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by GuiA 7y ago
I’m not sure i get how a theory of the human mind being divided in a master/follower model relates to designing cockpits that appear identical despite being different sized. Could you elaborate?
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by GuiA 7y ago
If you are wealthy and educated, adopt. The greatest act of humanism one can make.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Hungry Planet by Peter Menzel https://fstoppers.com/food/what-week-groceries-looks-around-...
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by GuiA 7y ago
Work (don't forget that poorer people tend to have lengthier commutes, work multiple jobs/overtime), taking care of family (not just kids/teenagers, this might also include elderly family members or sick relatives; again poor
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by GuiA 7y ago
For many it is hard to find that amount of time in their day, due to modern work schedules and conditions (eg commute, expectation to keep working at home). But it is a little insane that we have built a society where most cannot afford to
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by GuiA 7y ago
Discoverability is discoverability, no matter whether you're operating in a text interface or a graphical one. Look at nano for instance: all the essential commands are there, always displayed at the bottom of the screen. Nothing to re
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by GuiA 7y ago
Your reasoning assumes that there is a binary fitness function (either you are fit for the role or you aren’t), which remains constant over time, which can be overridden through not giving up. That all seems very flawed and reductionist.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Dieter Rams’ 10 principles include long lasting (7) and environmentally friendly (9). Aesthetic is there (3), but it’s just 10% of it :)
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by GuiA 7y ago
A few options: shame the companies, confront the executives, boycott the products, organize with your coworkers and strike if your employee engages in such practices, write your elected representatives, write poetry or paint pictures about
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by GuiA 7y ago
It makes you wonder about how teachers are selected and trained in the first place/what kind of behaviors are incentivized that they would not be able to handle a minor situation like this and had to resort to emailing/phoning par
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by GuiA 7y ago
https://i.imgur.com/lEyDt2O.jpg
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by GuiA 7y ago
Some additional examples if you’re interested in getting into it: https://legendsoflocalization.com/japans-mysterious-love-of-...
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by GuiA 7y ago
I’ve always been intrigued by the heavy use of “let’s” in texts translated from Japanese and Korean in the past. I didn’t understand if it was a stylistic choice by translators, or if those languages did actually use it that much? It sounds
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by GuiA 7y ago
It’s not being afraid to joke, it’s making sure that employees do not feel like they are receiving mixed signals (“he says results are what matters but he’s always joking about me leaving early when I’m leaving at a reasonable hour and gett
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by GuiA 7y ago
That’s a very toxic attitude to have, especially as a manager. You don’t know that “nobody gets offended”. All you know is that “no one chose to express their discomfort”, a very different thing.
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Simulating Emotions During a Basketball Game(willhipson.netlify.com)
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by GuiA 7y ago
One thing that can’t hurt is that Stewart Butterfield is well connected, and got all his friends to push Slack at their startups. I was at a startup, we used a mix of Hipchat (business types) and IRC (developers). A marketing/social me
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by GuiA 7y ago
It depends. Eg if you’re copying GPL code in your company’s proprietary code base, the lawyers are going to insist that you spend 3x the effort writing a library from scratch.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Then again, there is the tale of dulce de leche M&M’s - trying to tap into such a market, only for it to fail terribly. https://mms.fandom.com/wiki/Dulce_de_Leche_Caramel_M%26M%27s
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by GuiA 7y ago
> I pay less on my mortgage for a large house with over an acre of land than friends of mine pay for rent for studio apartments in San Francisco or Seattle. That studio in San Francisco or Seattle comes with the opportunity of a high p
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by GuiA 7y ago
Well, the French Revolution certainly was illegitimate in that it was “not authorized by the law; not in accordance with accepted standards or rules“ . And it’s one of the best things that ever happened in human history.
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by GuiA 7y ago
Don't buy it. (Older TVs of excellent quality can be found second hand for very cheap)
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by GuiA 7y ago
> A month before being removed from the App Store, the app raked in ~$45,000 in revenue. This means the product was operating at a $500,000 annual run rate. No, this means you had a revenue of $45k over one month (congrats! It’s a numb
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by GuiA 7y ago
Faraday was first and foremost an experimentalist, and everything else followed from there. That alone is perhaps a significant difference with the kind of reasoning we were initially talking about. Additionally, like you point out, others
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by GuiA 7y ago
> How consciousness needed to be a semi-stable chaotic attractor so that different avenues of thought could be pursued but that there was still coherency Loose metaphors like this kind of make sense on a verbal/visual level - but
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by GuiA 7y ago
In case it has never been said to you, the respectful way of saying "that whole Elmer Fudd thing" is "speech impediment" .
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by GuiA 7y ago
Taiwan is not okay with the bill. From the article you linked: ”Taiwanese Prime Minister Tsai Ing-wen tweeted that her nation supported the protesters' "demands for freedom".”
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by GuiA 7y ago
> Students without internet at home are more likely to be students of color, from low-income families or in households with lower parental education levels. I don’t think the situations you allude to quite fall in this category.
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by GuiA 7y ago
If I’m buying a console that I expect to last me at least 3-4 years in 2020, then it better come with 8k support - if not for the games, at least so that the UI doesn’t look like crap on 8k TVs that will inevitably get dirt cheap in the nex
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by GuiA 7y ago
Sounds to me like you enter conversations with a pre-made idea of what you want the conclusion to be. Questions to ask yourself if you feel that way regularly: Have you considered that various shortcomings might hold different weights to pe

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