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by athenot 7y ago
Our weather patterns here include heavy rain storms. What I don't happen to catch gets flushed away into the drain in the street, which leads to a nearby creek (stormwater is kept separate from sewage here). And of course, all the othe
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by athenot 7y ago
> chances are, every one of those straws being used in an American city would end up in a well run landfill My front yard disagrees. It's adjacent to a somewhat busy road, and straws are part of the debris I have to routinely clean
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by athenot 7y ago
They are indeed annoying. Fortunately they are normally disclosed (in tiny print) on the hotel website so at least now I can expect them. Same goes for mandatory valet parking…
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by athenot 7y ago
If it's a business differentiator, there's usually a better understanding from upper management that these things are hard, that there's trial-and-error, that some of this is R&D which will not have immediate value but
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by athenot 7y ago
> "you now have a reputation of padding estimates." > "Now you are a slow incompetent." This is also symptomatic of organizations that behave adversarially and assume your intentions to be malicious. In that dynami
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by athenot 7y ago
Animal fat is also allowed in Savon de Marseille as long as it qualifies under regulation CE 1774/2002 on the use of animal derivatives for cosmetics. The point is that it's a very plain soap and goes back to the 14th century. (I
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by athenot 7y ago
This is essentially Savon de Marseille. Some still swear by it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marseille_soap
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by athenot 7y ago
If a project starts having large companies relying on it, traditionally there have been 2 mechanisms to address this: - start a company around providing enterprise support services; - ask for the large companies to provide some resources su
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Time Management – Get my stuff done (2010) [video](youtube.com)
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by athenot 7y ago
Not legal advice but... Usually in your situation you will have your own computer, your own workspace (except for meetings with the client), and deliver things based on a predefined scope (or predefined set of expectations). That's g
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by athenot 7y ago
A friend of mine has the same story. Went on a intro dive during a vacation in Hawaii because "why not?" and 3 years later he's a certified Master Diver, teaching classes and doing very technical dives & rescues. All as a
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by athenot 7y ago
For an active cable (lighning, etc.) look for new and look at the seller's feedback. Look at the other stuff they are selling. Is it junk, is it all off-brand? How long have they been selling? It's not fool-proof and I still find
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by athenot 7y ago
The odd thing is eBay's quality is now easier to assess than Amazon's.
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Our team comes in the office once a week for some face time. But we have plenty of face time throughout the week on Webex Teams. We've eliminated the friction for remote face time. If anything, it's an improvement over the in-offi
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by athenot 7y ago
OSQuery is pretty powerful and the SQL-like query makes it easier to correlate various system metrics in 1 step. However compared to a central metric system that can aggregate metrics across all the hosts, its use quickly becomes less impor
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The problem with that approach is $popular_social_media app comes along and coaxes users to relax said privileges "because reasons" and before long there's a signigficant proportion of users who altered the security model of
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by athenot 7y ago
I had the 2013 then the 2015 Nissan Leaf. At least from the outside it meets the "Weird whacky" criteria. If you look at the 2019 Nissan Leaf, it looks very conventional. It turns out there's a very good reason to do that: th
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by athenot 7y ago
This is well written. Reading this, I can think of other pleasure-based escapes in life that follow the same pattern. Thanks for sharing this!
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by athenot 7y ago
It's a matter of personal taste, of course. But yes the absence of lyrics, the long-running tracks (that are usually blended so there's no break), the pattern-based yet evolving structure and the upbeatness... These are all things
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by athenot 7y ago
It does give you grounds to sue them in small claims court.
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As Apple is partnering with Morgan Stanley, I couldn't help but notice that the later's market capitalization is still lower than Apple's cash on hand: they could buy them in cash. I wonder if financial services will be the n
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by athenot 7y ago
I don't understand Foursquare. They are perfectly positionned to compete against Yelp, and I even try to make an effort to use them but their insistence on gamification is very off-putting. Meanwhile, Facebook has been aggressively bui
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by athenot 7y ago
Yes, it IS insurance. Its value is not to reimburse you for routine visits or minor procedures, it's to prevent you from going bankrupt if you get cancer or any similarly expensive condition to treat. A useful way to look at it is the
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by athenot 7y ago
How is that different from a regular single-payer system found in many countries?
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by athenot 7y ago
In 2000, was it obvious that the internet startups were mostly pipe-dreams? In 2007, was the repackaging of bad debt into prime a common knowledge? Maybe it was but I learned about the causes way after the proverbial stuff hit the fan. This
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by athenot 7y ago
reCAPTCHA is turning into a punishement for those who don't want to consent to full tracking by Google. Apple is working on their SSO project (Sign in with Apple); I hope they will also consider the use-case of being able to tell a sit
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by athenot 7y ago
I've noticed Amex has already reacted to this. - mobile app improvements with effortless freeze/cancellation/card reorder - great integrations in iOS/macOS - even the metal credit card that is very similar to how the phy
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by athenot 7y ago
This has been my experience as well. Equally annoying are the notifications menu (the actual notifications, I disabled a long time ago). I've been relying on them since the feed is useless but now they too have become cluttered with th
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by athenot 7y ago
True but those constraints can result in more creative engineering. Look at this timelapse of a bridge getting replaced in 43 hours. They had the new bridge built next to the orignal and "just" moved it into place—I'm using q
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by athenot 7y ago
Ultimately, enforcing agencies want privacy for themselves and transparency for everyone else. At the scale and speed of digital services, this asymmetry can go down very fast towards an authoritarian path. There can only be 2 solutions: -

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