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by frossie 16y ago
I flew through three airports with backscatter machines last week. I had a small child with me. Each time i was directed to the regular metal detector - and in one case where my child walked ahead and was about to go through the backscatter
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by frossie 16y ago
But thanks to the magic of DVCS, everybody can still hack :-)
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Or CDG or ATH or many other (if not most) European airports. Screening at the gates makes a lot of sense in terms of traffic flow, as you don't get huge queues, and airline personnel hold the plane if there are security hold-ups. Also if th
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by frossie 16y ago
No,it's not the same thing as the daycare example. The issue with daycare late fines is that they allow a person to "pay off" bad behavior, therefore reducing guilt and therefore increasing it's likelihood. Here the OP is discussing rewardi
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by frossie 16y ago
Yet there are words in English that don't have one word equivalents in many other languages - eg. "home" (as opposed to "my house") While I don't think it tells you much about linguistics, I do think these kind of games give you a little cu
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by frossie 16y ago
Man, I love the idea of launching... and then going out to buy your co-founding other-half their birthday dinner. Coolness.
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by frossie 16y ago
Well I certainly don't feel like that. Cooking only became interesting to me when I realized there are real answers to the "why do it like that" question. Why rinse the chick peas? To wash away preservatives? Because the slime is off-puttin
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by frossie 16y ago
Hence the old joke about having a Ph.D. being most useful when you have to write a letter to your bank.
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by frossie 16y ago
It sounds like you are trying to figure out if you have an addiction problem or a lifestyle problem. So, decide not to drink alcohol for 4 weeks starting today. If you can't manage it, you will know the former is the problem. If you can, yo
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by frossie 16y ago
I agree that it is hellishly difficult to hire for that kind of GTD ability. However I put it to you that if you have 25,000 employees, you must have fluked some of these personality types even with just technical interviews. Ergo if these
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't think that is what the OP is saying. The problem is not associated with risk taking but its opposite - finishing things after the primary risk has been tackled. I have no idea what happens inside Google, but as a user of their pro
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't think you are applying the statistical notion of survivorship bias completely accurately. The original comment questioned the accuracy of the statement "they don't build them like they used to", which I took to refer to building sta
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by frossie 16y ago
The karma system discourages duplication and it is worth its weight in gold just for that. Imagine if the 50 people that agree with a comment felt the need to chime in. Whereas with karma you upvote and are done with it. To a newbie, karma
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by frossie 16y ago
For this to be the case you would have to assume that the main reason that a 2,000 year old building is not around is because it fell down due to structural flaws. I think in Rome and Athens there is a lot of evidence that people knocked t
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by frossie 16y ago
I know some clinically depressed people. This post shows no signs of it. All forms of metal illness and disfunction look the same? C'mon people, this is the kind of post where if you don't have something positive to say, it is best to mov
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by frossie 16y ago
the only way to meet friends is to be outgoing, being an introvert makes this very hard Argh. An introvert is not defined as somebody who cannot make friends, it's somebody who doesn't feel the need to make many friends. If you want fri
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by frossie 16y ago
Anybody comment on what the situation is in Amsterdam Just a note of caution - while looking at what other places do definitely brings information to the table, you can't always say "if place A does X, doing X in place B will make it like
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by frossie 16y ago
Hell, sometimes I even love companies. The insurance company could have said "hey you chose to be rear ended". Instead they paid up without quibbling and called him a hero in the process.
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by frossie 16y ago
I'm not arguing with the point of the article (that there are more commercial companies who "leech" off open source) - I don't have the data to argue against that, and in fact anecdotally I do believe it to be true. I am just saying that if
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by frossie 16y ago
most open source doesn't depend on companies paying someone to work on it Not directly, but there is a correlation. For example the amount of open source that our shop puts out is definitely related to workload - as we have shed staff, th
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by frossie 16y ago
Some executives interviewed for the study worried that this bias would hurt their business I'm sure they did. The fact that it was multi-nationals doing the hiring is I think an important factor. "Foreigners" are often expected to behave
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by frossie 16y ago
This is exactly right. The job ad is about the company. Your resume is about you. The cover letter is supposed to highlight how one matches the other. These examples are fabulous. A generic cover letter is worse than useless.
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by frossie 16y ago
California makes it easy for parents to claim exemptions from the required vaccinations for their children I think I spotted the problem right there...
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Even death is subject to redundant engineering Death may be, but shareholder opinion isn't. No matter how thoroughly Steve Jobs engineers his own departure, the stock will still tank the day he leaves.
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by frossie 16y ago
Yup. Didn't we only yesterday have an Ask HN thread on side projects that are making money? The great thing about software today is how much you can do on a small scale. If her theory about commitment was correct, you would have a bunch of
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by frossie 16y ago
The poor, stupid Waddell & Reed sell algorithm [...] Ouch.
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At the end of the day minimalist and frugal or pretty orthogonal. I think that is certainly true in the abstract, but I suspect in the average specific case minimalism correlates with saving money. For the average person, their biggest ex
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by frossie 16y ago
I don't think it's suspicious, it's just very sad (to me, I mean). The OP says they are an economics major - they probably would never think to post a question on economics entitles "MIT female economist seeks OECD data". sigh Anyway as t
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by frossie 16y ago
It's that unusual? Oh dear. The average HNer would probably gouge their eyes out rather than work for me. I am in academia - we think 65K is a good salary. No big exits here :-)
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by frossie 16y ago
I'm still waiting for the first manned lunar base. (Not to mention the catastrophic nuclear waste accident that sends the moon out of its orbit and into the deepest reaches of space - that one's overdue by 11 years now). (sorry)

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