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To offer an alternative perspective: I'm gay and live in a minor city in the UK. It's very unlikely I meet other gay men through my hobbies, it's just improbable unless you live in…

Even if they have internal counsel (I haven't checked but I'm sure a company as large as Booking.com does), for decisions which have for reputational harm, it's useful to lean on a…

Many will also pay a few dollars per booking to a distribution system that makes their inventory available to travel agencies and other resellers https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gl…

Counterintuitively, it's even worse out of London where salaries are lower. In Nottingham, a 15 minute bus ride to work costs me £3 (so I cycle).

I'm in the UK and have never met someone called Alexa. Is it really a common name? Perhaps it is in the US, but it's not like Amazon chose a popular human name e.g. Sarah, Ben, etc…

But there are significant sums invested to fund research. In many ways it's a similar transaction to the VC. An investment into 'bad' research does not help the university or fundi…

Python is as popular as it is because it's free, not because it's good. If companies had to contribute, many would pick something else.

I have a base spec 2017 iMac and it runs City: Skylines smoothly. It's not a particularly hungry game.

I tried to replace WhatsApp with Signal, by telling all my frequent WhatsApp contacts I'm moving to signal and they should download it if they want to talk to me. About 10% of cont…

I got redirected to the Tailwind CSS site. Hacker News has left its mark.

My 2015 MBP bricked when upgrading to Catalina. Thankfully I managed to recover back to High Sierra via Disc Utility/Recovery Mode. I upgraded to Mojave and now refuse to upgrade i…

Iceland is small with no land borders, making it less profitable and more difficult to sell drugs there. Similarly, alcohol is incredibly highly taxed there, perhaps more than any …