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by DenisM 6y ago
> the ideas contained in the original work were very anti-authoritarian, regardless of whether Orwell's words can be twisted The left and the right disagree on who is authoritarian here, and who then inherits the privilege of using
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The tighter they squeeze, the more likely is the mergence of a platform that cannot be controlled by anyone for any purpose.
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Perhaps for the same reason an editor for a very prominent news paper got fired for publishing a policy statement by a very prominent politician. Killing the messenger nowadays is all the rage. "Rage" here to be taken literally.
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If you tested "option to have a dark mode" vs "that other feature which was already requested 150 times", you might have come to an entirely different conclusion.
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by DenisM 6y ago
MSSQL can certainly do all of that. panarky offered one way of doing it, but you can also write a single SQL Function that takes a parameter for filtering by gender (or not), and encapsulates the pagination logic. You will then be able to s
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by DenisM 6y ago
It's posts like this that make HN great (again). Thank you. I want to add that your talent pool will also influence where to create a hardened boundary: inside the database server (if you have lots of SQL people), or inside the applica
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That piece of plastic will spend its hundreds of years of retirement buried in a hole in the ground in the landfill. It produces no harm to whatsoever, and we are not going to run out of land for millions of years. Whenever I bring this up
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by DenisM 6y ago
So the workers could organize and rise up an arms about such tactics, except that they are spending all their protest energy being up in arms about naming conventions of internal tools. Cui bono?
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Fun fact: Iomega Zip drives were prone to prion disease. Specifically, a damaged read/write head would damage the surface of the disk, and when the disk was subsequently inserted into a working drive the damage on the disks surface dam
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by DenisM 6y ago
Imagine mountain bike trails overlaid on top of this. Or even a live track.
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FWIW I was informed by an AWS employee that their internal philosophy is to keep pricing at cost+ levels, which is a strategic play - it forces the operations to remain lean and discourages many competitors from trying to wedge themselves i
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by DenisM 6y ago
This advice perhaps even more apt for grad students. Entrepreneurs at least have the luxury of pivot.
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Geared hubs could be quite heavy, certainly so for large number of gears. OTOH with an electric motor you might not need gearing at all - the motor will help you in a difficult situation: https://www.theverge.com/2020/7
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eeyo is single-speed tho, LeMond has gears.
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> A venture capitalist (VC) is an investor who provides capital to firms that exhibit high growth potential in exchange for an equity stake. I have a friend who invested $10k into another friend's startup. Is he a VC now? If you wan
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> As this would depress salaries everywhere, that's very unlikely. This part of your comment was super confusing. So much so it seems better in reverse: >As that's very unlikely, this would depress salaries everywhere.
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A 2000kg car can produce 200hp, or 10 kg/hp. A 100 kg man + bike combo will produce 1/3 hp, so 300 kg/hp. The bikes are underpowered and every bit of extra performance is very welcome. A bike manufacturer cannot produce a bet
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Also the two of you will more likely than not have come from the same background and traveled similar paths - precisely the opposite of talent diversity one must be striving for.
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Yes, I believe the technical term is "rebound effect" https://www.nature.com/scitable/blog/mind-read/alcohol_sleep...
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Not on a micro-level, no, but on a platform level irrational customers can be dealt with. If they consistently rank low across all businesses you just normalize their votes or remove them as outliers. If they vote randomly it will simply av
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For sure. Most businesses would be happy to pay a dollar or two for traffic sent their way from various channels, including some kind of directory with reviews. You just need to show proof that a given customer came from that directory. A
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by DenisM 6y ago
> having an anxious day makes you want to drink to "calm down", which in turn makes the anxiety worse the next day, on and on That's pretty much what I was trying to say. Thanks for spelling it out, and with details. I&#x2
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by DenisM 6y ago
Ah yes, that too. The red wine vs beer discrepancy could be down to wealth. The drinker vs non-drinker could be down to the fact that seriously ill people fall into the non-drinker category.
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I'm afraid that hiring for writing skills will reduce your pool of hires by 99%. I expect it would be more fruitful to create a workflow around a combination of video calls and writing that would take the strong sides of each to buttre
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Quite likely it's just something people like to hear, so it is being told to them. I vaguely recall that correlation between red wine consumption and longevity disappears if controlled for wealth. Can't find any links tho.
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It would nice if you could find those links when you get back to the mainland^W a proper computer.
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Perhaps you're just more likely to drink if you're already anxious for some reason.
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And it's more than just context, it's also the intent . Naturally you may have different intent in different contexts, but it doesn't end there. For example one may chose to come across weak by using the passive voice, eit
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People in strong position stand to gain by apologizing, while people in weak position stand to lose. One must consider one's standing before dabbling. In my own company I try to apologize every time I screw something up. I know my posi
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Do you also feel a general lack of leadership and/or authority? Many things are best resolved by bringing the hammer down, but if no one is qualified to wield it you will be wasting your life trying to protect order from chaos.

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