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by ahoyhere 15y ago
If the US had a safety net for people who lost their jobs and couldn't afford to pay their rent or grocery or medical bills, and if the US had a more reasonable minimum hourly wage, and if the US had more regulations to protect both truck d
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
> If a truck driver (or anyone on the road) gets flipped off, it is usually because they are driving a huge vehicle too aggressively and dangerously Really? How do you know? Have you done a study?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Yes, the American attitude is really "I have it hard so FUCK YOU" rather than "We all have it hard. Why is that?" Poor and middle class Americans absolutely hate anyone who they think is getting something they "don't deserve," such as healt
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Insurance is like open source software in reverse. Not having it is only free if your time (and anxiety) is worth nothing to you.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You made the first move - good job. Now, it's time to consider the extremely likely possibiliy that you could charge 5x the amount and without decreasing conversion by 5x. Which means you could probably be earning 5x than you are now (or mo
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Let's not gloss over your success with soft (useless) phrases like "hard work" and "passion." You launched Pinboard to a crowd which already knew & loved you, at a time when everybody thought Delicious was about to fall over and die. Fu
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
If you ask me, this is a pretty open & shut case: he copied the photograph exactly, as much as exactitude was allowed for the medium. Baio brought barely anything new to the table at all. A tie pattern? That doesn't seem like enough to
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
This idea has been done to death, and when has it ever really worked?
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
So true. I've offered my services to several OSS projects in the past, and they were extremely pleased when I did... and then they fought over every single trivial tiny thing I laid out in my plan, and ignored me, til all I could say was "f
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
It gets worse: you can give up your US citizenship, but the US claims you must file taxes (and PAY taxes) for 10 years afterwards. We are chattel.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Most of those laws apply to people who are earning money locally. All around the world, it's a huge grey area when the work you are doing as a visitor is not local -- such as working for a client back in the US. Since in all my travels, I'v
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I've done it and I "do significant things." Instead of being grateful for somebody confirming your suspicions, you'll find it pays to investigate the truth.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
I've done work for several Fortune 50 companies while traveling around the world -- design work that got written up in business and trade magazines. You're just flat-out wrong about "serious stuff." Also, a couple of my friends - Romanians
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
To teach effectively, you have to get inside other people's heads. That is a skill most people don't ever spend any real time trying to develop. So it's no wonder that they are bad at it. It's not about the state of an individual's understa
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
"The Humane Interface" is a fascinating book, but if you read it again and pay close attention to Jef's interaction design ideas, you'll realize they're all extremely "out there" and, in the end, pretty unusable. Case in point: the Canon Ca
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Sad to say it but the reason the HPV vaccines haven't been more popular has little to do with anti-vaccination propaganda, and much more to do with anti-sexual-promiscuity propaganda. Lots of people -- including many, many, many women -- th
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
That has nothing to do with Universal Healthcare, and has everything to do with the fact that there are not enough doctors. Which is unrelated to Universal Healthcare -- just look at a country like Austria, which has very good social insura
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
No, "golden handcuffs" are anything that seem like a good thing at the time but that prevent you from leaving. "Golden handcuffs are a system of financial incentives designed to keep an employee from leaving the company. These can include e
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
You know what Google could have done? They could have shown a message that said "It's Father's Day! Do you want to add a to-do to call your dad or someone you love?" And then you could click "No" or "Yes." Then it would have been a case of
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
The phrase "fish don't have a word for water" (and many permutations thereof) existed before both essays. So it's quite possible that both DFW's speech and Derek's essay have nothing to do with each other. I'm surprised that no one here kno
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Absolutely, only it's more subtle. When you work at a company that feeds you gourmet lunches, does your oil changes and laundry for you, arranges shuttles from your apartment to the office, etc., you begin to feel like you couldn't possibly
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
There's a lot of practical things people can do to make their JS code faster, and a bunch of impractical things too (like unrolling loops). But based on our research/experience, a huge percentage of JavaScript-related web app slowness is ac
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Do you have any research to support this claim? Because there is lots of research that supports the depletion model.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Denial is a totally natural and incredibly powerful human reaction to uncontrollable tragedy. People who are "more logical than others" are actually no less prone to this than anyone else, they just use a different mechanism to fuel their d
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Motive is incredibly important. Saying someone has a reason to be biased is not ad hominem. Saying they're a fucking hippie is.
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
That's possible, but I don't think it's true, based on the boring details of my situation. And for the record, in my experience, Austrians are much less friendly than Germans -- or at least, Austrians who live in Vienna are much less friend
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Science proves you wrong, of course. Visits with people and animals speed recovery. Friendly doctors have a better recovery rate. People without tightknit social networks are vastly more likely to die immediately after a spouse, than those
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Lots of people are nice to others because they enjoy being a good person. I know my American friends would have been over, cooking me meals and making sure I didn't go stircrazy, and trying to cheer me up. I know because I've experienced it
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
"I'd expect my friends to not expect me to visit them for elusive reasons like "emotional support". I would never expect a friend to visit me when I'm sick, because I know that I'll be another person." And that right there is exactly why Am
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by ahoyhere 15y ago
Yes. I came down with chronic fatigue syndrome / chronic mono after a second mono flareup in late 2009. It's not cancer, but it's nasty and it doesn't go away, and I have good days where I seem and feel normal, and bad days where I don't ev

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