Beldin

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by Beldin 5y ago
Around here, in certain areas, full-time is 36hrs. You can arrange to do 4 days of 9 hours each and have 3-day weekends. 12 hour days may be reasonable in certain situations, but "3 day weekend" doesn't sound like nearly enou
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by Beldin 5y ago
I'll give it a go: It's a bit like a startup. That is: creating the thing isn't the only part - getting people to want it, i.e., finding a market for your product, is intrinsical. Case in point: Van Gogh. He only became great
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by Beldin 5y ago
On the glass-half-full side of this: we're getting those communities again! Here on HN, on reddit, for certain topics on various social media (there are pearls there too), on Mastodon, various blog authors, Ars Technica, Quanta, etc.
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by Beldin 5y ago
"When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" -- Goodhart's Law. Google's algorithms didn't create this situation; people chasing high Google rankings did. Had Google used completely different al
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by Beldin 5y ago
On the other hand, Tatcher was a world leader (behind Reagan and Gorbatsjov). Her power to dictate the life of civilians in her country was less than that of dictators; her ability to influence the world beyond her country's borders fa
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by Beldin 5y ago
It's fairly easy (trivial) to serve a different install script to a full web browser than to curl. That's just one of the problems, but I'd say it's the main one. If you truly trust the creator with install power, downlo
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by Beldin 5y ago
Sure, but there it's generally understood to mean "Number used Once".
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by Beldin 5y ago
Since when are viruses considered alive? When i was taught biology, they weren't alive, but also not quite non-living. If memory serves, that is (it's been a while).
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by Beldin 5y ago
Not quite accurate. If you become a distributor of content, then you fall under the rules for distributors. That's (part of) why videos typically had that "not for rent" / "only for home viewing" stuff. There&
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by Beldin 5y ago
I don't know Segment, but EdTech is all about analytics. Everyone wants hyperspecific data, e.g. do students who attend the first three lectures do better than students who didn't do that, but were there the last lecture? So not
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by Beldin 5y ago
Yes, it hinges on the definition of pivot. From a customer point of view, this is a mere evolution. That this imposes vastly different requirements on the underlying business is not really the problem of the customer. In a similar vein, how
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by Beldin 5y ago
> Income tax generates tax revenue just as well Income tax generates tax revenue. Whether it's "just as well" as other forms of taxing is debatable. In at least some countries, wealth is taxed less than labour, which in
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by Beldin 5y ago
> There's only two ways to keep players playing: new content and/or grinding mechanics. I'd argue that PvP is a third option. Though that does impose its own requirements to do justice and ensure longevity.
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by Beldin 5y ago
Your argument (the purpose of DRM is to delay pirates long enough to earn that crucial opening weekend or weeks revenue) is based on a few assumptions. A big one is that unlicensed downloading of creative works will meaningfully affect open
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by Beldin 5y ago
Hear, hear. I know where my computer's volume controls are - and if I have a keyboard with volume controls, that's what they work on. I almost never want to touch a specific app's or website's volume control... unless it
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by Beldin 5y ago
Folks whose main job is to fill in a specific UI ought to be(come, swiftly) much, much better at using that UI than Joe Average User. Sort of like how prior to barcode scanners in cash registers at supermarkets, the person working the till
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by Beldin 5y ago
So there is no labour shortage, there is a local labour shortage.
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by Beldin 5y ago
Indeed. Whenever i hear of "labour shortage", I'm immediately reminded of the "show! Me! The money!" clip of Jerry Maguire. There's no labour shortage. There's a lack of currently available labour for the
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by Beldin 5y ago
For other non-native speakers: M-F in this context doesn't have its usual meaning, but means "Monday to Friday". Although the common use would be funny here :)
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by Beldin 5y ago
Have you managed to find decent employment in al of those areas? If so, why worry? Why not try to accept you are who you are, and apparently this is part of who you are currently. It seems to work out fine (if it does), so no need to worry
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by Beldin 5y ago
> Researchers don't have to indicate they are doing an academic study. Actually, they do. Otherwise it's called deception research , which falls under very specific guidelines. In general, study participants should be treated
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by Beldin 5y ago
The study is a case of deception research. Deception research is a type of research in which the researchers are lying to / hiding information from their subjects - the mails purported to come from individual citizens, and did not ment
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by Beldin 5y ago
It may have felt like a deception, but there's plenty of bad legal takes on the Internet. For this to be a deception, the sender would have to know for certain that the statute doesn't apply in this case. Could be they did, but th
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by Beldin 5y ago
Slightly more nuanced: you do not foresee (and have no intention of) being anywhere where the laws you broke hold sway. There are laws that apply to anyone anywhere*; if you never have to worry about the consequences of breaking a law, you
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by Beldin 5y ago
My German is rusty at best, but wouldn't one say "Der Hund meines Vaters" - or something like that but with correct grammar?
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by Beldin 5y ago
A thing I've heard several Germans do (myself also not native speaker btw, not german though), is translate "biss" always as "until", never as "before" or "by". E.g. "we have to hand in the
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by Beldin 5y ago
As a modern day dutch speaker: can confirm the connotation. Never heard about this alternative use of "reet" before. As an aside, in Dutch, this alliterates ("rust" is "roest" in dutch). As an aside aside, the
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by Beldin 5y ago
Thanks! That's an informative reply. I was wondering whether not logging could be an option. That's now quite clear.
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by Beldin 5y ago
Wait, your motivating example is keeping parents out of the loop... do you give this example to show that it usually goes really bad when informed consent is missing? Or do you mean to argue that it's okay to experiment on kids withou
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by Beldin 5y ago
Just curious, since gravity works over infinite distances (as I understand things): When do two masses stop being gravitationally bound? Is that when each mass's relative speed exceeds the escape velocity of the other mass? No, that ca

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