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by sksksk 7y ago
It's a pretty common model in many industries... If every gym member visited the gym at the same time, they wouldn't all fit. Only a small fraction of the members use the gym at any one time, so it works. Banks would crash if ever
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by sksksk 7y ago
To me, stealing implies depriving someone of something. If I take your car, you don't have a car anymore. If I make a copy of your movie, you still have that movie. Arguably, you're being deprived of the money from the sale of the
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by sksksk 7y ago
Websites will target the 10-20% of users who don't have adblock installed.
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by sksksk 7y ago
You've just described a cable car... Medellin has an extensive metro system and one line is a cable car.
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by sksksk 7y ago
http://www.dontclick.it/ is a super old (Flash) demo of a UI that doesn't have any clicking
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by sksksk 7y ago
Well, they're not in business anymore
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by sksksk 7y ago
There used to be similar housing above the arndale shopping centre (which got removed after the bombing in 96) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-13378696
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by sksksk 7y ago
you pay income tax in the country you live, not where you work (i.e. if you were employed by a US company, but working remotely in the UK, you'd pay income tax in the UK)
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by sksksk 8y ago
Here's an interesting story of how some traders hacked the telgraph system in France, to get advance knowledge of market movements... https://www.1843magazine.com/technology/rewind/the-crooked-t...
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by sksksk 8y ago
I've had luck with Recurly in the past ( https://recurly.com/ ), I don't think it has support for Bitcoin though.
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by sksksk 8y ago
End to end encryption was added after the aquisition.
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by sksksk 8y ago
Something I loved about living in Bogota, was how easy it was to navigate there. The whole city was built on a grid, with the east-west streets increasing in number as you went north. And the North-south streets increasing in number as you
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by sksksk 9y ago
a lot of FF programmes allow transferring of miles
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by sksksk 9y ago
Would you be opening to have someone work out an EU office for a year and then transferring on a L1 visa?
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by sksksk 9y ago
I find that in richer countries with more iPhones, Apple Maps is on par with Google Maps. But in places with fewer iPhones, it can go a bit haywire. Here's a couple of Apple/Google maps comparisons I've noticed and taken scre
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by sksksk 9y ago
A company I used to work for was offered $100k to release a Windows Phone version of their app, but they declined (because they'd be responsible for maintenance)
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by sksksk 9y ago
A reverse example in the US is money transfer, in Europe it's extremely easy to send money between bank accounts instantly and for free. But in the US it is more difficult to companies like Venmo popped up.
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by sksksk 9y ago
>Fixed it by using a single image for the whole deck and changing the position of the image to show the card that was picked Couldn't you have renamed the file?
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by sksksk 9y ago
>On that note - I wonder how soon it will be before car manufacturers have 'app stores' for add ons to their internal systems. Wouldn't it be cool, for instance, to have a custom navigation app that you could install in yo
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by sksksk 9y ago
There is a lift in Italy that goes horizontally and then vertically: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A739p5HkRZ8
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by sksksk 10y ago
@replies and hashtags (one of the most successful features of twitter) came from third party apps,
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by sksksk 10y ago
This light is an at intersection, the other three roads leading to the intersection have traffic lights too. If there is a power cut, then the other three roads will have no lights, drivers there will treat the intersection with one set of
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by sksksk 10y ago
If you're using a Mac, you can now AirDrop from your mac to iPhone
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by sksksk 10y ago
Polymath Ventures | Bogotá, Colombia | Multiple Roles | VISA Polymath builds businesses from the ground up that can grow massively across Latin America. We design the venture concepts in-house, find the right founding talent to lead them, w
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by sksksk 10y ago
With CarPlay and Google Auto you can get some of these features. What I'd really like to see is a way for a phone to get access to the car's odometer, that is how car navigation systems continue to work in tunnels (by using dead r
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by sksksk 10y ago
I use vim, I just assumed that when you open Terminal, a virtual escape key would appear in the touch bar. It'd still be in the corner, so fitts law would still apply, and it'd be easy to find.
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by sksksk 10y ago
Polymath Ventures | Bogotá, Colombia | Multiple Roles | VISA Polymath builds businesses from the ground up that can grow massively across Latin America. We design the venture concepts in-house, find the right founding talent to lead them, w
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by sksksk 10y ago
>While this app obviously has a few incredibly useful-looking features, am I the only one who feels travel is best done talking with locals? Asking your hotel manager for recommendations - THAT'S how to travel well That's kind
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by sksksk 10y ago
I could imagine a situation where we leave the EU and join the EEA on a "temporary" measure, giving us time to negotiate trade deals with other countries, and then when we're ready we will leave the EEA.
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by sksksk 10y ago
If the UK leaves the EU, and a European person (who is allowed to live in Ireland, but not in the UK) travels to Ireland, what is to stop them illegally travelling to the UK without a hard border?

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