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Because the tech was terrible and they did nothing to facilitate the transaction. There was no trust model -- hosts posted their own reviews, usually from paper guestbooks and guests had to mail checks to untrusted hosts weeks in advance. There was no escrow or arbiter upon arrival. Most picture quality was terrible. Because of the transaction difficulty, the concept couldn't scale down to smaller rentals (rooms, etc) for smaller periods of time.

The only thing technical were that the sites usually had a calendar, but it was impossible to tell when and if it had actually been updated, so you had to be in contact with a dozen property owners to find a place with availability.

These services showed the potential but were little more than a collection of classified ads.
Yes because those pennies add up and pay for badwidth and content. It's not just someone, it's 30%+ of traffic.
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I would like to believe them. But I can't. It would be so great if they could open source the part of their software that makes it possible to verify its degree of privacy.

A company just writing they're taking privacy seriously... I don't believe it.
Nuclear waste is just a political issue that anti-nuclear people use to come up with reasons.

Technically it is not a huge problem and consented policy could solve it.

So first of all, current nuclear waste should not be buried as it is fuel for future reactors. It should just stay where it is until somebody wants to use it.

Second, Yucca Mountain is a terrible place for nuclear waste. It was always a terrible idea and this goes back to the very first time this problem got studied. There are far better locations in the US for a repository, but insane political shenanigans prevent Yucca Mountain from going forward and prevent any smart solutions as well.

I strongly believe that Yucca Mountain will never actually be used, but it will probably take another 15-20 years of drama and pointless arguments with false facts to finally resolve it.

Listen:

- https://www.titansofnuclear.com/bradyhanson

- https://www.titansofnuclear.com/davidblee
More radioactive material is emitted/released from coal plants than from nuclear plants, even when adjusted for the difference in power production between those two types of plants. It's not irrational to be wary about radiation, it is irrational to respond to that wariness by going all NIMBY on new nuclear plants.
Ok. Lets have reasonable idalogue.

The facts are quite simply that nuclear uses the least amount of materials and has the lowest overall resource consumption.

Uranium is mined threw one hole in the ground and is much cleaner and less destractive then virtually all other forms of mining. Furthermore you only need tiny amounts because the the energy density.

The mining required for solar and wind is larger by orders of magnitude.

The same goes for land use. Nuclear has a minuscule land use impact.

On carbon solar, wind and nuclear are all so much better that it hardly matters and calculations become way to specific about what was transported where and so on.

Nuclear pays for the decommissioning and for the waste. The 'waste' is all captures and does not harm anybody (not even animals). Compared to the waste form solar and wind that is not properly accounted for in most of the world.

So nuclear is overall has the smallest environmental impact.
Nextspace seems simply to be two existing projects (with patches) packaged specifically for Red Hat Linux; GNUstep and WindowMaker.

GNUstep's core libraries and build tools are behind Nextspace and Etoile, as well as the GWorkspace environment and the build ecosystem itself; Gorm and Project Center. Gorm is more or less equivalent to NeXT's Interface Builder and Project Center taking on the role of Project Builder (now known as Xcode).

GNUstep is still the foundation and still has parallels with Openstep and Cocoa. Interface consistency is derived from applications using those libraries and components (object relationships, services).

WindowMaker itself uses the WINGs (Wings is not GNUstep) library, which is not really used outside of wmaker and dock apps for it. AppKit and WINGs don't interoperate, which makes the choice of using wmaker for Nextspace questionable when GWorkspace implements window management using PDFKit and other libs, like a GNUstep application should.

Personally, I can't see how this project is any different from GNUstep and WindowMaker apart from a few personal touches (profile.d and .bashrc configuration changes and the like).
ISPs commonly set all equipment and systems that log, or alert, or do just about anything, all to UTC. makes things a lot simpler. It does mean that things like maintenance notification need to be manually converted to local customer time by a NOC, though.
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I hope they've fixed the bug in Mail.app where it fixates on a particular message from a month ago, which then requires you to scroll like a hamster to get to the latest messages. And then then next time as well.

This has been around for a while, so I'm not really holding my breath.
Yep, I feel safe with Apple right now. Who knows what tomorrow may bring.
why open source it? where else would/could it be used?

Now, I would like a third party to audit it. That would be great.
Yes, but that was a completely different issue from fraudulent voting (which wasn't found at any scale there); rather, it was a problem of bad ballot design and bad voting machines that didn't fully punch through the paper.
Then central planning is a Good Thing.
Mojolicious was maybe the first framework with Websocket support.
Living in Russia i every time wondering why Stripe or square companies exist. We have batch of banks which doing this card acquiring, mobile phone operators who made pos terminals with internet connection and online tax services. And now i see stripe pos like back in years ago. Wtf.
Online surveys are a horrible idea for this kind of information gathering

It skews the demographic towards people who spend alot of time online and like to do surveys. Most working people won't have the time or even know it's there. They might as well set policy by which memes get the most likes.
Common theme in application security: crashes are either exploitable, or not yet exploitable. Unless the app crashes in a completely static and 100% repeatable way, there's a good chance someone is working on creating a specific, exploitable setup using it...
>You don't get X-rays without radiation

Yeah which is why you don't get X-rays as part of a routine physical exam. They only use them when necessary, because they know that repeated exposure to radiation is bad.
This is false.

I've paid Protonmail using bitcoin and that is all that was needed.
my list would be:

- (foreign) language[s]
- time management
- self discipline ( some martial art is great for this )
- financial education
Plastics have actually gotten better in the intervening years, but the advances in machining have allowed far more complicated molds than was once economical. This allows designers to use less plastic, and make it "strong enough". I was recently shopping for a gift for my nephew, and was horrendously disappointed in the Fischer price products- for the money, they didn't seem anywhere near the quality I remembered. However, one only needs to examine something like cordless tools or Lego to realize quality products can be made using plastic.
How can you argue for such a thing while at the same time using am/pm (opposed to 15:00-23:00 etc.)? O:)
Google also built Chrome to send people to Google Search and click on ads on the way to their destinations. That's why auto-completion in Chrome is terrible. You will often end up on Google Search rather than the destination site. The ads are now disguised so well that most people probably click on them without realizing that they are ads.

Unfortunately, Firefox is now making a mistake by copying Chrome and mixing search results with URLs in one box. You have to go into the settings to re-enable two boxes (ctrl-l for URLs, ctrl-k for search).
Luckily I have not experienced any international issues.

I have experienced one issue where the host cancelled hours before arriving while we were already en route, but Airbnb upgraded us to a much better place as everything comparable was sold out (New Year's Eve in NYC).
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While I think moving away from daylight saving time (DST) is generally a good thing, but why EU not individual nations? Do nations under EU have no authority to determine whether they observe DST or not? In the US, the federal government does not dictate whether a state observes DST or not.
Well... the US already has the cheapest food of all the countries I've been in. Without cooking, I managed to eat with $2 a day (and I'm around 200 pounds). Small town in Georgia, maybe NY food is more expensive. (I know I was surprised at how expensive food was in London.)
Seems to be doing okay now :fingerscrossed:. For those who don't want to bother with a long loading time, or if the site goes down again, here's the article as a gist: https://gist.github.com/jdormit/7df2a0518347c24d759a79d62304...
!gsc is shorter :)
Just use UTC. This is routine in aviation. Although consumers see airline schedules in local time, behind the scenes everything is done in UTC.
I'm personally hoping for correct message ordering in iMessage. It frequently puts replies to questions before the question had been asked, so reading back through conversations makes very little sense.

That's been around for years as well, so again no holding my breath.

At least it's faster!
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Even if there are a few game theoretic games in advanced papers that have limited information it would be a rather large stretch to say that economics incorporates limited information at this point in time. Maybe it's coming, I don't know ... It's not going to be soon.

A similar problem exists for 2. Yes I can find a paper or two, or probably even more that talk about it, but they don't exactly have a wide following because it just makes things too hard.

Incorporating both ? Can't even find a paper on it.
We could make up a new system to make it equally confusing for everyone: https://www.swatch.com/en_gb/internet-time/

It's what I always suggest whenever someone doesn't know what to do when presented with a UTC timestamp I have them.
Fun fact, not everyone has a social security number, and they thus aren't required to vote. There is no single national ID number that would work for this purpose. The closest thing would be some kind of state-based voter registration ID, but no one is going to have that memorized.
> whereas Firefox chokes 90% of the time as if it were created by novices

I've found the opposite to be true. When I use Chrome I have pages freeze occasionally, but Firefox handles them every time.
Productivity is historically high. Yes.
Safari is my daily driver, but for Dev work I switched to FireFox because almost 100% of Devs I know just use Chrome for both dev and everything, which is a good way to miss things breaking elsewhere and falling into an IE-like monoculture.
This is such a terrible idea that would cause so much confusion. I’m suprised someone always mentions this suggestion in time zone discussions.

How would being on the same time help anyone trying to coordinate? Instead of remembering Australia is X hours ahead you would have to memorize the exact time business starts/ends in every locale.
A centrally planned economy is where a single central authority determines how investment and capital will be allocated. Controlling the supply of money is not capital allocation, and it is not central planning. Central planning is not simply any time a central authority does anything at all.
Why would it matter if it is technically midnight Saturday in the middle of lunch? Does the name of the day affect you?

Remember that the premise here is that nothing would change other than the labels we assign to periods of time.
>The person allegedly responsible for taking the car is believed to have reached out to Tesla's customer support to add the stolen Model 3 to his Tesla account by its vehicle identification number.

VIN based security. Even worse than SSN for humans.
The vast majority of those incidents involve the homeless, though, even though they're not all reported that way. There's a ton of issues to unpack there so I won't even bother trying, but nonetheless it's a distinction that matters at least in terms of understanding what's happening and why.
I think this is a non issue. I’m just happy that I will be able enjoy more time after work while it’s not dark yet.
This sounds reasonable in isolation, but ignores the reality that the price you set is a big, blunt tool that determines who your users are. For some products, such as those that are challenging to start using but increase in value over time, your approach would filter out users who don't already believe in the longer-term potential of your solution. Is that a good or bad thing? Likely bad, but it depends on your product and the market it operates in.

If we distill this whole "pricing before product" idea down I think it's just a specific part of orienting to the needs and behaviors of users before designing the solution. Price is sometimes awkward to fit into something like user-centered design, perhaps because it affects users/needs, business viability, etc. but really it's one important factor among many. Maybe it's a very important, hard-to-change factor (likely true in luxury autos) but it can sometimes be a fairly insignificant or easy-to-change one (e.g. technology offerings with few substitutes).
Calendar support would already make a big difference.
For the US:

Economically, the lie for the right is that everything would be fine if we could just get the government out of peoples' way so they could be free to efficiently engage in economic activity.

The lie for the left is that everything will be fine if we can get the government to stop regular people from being exploited by the powerful.

Socially and/or morally, the lie for the left is that people are basically good in terms of crime - that crime needs to be treated rather than fought. But people are bad in terms of social interaction - that racism and sexism are everywhere and need to be confronted as evil.

The lie of the right is that people are evil in terms of crime, that crime needs to be fought, but that racism and sexism are perhaps behavioral problems, but not really moral problems.
They've made fairly boring choices to store data which makes it fairly easy to rewrite perkeep in the future if that were to happen. However, it's likely that Go will be maintained in to the future.

Perkeep's format is basically chunks of files ("blobs") named after their sha256 hash which can be reindexed as needed. So while the files stored may require software which could be gone the files and etc. will be there in the worst case that the project disappears.
Right,because when I go shopping in another country 1p minutes from here, I want to have to worry about what time zone they're in... Like in Queensland/NSW, that's just silly there.
Phone number and 4 digit pin, super easy actually.
That's interesting.

I see an update server as one that says to your phone "copy these bytes into flash and reboot" and a configuration server as "copy these bytes into flash and restart service X".

Your phone is constantly communicating with servers that attempt to change the running software; a configuration change is just faster than upgrading the entire image.
People used to think that Chrome will never take over IE on Windows. Most people will just keep using the default browser. I think that was valid.

I don't really understand how Google managed to get people to switch. Is it just ads on google.com?
I’m fairly certain we could shoten the work week to 4 days and productivity wouldn’t be affected. I’d also surmise the economy would get a large jolt from people having an extra day off and spending more money on entertainment.
> I have definitely no problem discerning factual statements from opinions or framing ...

The epistemological stance of this statement is troubled at best
If you analyze any decentralized system long enough you'll discover that it can't be used in practice by regular end-users without some element of centralization.

(Dboreham's Law)
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>> causes the question "What time is it there?" to be useless/unanswerable

The question should have been "what time can I call you" anyway. Not everyone works a 9-5. My in-laws get pissed if I call while they're napping and don't want to turn off their phones in case there's an emergency. Some of my friends work night-shifts in the medical field. I put my kids to bed early and my colleagues start their work day exceptionally late. You have to coordinate anyway because everyone is in a unique situation.

>> necessitates significant changes to the way in which normal people talk about time

And right now, how I talk about time varies depending on where in the state I am and what time of year it is and where in the state the person I'm talking to is.

I could go on. I'm sure there are complexities to eliminating time zones I haven't thought of, but honestly this sounds like they're trying to exaggerate the problem and it doesn't even sound that bad.
There's a significant cost to this work. Machines have to be upgraded: OS's changed, libraries updated. They did this in Russia and it caused us a headache due to python libs that needed updating and then OS changes. etc. etc.
Why do you think it matters if a forced decision is rational or not?
Or in the UK where it's dark by 4pm in mid-winter. Give me back my daylight
Most of the EU's rules and laws have been lobbied for by the industry because the industry loves standardization.
Considering that Google is the exact opposite it may be a marketing strategy to lure clients to iPhone.
The US allows states to skip DST but places fairly strict restrictions on it: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Time_Act
I believe that this is just strategic marketing to position their products vs Google, not some deeply held belief. It's still valuable ofc.
Boston is quite a bit further east (and north). Personally, I'd go for year-round DST (or Atlantic Time which would effectively be the same thing).

You'll never resolve individual preferences though. Some won't want sun at 4AM in the summer; others won't want dark at 4PM in the winter [ADDED: or kids waiting around for school buses in pitch dark]. Get far enough north (and much of Europe is much further north) and there isn't enough light to go around at some times of the year.

I used to care more. Now my schedule is mostly flexible enough that I can largely choose when in the day I want it to be light.
Note that the European Parliament can't initiate legislation[1], and the Council appears to be able to ignore Parliament's opinion.

"The European Parliament may approve or reject a legislative proposal, or propose amendments to it. The Council is not legally obliged to take account of Parliament’s opinion but in line with the case-law of the Court of Justice, it must not take a decision without having received it"

[1] http://www.europarl.europa.eu/about-parliament/en/powers-and...
Hinkley Point C is an example of high cost because of many of these same reasons. It is legendary in the industry for high cost.

Mainly these cost are because of the complexity and scale of the project. The licencing and regulation make the complexity and scale larger.

To make mega projects like that efficient you need a trained workforce and that only happens if you build multiple plants.

South Korea for example is building these complex plants at very reasonable time and price. They can do this because they have an industry and trained workforce.

There has been a lot of study in nuclear economics and learning effects are hugely important.

However that means that if a state (France, South Korea) adopts nuclear as a matter of policy and deploys in mass, it can be very cheap.

However for other places I think new nuclear is the only hope. Advanced reactor companies are planning to be much smaller and should be build for 1 around billion.

So yes, people were overly optimistic in the 1954 but we also have to recognize that nuclear technology development was very much hindered by a large number of factors and that we are deploying the same type of reactors now as 40 years ago. This is a sad state of affairs that hopefully will change.
they did isolate the chinese icloud from the rest of the world, so whatever I guess.
From radiation no as far as I know.

In Japan some people died of some of the consequences and government overreaction, not from radiation.

In the US, there is no case that I know of where people died from civilian reactor radiation.
This is, in fact, 100% accurate: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2010/jan/11/nuclear-...

It's not that radiation can't ever be harmful, it's that the safeguards and regulations, when followed, make it way less harmful to either neighbors or the environment than coal, which is disgusting and incredibly unhealthy.
The article poses the question:

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?

Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there, so I'd better not call.

The answer without time zones would be:

It's 18:30 UTC

Google tells me business hours are 23:00 to 03:00, so I'd better not call.

Abolishing time zones would make little difference to this kind of question, it will always rely on knowledge of local hours and on top of that your Uncle's schedule.

It would simplify a lot of coordination though.

Unlikely to happen any time soon IMO as people are attached to the status quo and have no big reason to change.
its interesting that most other comments in here are debating sociological issues rather than the medical one here, as the paper you linked pointed out. Thanks for sharing.
Individual nations don’t have the weight to do it alone, if Austria decided to go it alone it would be chaos for then. They have authority to do whatever they want, it just doesn’t make sense to do it alone.
This is a good summary in a 4-minute video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br0NW9ufUUw
I current work a 9/80 schedule, so every other Friday off. It definitely is convenient. I always schedule appointments on the off Fridays, otherwise I might use them to clean my apartment or hit up a diner that is only open weekday mornings.
>given member states until April to decide if they will remain on summer or winter time

Oh this will be fun. Imo every country should be in the same time zone but I can imagine say Netherlands stay in summmer, Belgium in winter, Germany in summer, Poland in winter. Sounds fun!

I hope it's just a vague article and they mean member countries from the same timezone should decide together where they stay. Given there are 3 timezones in the EU it shouldn't be a big problem (or yes)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_European_Summer_Time#/...