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The danger of overly ambitious goals is their brittleness, and when they break, they break all the way. Much like "the best camera is the one you have", the best diet is the one you keep, and the best course is the one you'll
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The triplebyte application is remote (or was when I did it in ~2015), but the jobs they match you with are not. As the author confirms elsewhere in this thread, they need a critical mass of employers and candidates before the process is eff
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> how are these factors different for men than for women? For the sake of this argument, they aren't. It's not about which gender they impact. It's about what percentage of relationship participants they impact. Right now
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This is definitely the one that bugs me most. So distracting! All the hovered rows jump out now, where before they just changed gray ever so slightly. This is a place where the metaphors of material design subtract more value than they add.
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It sounds like you missed the point of the article. You can't take the ink out of the water, once it's in. When you sell your autonomy over a product whose properties give your life meaning, you pour the ink. Even more painful if
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re: 1 -- i've yet to see this ever happen to anyone I know. In fact, i've seen a handful of sketchy situations where it might even be warranted, and it still hasn't happened. The thing I see all the time, online and off? Comm
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I find Sam Harris to be helpful here. He's an athiest intellectual and speaks a language closer to HN than hippies. https://samharris.org/podcasts/chapter-one/ ctrl-F "mindfulness" if you don't
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http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/12/28/adderall-risks-much-mor...
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My phone has been this way for at least 2 years. probably closer to 4. It's mostly fantastic. Highly recommended. The sky does not fall. Did nothing to curb the addition, however. I still check incessantly. Just unprompted. Also, turn
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"tip creep" is a really great term for what's going on. Services that don't have tips encoded in wage law (like restaurants [mostly]) are either passing along large scale pricing errors, or begging for arbitrary, subject
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A number of restaurants have tried this, and more broadly, JCP tried something of the same sort (charge the "real" price, do away with the manipulative abstractions). You start hemorrhaging customers. People's baselines for
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I don't think that changes the expectations on the waitstaff side, or the sense of obligation on the tippers' side. The mountain that needs to be climbed here is about narrative/social norms, not real economics. Unfortunately
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Where do you work? Sounds like a great exercise. I can think of a few past employers who had much to gain from loosening the leash like that, but were too concerned with productivity to do so. Catch 22.
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This talk was awesome. Best explanation i've ever heard for why color spaces have the odd shape they do. The 3d models of perceivable color spaces for different colorblindnesses was also really insightful.
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There's so much cool stuff you can do with this data. Think of all the creepy shit amazon does with your browsing data, but for your spending data, and you can browse it. We're leaving a crazy amount of insight on the table. Shame
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You can prod the network panel to reverse engineer simple's APIs. I've done it for some visualization tools in the past. It's sloppy and undocumented, but their support staff are fantastic and surprisingly technical, so I had
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What's your take on new entrants at the processor level? When I worked for a debit card startup (stripe's new feature, but worse, and years earlier), it seemed like the "bank account" parts were mostly boring money bucke
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My understanding with Kodak is that they invented digital tech far earlier than expected (pre 80s) and hushed it to avoid cannibalizing their existing film business. I suspect Blockbuster behaved similarly. It's hard to kill the golden
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I think it matters the type of work, and whether the outcome you want is more effort (crunches) or more of another type of output. For an example counter to yours, I'm a musician. Hours in the studio -- even lazy, half-assed hours -- a
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>I have been chasing the 'perfect lap' for 7 years with no traffic, no road works, fresh air, dry track, no driving mistakes and a reliable drivetrain. Sounds like that's how long he's been chasing a sub-10-minute lap
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>Marijuana abused to self medicate is frankly cheaper than paying for mental health medication and therapy. This implies that self medication has an outcome comparable to paying for mental health medication and therapy. I would assert th
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Nah. Have you been one of these guys? I'm a XXL cleaning my act up and it feels great the whole time. All you realize is how fucked up you felt BEFORE. I've never known of anyone that went through that brand of withdrawl.
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That was a hugely useful read, thank you! It fits perfectly. A former coworker of mine recently recommended The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck. She said she read it in my voice. I couldn't stand it, and I couldn't figure out the
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I am on the reverse journey. I went to art school, have been a designer for many years, and write software at a "not very good but I'm working on it" level. How do you learn to self-critique? Honesty, objectivity, and taste.
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First, I agree with most of your argument. In persons for whom these traits arise from mental illness, this particular brand of sarcastic blaming of the holder of emotions is likely counterproductive. With that said, if the overwhelming maj
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By buying fish obtained this way, the consumers in the second paragraph economically empower the perpetrators of the first paragraph to continue, allegedly because of food demand created by overpopulation. Not endorsing the argument, but th
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It seems that by AI they mean "non keyboard input", and not... any of the other wildly more practical uses of that term. > Project Precog is designed to provide a smooth and intuitive experience for industry-leading AI technolo
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Is the blueprint in the article the entire floorplan? Strikingly small compared to how big I envisioned them, even with SO and trello spun off...
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Did you do this analysis manually, or does something like fakespot [0] provide details at this depth? [0] https://www.fakespot.com/
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UX nitpick: The form entry links (lounge, etc) have hover states for the entire row, implying they're clickable, but in reality only the name within the row is clickable. Best to make the whole row clickable for maximum ease. also +1 t

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