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by adriand 10y ago
This is the most interesting part of the article for me: > Apple, which has about 110,000 employees, breaks big projects down into smaller tasks. Those are assigned to small teams, and each subtask is given to a specific employee, who mu
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by adriand 10y ago
Well, for example, "about 15% of people in prestate eras died violently, compared to about 3% of the citizens of the earliest states". http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB100014240531119041067045765832... As far as
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by adriand 10y ago
That's the opposite of how history has played out with respect to violence, however. It is far easier (and less risky) to kill vast numbers of people now than it was hundreds and thousands of years ago, and yet the risk of any one pers
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by adriand 10y ago
I read the whole article, but I didn't read it all at once. It was interesting enough that after I'd read the first half, I kept thinking about it, and made sure I finished it the next day.
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Marketing automation is getting out-of-hand(factore.ca)
182 points by adriand 10y ago|134 comments
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by adriand 10y ago
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Billionaires vs. The Press in the Era of Trump(nytimes.com)
11 points by adriand 10y ago|0 comments
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by adriand 10y ago
Interesting post. But I wonder if the focus on how we would communicate with aliens makes sense. In the case of this movie, they arrived here, apparently. If they're that much more technologically advanced than we are, wouldn't t
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by adriand 10y ago
Weird, because on my iPhone 6, it works fine with no detectable performance issues at all.
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by adriand 10y ago
I know a simple upvote may (and perhaps ought to) suffice instead of writing this, but I feel compelled to comment on how impressed I am that you responded to "You might want to adjust your ego downwards a bit" with such class and
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by adriand 10y ago
Did you read the article? The measurement is against places that do not use GMOs. Nowhere does it say there has been no absolute increase in yields. > An analysis by The Times using United Nations data showed that the United States and
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by adriand 10y ago
> California should consider itself lucky I don't think any place experiencing the destruction of its landscape, the erosion of its environment, and the tragic loss of so many unique, beautiful and valuable places, should count itse
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The Dizzying Grandeur of 21st Century Agriculture(nytimes.com)
161 points by adriand 10y ago|65 comments
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by adriand 10y ago
This is a beautifully written piece. Lucid, absorbing, compelling, with a great sense of pace and timing. Brilliant piece of work.
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Dinner, Disrupted(nytimes.com)
4 points by adriand 10y ago|0 comments
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by adriand 10y ago
In fact, on July 19, 1963, Joseph Albert Walker flew an X-15 rocket plane to an altitude of 105,900m, or more than 100km, past the Kárman line, i.e. into outer space. Compare that to the Indian flight mentioned in this article, which reach
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by adriand 10y ago
Or take another alternate view: if you want to have a lighter bike and you don't want to pay for it, lose body weight instead. Then you'll be both lighter and fitter. Only once you've lost as much body weight as you can rea
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by adriand 10y ago
Agreed, it's a totally normal response. But when you get into the habit of saying it, you also tend to use it when the boarding personnel say, "Have a nice flight!"
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by adriand 10y ago
I can't tell if you're being serious. Are you? It doesn't seem heartbreaking to me at all, it seems goofy in a very typically childish way. It's a $20 bill, not the death of a pet (or a grandparent for that matter), o
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by adriand 10y ago
This is amusing but absurd, especially if you're serious about this phrase being confusing or malformed. "You may not smoke": does this mean, to you, that either smoking or not smoking is permitted? If the answer is yes, I t
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by adriand 11y ago
It's easy to criticize Mayer but I think the expectations of what she could have achieved were pretty wildly out of whack. I'm reminded of Daniel Kahneman's dissection of CEO performance and the book "Built to Last&quot
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by adriand 11y ago
I think this is true. I've never been very overweight so I admit it was easier for me to do this than it would be if I had to do it for longer, but I dropped ten pounds primarily just by drastically cutting the amount of food I ate fo
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by adriand 11y ago
Don't forget they're also the ones asking the question, in this case. It's their document, they write the questions and the answers. They could have written, "Do Apple products contain more than trace amounts of lead?&
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by adriand 11y ago
That is wild! Wow, what an incredible installation! Do you have video of this at night? It looks fantastic.
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by adriand 11y ago
The difference between sharing information about ordinary people charged with crimes and about the rich and powerful, is that the rich and powerful people are rich and powerful. These are people who exert power over the rest of society and
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by adriand 11y ago
I like flying from Canada to Europe because when I arrive, I'm primed to be able to party until 4:00 or 5:00 am, like the locals. Whereas back home, I'm so used to going to bed at 11 and getting up at 6, it takes a lot of effort
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Gay Talese Goes Through the Twitter Wringer(nytimes.com)
1 points by adriand 11y ago|0 comments
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by adriand 11y ago
I absolutely love Soundcloud and also use it daily - I am listening to it right now - but it's an absolute disgrace how little they've done to improve the platform. It seems like such a total waste of potential. The issues with t
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by adriand 11y ago
Agency work, so just repositories for all the various websites, web apps, mobile apps, etc., that we build and have built over the years.
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by adriand 11y ago
> GitHub's pricing model makes NO sense for established companies with lots of projects Totally agree with this assessment. When we were with Github, we actually ended up on a custom plan, negotiated with them directly, because we

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