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by emacsen 3y ago
Not 0%, but a drone center can have a few people operating many drones, so the labor cost is distributed there too.
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by emacsen 3y ago
This is unintuivite at first, but makes sense. As we approach last mile, economies of scale begin to not only diminish, but invert. Let me put it another way... it's very inefficient to move cargo by a fleet of cars vs a fleet of truck
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by emacsen 3y ago
For me, the issue on the playground is that neither backspace nor delete did anything. That seems like either a severe bug or limitation.
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by emacsen 3y ago
I agree entirely. There were many things that upset me about our system/process. We were a messaging based service (not voice) and we were trained to not lie, but not be entirely forthcoming with folks either. For example, if they aske
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by emacsen 3y ago
I can't reveal more about my volunteering, but I will say that it was never me who made the calls, it was always a supervisor who could monitor the conversation. But asking permission is not really an option, and I'll explain why
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by emacsen 3y ago
I was a volunteer on a crisis hotline, and I thought a great deal about this. Firstly, very few people on the service I volunteered for had authorities called on them- roughly one in every thousand calls. Usually, if I mentioned that emerge
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by emacsen 3y ago
> What would an application do that is more secure than namespaces+cgroups? Object capabilities, which is what Sandstorm/Cap’n Proto are based on, provides much more security than Mandatory Access Control systems while also providin
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by emacsen 3y ago
Unrelated to this is the distinction between money and wealth. The challenge for a company like Weework is that it's hard to identify what wealth they generate- at least for me. In other words, what are they making (goods) or doing (se
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by emacsen 3y ago
No one is saying that 12 step doesn't have any successes, but: 1. The data is somewhat overwhelming that the rates of success aren't 25-30% as you said, but closer to 7%.[1] This puts it in roughly the same category as no 2. No
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by emacsen 4y ago
I am not a lawyer, but if it's provable that your data was stolen, why wouldn't a citizen be able to take an entity to court for what would be reason precautions and protections around their data? If you can show that they didn&#x
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by emacsen 4y ago
Binding arbitration is a process I recently went through, and I think that it's excellent for two parties which are reasonably well positioned to pay for the expense of both the process and the lawyers, as well as wanting an expitied p
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by emacsen 4y ago
There are reasons why the community leadership was poor. It had to do with both the culture of the project (being a grass roots project) and then a fear of change. That fear came from lack of vision. Without a vision to to work towards, for
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by emacsen 4y ago
I've been out of the mapping world for quite a few years now, but at one time I was a prolific mapper in OSM. I wrote a post on my blog about my concerns for the project, and some ideas for improvement: https://blog.emacsen.
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by emacsen 4y ago
I meant more is the administrative red tape an issue. :) This is somewhat aspirational, but I live in Vancouver and if/when we get PR, we'd like to buy a home and possibly want to renovate. Condo living (or in local Canadian &quot
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by emacsen 4y ago
Good to know. It is like this in the nearby suburbs as well (Burnaby, Richmond, etc.)?
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by emacsen 4y ago
I recently went through this process with American Express. Here was my situation and experience. I bought something online that was supposed to come in two packages. One package arrived. The other didn't arrive even after three weeks.
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by emacsen 4y ago
Launched a website to help people find virtual volunteering opportunities, and keep updating it with new content, categories and soon a guide. https://goodworksonline.org
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by emacsen 4y ago
Explaining org-mode at this point is almost akin to explaining emacs itself. What is Emacs? Is it a text editor, for editing config files? Is it an IDE for development? An email reader? Org-Mode is a mode for Emacs that provides structure t
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by emacsen 4y ago
I made a little website for people who want to do good work online but aren't sure where to start or what they can do. It has lots of projects, sorted alphabetically or by category. People have suggested adding a section for projects t
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Show HN: Website to find places to volunteer virtually(goodworksonline.org)
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by emacsen 4y ago
From a one credit course I did in 1997, I don't remember :)
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by emacsen 4y ago
I'm not a psychologist, I have nothing but that BA in the field, but if I had to make a guess, my guess is that "wonderful" is not the same as "competent". Even at the time, there were studies that showed traits ass
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by emacsen 4y ago
We didn't have a huge study, <40 participants, so whatever we found wasn't publishable, but I remember the results surprised me. At the time, I felt like "Sexism is dead" and the university I was in was 2/3rds wo
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by emacsen 4y ago
This was one of the few factors we kept the same- same text. I think if it had been a larger study (not a one credit class run by 4 undergrads but an actual study with funding) we might have had multiple texts and randomized them, but we ha
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by emacsen 4y ago
This is a really long time ago but if I remember, we ready a study about how sports effected perception. In the other study they did the male sport vs female sport thing, but not the name part, and so we just were combing two previous studi
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by emacsen 4y ago
It wasn't anything so complex as that. The simpler version of the study had been done before, and the class I was a study design class. Our class assignment was to design, execute, and analyze a study. We were simply combining two exis
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by emacsen 4y ago
We announced the name of the author. The script went something like "We're going to ask you to read this piece, written by J. Smith.". During debriefing, we would tell the subjects what we were actually looking for (perceptio
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by emacsen 4y ago
When I was an undergrad in college, I helped design a study on the role of gender perception in expertise. We had a piece of text that the subjects (undergrads) would read and rate the expertise of. We had the same text but we randomized wh
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by emacsen 4y ago
I have a specific appliance network, designed exactly for this. My computers don't live on that network, but things that I demand not spy on me lives there. Adguard is basically the same as Pihole. They run the same way, and are both
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by emacsen 4y ago
There's a reason I have my Roku on an Adguard network

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