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by _xander 5y ago
I've been using this app for the past few days and it's wildly good. I've compared it to MindDoc and Woebot and the exercises you offer are so much better than those two apps. My only request is to please refrain from gating
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by _xander 5y ago
The cited report includes an extract of all programmes in .xlsx format [1]. There are some surprising majors towards the bottom of the <= 10 year ROI: * Neuroscience - 21% proportion w/ ROI * Biology - 27% proportion w/ ROI * A
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by _xander 5y ago
Grade inflation has always been a thing but the velocity of this will lead to unfair outcomes. For comparison, in 2019 25.2% of students achieved these grades [1]. It's believable that, in the future, candidate pools for certain master
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by _xander 5y ago
Say what you want about Amazon as a company, Jeff was a world-class operator and (relatively) drama free for 27 years. I'm still holding out for a 'big reveal' on his vision for the 2nd half of his career - hopefully more tha
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by _xander 5y ago
Found this report pertinent to HN for several reasons: *66% of positions classified as 'anywhere jobs' within 'Computer programming, consultancy and related' in UK *Disproportionately affects top decile earners / de
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Anywhere Jobs – one in five jobs in the UK can be done remotely(institute.global)
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by _xander 6y ago
*[nascent] EVs and autonomous driving *[departing now] ecommerce economy *[departing now] ESG investing *[departing now] derisking semi-conductor supply chain *[departing now] activist / populist retail investing (e.g. Gamestop) But,
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by _xander 6y ago
What is the current state of performance for 5g chipsets, from Qualcomm and more generally? Do early adopters face (comparably) higher energy consumption and poorer performance (bandwidth, signal, channel access) versus 4g and upcoming 5g c
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by _xander 6y ago
Problem with that is you'll be downloading the Google cached image, not the source imagine, so the quality is usually worse.
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by _xander 6y ago
That's terrifying. Is there any auditing done by Mozilla to get an extension published? Or is it a free for all?
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by _xander 6y ago
The base Surface Go 2 seems like an attractive option for those looking to do a bit of real computing alongside iPad-esque media consumption.
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by _xander 6y ago
It's not too bad. I'm a huge proponent of the one-handed phone after using a Nexus 5 for 6.5 years. I think there are two main contributors to one-handed usability: (1) volume of the chasis, with a particular focus on width and (2
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by _xander 6y ago
Wow, this makes for fantastic reading. The ideas you're floating on job security, career capital and moats articulate something I've seen through countless hours of LinkedIn scanning and personal experience, but packaged into dige
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by _xander 7y ago
Thank you for this. > Keep sharpening your knife / and it will blunt Particularly resonated with me. I was so frustrated to find grinding through skills and development courses after work left me burned out and, all things conside
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by _xander 7y ago
If that's the case, the challenge will be retaining the key people responsible for Sophos's 'intellectual capital' and sales relationships. It can be extremely costly to keep people after a PE acquisition in cyber - comb
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by _xander 9y ago
There's a study that was done on that grinning emoji - and the miscommunication it can cause. I'm glad they fixed it: https://grouplens.org/blog/investigating-the-potential-for-m...
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by _xander 10y ago
I don't unfortunately and I haven't got around to trying it yet. If you (or anyone else on HN) finds something that works, could you post the link here?
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by _xander 10y ago
It comes with Office365 too! I'd totally buy this for the added control over home edition, but it looks like Microsoft only sells this license in bulk to big businesses in my region. Then again...it turns out that you can upgrade to en
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by _xander 10y ago
The concept of Messenger becoming a second homescreen for the smartphone is an interesting one. Suddenly their decision to separate Messenger from Facebook on mobile makes a lot more sense. If you think of Messenger as a different type of
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by _xander 10y ago
8chan is quite close to what you described. Although the anonymity-first censorship-resistance thing might give you more than you bargained for once you get there.
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by _xander 10y ago
Maybe we should learn from the ‘controlled’ experiment in the UK. There the new fees structure caps undergraduate tuition at £9k per year. Gov loans with very forgiving repayment terms are provided for students. The government expected only
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by _xander 10y ago
ProtonMail might be up your street. It fulfils points 1-4. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_webmail_provider... As I side note, I agree that the most popular email providers are sorely lacking the frien
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by _xander 10y ago
Dyson's pivot 5-10 years ago from sucking (vacuum cleaners) to blowing (dryers) seems to be going well.
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by _xander 10y ago
I'm not informed on this topic - but isn't this dangerous? I mean, if your numbers are correct, an average adult loses 6% of their bodyweight doing this over 5 days. How does this affect your productivity and sleep?
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by _xander 11y ago
"steal everything they can" Most people are talking about various valid use cases but it's this risk vector that I'm interested in. What exactly could a VPN steal from regular personal computing network traffic? Cookie
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by _xander 11y ago
Strong AI is not necessarily a bad thing. Instead of worrying about questions 1 & 2, we could be thinking less about constraint and competition with AI and more about cooperation and goal-orientation: e.g. the work of Yudkowsky ( https:
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by _xander 11y ago
"The game has long interested AI researchers because of its complexity...the average 150-move game contains more possible board configurations — 10^170 — than there are atoms in the Universe, so it can’t be solved by algorithms that s
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by _xander 11y ago
I agree - and I think most people's upgrade cycle has slowed. Most smart phones from 2012 onwards fulfil basic consumer demands (calls + messages, nav, apps, basic pocket camera).
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by _xander 11y ago
As a heavy user (but not uploader) I remain almost entirely unmonetised (for better and for worse). I'm fed almost no ads either on the web or app, and there is no premium plan for listening.
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by _xander 11y ago
Caution: article features autoplaying video with audio - hitting pause or mute redirected me to a different page with the same autoplaying video

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