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by mojuba 4y ago
That would actually slightly improve Google search results given the generated spam garbage that comes up today.
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by mojuba 4y ago
Unfortunately public transport and esp. railway transport is not a 100% free market, there are a lot of natural monopolies in this space that need to be regulated. For example what stops Eurostar from pricing their tickets by looking at air
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I suspect in case of the Eurostar high speed train they simply follow the airline ticket pricing for the same destinations and add their "convenience tax" on top of it, usually around £50. Saying this because I've noticed tha
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by mojuba 4y ago
I understand the criticism but to be fair high speed trains are better in many cases: Paris - Lyon by airplane: 1h15 plus travel to and from airport, plus security, boarding etc Paris - Lyon by train: 2h30, city center to city center, no se
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by mojuba 4y ago
Yes I heard from a doctor that reading glasses only make the process faster because occasionally and inevitably you look at distant objects, i.e. much further than your screen, which your reading glasses are not meant for.
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by mojuba 4y ago
I began using reading glasses at the age of 43. Ten years later, I'm at +2 and it's not enough, need to move up a notch again. Age related long-sightedness is one of the most annoying things. You can see far away sort of OK, but y
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by mojuba 4y ago
Excellent, just signed up! How do you select the speakers?
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Breaking a myth: Data shows you don’t need a co-founder (2016)(techcrunch.com)
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by mojuba 4y ago
> People keep looking for “the next big thing” and it just isn’t coming. Or... what if the next big thing is the phone becomes the computer, i.e. there will be no laptops? Imagine a device that you can connect to some peripherals inclu
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by mojuba 4y ago
Interesting, there's a very similar dream in Bergman's Wild Strawberries (1957)
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by mojuba 4y ago
I understand, but the fun fact I mentioned, that the relation between pi and g is not accidental, stems from the earlier attempt to define the meter via a pendulum. Yes it was refined later many times, and it's why the relation between
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by mojuba 4y ago
Does that mean all Apple devices phone home about everything found nearby all the time?
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by mojuba 4y ago
Nothing in what I said is incorrect. The original scientific definition of the meter is via a pendulum (1645), then it was refined via toises multiple times, and today it's defined via speed of light. https://en.wikipedia.or
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by mojuba 4y ago
Another fun fact: meter was originally defined as a length of a pendulum whose half-period is one second. But wait for it. If you look at the pendulum formula [1] you will realize that g ≈ π^2 (i.e. 3.14^2 roughly equals 9.8) is not a coinc
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by mojuba 4y ago
It is true, however a lot of what we have today in multiparadigm languages originated from niche ones like Haskell. Jazz music had a lot of influence on musicians in other genres, say Pink Floyd, but PF is not exactly jazz.
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by mojuba 4y ago
I think fundamentally "success" is necessary for financial independence and at least buying your own home, probably the most important resource that's not easily accessible to the wider population otherwise. I think success j
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by mojuba 4y ago
That's strange because my Books app still shows Swift 5.6. Are you on a beta version of macOS?
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by mojuba 4y ago
Doesn't open for me at the moment, but I'd like to remind you of the best LinkedIn parody, possibly the best parody of a social network in general, the hilarious ShlinkedIn: https://www.shlinkedin.com ... where you can
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by mojuba 4y ago
Poland is not in the Eurozone, and as I said in the sibling comment, neither is Romania or Bulgaria. Eurozone is mostly wealthy countries, so the parent commenter's argument doesn't work here.
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by mojuba 4y ago
Neither Romania nor Bulgaria use the Euro as a currency. I meant literally the Eurozone - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurozone
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by mojuba 4y ago
How do you mean? Euro transfers within the EU work like domestic ones, it's a rule. I've moved a few EU countries in recent years and I've been able to use the same bank (Revolut) for everything everywhere I moved.
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by mojuba 4y ago
On the other hand though, the Eurozone population pretty much equals that of the US, and surely there are a bit underdeveloped US states compared to the overdeveloped ones, right? So why is the EU bad idea and the US is not?
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by mojuba 4y ago
They have recently become a real bank and converted the customers' accounts to real current ones. They are a UK bank though due to Brexit for EU-based customers they are a Latvian one (I think).
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by mojuba 4y ago
> In banking, boring is better Exactly, you don't want to hand your money to a fancy organization that experiments with its PR and god knows what it does behind the scenes. Never heard about the scandals though, do you have any link
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by mojuba 4y ago
That's strange, I've used Revolut as my main account for years and never hit any limits. I suppose there's ATM withdrawal cap but I don't use cash much.
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by mojuba 4y ago
I was one of the early adopters. Monzo felt fresh and exciting back when it started, kind of like Google in its early days. But I later switched to Revolut and never looked back. I was driven purely by intuition and no particular reason. Wh
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by mojuba 4y ago
On a general note, referral rewards are not necessarily a good thing i.e. when you say "invite a friend and get $X". Turns out non-money rewards work better. A quote from [1]: > When money comes into play it switches us from ‘s
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by mojuba 4y ago
It's just not true. Some years back (I think around 2017) I was showing to my colleagues how the phrase "The magic of Google is gone" in quotes brings a ton of irrelevant results, none of which contained the phrase o
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by mojuba 4y ago
Yandex censors the results mostly for Russian IPs as far as I can tell, but they stay neutral for the outside users.
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by mojuba 4y ago
There's evidence the entire online ad industry is a scam and that Facebook and Google are aware [1] [1] https://sparktoro.com/blog/what-if-performance-advertising-i...

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