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by athenot 8y ago
I have a strict policy to not let my kids play with phones. (Books and toys are plenty fine.) And I don't let my phone hang around and used as a passive toy (in locked mode) either. Yet more than once my phone has been "found&quot
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by athenot 8y ago
I wouldn't call it clickbait. It's a longform piece telling the story in a way that reflects the uncertainty that the locals feel.
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by athenot 8y ago
> I long ago enabled the "10 failed logins in a row deletes the phone" toggle. Unfortunately this is not adviseable if you have small children. A relative of mine saw her phone get wiped after letting my toddler fiddle with it
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by athenot 8y ago
I don't use gmail so I'm surprised at how low the (useful) information density is, in either version. Extrapolating from that screenshot, it looks like that window could hold about a dozen emails. I use the no-frills Mail.app on m
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by athenot 8y ago
However the joke is spot on, since that image is not far removed from the general mess at a typical CVS. You walk in for your meds and are bombarded with a special deal on soda, makeup, want a beach toy? how about some junk food? oh wait he
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by athenot 8y ago
FWIW, us adults haven't adopted her process. But it worked especially well for her as she optimized for her biggest issue at the time, which was figuring out which shoe goes on which foot. Now she can tell almost instantly but the 2 bo
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by athenot 8y ago
> You don't keep your shoes in 2 different piles for lefts and rights; you pair them together. My toddler actually came up with that very process. Box of left shoes and box of right shoes. It works pretty well for her.
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by athenot 8y ago
I am not a lawyer but intent appears to play a big role. A company that is negligent or incompetent will always face a lesser repercussion than one who acts deliberately. Now of course this is not to exonerate Equifax whose entire premise
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by athenot 8y ago
> I don’t need to take money from neighbors, but i known how itchy it is to feel like you owe someone a debt, and there’s a barter/trade solution that works nicely here and is somehow fundamentally more human. This perfectly sums it
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by athenot 8y ago
Very nice writeup! This kind of condescending flow is exactly why I stopped using TurboTax about 10 years ago. Apparently it got even worse since then.
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by athenot 8y ago
TaxAct has one dark pattern where they slide in a question in the middle where they basically ask your consent for marketing stuff to you. It's confusingly worded in a way to make it sound like you'll unlock additional savings. Bu
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by athenot 8y ago
I know you meant this as a joke but there's some applicability here. Seeking happiness can produce a lot of negative emotions, as you become very aware that many other people are way happier than you (or at the very least, show off a h
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by athenot 8y ago
Also, the furnace could compromise the stone structure. So the focus was to keep the wall from getting too hot, first from the inside.
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by athenot 8y ago
At the end of the spillway the water is send upward. This is a way to dissipate the energy of the water coming down and avoid digging a hole or eroding the river itself. This appears to be a common feature in most spillways.
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by athenot 8y ago
This was made with 3936 photos taken between July 2017 and January 2019, each of up to 20 min long, looking at several parts of the spectrum. Amazing!
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by athenot 8y ago
Maybe I visited a site about a product that I'm interested in, but it's not in my interest to buy it right this second. Yet in this case Google will repeatedly bring this product to the forefront of my mind, skewing my perception
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by athenot 8y ago
It comes down to alignment. Patagonia is deeply aligned with its customers' interests. Preserving the natural world which its customer base enjoys and for which they buy the company's products. That makes it an easier choice. Goog
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by athenot 8y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Webex Teams, another collab tool. I think a lot of this depends a lot more on the expectations of the whole group. This needs to be defined at an org level and well understood by everyone. It's not so much the
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by athenot 8y ago
It also varies by doctor. Some like to order more tests than their peers. That's why it's important to have a doctor with whom you can openly discuss these tradeoffs. The vast majority are open to that, but some will give you the
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by athenot 8y ago
As a patient (or a patient advocate for a loved-one), anytime a test is proposed it is important to ask what actionable information can come out of it. Basically look 2 steps ahead. Some tests will help confirm a course of treatment, or pro
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by athenot 8y ago
Hacking is to programming what improv is to musicians. Free-flow, curious, toying with concepts and inquisitively seeing if they can be pushed beyond their normal expectations...
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by athenot 8y ago
It's a lot more than a hierarchy of "love God, then perhaps others if you have anything left". Here's the context showing the tight coupling between human love and divine love: We love because he first loved us. Those w
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by athenot 8y ago
Yet isn't this addressed by the "dumb" collision avoidance system found in many premium cars? ("dumb" as in limited in scope and not trying to drive the car as a whole.)
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by athenot 8y ago
Not if all these heterogenous procurement processes end up buying from the same 3 vendors.
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by athenot 8y ago
As a subscriber to the paper version of the NYTimes (weekend editions), it's nice to see the behind-the-scenes of how it is printed—even though my copies are printed in a different state, I assume the process is the same. And yes I con
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by athenot 8y ago
The 2% cashback is especially interesting (in the US, for purchases done with ApplePay). I guess they can get away with a different risk model when they control more of the payment process & security.
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by athenot 8y ago
That only works if ruling class B actually cares. The traditional line of thinking is to spur revolt but the power imbalance is now a lot stronger than, e.g. 1789 France.
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by athenot 8y ago
No because in order to be reimbursed by the French insurance, they must argue their development costs in order to make their case for pricing at which the government will reimburse the drug. Otherwise it is not covered by insurance (which i
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by athenot 8y ago
There's a soft way to ask for it. You basically point out that your manager is at risk of loosing you. Note that you need to understand both how much you bring to the team from your manager's perspective as well as your manager&
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by athenot 8y ago
Making healthcare more expensive doesn't make it better. As an example, the price of Clopidogrel (Plavix), developped in France is sold 5x more expensive in the US than in France. Do patients in the US experience better outcomes by pay

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