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by nroets 12y ago
For my last cycle tour in Europe, OpenStreetMap was godsend. I can't wait for my next cycle tour there. I'm hoping that AirBnb provide me lots of affordable accommodation choices where I previously had to cycle long streches.
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by nroets 12y ago
For a start, payment processors should have some freedom to refuse merchants selling any thing that looks like snake oil: Requiring merchants to keep deposits and having putative chargebacks may not be enough to compensate processors for th
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by nroets 12y ago
https://github.com/nroets/EVisitorBook
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by nroets 12y ago
I use a few of these hacks. But I wanted to be 100% sure the user could not open certain builtin apps, like the phone app. So my kiosk device is locked and my app runs on top of the lock screen. My target device is Android 2.3. Does anyone
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by nroets 12y ago
Yes, it's great that it's possible to use OSM for many different purposes. However, all these compromises on the front page are too complicated for end users and scare them off. End users expect services that seamlessly work toget
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by nroets 12y ago
The routers are written by small teams that don't talk to each other. On the OSM routing mailing list, there was very little / no meaningful discussion in the last 2 or 3 years.
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by nroets 12y ago
Because it leads to discontent: www.youtube.com/watch?v=meiU6TxysCg
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by nroets 12y ago
> It also makes me wonder if the central banks outcries that we need to consume more to boost economics is good for the environment? The central bank only wants you to save less. So you can either consume more, invest more or save in oth
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by nroets 12y ago
No, if CNet had the vision to establish a marketplace, they would have fallen victim to "Embrace, extend and extinguish".
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by nroets 12y ago
Investors have historically demanded a large premium before storing value in the stock market. "To quantify the level of risk aversion implied if these figures represented the expected outperformance of equities over bonds, investors w
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by nroets 12y ago
Some people "copied" while others "backed up". I only used them as storage for my ZX Spectrum !
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by nroets 12y ago
Casualties/war/violence did not start with the arrival of the Dutch as you are implying. Casualties/war/violence is part of human nature. For example there is clear evidence that the Bantus violently drove the Khoisan ou
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by nroets 12y ago
Maybe where you live. Here in South Africa, the 20th century started with significant casualties as the British Empire expanded.
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by nroets 12y ago
Is it fair to say Bantu farmers colonized most of southeast Africa approximately 1500 years ago ?
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by nroets 12y ago
I am not a lawyer. The directors can share "inside" information with specific investors and other parties. Those parties then become "insiders" themselves and may not buy or sell shares.
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by nroets 12y ago
Individuals contracting private security firms is rarely cost effective: For armed response to be effective, they need to be fast. So the firm needs a high geographic concentration. If they achieve that, they have a monopoly and can charge
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by nroets 12y ago
It tells me I'm "You are 7970.70 miles away from Ebola at Bellevue Hospital Center", which is completely wrong. I'm only 3500 miles from Liberia: http://www.gcmap.com/dist?P=ROB-JNB
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by nroets 12y ago
This is a storm in a tea cup. "The absolute error ... was fairly constant at about 4e-21, which is quite small. For many purposes this will not matter" Good programmers know that most floating point calculations introduce small er
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by nroets 12y ago
For humans to have a chance, the rate at which blocks are added to the chain will need to fall from once every 10 minutes to once every 36 hours (or longer). That will make bitcoin useless for most transactions.
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by nroets 12y ago
A good starting point would be scrapping agricultural subsidies. Since South Africa scrapped it, a lot of farm land was turned into wildlife farms.
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by nroets 12y ago
Very often there is more to it than money: A single holdout can make a development less profitable/unprofitable. That reduces the bargaining power of his/her neighbours, who may be eager to move to better accommodation. Then you h
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by nroets 12y ago
It only attempts to "allow you to sort locations by proximity", as explained in the article.
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by nroets 12y ago
How do I take a selfie with it ?
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by nroets 12y ago
Buy-to-let is penalized because rental income is taxable. (As a thought experiment just consider the extra income tax liability if two owner-occupiers with identical houses started renting from each other). This is on top of the fact that C
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by nroets 12y ago
I'm the author of the engine behind yournavigation. If you want revolutionary progress, someone needs to "fund a team". But evolutionary progress has a much smaller price tag: For example contribute to the routing mailing lis
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by nroets 12y ago
Many South African kids who went to college were so determined to stand on their own feet that they went to the developed world to take whatever job they could find. Now the parents rarely get to see their kids (and their grand kids). So Am
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by nroets 12y ago
(I assume you're referring to QE1, QE2 and QE3) It's say a supermarket advertises bread for $1. Anyone who reads the ad, will consciously or unconsciously believe that the dollar has value. Now multiply this effect by all the simi
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by nroets 13y ago
An app that shows me where my friends and family are. (Like Google Latitude used to do)
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by nroets 13y ago
Are you saying that vector<char> with 'grow()' is substantially slower than the given C macro ? By how much ?
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by nroets 13y ago
Some possibilities http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=jnb-per http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?P=per-rio

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