> Ask the search engine Ecosia about “Paris to Prague” and flight booking websites dominate the results. Ecosia’s CEO Christian Kroll would prefer to present more train options, which he considers better for the environment. But because its results are licensed from Google and Microsoft’s Bing, Ecosia has little control over what’s shown. Kroll is ready for that to change.
While I think Google sucks right now and we need something new, this specific reason is so dumb. Unless I add the word "train" or "air" etc. I would much rather be shown either all options or the one that I care about most (if it's flying, then so be it - the search engine can't and shouldn't try to filter out options FOR me without my consent)
Respectfully, the search engine is "allowed" to do what it wants to for its business purpose. In Ecosia's case, that is to prefer environmentally sound modes of travel, sites, or businesses. And that's fine! What it means is that it might not be the search engine for you or for me. And that's fine too!
I truly do wish we have an open source / SaaS version of the bloomberg B-Unit[0].
I would easily pay $10/m for a "personal" version and I know companies that would pay 2x - 3x that for enterprise deployment. Although to an extent - it's redundant now that we have phones with biometric authentication.
>I would easily pay $10/m for a "personal" version and I know companies that would pay 2x - 3x that for enterprise deployment. Although to an extent - it's redundant now that we have phones with biometric authentication.
You're off by a factor of 10 on how much a service like that will cost, especially in enterprise.
I imagine that beyond the obvious "what if I lose control of my device(s)" justification people really just want dead simple authentication. It's a password you always have on you and as long as it's never copied its quite secure, atleast in that you have a complex password unique to you that can be applied in an instant while still being a significant form of verification.
that said, I'm sure that spoofing a fingerprint is easier than I'm imagining and that there's probably plenty of insecurities in BMA..
I totally agree...It's crazy that they don't even offer a docker-compose file of sorts to being all their own tools together to demo the power of their own tools.
I recently wanted to see ELK in action...and it took me a few hours to set it all up and configure everything together with just basic docker and docker-compose. It really should not be that hard :/
and this trial can't be disabled (to use them for an unlimited amount of time) by someone by modifying your source because your license prohibits that? Am I correct in that assumption?
unrelated question to the server but related to Sourcegraph: Why did you guys switch away from the VS code style editor on the web to an uneditable one? I loved using it.
Why is this dupe? I posted the source. I noticed someone posted the twitter link after i posted but I (and hopefully others) rather read this than some (imo biased) opinionated article/tweet from blog/twitter/news agency.
It is in the same boat as Ruby was with Rails. One could argue that Rails made Ruby popular but mostly popular as a "web language". Phoenix is a great web framework but Elixir can do so much more by taking advantage of the OTP. I've used Elixir to get up and running with back end services that process data. Using OTP features such as GenStage it becomes easy to handle data as a pipeline. That said, most people who will move to Elixir will probably only use it with web dev and Phoenix.
It's general purpose but well suited for web, soft real time services, distributed data processing, control plain etc. Erlang VM has unique featureset that no other platform really can match so if you need to build HA fault tolerant apps/services it's pretty good match. Coming from a different language one of the nicest things is preemptive scheduler so you don't have to worry about blocking event loop or process consuming all the CPU etc.
I've experienced something similar at resturants in TO recently! Not only didn't they straight up refuse cash, they asked me download their app to pay for food.
Obviously I walked out and got lunch elsewhere, but later when I was told that they sell their own currency in the app for CAD in denominations of 5. But their food + tax, is never sold at that amount - meaning, if your lunch is $10, tax makes it $11.3, you have to pay $15 in the app. If you have no intention of coming back, you loose the rest. This is such a scam.
Also what's the problem with accepting cash? It's trackless and it's anonymous - I love it. Why should everything I buy be tracked by Banks, Corps and everyone in-between? Furthermore, unlike credit, there's are no fees associated with it so it's slightly better for the seller too.
Btw if this does not give you a worry, think about this: all your expenses always end up at companies like Equifax. If them already selling it does not scare you, a leak should. Imagine if your transaction history can be used to refuse employment, housing etc. (without letting you know that's the case). Cash does not have any of those issues.
The biggest 2 main issues with cash is - what if I get pickpocketed? and the solution is to never really walk around with more than $50-100. I've been using cash since I was a kid, and I've never gotten pickpocketed. The 2nd one is tracking your expenses - but I personally feel like using cash has made me spend a lot less than when I used my credit card.
Also, you can lose your phone the same way someone can pickpocket your wallet. If we’re stopping to use cash because of this, we should stop using expensive smartphones.
Downsides of cash: loss due to theft, miscounts, counterfeit currency, and misplacement; additional risk; a need for physical security (a place I know of went cash-only when there was two high profile robberies in a period of six months both of times involved employees getting shot); extra hardware (safes, cash drawers); extra/non-automated accounting; countless time wasted counting and recounting; time and effort to make sure there's plenty of change but not too much; loss of interest income from physical cash being held to make change; time and cost wasted on endless amount of physical transport to and from the bank; etc., etc., etc.
I'm not saying there's no upsides of cash and downsides of cards, its certainly a trade off, but don't act like one is objectively better than the other.
>there's are no fees associated
Not directly baked in, but there's is a business cost due to all of the above.
Not only that but people literally spend more money when they pay with card instead of cash. So accepting card may cost you a 3% fee but your sales to cardholders may go up 4%.
"Trackless and anonymous" is only a "feature" to businesses that commit tax fraud. No honest business is going to give two shits about that.
>all your expenses always end up at companies like Equifax.
Really? I was recently looking for business accounts at the big 4, and I saw that after a minimum number free transactions, any transaction has a fee (cash or not).
Right but was mainly replying to "unlike credit, there's are no fees associated with it so it's slightly better for the seller too." There are fees for handling cash payments too.
If you accept cash -> banks have a fixed transaction fee (anywhere between $2 to $25 for any amount of money).
If you accept credit/debit/mobile -> there are atleast 2 transaction fees - one by the payment provider (generally % based) and one by your bank (fixed fee).
While I think Google sucks right now and we need something new, this specific reason is so dumb. Unless I add the word "train" or "air" etc. I would much rather be shown either all options or the one that I care about most (if it's flying, then so be it - the search engine can't and shouldn't try to filter out options FOR me without my consent)