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by djhn 11y ago
The whole concept of campaigning for an issue like this - of "lobbying" the public - struck me as quite novel for a project of this type (when I was visiting the UK and saw the massive PR campaign). I'm really interested in t
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by djhn 11y ago
Any good links on the Heathrow vs. Gatwick campaigning and lobbying effort?
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by djhn 11y ago
I previously read another very good piece on "The Knowledge", which has some interesting perspective from an applicant and student. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/10/t-magazine/london-taxi-tes..
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by djhn 11y ago
I look forward to replacing Evernote with something, and I find the idea of Emacs org-mode for dummies great.
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by djhn 11y ago
Yes, Android and iOS were the winning ecosystems, there is no argument there. I was making the point that their influence on culture and society is limited, and using Nokia as an analogy. Nokia was Finnish, yet this didn't have any per
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by djhn 11y ago
There are people claiming all sorts of things here without much proof. The amount of actual sleep can be as low as 3-4 hours for 8-9 hours spent in bed, and there is no way of knowing how much you sleep without some sort of investigation us
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by djhn 11y ago
Android and iOS phones? They might as well be any generic cheap Nokia, flavour du jour. Did Finnish culture have profound effects on the 40-60% of mobile phone owners at the time?
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by djhn 11y ago
You would think there is significant PR-department oversight and long-term planning that went into this. But on the other hand.. nobody really knows?
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by djhn 11y ago
Zuckerberg isn't planning on retiring. He will rival Bill Gates in the magnitude of philanthropic contributions. And in other news Facebook Notes is challenging Medium as the default one-column publishing tool. Note as well, that of al
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by djhn 11y ago
Anhedonia is the term. It could be symptom of a range of disorders both mild and serious.
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by djhn 11y ago
What would you call this, and what do you consider radical? I think it describes the nature of it things like "radical honesty". Honesty is just the same old virtue and approach we all know, just interpreted slightly differently a
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by djhn 11y ago
I reckon it is because tfl is the data provider, and the rail network isn't a part of that? I still found it very useful when looking for central accomodation with short commutes (<20') to centrally located places.
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by djhn 11y ago
My gut reaction would be to control for wealth or income, which they do not. I am not very familiar with Indian demographics, but I would assume monolingual people represent the poorest of the population?
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by djhn 11y ago
> There are only so many people capable of dropping 200,000$ on an hour-long thrill ride. You obviously haven't been hanging around wealthy people. Even just being a student in London you witness nights out costing spoiled kids more
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by djhn 11y ago
> family in tow. That does change things a bit. Like I said, often there are some good reasons sometimes many good reasons. But as a stereotype, in the US people will have lots of material possessions, most of which are crap. I know the
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by djhn 11y ago
Just call it a short-term contract, which it was. Or just say you weren't working for 3 months. If someone has a problem with that, I wouldn't want to work for them in the first place.
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by djhn 11y ago
People who never drink soda...except that one time at a restaurant on a holiday, where your sanitary considerations make you ask the waiter for a beverage you know, that beverage being coke or pepsi. I will go for the coke, even though I ca
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by djhn 11y ago
This is mind-blowing to me. I trust there was mostly good reason to it, but why did you need to move with so many physical things? I've moved all around Europe with 3 suitcases (and even that seemed a bit excessive). But then again I&#
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by djhn 11y ago
I'm glad there are others who think the same way! Like always, probably more topic-specific solutions will lead the way to a hopefully universal collection of knowledge.
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by djhn 11y ago
This is a welcome synthesis of a lot of great info. It's also a more attractive and credible way to introduce fast-growing technology startups* to the uninitiated than just saying, "oh, just read this bunch of blog posts by this g
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by djhn 11y ago
> whether the listener needs the piece, already has the piece, or just plain lacks the socket that the piece is supposed to snap into. This is very relevant to how we think about education, communication, information design and propagati
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by djhn 11y ago
I've been thinking about this problem on and off for several years (including a startup with an alpha version a couple of years ago). It's especially important in learning. How do you organize and present information in a way that
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by djhn 11y ago
A great way to make money has recently been "introducing VIP services to the middle class". What used to be exclusive due to scarcity, labour costs and lack of relevant technology is being made more an more accessible. To apply th
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by djhn 11y ago
Some of the highly English-speaking countries, like the Nordics, might be a good option. Better act fast though, before the UK "brexits" the EU. I have no idea how difficult it would be for people(/me) to keep their(/my)
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by djhn 11y ago
As a non-US citizen, this shocks me, even if it shouldn't by now. Does this indeed make it legal for a "chief corporate espionage officer" at Google to have a handy little dashboard of competitors inboxes? Can trade secrets o
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by djhn 11y ago
It's a shame I don't get 2000% returns in the real market. But I also don't invest 100% of my portfolio on every trade. I guess that's where I've been going wrong?..
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What ends would diluting it achieve?
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by djhn 11y ago
> So we're at the point now Has that not been the case for most of our history? Prior to the 20th Century most humans couldn't read legal documents of their time because they couldn't read. There's a reason "scri
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by djhn 11y ago
Yes, SuperPACs and presidential races are another beast altogether. Like I said, I was talking about a general case, since you referred to legislators, which by definition excludes presidential candidates. SuperPACs are difficult to play th
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by djhn 11y ago
For once it's very useful to have very few family members, or have a family that is totally oblivious to technology, internet and SV startups.

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