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by sambe 15y ago
I think it was only 5 years ago that these new-fangled "SMS text messages" were being used to organise such events. You're right though, such initiatives do not seem to commonly make it all the way through to law, but creeping standards is
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by sambe 15y ago
Ah, you noticed that too? I thought it was unusually clever: only if you attack civilians, we will bomb you; the civilians are rising up against you with tanks and guns; you fight back; we bomb you! Media have tagged along as usual: massive
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by sambe 15y ago
This was in the news almost as soon as the riots started, with the media lapping it up as an opportunity to get some buzzwords in. I think they are also considering, or have already used, some mass phone record crawling. The British governm
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by sambe 15y ago
I never thought that they did anything other than hold money in escrow. I would think this is by far the biggest problem with classifieds (by frequency, at least). The social/reputation system adds some trust, but they never even remotely g
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by sambe 15y ago
Switzerland had a gunman walk into a council office and start executing people a few years (5?) ago.
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by sambe 15y ago
Just to be clear: this is about consumers, and doesn't apply to employment. The unequal part is about the balance that the term in question creates e.g. "if you unplug your PVR you will owe us all lost ad revenue and a reconnection charge £
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by sambe 15y ago
Exactly, and it's cross-device, cross-service. What about browser built-in search? Or mobile? Or not wanting cookies or having to log in? I see my browser having a preferred language setting...
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by sambe 15y ago
But why on earth do you persistently try to present German search results to an English speaker in Munich? This has been peeve #1 for years , across all Google services.
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by sambe 15y ago
The Dutch are known for this.
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by sambe 15y ago
So, although waiting tables is - predictably - not a great job, nearly all waitstaff in the US will be making 7.25/h as you would expect from federal minimum wage? And contrary to what most people attempt to convince me? Coming from a count
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by sambe 15y ago
I don't think those are the same: two different uses of "that". The example from Bezos seems flat-out wrong to me. I had to read it three times to figure out what he meant. Would be interested to see other examples.
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by sambe 15y ago
In my experience, almost every single doctor will not only talk down to patients who know something, they will also put them in the "crackpot hypochondriac" bucket. Further, most of those I've seen are not even scientists: sure, they have a
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by sambe 16y ago
HN doesn't want either comments-solely-for- or voting for agreement or disagreement. Yet that is what a lot of people want to express. Perhaps it is more useful to have agree & disagree buttons, and the comments interest value is the to
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by sambe 16y ago
Article misses one point: the later release of the Japanese version of Super Mario Brothers 2 as Lost Levels in the rest of the world. Available on Virtual Console, I believe.
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by sambe 16y ago
There is a big difference between the outright comedy sections and the supercar reviews though. Much like the parent, I enjoy the show generally but the Tesla piece left a bad taste in the mouth. They intentionally misrepresented what happe
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by sambe 16y ago
I like your standard but I think the real criticism being made is not that it's arbitrary but that it's arbitrary in different ways for different languages. This starts to look like intentional dishonesty. Another standard closer to the sta
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by sambe 16y ago
That is certainly true, and it does seem to be on the side by default. I have a netbook-like Vaio with Wubi install that will provide quite a good test before upgrading my main PC - always lacking on the vertical. For me it doesn't take awa
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by sambe 16y ago
I have to say that both Unit and Windows 7's desktop bar look absolutely horrendous to me. I haven't used either, so I can't tell if this leads to some surprising productivity boost but there's something about the space-consuming giant-kidd
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by sambe 16y ago
Agree. I found the UI to be generally unintuitive: lots of new icons that didn't immediately mean anything to me, the groups seem to create and disappear and not mean anything. I spent 5-10 minutes with it and didn't get it - not good for a
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by sambe 16y ago
I don't think the down-vote was necessary. I agree it will always look bad, and obviously they need to do better. But there's no logical inference about the quality of the work they do for clients that can be made from them not securing t
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by sambe 16y ago
Not saying your wrong, but the marketing was to build the entire sales channel. You are free to use your Amazon Kindle for your Kindle purchases. It's all a bit of a grey area, more so than some make out if you ask me.
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by sambe 16y ago
You don't think there's any truth in "the cobbler's children have no shoes"?
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by sambe 16y ago
I'm not sure finance & law are of no value. Whatever may be wrong with the financial system, it isn't entirely maintained for the benefit of $GS (or hate figure du jour). I can imagine some of its functions replaced by less formal struc
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by sambe 16y ago
I had the option of moving to Berlin or finding something else, and whilst I liked some aspects of Berlin, eventually decided not to move there. Of course, everyone is different but the relevant points to the question are: 1) whilst it is c
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by sambe 16y ago
Sure, there is complexity. It's easy to make assumptions or forget real-world details too. But you DID tell it to time-out, because that's how the I/O library is specified.
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by sambe 16y ago
In that case you probably said "get me a bowl of chili if you can get served in a minute, otherwise don't bother". Or at least it was implicit.
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by sambe 16y ago
The classic advice: http://projecteuler.net/ Helped me get something done.
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by sambe 16y ago
Maybe they can. They certainly shouldn't. Should you be required to act "responsibly" at all times? I think most everyone plans on being "successful" one day. A lot of them will never succeed - should they all spend their whole life being u
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by sambe 16y ago
Definitely a positive step, but doesn't make (some of) them any less weird. The one about not using GPS to control remote planes and following one about not using for dispatch seems very odd. I'm sure there are plenty of people that could m
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by sambe 16y ago
The danger with tactics like this is that the customers don't overthink tipping as much as the service staff, particularly if they are from a different country/culture. I tried to tip about $1/drink in New York, but when I got a free drink

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