clarify advantages in readme

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## Why did you write this instead of improving timetrap?
* timetrap is hard to install, hard to keep updated (because of ruby). Once this
tools is finished you can get (or build) a binary, put it somewhere, and it
will just work forever in that machine.
* timetrap is [hard to install](https://github.com/samg/timetrap/issues/176),
hard to keep [updated](https://github.com/samg/timetrap/issues/174) (because
of ruby). Once this tools is finished you can get (or build) a binary, put it
somewhere, and it will just work forever in that machine. I'm bundling sqlite.
* timetrap is slow (no way around it, because of ruby), some commands take up to
a second. Tiempo always feels snappy.
* needed major refactor to fix the timezone problem (in a language I'm not
proficient with). I was aware of this problem and designed tiempo to store
timestamps in UTC while at the same time being able to work with a database
made by timetrap without messing up.
made by timetrap without messing up. And there are a lot of tests backing this
assertions.
### Other advantages
* Columns are always aligned
* Fixed some input inconsistencies
* cli interface is much better (ask -h for any command)
* man page (to do)
* Columns in the output are always aligned.
* Fixed some input inconsistencies.
* cli interface is easier to discover (ask -h for any sub-command)
* end times are printed with +1d to indicate that the activity ended the next
day
day in the 'text' formatter.
* solved some old issues in timetrap.
## How to build