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Attractiveness is constant, but how it is perceived might have shifted. I vaguely remember that OkCupid did some "study" that men rate most woman around average attractiveness and the distribution is symmetric, but women rate most men as below average attractiveness and the distribution is skewed towards unattractive.

The post seems to be gone though.

Acting like the parent poster suggested shooting random homeless people as a solution for homelessness is disgusting.

Defending yourself from a person who hits you in the head with a hard object is reasonable (at least in the rest of the world outside of California), shooting too.

It's amusing that they went through all the pain of making a global SIM to make it available only for the US residents.

store.google.com: "We aren’t in your country yet"

This is bizzare. We have Apple/Samsung/Huawei/xiaomi stores on every corner somehow. At least they offer google search here.

So the poor pay for your flights.

I still see zero benefit to me, today, to sort waste or save energy.

That's a really big assumption that they are not doing anything covertly because they are doing it in the open. Especially if you consider initiatives like Jewish Internet Defense Force [1]. In light of the history of Israel, if find it extremely unlikely that they don't do anything like Russia. Probably any country with sufficiently advanced intelligence forces does stuff like that. Competent ones just don't get caught.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Internet_Defense_Forc...

> Amazon.de does have Polish-language interface, though, and free shipping to Poland (and 10 other European countries) for orders over €39.

Well, that's something. Some content seems to be machine-translated and prices are in €, but it indeed works. I wonder why wouldn't they just slap polish domain on it. And why I haven't heard about that.

> They seem to have given up as well... a few years ago the Finnish Google Store sold various Nexus tablets and phones, nowadays it is just Wifi and Chromecast.

"We aren’t in your country yet" I guess I'll get Xiaomi or Samsung again.

Meanwhile in my country in Europe I have never heard about anyone buying anything from Amazon. Not the IT people, not the common folk, not teenagers, literally no one. Maybe someone bought a Kindle some time back, but I remember that people were literally reading tutorials how to buy it from amazon. The same people who had been buying things online for years.

Amazon doesn't even have a polish website, as amazon.pl redirects to amazon.de They have multipe logistic centres in my country, employing thousands of people though! I guess it's for Germany so I can buy at amazon.de with international shipping, lol.

We have Uber, McDonald's, iphones, credit cards, the internet, electricity! Come on! Almost everyone buys online here, either native polish e-commerce or directly from China.

Also I think we can't buy any of Google hardware directly. I have given up on them though.

So much for globalization.

Not relevant to you questions, but I'm shocked about the discounts. My only ride without paying the full price was the first ride.

For the record it has been like this in Poland since 2016. It is cheaper here, but at the same ratio vs. taxi prices. Also no uber pool here or Lyft at all here.

I do this very often, sending an email yields 5%-15% discount on booking.com prices. But that works for independent hotels. What I write here about are chain hotels, which have terrible online experience and contacted through email gave me 10-20% higher prices than online comparison sites (which also include commission for the site).

Edit: this is in Europe though

I'll take all the dark patterns they have if it means I can avoid hotel chains' own booking systems. At least I already know the dark patterns of booking.com.

Tried to book a one of Starwood Preferred Guest hotel. Had to create an account, but this is a given. For a single room there are 12 offers you can choose, really simple /s.

The cheapest offer is for "SPG Member Exclusive. Am I one? How do I know? I guess I'm not, just created an account, but let's try anyway since it isn't disabled. First thing they try to upsell me on a room with 3X price. Can skip it. Now the price is different, it includes VAT. Why would you not include VAT in the first place? You have to pay taxes in Europe. Ok, apparently the price includes 5% discount and a free wifi (wow). Let's try others since 5% is not that much.

Oh, if you click the small link you can see the prices without the upselling attempt. Again no VAT included, but why is this "Save 10 percent - prepaid rate" somehow more expensive then the 5% discounted rate? Maybe this is for non-exclusive people.

On the first sight "Weekend package" offer is just more expensive, no value added. Unlike other offers it doesn't say this in the title, but it includes breakfast.

There is "SPG Member Exclusive: Flexible rate". Still don't know if I'm exclusive enough, but the rate itself isn't flexible (I blame bad translation though, part of the interface is in my language, part is in English). It's just a cancellable offer.

There's also a cancellable offer for non-exclusives such as myself.

Other offers either include breakfast or are some expensive packages.

I have given up, since I don't know if I'm an Exclusive Member. The price on booking.com is the same as non-exclusive one, so really no point in booking here.

Other strange thing for me. Every place on the site mentions some points. Is this an American thing? If you just want to book a room it feels like you are paying a premium, so the points-people can pay less. How I guess it works: you choose more expensive hotel/room to defraud your employer, so you can get more points to use on your own travels. Just a wild guess though.

IHG.com hotel was no better. Again confusing pricing, where what you see first is never the end price. If you choose breakfast, it changes rate but also includes some "Additional guest charge" (???). There's "IHG® Rewards Club Advance Purchase" and also "IHG® Rewards Club" and normal rate. Don't know which can I take.

The 'points' thing here is even more ridiculous - you can pay more to get more points, like pay X more per night and get Y more points.

In the end I booked on booking.com. It was 3.65% cheaper through the hotel chain site if I'm exclusive enough (still don't know). I probably lost some points, but I don't want to be constrained in my travels with some loyalty programs. SPG only has 7 hotels in my country and IHG has 5, so I would have a hard time earning those points. Also I almost always travel privately so can't defraud my employer for points.

I might partially or totally disagree with the original manifest, but this reply is repulsive. I would never want to have a "senior" like this.

So much emphasis on how senior he is, how junior you have to write something so wrong. How OP's career is over. The 3rd point reads like navy seals copypasta but with HR instead.

If you don't see any other way to deal with OP's views than described in this belittling rant, than you are no more senior than he is.

And a minor nitpick about this rant's top highlight:

>Essentially, engineering is all about cooperation, collaboration, and empathy for both your colleagues and your customers.

This is a non-statement. Replace 'engineering' with science, medicine, finance, customer service, politics, retail, programming etc., and it will sound as correct.

If you are reading this, thank you for your hard work all these years

Which is kind of ridiculous, because now he has to reload while the second person in the car can grab the gun. I mean, if the cop was actually thinking that the people in the car were trying to kill them.

Seconding this. I have never bought anything from Amazon. People here don't even consider it when making a choice. They just buy from allegro (our local eBay) and from thousands of on-line stores.

I don't know if Amazon has some cheap delivery here in Poland or do they ship everything from abroad.

Thanks.

And I thought that I work in an unprofessional company on a useless project. I feel a lot better now.

This reads like a chatlog from minecraft server for teenagers.

>Hilary Clinton isn't even close to being the most corrupt. She probably wouldn't even be in the top ten.

Technically you are right, but this sounds pretty depressing.

At least she didn't make it to the top 10!

> Compulsory voting is incredibly important, because it ensures that everyone is represented.

So let's assume that voting in compulsory in the US this year, and everyone actually shows up to vote. After the election, results come up:

  XX% Clinton
  YY% Trump
  Z% Johnson

The results obviously would be different if voting haven't been compulsory. That would be:

  AA% Clinton
  BB% Trump
  C% Johnson

I fail to see how this ensured that everyone is represented.

Which is still a big win because

* regex pattern is controlled by site, while regex input is external

* regex pattern is compiled once, while it is being run for every input

I wondered about this for some time.

Simple regex (as in formal language theory) are matched in O(n) time by finite automaton.

Extended regex like PCRE are more powerful, but most of the time are implemented by backtracking engines, where really bad regex pattern might go exponential, but even simple pattern as in postmortem can go O(n^2).

Do implementations optimize simple regex patterns to O(n) matching? Even I wrote x86 JIT regex compiler for fun some time ago. Compilation time was really bad, but matching was O(n).

Because the law says you can't do that. Well, you might not agree with that certain rule, but note that many do not agree that any form of taxation is fair. Maybe they just want to maximize their chances of a successful rest of life?

I find it hilarious that "beating people up" somehow got missing from the quote in you post.

Yes, I am frightened by people attacking political rallies, especially when waving other country's flags. What is so strange to it?

Try to get out of your USA bubble of thought. I live in Poland. Let's say there is a presidential candidate, who dislikes Russia and is in favor of tighter integration with EU and stronger defense on east border. Now imagine that his supporters are attacked on rallies by people waving Russian flags, chanting "Russia" or "Putin". Why wouldn't you be afraid of them? I would want them out of my country.

We can spin it some other way too. For example suppose that after Snowden revelations (top European politics' phones tapped by NSA) Angela Merkel says she won't have any more of this USA bullshit, but her supporters are attacked on a rally by Americans chanting "USA USA USA" (or "NSA NSA NSA") under American flag. Still cool for you?

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11803716 from yesterday

>How do you make a profit in a world where people won't buy a new thing because they think it'll be cheaper in a few years?

I don't know, but this isn't the world we live in. For this to work, deflation should be at least 10% (for consumers).

Would postpone buying a smartphone for 5 years, because it will be 5% cheaper then?

You can decide on any evil/stupid policy as long as you secure yourself with a layer of people hired to carry out your plan. This way no one can do anything about it, because:

* People actually doing wrong things are 'just doing their jobs'. They are also underpaid, with no job security, so only a bad person would make their job even harder.

* Ones who order them are not actually doing anything wrong. It doesn't help that you often can't find the person responsible up in the chain of command.

So it works as intended.

It would make sense to provide some.

Example problem could be that both JavaScript strings and std::string can have '\0' bytes in them. Converting them like in the post would lead to string truncation if a null byte was present somewhere in the middle of a string.

So it should be something like (error checking aside): v8::String::Utf8Value s(args[0]); std::string str(*s, s.length());

Parent comment probably refers to [1] submitted earlier today.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11334597

And laptop on a silly stand right in front of every person, while they have two perfectly fine screens and separate mouse and keyboard.

>Are personal attacks, doxing, trolling and slurs part of their daily routine they will be seriously inconvenienced by inability to use them?

Just because they don't agree with having CoC doesn't mean they do anything CoC disallows. The same with people fighting for free speech or freedom of association - at least one of them is not a hate speech using KKK member.

Nice passive-aggressive personal attack though. Maybe CoC isn't that bad idea after all.