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by wjnc 3y ago
I feel for you (6ft2 myself and I fit exactly) and other customer irritations as well. When I first flew thirty years ago (getting older here) it was half a monthly average paycheck for one kid Amsterdam - US. I remember, since I had to do
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by wjnc 3y ago
The thing is that I think rage Billing Afterwards is better than the current practice of extra billing before you go which leads to haggling and queueing for the rest of us.
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The amount of people (willfully?) trying to haggle with Ryanair is probably the most detrimental to their experience. My latest flight about 40% (yes, I’m counting) of the waits were for people discussing non-booked preferences (suitcases,
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by wjnc 3y ago
Casablanca, 1942. (Had expected it to be a Yes, Minister quote)
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Tax accountants are very unlikely to be better at predicting EU court decision than the layman. In other words… there are very many laws that hinder EU freedom of movement in an economic sense without being struck down. Member states get a
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by wjnc 3y ago
A cousin of mine is in film production (think EU teen movies) and one of his movies had a full two minutes product placement segment. I made fun of this (not the kindest move in retrospect) and he explained that this segment pretty much cem
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by wjnc 3y ago
I ‘pitched’ autonomous drone swarms in ‘06 to a NATO official who had a good laugh at my expense. He had the good grace to compliment my idea about a decade later. Nearly another decade later and it’s a regular part of low cost warfare. Not
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by wjnc 3y ago
This was the content in a few of the generals-stories following the Tao generals link a few days ago. I feel pretty smart right now not knowing a thing what this is about. (A few minutes later…) What a great read OP is!
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It must have been a quite terrifying experience. I don’t want to seem heartless but I do imagine some doctors preferring clear cut cases to corner cases and perhaps even understand the sentiment. I agree that that is wholly unfair and sub o
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My company recently reaffirmed to keep telephone a major channel for customer interaction. We deal with people going through a critical period in their lives (the start of permanent disability) and our ability to service them directly affec
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And why perchance is this democratic?
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Please be kind in your interpretation. Build and run are two very different phases. You need lots of capital for the former, mostly hands for the latter. Capital formation is probably harder for a group of workers because it leads to messy
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by wjnc 3y ago
For me as well. Dutch Brabant. The ‘ei’ has a shorter tongue movement than the ‘ij’. I’ve tried several words and my tongue doesn’t reach my bottom jaw as hard in ‘ei’ as in ‘ij’. Can’t hear myself though. “In Leiden lijden lijsters leidzaa
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Having three, I still think that the tabula rasa might be the proper was to look at it. The expectations of infants follow from their interactions with the world. And those are firstly the interactions with their parents and family. Outside
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Obviously you’re right. But we are talking kids here. There is so much to learn in statistics at basic to intermediate level without algebra. Many social scientists or in the modern age data scientist go through life with cookbook statistic
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Did you notice the part where the designer is said to be celebrating his own legacy! Aren’t we all, aren’t we all. I do think it’s a beautiful design and would do great on stage. You need something to look at in the concert hall and machine
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Footbridges like these, only for cycling and pedestrians, over several meters of non-moving water: Yes. Think less than a week of installation (mainly concrete for the foundation) often the rest is wood, some screws and € 100k max all-in. R
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You’re right, both morally and legally. My friend a government law professor told me that in the EU you could probably even construct a pretty solid case arguing this. The argument would be that If there is not a single slip of evidence tyi
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by wjnc 3y ago
As a not professional programmer, but mathematically inclined I can say I found modelling in MiniZinc crazily hard. I tried the Coursera class, put in the hours and failed. It took me back to some classes where everything I tried failed and
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I was thinking about Tesla while posting. It's the natural counter argument. That's why I specifically mentioned the target market (in my opinion): bikes. (One of the reponses above is critical of my target market definition. Hey,
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by wjnc 3y ago
Don’t buy products made by VC funded firms! Especially not if it’s a real product and you value repairability and service. VanMoof made losses the size of their revenue. They made bikes… where’s the natural monopoly to be chased there?
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As a (middle) manager: I sincerely hope many employees learn this. The best processes, systems and tools have people engaged deeply enough that they care about and work on future performance, UI/UX, efficiency, etc of that processes &#
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Yes, I’m adamant. But schools are very slow to react and commercial initiatives are hardly a substitute for school curriculum at least where I’m from. School teach and then teach to test. So even a little bit different way of phrasing could
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Okay, sorry again. It’s a nice conversational thread nevertheless. The interesting question is why the US followed a different trajectory irt unions than the rest of the west. And the thing is that even people in dark corners usually don’t
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Sorry, following dangs guidelines and didn’t even register the not so subtle call for violence ;)
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He is referring to the situation before / at the time unionization started. Modern unions are a peaceful reminder of the struggle for union rights. The US is pretty lonely among western nations in its treatment of workers right to orga
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I read this as a positive. Practicing what you preach. Rich asked for a further introduction into the needs behind the users request. The user decided not to pursue that further. Perhaps the feature could have been re-introduced if the clie
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It is a tiny loss to my life that my mechanical watch lies in a cupboard while a Garmin brandishes my skin, but entertains my need for self-data. A measurement only ankle bracelet would be a perfect solution. Who cares about exact time when
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Serves as “a” predictor is key here. You can have very good predictors and predictors with very lackluster performance. What deviation in rating gives you say only a one percent chance in winning is an indicator for the quality of the predi
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Those Tesla's can’t keep their mouth shut (“whose Tesla said it accelerated…”)

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