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by abraae 9y ago
I had to google Adani. That is some farking madness.
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by abraae 9y ago
All fair points, and "how well do you survive" - for me, if nature as we know it has gone, it would be a pretty shit survival. But I feel we might make more progress if we can tell people that they will be able to keep playing the
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by abraae 9y ago
I believe the only practical approach is a positive one. Lets assume we're going to survive climate change. After all, we have to. And lets assume we're going to survive it without needing to go back to our pre-industrial lifestyl
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by abraae 9y ago
Yeah, that wasn't aimed at you. More a general observation that one of the biggest problems with climate change is how we think about it. I'll bet there are a lot of people who have more or less given up. I've talked to some
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by abraae 9y ago
I think when it comes to climate change, you can end up in one of three buckets: - denier (perhaps the happiest group) - defeatist (I recycle and cycle to work, but what can I do? I'm just one person, its all so bad, I'm depresse
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by abraae 9y ago
> No actual breach seems to of occurred: We asked if anyone else had accessed the servers, the spokesperson said its logs showed access "by only a single non-authorized IP address which we traced back to a data security consultant w
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by abraae 9y ago
In this article opossums have been all but wiped out by snakes. In my country we are overrun by possums (I guess they are close relatives of opossums), originally introduced for their fur, but now eating everything green in sight.
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by abraae 9y ago
I think most people trust their government, large companies etc. to some degree, but much more so they trust others who are in "their tribe". e.g. if I read a story on HN about some police brutality, posted by some familar, karma-
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by abraae 9y ago
It's an interesting idea, but if your house has decent insulation to minimise heat loss (e.g passivhaus https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passive_house ) then it's perhaps more practical just to hear the entire
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by abraae 9y ago
In Fred Brookes' classic "The Mythical Man-Month", he extols the virtue of having a single architect: "Conceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one mind, or from a very small number of agre
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by abraae 9y ago
Russians.
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by abraae 9y ago
On the contrary, it is commonplace for contracts to take away your rights. A common example is an arbitration clause, where you sign away your rights to use the courts to resolve disputes.
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by abraae 9y ago
This is such a nasty area, with such crappy solutions (name of your first pet), that it should become a service all of its own. i.e. when I sign up with you, I can choose my own preferred vendor to handle identity recovery.
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by abraae 9y ago
I'm not so sure about that. The leading "for" stands on its own without the e.g. e.g., with some additional punctuation: I like to run for the bus. I like to run for, for example, buses, cars and airplanes. I like to run for
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by abraae 9y ago
They're both hard. Rockstar salespeople are just as impressive in action as rockstar developers.
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by abraae 9y ago
You seem to assume its easy to sort the wheat from the chaff. If you offer $1m per year (which is a ridiculous premise from the get go), you'll maybe get more good candidates (though a lot would assume there was something weird going o
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by abraae 9y ago
I imagine he was selling to techies. > 7. If you have a product that a very large company really wants, they'll still do everything they can to delay purchasing it for the market price. They'll try to hire you or your partner(s
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by abraae 9y ago
Consultants: people who borrow your watch to tell you the time.
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by abraae 9y ago
Per George Santayana, "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"
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by abraae 9y ago
Refusing to add a right mouse button?
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by abraae 9y ago
Concur. Imagine an idiot (any idiot) blurting out bileful rubbish. When the platform limits his words, that works in his favour - no nuance can be conveyed, his utterances are sharp, authentic sounding, plausible. Give him 1000 words to mak
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by abraae 9y ago
Maybe what they should have added is "within an acceptable time period". If it takes a skilled, determined manager (say) 6 months to mould a C player into an A player, then that's a big hit on the manager's time, and an
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by abraae 9y ago
Perhaps the end game is that customers will pay $10/family to enter the bricks and mortar store) - not unreasonable, if it has entertainment value/ a cool vibe. Then the $10 is rebated off anything they buy in-store.
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by abraae 9y ago
Au contraire, she is experiencing first hand the responsibilities and consequences of agriculture, and dealt with it as best she could. In my country brushtail possums are a rapacious introduced pest (along with weasels, stoats, hedgehogs a
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by abraae 9y ago
Its about time Facebook faced the music. The giant tech companies have enjoyed eye-watering revenues thanks to the magic of network effects and the dopamine boost that social networking gives the human brain. By keeping their support/h
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by abraae 9y ago
This is a big deal for many people. I arrived in Perth, summoned up an Uber, and it arrived in a few minutes, all billed to my regular credit card back home. Amazing really.
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by abraae 9y ago
I wouldn't compare it to the lifestyle of someone in West Africa, but we have an off grid cabin that we built the infrastructure up from nothing. Such excitement to achieve the milestones we take for granted back in the burbs. A fire p
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by abraae 9y ago
(cynically) sparklines are awesome eye candy for flogging your product. Any new HR product should have a hero page with: - a couple of sparklines - a mugshot of user/candidate - some important looking numbers in a giant-assed sans seri
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by abraae 9y ago
Maybe it is lazy not to investigate better models than commission. But on the other hand, the world of enterprise sales, from software to jet planes to insurance, has worked this way for decades/centuries/millenia. So trying to fi
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by abraae 9y ago
The key factor in that report though is that it concludes that "Concussion rates highest for kids in rugby, hockey and football". I'd guess its likely that American football as played in the NFL is a very different game t

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