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by salvadors 14y ago
A lot depends on what they do with the companies they acquire. Lots of people were afraid of what would happen to BookDepository post-sale, but pretty much none of that has happened. (I'm particularly grateful that free worldwide shipping d
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by salvadors 14y ago
Of course, Amazon's purchase of IMDB took place several years before Wikipedia even existed.
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by salvadors 14y ago
The collections on Goodreads are generally more comprehensive than those on Amazon. I've added over 750 books on Goodreads, but fewer than 10% of those were purchased through Amazon.
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by salvadors 14y ago
Maybe my reading habits are just weird, but I've found the recommendations from Goodreads to be fairly bad. (Assuming you're talking about the personal recommendations engine, that is — I find their per-title "Similar Books" to be much mo
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by salvadors 14y ago
Have they said that they're going to merge those?
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by salvadors 14y ago
I'm hopeful that if they integrate the reviews at all (and I'm not sure they will — I suspect there's a different plan here), it'll be solely in the Goodreads→Amazon direction. Amazon have a fairly good history of letting the companies they
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by salvadors 14y ago
They actually don't prioritise the English version — they simply prioritise the version that the highest number of users have read/rated/reviewed. Sometimes this causes unexpected issues the other way round, such as with old English childre
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by salvadors 14y ago
What are some of the problems you have with the interface? I've certainly got some issues with it, but they're mostly at at the small niggle level, rather than completely off-putting level.
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by salvadors 14y ago
On my Estonian tax return last year, I had to declare overseas income too, and was impressed that it even did the exchange rate calculations at the relevant dates for me.
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by salvadors 14y ago
If you actually need to know, rather than that just being an example: you don't. You used to have to fill in a form on arrival, but even that was abolished a year or so ago.
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by salvadors 14y ago
To verify that there's no foul play, there would also need to be a way to check that the code on github is what is actually running on the site...
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by salvadors 14y ago
The central promise of Open Source is not that you can get workarounds for bugs — it's that you are free to fix any bug yourself (or pay someone else to). Lots of non-free projects have great support too, but when you fall through those cra
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by salvadors 14y ago
Assuming that a "proper" Open Source project is one with an active community and commitments to long term development and growth etc., is detrimental to simply getting code out there that people can use. There's often an assumption that eve
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by salvadors 14y ago
You pretty much never want a space at the start of your search query though, so you could DTRT based on whether there's preceding text there or not.
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by salvadors 14y ago
I presume you mean the ”how the technology takes over most employment” part, rather than either of the dystopias (one poorly masquerading as a utopia) that are presented as a resulting false dichotomy?
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by salvadors 14y ago
That's sort-of similar (though even weirder than) French[1], where, where you sometimes count in twenties instead of tens. So instead of sixty-nine, seventy, seventy-one, it's (the equivalent of) sixty-nine, sixty-ten, sixty-eleven. And ei
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by salvadors 14y ago
Except that if you really meant the second case, you'd use a colon, not a comma.
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by salvadors 14y ago
What if there was a competitor to Best Buy, where everything was free, but only if you took your shoes off when entering? [And no, I'm not saying that that's a true analogy either — I'm just exploring what makes this one right or wrong, and
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by salvadors 14y ago
Yes. For an example, compare the underlying XML of http://globestroller.com/maps/US_48.svg with the original at http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Blank_US_... In the original the states already had IDs (except, for some
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by salvadors 14y ago
Surely it's relatively easy to convert SVG to, say, .jpg on the fly, though, no? </handwave>
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by salvadors 14y ago
I'm not sure if I'm missing something in the question, but SVG plays very nicely with CSS. I frequently download SVG map files from Wikipedia, add new, more suitable, IDs to the relevant <path> elements, and then add a CSS section a
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by salvadors 14y ago
Even if that were shown to be a much more effective way to reach these goals?
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by salvadors 14y ago
Lots of purely civil cases revolve around exactly that. If we have a contract that says I'll do some work for you and then you'll pay me for it, but then you subsequently don't pay me, then I'm in exactly the scenario you describe. But then
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by salvadors 14y ago
The landlord and tenant relationship is another example, where courts in many jurisdictions will simply strike out many types of clause, whether they were entered into knowingly/willing or not.
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by salvadors 14y ago
> This is why you don't negotiate for things like gas, clothes, and milk. Gas and milk, sure. But lots of people still buy clothes from places where haggling is acceptable.
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by salvadors 14y ago
No; waiting 9 weeks to get it. And as I read much more when I'm on holiday, and one of the reasons I bought a Kindle in the first place was so I didn't have to carry dozens of books on such a trip, I'm very glad that they were willing to sh
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by salvadors 14y ago
> Unfortunately, the cost of fraud, waste and loss is passed on to honest consumers in the form of overall higher prices. In Amazon's case it's also possible to argue that the cost of fraud, waste and loss is passed on to honest consume
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by salvadors 14y ago
There are public policy reasons why a simple majority shouldn't be able to do whatever they like. It would be much harder to ever raise any investment if it were trivial for a majority to simply take everything for themselves and never pass
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by salvadors 14y ago
I suspect this is because he's already written several other posts (linked at the bottom) with the thermostat example, so is trying a different example here, in the hope that people might pay more attention this time.
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by salvadors 14y ago
Couldn't _replicate_ in a weekend, or couldn't have _created_ in a weekend (including conceiving of it in the first place)? Any fast typist could retype any of the great works of literature in a weekend. That's not the same as being able to

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