J-dawg

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by J-dawg 11y ago
Thanks, this is really useful information. I'm also curious about your $2000 budget. It seems like a lot of money to me. What are you spending it on? Have you often spent up to $2000 on a project that ends up going nowhere? Presumably
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This seems like great advice. Out of curiosity, what's your 'quick and dirty' tech stack? Has an educational project ever turned into a for-profit one, or is it always clear from the start?
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by J-dawg 11y ago
> The easiest solution, car always yields, would just mean it will take forever to move because people will lose all respect and just treat it like a solid obstacle. I've often wondered how self-driving cars will deal with this. I
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Can newspapers do anything to stop the advertising exodus?(theguardian.com)
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I didn't study computer science, but I was a lot like this at university. It wasn't out of laziness or lack of imagination (because I worked pretty hard), but simply naivety and blind faith in the university. I'd worked hard
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I actually just picked someone in my area and he turned out to be very good. I didn't look at his qualifications. I've read stories of people having very mixed experiences with counselling, so I guess there's an element of lu
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by J-dawg 11y ago
You're very welcome. I found the whole experience pretty mind-blowing, the way a few minutes of talking to this guy could alter my whole perception of my life, past and present. I highly recommend giving it a go, even if you're no
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I believe it can be both. In cataract surgery, the eye's lens is removed (because it has gone cloudy) and replaced with an implantable lens. IOLs can also be used in myopia. The implantable lens is placed in front of the natural lens t
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Yes, he said to start with simple things like interacting with friends. Arrange to (e.g.) have dinner, pick the restaurant, invite the people you want to spend your time with. It sounds so trivial, but it hit me like a punch in the guts whe
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Exactly. He's even written about the angry emails he receives because people think he's "lying" about being retired and therefore his whole philosophy must be a sham!
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I'm intrigued by your viewing platform. My brain instantly wants to reject it too. Also, it seems like it could lead to a lot of self-recrimination and beating yourself up. Why should I feel responsible for someone else cutting me up i
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I recently had some counselling, and one thing the therapist spent a long time talking about was self-agency . It was something of a revelation for me. I realised I had essentially been drifting along in life for a long time, allowing deci
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I've increasingly tried to adopt the Mr. Money Mustache approach to this idea [0]: >> Slightly higher on the consumer thrills ladder is the new slogan of, “Don’t buy things, buy experiences! Travel! Take Cruises! Go to all the ha
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by J-dawg 11y ago
The one I always find a little unsettling is the idea that relative wealth has a greater impact on happiness than absolute wealth. The inference that happiness is a zero-sum game doesn't sit well with me. In South American countries fo
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by J-dawg 11y ago
If you don't mind sharing, how was the surgery? You seem happy with the results, are there any downsides? Why did you choose IOLs over Lasik?
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by J-dawg 11y ago
That clears it up, thank you. So what they did automatically counts as insider trading because they misappropriated the information from their employer.
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by J-dawg 11y ago
The Capital One researchers were also not getting any information from Chipotle. There were getting some information about Chipotle (specifically, that Capital One customers were spending a lot of money there). This information was not
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by J-dawg 11y ago
> Others are willing to snap up equity in private competitors of a company to check out their orderbook to predict the reality of the market before it can be reflected by the market. How is that not considered insider trading, in the lig
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Union warns of second round of 'massive' layoffs at IBM in Europe(channelregister.co.uk)
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Related: [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/13j3hs/laughed_my_as... and [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10506482
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Could you expand on how you ended up walking that line? Did you feel you wasted your time on under-qualified people? Did you end up hiring anyone who initially didn't seem like a textbook candidate? If so, how did they turn out? The re
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by J-dawg 11y ago
It's not that bad, I think I was overstating things. I've explained a little more in my reply to the parent comment
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Point taken, perhaps my final point was overstating things a bit (or underestimating just how awful the healthcare situation is in America). I think people like me who are lucky enough to be basically healthy can get a skewed view of the NH
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by J-dawg 11y ago
I think you're overestimating European social support systems a bit. Here in the UK, you can be fired quite easily until you've been in a job for 2 years. After that, you can still be made redundant. IBM are currently laying off a
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Staff 'fury' as penny pinching IBM offers legal minimum redundo payoffs(channelregister.co.uk)
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by J-dawg 11y ago
In Lima they have vultures looking out for illegal rubbish dumps. [1] Is the use of animal "volunteers" the natural next step for the sharing economy? [1] http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/jan/2
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Oh, this is so true! For me it's Frontier: Elite II. I can't hear the Blue Danube Waltz without imagining I'm docking at a Coriolis station https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7PqehW2X7mHp3UW2Ix5Z85...
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Ask HN: Bootcamp ads on trains in London
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by J-dawg 11y ago
This is interesting, and has made me think about the recruiters that contact me. Early in my career I thought I wanted to be a project manager, so I tailored my CV to junior project manager jobs and uploaded it to several job sites. I haven
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by J-dawg 11y ago
Ha, I expect so! EDIT: I guess I lose either way, if it makes it to the 'ask' page it will disprove its own argument!

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