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by ukoki 7y ago
I've daydreamed about tech-enabled direct democracy with arbitrary proxy voting for a while now. I'd love something like: * anyone can choose to make their votes public * anyone can "give their votes" to anyone else, pro
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> If you're a real expert in arbitrage, you don't settle for making a couple dollars at a time. Have you been to Thailand? I estimate these "digital nomad" drop-shippers and drop-shipping-shippers comprise about half
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> Collectors who have drunk most of their Pinot already may need another glass after seeing the result Don't get high on your own supply
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I consulted for an energy company using Boomi and like you was surprised to see it in the top-right quadrant. I remember version control being a nightmare and the platform having serious scaling issues.
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What are they negotiating against though? Wouldn't the BATNA be to not accept credit cards which be suicide for a retail company?
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> If presenting the full cost upfront means people stop using the service then it simply means that there is actually no viable market. There are plenty of food delivery companies (eg Deliveroo, Wolt, FoodPanda) in countries without a ti
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> UK mortgages are cheaper per month than renting That's definitely the case outside of London where rental yields are higher but London rental yields are averaging 3-4% [1] (lower as you go up the ladder). Mortgage rates are curren
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> I was talking about buying - why throw rent money away. London has some of the lowest rental yields in the UK, especially as you move towards the higher end of the market. Renting is merely "very expensive", compared to buyi
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It's only for OTA programming or to watch BBC online streaming services. You don't need one for eg watching Netflix or playing games.
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by ukoki 7y ago
I think it depends on the airline. Most of the budget European airlines I fly with will allocate you a middle-seat by default if one is available when you choose the free "give me a random seat" option at check-in. I presume this
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by ukoki 7y ago
Sadly, I'd argue that there is also the -1x developer — someone who creates more than 1 bug for every bug they fix.
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Caterham 7s start at £26,490 in the UK with comfort being a definite low priority https://www.caterhamcars.com/en/models/the-iconic-range/seve...
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Totally agree with you. I think also that it's very possible that delivering-adverts-with-minimal-privacy-infringement is a different class of problem to just "delivering-adverts". Maybe it's a type of problem where prof
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Yes. And vertically integrated companies would have a huge advantage, making it really hard for smaller companies to compete.
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I'm late to the conversation, but one thing I see causing a lot of unnecessary complexity is applying the same ideas and concepts at different levels of abstraction because it "intuitively" feels right. I'd like to call
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by ukoki 7y ago
Is 100 lives that bad? This [1] source says 250,000 workers were estimated to be working on it in 2003 so we could estimate 5 million worker-years for construction. That's an annual death-rate of 0.002%. By comparison this [2] source s
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by ukoki 7y ago
Yep. Or bake your app into a docker image using https://buildpacks.io/docs/using-pack/building-app/ and deploy to any k8saaS such as GKE, EKS, or AKS.
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> charged with figuring out an emerging disruptive industry change And did you? — I'm really curious as to whether there ended up being a positive ROI from dedicating those top engineers to that task.
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It's in the article: > Huawei’s employee ownership claim is untrue because its employees have no control over the trade union’s decisions, the paper says citing China’s Trade Union Law. The employees actually hold “virtual stock” wh
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by ukoki 8y ago
> ...takes about ~6 months and it's not a pretty process. This fact is clearly expressed in the UK contractor market which seems to consistently pay a 2x premium over salaried employees. Whilst some of this premium may be based on s
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by ukoki 8y ago
> Even more curious is that IT culture is basically that if you want to get paid what you're worth, you have to quit and go to another company. This is not just IT, this is the entire job market. The reason is because jobs are &quot
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by ukoki 8y ago
I was in Thailand for 2017 and there was absolutely a digital nomad marketing ponzi scheme going on as you say. Of the people I met, a completely unsustainable number supposedly made a living "selling the dream" mostly via ebooks
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by ukoki 8y ago
How about just taxing the profits of house sales exorbitantly? Eg 70% tax on profits of house sales unless you are a UK resident and it's your only home. This way it's still worth buying housing with the intention of leasing it, b
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by ukoki 8y ago
> If a normal business behaved like this and then just shrugged their shoulders, no one would stand for it That's not quite true. No one blames the US postal service for death threats sent in the mail. Facebook is not the USPS, but
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Incidents such as these are rarely a people failure and nearly always a process failure. People will always make mistakes — perhaps seniors will make fewer mistakes than juniors, but no-one makes no mistakes.
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I don't get the dog one at all. The article is about dogs getting smaller. Since neck size and weight are very correlated why bother to show both? I would just have a single plot showing the decline in dog weight over time. The fact th
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If funds aren't ring-fenced in some way, it's way too easy for a political party to threaten that funding in return for favourable news coverage. And it would make the BBC vulnerable to the classic libertarian trick they are tryin
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I really don't get the whole negativity about "dark kitchens". There is nothing wrong in theory with a delivery-only restaurant, and there are clear cost savings that can be passed on to the consumer. Articles such as the one
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> I've been there, it's a pain in the ass to get to I guess the easy version might be Carrara, Tuscany where marble has been mined for millenia. You can drive around the hills above the city on roads carved into and through the
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by ukoki 8y ago
The internet is both full of people complaining that Kubernetes is too complicated and full of people arguing that it makes things easier. The people saying it's simple are looking up from the world of IaaS and non-declarative orchestr

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