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by abraae 7y ago
Really? Are you interviewing for positions in your church, or early learning center? Because if you screen people out because they use colloquialisms like "kissing butt" in amongst an otherwise professional web post, to be honest
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by abraae 7y ago
I'd agree with Jack as well, prices do go up,I don't know that you need to fret so much over it (though certainly it's better than just chucking out out there, which is what 90% of companies do, accompanied by some thin BS ju
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by abraae 7y ago
You are probably thinking of the experience in e.g restaurants in the US. In our business, we very much do verify signatures. The primary goal is to establish whether the signatures are intended to be the same - not as some kind of forgery
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by abraae 7y ago
I read HN for civilised rejoinders such as this.
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> In time gig workers would have formed one or more unions and forced companies into negotiations for better wages and benefits. That is a heroic assumption. If it's hard to unionize from inside a company, what sort of power does a
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by abraae 7y ago
I've never heard anyone in my life say they could rebuild MS office in a weekend. What, in your opinion, would be the work needed to go from a 100k monthly active user site to a wikipedia scale site - that would be comparable to rebuil
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by abraae 7y ago
My proudest moment of parenting so far was when my son told me how much he appreciated being brought up to question and not to blindly accept groupthink.
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by abraae 7y ago
Depends on the size, but if you have even a modest size solar system you should be good. On a sunny day, a 2kw solar system can drive a 1kw hot water cylinder to full temperature easily. And to avoid legionnaires disease - a risk of inadequ
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by abraae 7y ago
I'm not dead against batteries, we've got an off grid cabin that runs on 4 6v Trojan lead acid batteries and they are great. However there's something about living off grid that makes one want to simplify, and batteries are o
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by abraae 7y ago
These "minimal battery" concepts are great. They are the sort of thing that would be fantastic (and maintainable) in the event of a grid apocalypse. A similar one would be a hot water cylinder that only heats up when the sun is sh
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by abraae 7y ago
The US baffles me sometimes. > He explained his case isn’t the worst: Timothy Jackson, a man caught stealing a jacket from a shop more than 20 years ago, is set to spend the rest of his life in Angola. The average sentence in Angola is a
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by abraae 7y ago
Sounds like an opportunity for a HaaS business (Hereditaments as a Service) where small businesses could band together and reap the benefits themselves, rather than it flowing to an aggregator like WeWork.
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by abraae 7y ago
> I think we tech people need to be more interested in what the technology we build ultimately will be used for. I don't think that's a universally sound position, unless you hold extremely pacifist views. It's too hard to
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by abraae 7y ago
I've seen many instances, even on HN over the last few years, of large companies with the most hideous security practices being told over and over again, and simply doing nothing. My guess (only a guess) would be that the inside of Equ
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by abraae 7y ago
The cold wars were called that because they never actually became war. And the world war's combined impact on global populations was only a couple of percentage points. Neither remotely qualifies as being on the brink of annihilation.
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by abraae 7y ago
It uses its fricking lasers, obviously!
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by abraae 7y ago
TIL. That makes a defamation lawsuit seen even more farcical.
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by abraae 7y ago
Shame! I was hoping for some detailed analysis of what constitutes a troll. For example, from Oxford I see "(in folklore) an ugly creature depicted as either a giant or a dwarf." Well, which is it? Further to that, is Troll always
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by abraae 7y ago
We have a platform that amongst other things automates filling in a fairly complex government form, including online signature. We did a demo the other day to a large new customer. I learned that when they filled in the existing paper form,
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by abraae 7y ago
> The real solution is to reduce consumption and push the packaging waste costs back on the companies making the products. And to embrace landfill. People became conditioned to think how bad it was to bury mountains of garbage (which it
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by abraae 7y ago
A chat app that only lets you talk to people on the other side of the planet.
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by abraae 7y ago
To be fair: an economically stronger partner getting more of what they want because of backroom dealing etc. is not a "german/french dictatorship" as stated by OP - it's simple realpolitik.
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by abraae 7y ago
Questions such as "should we stay in the EU" can't be answered by experts. Economists could perhaps answer some small parts of it - like "will this be net plus for the economy over next 5 years", but even then I&#x2
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by abraae 7y ago
Arable's a blunt classification though. In NZ we have no mountain lions preying on our sheep, which makes better use of that land. Not to mention favourable growing conditions.
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by abraae 7y ago
> In areas where cannabis has been legalized for recreational use, the incidence of traffic accidents has remained the same. Perhaps that indicates an opportunity - if there was a way to check for stoned drivers, it might have gone down.
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by abraae 7y ago
Cows are carbon to methane convertors. AFAIK, although methane dissipates more quickly (good in the longer term) it has a more powerful effect in the shorter term. So the rationale while we are stick deep in the shit is not too think so muc
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by abraae 7y ago
You also can't choose inaction over at least attempting to get things back to a known stable state by reversing the base factors (greenhouse gas concentrations).
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by abraae 7y ago
Around here, you would try and classify your tiny dwelling as "transportable". This means having it sitting on, rather than attached to, the ground, and having some "skids" on the piles.
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by abraae 7y ago
The underlying rock is fine, the delicately balanced ecosystems and atmosphere sitting on top - they're fucked.
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by abraae 7y ago
> The IBM licenses are so obtuse that it can only be intentional. This is the company who popularised "This page intentionally left blank". Obtuseness is very much part of their toolkit.

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