CarbyAu

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by CarbyAu 6y ago
Here in Australia, the big shopping centres (aka Malls), get their biggest crowds in summer. Xmas helps but also there is often a contiguous 3-7 day stretch of >40C(>104F) maximums with sweltering overnights in the cities. Not everyon
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
"At some point, I’m going to want to cease to being." TV Show - The Good place. Highly entertaining, lots of ethics material. Ultimately ends up saying the same thing but takes you there so wonderfully that you feel the joy of it
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
My pet hate: - use the mouse to select precisely the part of the word/URL/string you want for Ctrl-C purposes - it autocorrects your selection to the whole word including a CrLf if it is nearby. Aaargh!
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I'm not web IT but games started my IT career, though perhaps differently to how people would expect. Dad got a computer when I was 8. I played games. At uni, while studying other things, I played games and had no money. In those days
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I agree with the use of smallish unmanned aerial units. I also agree with using them in significantly large numbers. But I'd like to see combination use. Example:Unmanned plane delivers quadcopters to position and retrieves them later.
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And it doesn't mean even that. Many worthwhile people in the world. Not all of them are famous to the people who would love to know them. At least we can both get to know her more starting now.
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I would argue that rules should pay attention to "motivation". When you say the politician should "work", I hope you mean "breaking rocks" or "brick laying" rather than continuing as a politician...
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
The rich already can do a lot without any real consequences. Fines are for poor people. Fines for minor matters should be % based somehow. (I don't know how!) My $150 parking ticket should be their $15,000 parking ticket.
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I agree with you and want to expand on:"People don't really understand just how much a billion dollars actually is." Billion and it's larger cousin, Trillion(etc and so forth), really are hard for the human mind to grasp
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I find it hard to believe that Reddit effectively replaced BBS. The Reddit interface is woeful for exploring the comments on any given thread. I don't know how Reddit so popular...
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
Well, I don't expect this is a simple perfect system. It isn't new. I just think it might be better than what most places have currently. US business has a history of "stock options" and "yearly bonuses". So th
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
For an example of what people are doing in this space: Melbourne, Australia (where I live) just did this. Kinda sorta. They want any face covering. Stick a handkerchief or bandanna over it. Or a faceshield - my pet hate as they stop immed
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I like concise prose. It saves time and effort. Similarly, I am frustrated that videos come up as top hits for simple things. While a picture can say a thousand words, the point is communication, not verbosity.
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I have previously mentioned that employees should be seen as significant investors in the business and should be treated as such. Apart from "The job" work is not a mental and emotional void. You invest yourself. And it hurts when
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
And the King, having vanquished his foe at great cost, surveyed the empty field and muttered: "It matters not, for in the end the claw chooses who will go and who will stay".
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I thought someone had a "summary" AI that could read articles and give you the executive summary. Combine the two! https://app.scholarcy.com/flashcard-generator.html fed with the article results in: Wireheading Do
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
One HN comment mentioned the value of a magazine subscription, which can be ballpark similar monthly costs. For me a patreon (or whatever) subscription to a whole GROUP of specialists in a field would be valuable. As it stands: Patreon pers
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
Is this the next stage of Patreon? Be more magazine like? $5 month gets you a group of creators in a given field. Hell, I would happily pay that for a whole group of 3D printer/Blender gurus doing their thing and showing me how...
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
Everyone wants something for nothing. IE hire great engineer who got all their experience and made their mistakes somewhere else. Why not roll your own? I am constantly amazed by companies moaning "We have a skills shortage! We have to
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
Yeah, banjos have high association with hillbilly which in turn doesn't exactly invoke high intellectualism. As a person who learned some basic music growing up, I like to think I appreciate music more than I would otherwise. That to m
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I don't know about smarter. I see a general hum regarding correlation of sport and willpower. But I am not sure about causation.
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I wonder how much "money you'd save" by having near zero paperwork for eligibility. Also, while those jobs would be gone, those people could then do more economically "productive" things.
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
While I have a vague intuition from an economic point of view you are correct,(I am not a finance guy) I take issue with the name of the product. Savings. Generally advertised as helping your money grow. It isn't advertised as a "
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
I will admit I have little financial management knowledge myself. I am inclined to agree with you, but what is the bank doing with the money you keep there? Isn't the bank meant to be using your money in a "managed fund" like
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
Agreed. It is crazy that for a standard "Savings" account: - interest earned is less than inflation. - I pay tax on that interest earned. "Saving" money in a common savings bank account pisses away value. Many people a
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
Well, she could downsize to a mere 1% of her net worth and then spend the next 25 years spending 50K per day and still have over 100mil leftover for her old age and the kids inheritance. And that's assuming zero further income. So th
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
You are not alone. I have a friend at Google. I am thinking of sending him a Stormtrooper suit for fun. Do you guys wear different versions of these suits? :-P Real world though, this is the bad side of branding. When you taint a brand with
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by CarbyAu 6y ago
Fair enough. Thinking further, "using a dating platform meaningfully"(often paying) you would expect some level of service from that platform. Assumptions often are: - dating service members represent all of society, IE "Eve
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Thanks for saving me time watching the video.
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Average Aussie here. "Presenteeism" is totally a thing here too. I would argue that linking pay to product, rather than linking pay to timesheet would get people to work more. Directly link motivation! But linking pay-to-product c

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