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by austinjp 9y ago
> Having kids or not is a personal decision It is so, so very simple for a business to account for children among its workforce. Any staff aged under ~45 on your books? Well, guess what? A percentage (look up your regional variation) are
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by austinjp 9y ago
In addition to the suggestions about sitting in cafes, I'd suggest you look at places like museums and art galleries. In the UK at least, many have members' rooms. An annual membership plus guest might be in the region of £100-200
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by austinjp 9y ago
There appears, to me, to be an ongoing narrative that pits the older against the younger. Memorably it came to a head in the UK with "analysis" of the Brexit vote and correlation with age [0]. Needs and desires change as we age, o
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by austinjp 9y ago
> if NYT was concerned about democracy it would not be a rabid partisan How does that follow? How are democracy and partisanship exclusive, or "orthogonal"?
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by austinjp 9y ago
Hints in the full text: "...it might be unethical to expose patients to an invasive placebo procedure. However, no evidence of harm to placebo groups was found in a systematic review of placebo-controlled surgical trials... After the f
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by austinjp 9y ago
This is very odd. I thought the "mark as spam" button was entirely within Gmail. I had no idea it sent a message to the email sender. Is this standard? It seems counter productive, since it confirms the spam was received. I want i
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by austinjp 9y ago
Yes, although I'm asking about marking spam, not unsubscribing.
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by austinjp 9y ago
Forgive the naivety, can you explain a little? From what I understand from this: You sent emails from AWS to subscribers. Some recipients hit the spam button in Gmail. You received a message for every email that had been flagged as spam, in
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by austinjp 9y ago
Start a consultancy business building the ideas that others have. Also.... You have everything you need, so nothing is niggling your motivation. Some people work best under constraint, with limited resources. Finally, are you too fussy? Do
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by austinjp 9y ago
Wants me to sign into Google, on mobile.
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by austinjp 9y ago
In addition to other suggestions here, you can also simply add ".sci-hub.cc" to the end of the domain part of the URL when confronted with a paywalled paper. I find this the easiest interface. It allows me to search using standard
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by austinjp 9y ago
I'm with you. "Beautiful" has become a dominant end-goal, promoted by plenty of software/services as a focal part of the product. It's hard to articulate why this feels objectionable. Perhaps I'm suspicious tha
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by austinjp 9y ago
I may be missing something here, since I've not heard of Skylark (the Python variation itself not Google's Go-based interpreter for Skylark) but my brief searching suggests it's abandoned..?
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by austinjp 9y ago
> Let's say that you go to a bank and ask for a loan. The bank has a procedure to decide if they give you the loan or not. If your request is rejected, they can (hopefully) explain why you didn't qualify. Instead, the whole pro
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by austinjp 9y ago
It's not how law works -- currently, in some countries. But it is how suspicion works, and governments in the US and UK, for example, seem highly suspicious of their populous.
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by austinjp 9y ago
From that article: > fat-metabolism in the cells takes place simultaneously with a detoxification of the harmful substances from the blood sugar... The newly discovered process involves one type of metabolite, the ketone acetoacetate, wh
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by austinjp 9y ago
> Publishers add value in their role as gatekeepers and filters. And yet the peer review process relies on unpaid volunteers. Sure, there's some kudos. But the publishers are laughing all the way to the bank. > They provide an ob
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by austinjp 9y ago
Automation may have contributed to dragging society out of sustenance (subsistence?) farming, but many other factors have been hugely significant. Agriculture, irrigation, hygiene, sanitation, medicine, cities, etc etc etc. Automation -- in
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by austinjp 9y ago
And under-employment is not the same as employment. Automation may not be solely responsible, it is one of many synergistic factors.
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by austinjp 9y ago
When I stay in a hotel, the receptionist's job is to stand nearby while I type my reservation details into a panel. When I pay at the supermarket, the checkout person's job is to stand nearby in case I have trouble with the self-c
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by austinjp 9y ago
Perhaps I'm just too used to Gmail, but it always seems to take me forever to work out the equivalent of things like "from:me to:susan in:folder has:attachment". And in outlook's web interface, this all seems to be even
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by austinjp 9y ago
As has been pointed out, this does happen. But consider the ethical minefield. It would be very easy for an unethical or poorly governed organisation to fleece these patients. Willingness to try anything no matter the expense, plus slim cha
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by austinjp 9y ago
Years ago I remember walking past a club in a very busy party of town at like 10pm. There was a huge queue of people. My friend said, "Let's go there!" Surprised, I asked why. "It must be really good, look at that queue!
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by austinjp 9y ago
In response to 1 and 1.5 the company should expend reasonable resources to support those who are struggling, and these rules are laid down in Human Resources policies (as I'm sure you know). Management are just as bound by the rules as
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by austinjp 9y ago
Fascinating. Is the A/B situation DeMarco describes about knowing ahead of time that A will turn minimal profit while B will turn maximal profit? If so, the conclusion reached seems right: tighter profit margins require tighter control
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by austinjp 9y ago
Before leaping to firing that person, you'd want to talk to them and explain that the misbehaviour has to stop. There may be personal reasons, and the person may need support to change. But if the behaviour doesn't shift then yes,
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by austinjp 9y ago
Indeed. See Simspons's paradox, sub-grouping, and so on. There are deep problems in: the lessons we can learn from a population, vs how a specific individual will respond to a specific intervention; plus the filthy complexity of real l
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by austinjp 9y ago
> Implement direct donations to the users, direct payment to buy songs, where a small fee goes to sc themselves I can't believe this doesn't already happen, even some sort of flatter/tip function.
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by austinjp 9y ago
So here's the deal. There is no absolute truth regarding running, footwear, and injuries. Anyone who says there is, well they're selling something. And that's the absolute truth.
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Yup. Or the idiomatic forms "Tuesday next" (not the most imminent Tuesday, the one after that) and "Monday week" (one week after the most imminent Monday). Frankly I hate them and always request a date for clarification!

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