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by ashark 9y ago
IMO there should be expensive data breach bond/insurance requirements for any company storing data about people, scaled by how much and possibly which kinds of data are stored. Discourage holding a bunch of stuff "just in case&quo
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by ashark 9y ago
There are posters in this very discussion claiming that pointers were remarkably difficult to learn. I'm firmly in the "WTF is the big deal?" crowd. Every time I see posts like that I think, "maybe I've thought I un
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by ashark 9y ago
Soda's fine as long as you get out of the "this is an ordinary thing to drink" thought pattern into the "this is basically the same as eating a giant cupcake" one. You wouldn't feel right having a giant cupcake
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by ashark 9y ago
There are definitely SaaS tools that let you watch a user's session on your site. They stitch together page transitions, show you the mouse cursor moving around, what they type. It's like watching a remote desktop session. Creepy
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by ashark 9y ago
For Seneca, U. of Chicago Press has been releasing a series of new translations[1] over the last few years. Good, if a bit expensive. May be some on the used market by now. Hardship and Happiness would probably be the most useful one if y
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by ashark 9y ago
I surveyed a bunch of translations a few years back, comparing them to one another and to the original Greek, trying to find the best accuracy/readability balance. Landed on Maxwell Staniforth's. There's a paperback available
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by ashark 9y ago
Oh, relatedly, I wonder whether time in the care of non-parent adult relatives or friends-of-parents (i.e. not paid childcare or teachers) dropped substantially over the same time period.
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by ashark 9y ago
My wife's a teacher. ~1/2 of the kids around here have smartphones by 2nd or 3rd grade, all but the children of "weirdos" (maybe 2-3%) have them by 5th. The schools don't make them leave them at home anymore like th
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by ashark 9y ago
Dude, newborn stage is when you can get the MOST done. Especially if you hit the sleep training hard and early (warning: depending on your kid's temperament this may mean listening to them cry a ton at night for as much as a week—with
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by ashark 9y ago
1) What's the age range for children, here? All, 0-18? Something else? 2) Is this per kid or per parent? That is, do you get more "points" if you have three kids and spend an hour with all three than if you spend an hour with
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by ashark 9y ago
Aurelius, at least, doesn't rule out or condemn immediate physiological or knee-jerk emotional responses IIRC. The idea is to stop feeling the ones that are, it turns out, something you're choosing to feel past those initial c
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by ashark 9y ago
> By the way, if you just grind tomatoes and garlic, add some olive oil and oregano and boil for 15 min you have a very nice pizza sauce imho... no sugar added or needed. I was clued in at some point that cooking pizza sauce is neither n
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by ashark 9y ago
[A bunch of quite tame stuff that I nonetheless regret posting due to the heat surrounding anything remotely near this entire subject area ] [EDIT] You know what? I'm just gonna leave all this to retrospectives from sociologists and m
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by ashark 9y ago
Sure, but Syria would have burnt out before that got started if we hadn't half-assedly propped up the opposition, just enough to ensure they couldn't be defeated but not enough to actually make them win. Year after year. Iraq was
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by ashark 9y ago
> One hopes neoconservatism is good and dead. It was an ambitious ideology which presumed everyone in the world shared western values or wanted them. I dunno, seemed to last well into Obama's tenure in practice if not in rhetoric, f
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by ashark 9y ago
If you think that's surprising, you should see how some people use Twitch's "watch a person play a video game" streaming service. Though maybe don't look it up at work.
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by ashark 9y ago
Some professional educations confer nigh-automatic professional class (Fussell's "upper middle") status, and tend to include socialization into that class as part of the package. Doctors, lawyers, certain fields in business.
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by ashark 9y ago
I'm toying with getting rid of the Internet at home. I have it at work anyway (unfortunately), and coffee shops and libraries are a thing if I have to get online. I'm increasingly convinced that having it's not worth the ti
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by ashark 9y ago
I sometimes wonder which materials I directly interact with on a regular basis that people in a few decades wouldn't touch for anything short of large amounts of money. History tells us there are probably a few. Guessing at least a cou
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by ashark 9y ago
# — sure, allow it. If you ask for all the comments that mention a hashtag, you're requesting a drink from the firehose, and you should get it. @ — maybe allow it, but only for users who mutually follow one another.
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by ashark 9y ago
Hm. Spin it up under a non-profit, create or build upon an open protocol. Appeal to the folks who think the Internet would be better off with something twitter-like but as kind-of a public service, and more open. If you do allow responses&#
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by ashark 9y ago
> 2) a workgroup formed by companies working together on that subject 3) a government program to research that specific area. Part of Japan's postwar economic miracle involved doing both of these things at once: "hey three gia
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by ashark 9y ago
Sadly, I think screen-focused media are much of the problem. Especially the unprecedented quality and quantity available now, with easier access than ever. Having a window to all the world, a vast library both greater and with a worse SNR t
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by ashark 9y ago
> 1. Take a standard notebook and a regular pen (or pencil, if you prefer). Good call. But... I mean... if I'm gonna have these with me all the time I'd better make sure they're good ones. You know, durable, pleasant to us
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by ashark 9y ago
A bit OT, but I blame artificial lighting and (especially) in-the-home, always-available, on-demand, hyper-stimulating entertainment on glowing screens. I once spent a couple weeks living only by candlelight after 8:30 or so, no screens. It
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by ashark 9y ago
$35k isn't an unusually low starting salary for lots of tech jobs outside major hubs. IT positions, starting network techs/sysadmins, hacking on PHP/Wordpress, that kind of thing. Under the broad umbrella of jobs-you-can-land
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by ashark 9y ago
Widespread private car ownership, to take one example, has arguably harmed average quality of life. Pollution, reduced freedom to walk/bike, extra time having to work out as a result of those last two things (or simply reduced health
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by ashark 9y ago
It's downright embarrassing to walk through a Redux-using project with someone competent who's not immersed in the JS world. Source: had to do this recently. It helps if you translate "action creator", "action"
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by ashark 9y ago
Maybe if you're a literally-every-second-of-my-time-is-money sort and never, ever cook, and you're also socialized to a certain standard of living and never eat cheap take-out or low-end frozen meals or whatever.
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by ashark 9y ago
Am I to understand continental Europeans, for example, are in much better shape than Americans because they employ more personal trainers?

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