aklemm

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811.
by aklemm 11y ago
Looking forward to implementing these on my personal domain. The dream is alive! These are great steps in the right direction, but the major draw that will take IndieWeb concepts mainstream still seems elusive.
812.
by aklemm 12y ago
Well, an apprenticeship is far more of a commitment than what is needed here. Rather young people are looking for a survey of what specific careers really look like. Might be impossible, but job-shadowing might be the best answer. I shado
813.
by aklemm 12y ago
"Working" by Studs Terkel comes to mind. http://www.amazon.com/Working-People-Talk-About-What/dp/1565... So many people have this question early in their careers, it really seems like something is wrong.
814.
by aklemm 12y ago
Cost. Everybody wants steak, too, but only hamburger can be afforded every day.
815.
by aklemm 12y ago
Exactly. There's no reason to expect her to understand a lot about black holes, but even so she demonstrates her general competence by knowing that black holes are a ridiculous suggestion for the disappearance of the flight. Compare th
816.
by aklemm 12y ago
I do the same and can confirm it works like a charm.
817.
by aklemm 12y ago
Yes, I agree with you. I made the assumption that the state would likely end up collecting through payrolls or something like that. Perhaps a tax credit to businesses for employees losing hours to parenting and a tax increase on the other e
818.
by aklemm 12y ago
If maternity leave really is a large cost, then the reason not to pay them less is because we all have a stake in the healthy propagation of the species. Women bare the children, but that doesn't mean they ought to bare the entire burd
819.
by aklemm 12y ago
It would be interesting to see how often people with an office and daybed (along with enough stature to shut their door and expect privacy) take advantage of it by napping.
820.
by aklemm 12y ago
Such a great question. After 9/11 I was really hoping for a huge humanitarian, economic, and serious political effort in the Middle East along with the inevitable military actions. Didn't happen. No one even talked about such an i
821.
by aklemm 12y ago
Employment negotiations with a union, right? Hard to see how a clerk or factory worker would have enough leverage to get a fair shake.
822.
by aklemm 12y ago
I've always wondered how this maneuver isn't considered a major free market failure.
823.
by aklemm 12y ago
Because the father is a tech luminary, and it's normal to be more emotional about the loss of children.
824.
by aklemm 13y ago
"(Like, we could have ever more massive unemployment and inequality, or we could have basic income and 4-3-2-1 days work-week —or whatever I haven't thought of and actually works.)" This is what kills me about the fear of aut
825.
by aklemm 13y ago
Anything sufficiently interesting (in this case, truly novel) should be able to make it through from a new user, and "nice!" is about all there is really to say about the site.
826.
by aklemm 13y ago
Different markets have different potentials.
827.
by aklemm 13y ago
Because complaining publicly is one way to put pressure on the proprietary companies to improve their offering and the way they handle user data.
828.
by aklemm 13y ago
I had that for free in my building in Seattle. The best days of my life! Now I'm on the East coast and I doubt I'll ever have a great ISP again.
829.
by aklemm 13y ago
I always wondered where that came from, but I assumed it was on the backs of people paying interest on their balances.
830.
by aklemm 13y ago
"The astrophysics here is not quite right," is my new favorite HN quote.
831.
by aklemm 13y ago
It's flippant, but also completely honest. If mc-lovin of HN is correct that this study should be ignored and possibly retracted, then he should email the authors. Telling me about it does no good. Your original comment may be 100% accurate
832.
by aklemm 13y ago
I'll let you take that up with the authors. Until it's settled, we can all just reflect on whether reading stories has helped us, personally, better understand and empathize with others.
833.
by aklemm 13y ago
Reading is fundamental! Outside history and military, another profound effect reading has is that fiction can actually increase empathy in the real world: http://www.yorku.ca/mar/Mar%20et%20al%202009_reading%20ficti... Between that and th
834.
by aklemm 13y ago
Yep, I've seen this exact text come through other Meetup groups many times here in the DC area. This wording has been in use for months. My email archive has this email sent to 6 different meetup groups going back to 2/14/2013.
835.
by aklemm 14y ago
If there aren't enough interested readers to encourage a maintainer to keep the content available, is it really worth the effort to auto-archive all of it?
836.
by aklemm 14y ago
What are the odds that the latest exposure will be followed by sabre rattling from politicians against bitcoin? And would that scare off enough people to drop the price?
837.
by aklemm 14y ago
May I add another? Your parents are increasingly finding themselves irrelevant to younger people. While predictable, this is a great loss to the younger people, and perhaps a frustration for your parents. A mentoring network, content or car
838.
by aklemm 14y ago
Good answer. Adding to your #1, having kids matures the parent in ways a non-parent probably never get to experience (patience, working with extreme distractions, keeping one's eye on the big picture, long-term thinking, etc.)
839.
by aklemm 14y ago
Love this approach, and the same can be done for IT departments. It's the first step in making IT a strategic resource and not just a utility. Show technical teams the details of how their work supports the results on the sales team (and ma
840.
by aklemm 14y ago
Yes! Sounds awesome. Of course, it's unclear how such a system would produce beautiful and easy-to-use products so that users clammer to use them.

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