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by splonk 4y ago
> Publicly-described facts of specific cases don’t always match the actual facts...users do also sometimes publicly misrepresent what’s going on. We’re also restricted by privacy rules to not share specifics in those cases. Not affiliate
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by splonk 4y ago
Passenger checked luggage isn't the same as cargo. Your first reference links to [0] for passenger guidance, which includes the following: "If devices are carried in checked baggage: • measures must be taken to protect the device
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by splonk 4y ago
I used to have access to a large set of hotel review data. The median score on Booking was 8.1 (if you filter for business travelers it's in the 7s, but I'm not sure if that's available in the UI). This is partly because th
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by splonk 4y ago
I took a look to see if there were any requirements for the range of the pay scale to be posted, and it looks like this is all that's said: > “Pay scale” means the salary or hourly wage range that the employer reasonably expects to
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by splonk 4y ago
They don't do water to whiskey anymore, the new version is called "uisge". I believe the primary difference is that they don't take you out to dig peat on the new tour (because all the peat is dug mechanically now). Stil
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by splonk 4y ago
I definitely agree that the ability to admit when you don't understand something is extremely helpful. My favorite coworkers are the ones that I'm sure understand things because they're very willing to say when they don'
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by splonk 4y ago
It's entirely correct. Note that the comment doesn't claim it stops all bot traffic, just that it increases the cost of creating fake accounts. Nor does it make any judgment on the morality or efficacy of such measures. People lik
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by splonk 4y ago
I have often heard that the popularization of the "meta" term came as shorthand for the "metagame" of Magic:the Gathering in the late 90s, when the big tournaments like the Pro Tour came about. I do recall first coming
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by splonk 4y ago
Yeah, the entire travel story of the summer is that every airport is kind of screwed, it's not remotely limited to Heathrow. According to this source, Heathrow actually outperformed every other London airport except Stansted in terms
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by splonk 4y ago
I have a somewhat inside scoop from working with various early Keyhole employees, and my impression is that they were generally happy with the acquisition. At the very least, quite a few of them stuck around long past the golden handcuffs
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by splonk 4y ago
Some of us just have a really bad ear for accents. I'm a native English speaker who's been to dozens of countries and have at least a passing knowledge of 4 languages, and I still have trouble with strong accents from the southern
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by splonk 4y ago
I just carry whatever powdered detergent is available locally. I've tried the camping strips but I don't really see the point for my use cases. The powdered stuff does seem to set off airport scanners in the US if you have too muc
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by splonk 4y ago
My headphone quality requirements are slim to nonexistent since I mostly only use them on planes and trains to listen to music and block out noise, but my form factor requirements are pretty strict. I currently use Anker Soundbud Slims. I l
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by splonk 4y ago
I do a considerable amount of long term travel carrying about half of this, but it all depends on what you're trying to optimize for. My personal design goal is that my bag fits under airline seats, so I never have to worry about gate
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by splonk 4y ago
I've worked in this field. In every sector there will be someone trying to game the system one way or another. Someone will publish a menu including items they don't actually have in order to try to rank higher in a search (&quo
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by splonk 4y ago
I've never bothered looking at Google's interpretations of menus on Google Maps. When available, I'm just always going to go to the actual restaurant website and look there instead. What I have found occasionally useful is t
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by splonk 4y ago
OSL is also the IATA metropolitan city code for Oslo, basically meaning "all airports around Oslo". Some booking engines support these for convenience - for example, ones using Sabre as a backend may support QSF (also listed in th
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by splonk 4y ago
For some of us taking a train across the Mississippi was part of the point of the journey, but yes, the scenery is considerably better from SF/Emeryville to Denver.
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by splonk 4y ago
I've always enjoyed the weird odd lots and the parks that fit in some of them in the Mission. Still hoping that eventually something gets done with the one by the Atlas Stair building [1]. I've also always wondered why Treat doe
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by splonk 4y ago
JSX (formerly JetSuiteX) does something in this vein over a pretty limited route map in the US for ~2-4x the price. It's not like international first class with beds in suites, but it's considerably roomier than domestic premium
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by splonk 4y ago
I have as well, and your comment matches my experience more than the article does. Different teams own different systems, and there's basically no intersection between "things that require a ton of data/computation" and
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by splonk 5y ago
Serviced apartments (and to a lesser extent extended stay hotels) try to cover that niche, but they're pretty thin on the ground outside of major cities. I think Sonder was also trying to do that kind of thing but I have no idea if the
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by splonk 5y ago
The timeline makes me wonder if the personal account ban triggered an audit of their previous actions and found similar activity from when they were an employee.
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by splonk 5y ago
I like showing people the picture of the line for the standard Trolltunga shot that everyone likes to post. https://www.google.com/search?q=trolltunga+line&tbm=isch
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by splonk 5y ago
Okay, I guess I didn't mean quite _that_ significant. At that level I'm curious if you have some sort of special high value account (ton of karma, a mod of major subreddits, or have a lot of domain specific reputation), or if that
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by splonk 5y ago
That's true. The obvious tradeoff is that nobody wants to add friction to account creation, especially when they're first starting out and don't have network effects, and abuse detection is tomorrow's problem. And then
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by splonk 5y ago
I would speculate that this is mostly meant to be used for identifying bot rings and ATO (account takeover). Brand new accounts on a site with open signups are, on average, quite a lot more suspicious than older accounts. There's a s
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by splonk 5y ago
Untappd, RateBeer, and BeerAdvocate all should have much better data than this, which I believe are all at least partially crowdsourced in various ways. I'm mostly familiar with Untappd, but they're fairly strict about exporting
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by splonk 5y ago
I live in a part of San Francisco that has a lot of self driving car testing, and I generally agree with this. I'm not saying that I think Cruise's cars are good at driving, but all their errors that I see appear to err on the si
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by splonk 5y ago
Starcon2 is probably my favorite game of all time. As mentioned above, Starcon3 never existed. I've played a couple hours of Origins and just couldn't get into it, although you can definitely see their attempts to get the writin

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