shattering) Are you saying there is a number of screenshots that would be earth-shattering?
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8y ago
WTF? If you have a high paying job, this is a couple of days work, and it is tax deducible in oz if you work in the industry.
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8y ago
They don't have a camera under the screen, they have a finger print reader.
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8y ago
You don't ask them how do they want it redesigned. You ask them what they like, what they don't like. And preferably, you get a chance to see them use it.
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8y ago
> So this designer set out to solve the problem, taking cues from modern consumer apps. The problem is, the arrogance of the designer. Who would ever redo something without talking to the user?
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8y ago
> once made so much money trading cryptocurrencies that he was spending $1,000 a month on whatever he wanted. That doesn't even sound like much at all. Surely he would have more than that if he worked a job.
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