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by 30944836 4y ago
It's a little strange that this needs to be said. The employees who don't like whatever is being produced are certainly welcome to find employment elsewhere. Non-competes are not enforceable in California. The article mentions the
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by 30944836 4y ago
The first thing I did is move my phone out of the bedroom. This helped break the habit of picking it up right away in the morning, and created some friction. I keep it on my desk on a charger. The second thing I did was decide on a few thin
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by 30944836 4y ago
> This device has no control over you that you don't allow it to have. I wish this were true. Phones leak data about users, which companies use to make profiles about you to serve you advertisements. Even if you block advertisements
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by 30944836 4y ago
Here's a list I stole from Quora: https://www.quora.com/What-films-have-the-lowest-average-sho... ASL 1.55 - Doomsday (2008) : 4052 shots over 105 minutes ASL 1.72 - Transporter 3 (2008) : 3360 shots over 96 minutes AS
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by 30944836 4y ago
I think it's much shorter now, that article is almost 8 years old. With the ubiquity of digital cinema, I suspect the average shot length is 1.x seconds.
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by 30944836 4y ago
>I got rid of my smartphone Teach me! How do you keep in touch with people on the go? This is the only thing that has stopped me from dumping my iPhone altogether. I sometimes leave home without it but I end up relying on others for coor
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by 30944836 4y ago
I found Newport's book to be so surface level for anyone with even a passing familiarity with the problem that it wasn't worth my time. What really helped me was these two books: (1) The Attention Merchants by Tim Wu (2) The Age o
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by 30944836 4y ago
>They don't even look if the drivers saw them, they all have a phone in hand. And the driver's do too! It's insane. I live in a moderately-sized city (~1m people) and I've learned to keep my phone in my pocket or not
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by 30944836 4y ago
The population growth of the United States will never flatline for any appreciable amount of time. In other words, we'll never run out of workers. This is for two reasons: (1) We border a rapidly developing nation to the south (Mexico)
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by 30944836 4y ago
>GDP has to be at certain levels to support different types of economic activity. E.g. at some point, GDP might be low enough that new semiconductor research isn’t affordable (because all the workers are used up caring for the elderly fo
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by 30944836 4y ago
Your quote might have been “fake” and intended to convince you that they offer fiber to your address when they actually don’t. I went through this with Comcast in San Jose. Requested the service, weeks of run arounds and “we lost your ticke
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by 30944836 4y ago
>That seems crazy to tell two people they have the right of way when their paths cross. This is common in Austin, especially downtown. Green light for turning + Pedestrian has a walk sign. It's dangerous, and people get hit all the
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by 30944836 4y ago
>For example, if you are a cyclist who has to stop at a red ligh Just to be clear, this law does not change the requirement for bicyclists to stop at red lights. Red lights become stop signs, stop signs become yield signs.
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by 30944836 5y ago
(1) Taxes. (2) Cost of housing. (3) A government that insists on intervening in every aspect of my life. (4) A culture of people who actively want the government to intervene on every aspect of their lives. (5) Traffic. I can afford to