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There are many papers I can’t evaluate even with a degree in musical composition…

I think google search results are pretty bad these days. A lot of times the top results are pages that are ad-ridden and don’t contain the actual info I was looking for.

Granted, my metric of “good” is an unquantified and very subjective but to me both Bing and DuckDuckGo outperform google search.

I never said it was a great idea. I said that equating it with a one in six change of instant death is a bit dramatic.

I know another anecdote won’t help you but when I read this it immediately rang true to me.

> Smoking cigarettes is first and formost an anxiety suppression mechanism

This describes my experience pretty well.

Almost everyone I know binge drinks from time to time..

You are right that it’s better not to but calling it Russian roulette is a pretty big overstatement.

> Given a long enough timeline, every abstraction turns wrong.

This is bullshit. I think what you mean is that even a good abstraction can be used inappropriately.

You shouldn’t compound that with the fact that sometimes people create abstractions that are just bad.

This law is intended to make large amounts of cash less useful without killing the utility of smaller amounts. If large amounts of cash become less useful that makes money laundering a lot harder.

A black market for cash already exists. The people who buy it are called money launderers.

If you want the convenience of a government backed currency you’ll need to do so digitally which makes fraud investigation a lot easier. Don’t like it? Bad luck. This is where every fair economy is heading.

This is what blendle.com does. I expected them to be a bigger success than are, retrospectively as well.

I guess that’s why I’m not an entrepreneur. :)

> Uber and airbnb created value using technology by solving many pain points of consumers.

I don’t think this is as the USP airbnb was going for. Companies like Booking.com, trifago.com and Hotel.com existed prior to airbnb and had a pretty decent “human-less” UX.

I thought the usp of airbnb was that everyone with a place could rent it out on that platform. That should increase the supply. It worked pretty well for a while and still does so to a certain extend. Regulations make its service useless in some countries though.

I’m not sure what Uber did to improve the market but they’ve always been dearer than taxies where I’m from. I don’t mind giving a taxi central a call either…

It should be easy to distribute RHEL back to ACME Linux via a detour right? I mean another company could distribute it to to ACME and and hide that with limited repercussions.

I guess that Legally this would have to be revealed once ACME gets sued. That sounds like an endless game of whack-a-mole to me though.

Honestly, performance isn’t all that bad for me. Not much worse than Reddit anyways.

> The EU is not about unity but rather about modern day colonialism.

What does this mean?

If your user account can be related to your person it’s most definitely personal data by European standards.

Most Taxi companies I’ve dealt with quote if ask them. Generally you get a few bucks off if you do so at least a day in advance.

I’d rather give a call than install an app anyways.

My experience taught me that taxis are usually around the same price as Ubers in densely populated areas and wildly more expensive outside of those. I’m not very experienced as an Uber user though since I generally prefer public transport.