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by sho 7y ago
Very interesting. I confess I actually would be interested in some sort of modern equivalent, if that could even exist. Those few times I've been lucky enough to stay in truly excellent hotels, or international business class lounges,
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by sho 7y ago
I don't know why you would think that - with the exception perhaps of a national preoccupation with maintaining order, the two countries could hardly be more different. For all its faults, and there are many, Singapore basically delive
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by sho 7y ago
Well I did mention Seoul - but the language and cultural barriers there are just too insurmountable for international staff to want to live there, IMO. Don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic city, but it's hard to imagine an en
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by sho 7y ago
> This is honestly pretty egregious. It certainly is. I knew about the mechanics of it but hadn't realised it was being so widely abused. I would like to see Apple come down on this swift and hard. Third party paid SDKs! Those cunni
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by sho 7y ago
> Some random third-party app has to be running on your phone to detect beacons and send the data back They don't have to be running. Here's my understanding (for iOS anyway): 1. Apps have the ability to subscribe to bluetooth
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by sho 7y ago
It's a pity most of the obvious regional alternatives are either too unwelcoming to foreigners or haven't gotten their shit together enough to be in the game. One would hope that Tokyo or Seoul could soak up the refugees but they&
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by sho 7y ago
> I'm sad all the Ruby guides I've seen ban "and" and "or" Well, as you no doubt know it's about the precedence - "and" and "or" are much lower, which can lead to confusing behaviour
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by sho 7y ago
> Clearly not 100%. Not a huge fan of these random percentages haha Well, frankly, most Chinese I know will boil their water regardless of where they live. They do it in Australia and Singapore as well. Cultural norm? I guess I'm no
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by sho 7y ago
I totally agree with the article you linked? Bad, overreaching laws, discretionally enforced, are a very bad thing and open the door to huge abuses of power? You sound like you think you're arguing with me but I agree!
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by sho 7y ago
> Almost all I know either drink bottled water or only hot, boiled tap water 100% of them drink boiled tap water. But isn't this proving my point? Not like it's poisoned with heavy metals? As for pollution, of course they have
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by sho 7y ago
They've organised alternate supplies - as have any Chinese who don't trust the local water. As you would expect. I'm glad you mentioned Flint though. I assume most Americans here know about Flint's issues - but they real
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by sho 7y ago
Let me turn that around for you. Would you like it if people who turned or changed lanes without indicating were reliably and automatically fined? Because I sure would. The law is the law. If it's a good law, then its efficient, univer
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by sho 7y ago
Oh come on. Pollution is highly localised. Yeah, there's a few bad cities but it's a big place and 99% of it is fine. And no clean water, really? That will be news to the billion plus inhabitants who haven't realised they&#x2
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by sho 7y ago
Great article. But for me there's a huge question being left unanswered, like the elephant in the room: Why did exactly did the engineers/test pilots feel the need to "enhance" the original MCAS with the new, more powerf
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by sho 7y ago
Ah, right you are. I've been punished here before for not adhering to those rules. I didn't mean it to be a personal attack. I'll be more attentive going forward. Thanks for the reminder. I also aspire to a much higher level
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Reckless Loans Devastated a Generation of Taxi Drivers(nytimes.com)
90 points by sho 7y ago|89 comments
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by sho 7y ago
> You failed to understand that at least majority of people who engage in economic activities are greedy. This is also what communists deny the most why they always fail. This makes no sense at all, and is an argument against capitalists
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by sho 7y ago
> Hate to say it, but it's for the most part accurate I hate to say it too, but statements such as yours, filled with sweeping generalisations, oversimplifications and us-vs-them outgroup nonsense like they want to "spit on our
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by sho 7y ago
Minor quibble - but no airline actually pays that much. A rough rule of thumb is around 50% of "list" price. In the real world, they're around USD$50-60m each. Your point still stands, of course.
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by sho 8y ago
When you find a planet filled instead with these "better, less shallow people", let us all know. Until then, we're stuck on this one, where the GP's observations are 100% correct.
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by sho 8y ago
Basically every first world country has this now, or is well on the way to having it. Just today, for a JetBlue flight in the US: https://twitter.com/TallGlassofStyL/status/11199746416054599... The question is not
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by sho 8y ago
> do you rather see a positive or a negative correlation between the usage of high level tools and developer productivity? Absolutely none whatsoever. If anything it's negative. I have never found "speed of editing" to be
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by sho 8y ago
They do. Google "mcdelivery" - it's all through south east asia.
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by sho 8y ago
Well, as the wikipedia article states, it is somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and yet seems intuitively correct to me. I've certainly recognised the phenomenon in my own behaviour. Instead of as a hard fact to be evidenced and justified, I th
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by sho 8y ago
> I'd be kinda shocked if airplanes were just jam-syncing the clocks of their nav computers to the output of a GPS, and then had those nav systems be dependent on that time Obligatory not an aircraft software engineer, but I can say
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by sho 8y ago
TCAS[1] doesn't rely on GPS though, it builds a picture of the airspace around it through triangulation and radar-style ranging - I believe it only relies on altitude to be reported by the other aircraft, which is generally very accura
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by sho 8y ago
Apropos: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
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by sho 8y ago
Assuming nation states don't hoard what could be considered to be a long term strategic advantage. My fear would be that the West, in paroxysms of misguided equal-outcomes ideology, ban genetic improvements - whereas China mandates it,
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by sho 8y ago
> If your offspring have genetic defects [..], and their offspring [..] > If you choose to abort, only your offspring is affected By aborting, you're not merely potentially saddling your offspring with genetic defects - you'
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by sho 8y ago
You probably said it better than me. There is no upside, only downside, and applying our own "reasonable human" intuitive standards to such organisations is totally inappropriate.

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