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by hrktb 7y ago
Honest question: how should we take Bloomberg articles mainly based on opinion or original investigations ? I don’t study in the US so have no opinion about US college, so don’t have any way to tell if these claims are any valid. Bloomberg
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We’d have to look closer to the study, but there is a lot of research reaching the conclusion that learning languages has lasting effect on the brain, in particular in bi-lingual children ([0] for instance) In that respect, picking back a l
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> But between then and now, research has shown the depth of the relationship all of us have with our native tongues—and how traumatic it can be when that relationship is ruptured. I wondered what these research were. From the additional
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by hrktb 7y ago
> Is it the CEO? They are unlikely to know enough about French taxation This line of thinking becomes a shield for executives, letting them push subordinates into corners where they'll have very strong incentives to do illegal thing
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by hrktb 7y ago
I got it wrong the first time, then got it at the second take, thought I had it wrong again reading your comment and turned around again. The writing was weirdly misleading. > Solar panels, even at high noon, usually only produce about 2
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by hrktb 7y ago
If it can generate enough energy to move the 1 ton vehicle for 2~4 miles, it seems it's pulling its weight, literally.
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Isn't it a case of the better killing the good ? From your excerpt is seems electric panels still give 2-4 miles of range per hour of charge. Even taking into account the added weight, it's a net positive so why dismiss the idea c
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Another angle is to declare from the start wanting improve the situation whatever their stress level is, and ask what your efforts should be directed at. If they don't have much to complain about it will be low priority items, if they&
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I decided long ago that I won’t work for places that can’t be bothered having decent offices, whatever they do, whatever they pay * I don’t mean candy bowls or flashy sofas, but well lit, well ventilated, with decent toilets, noise isolatio
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Thanks. Having an app to switch seems a pretty good compromise to me. Headphone jack’s ship has sailed anyway, so it’s mostly a matter of making peace with it with decent alternatives.
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I see where you’re coming from, but it also feels like asking ‘why do you want to work in a nice place ? what difference is it really making that your desk has smooth angles and is made of sturdy materials instead of a particle plank with f
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by hrktb 7y ago
Are you pairing your earphones with multiple devices ? (your phone and switch ?) That’s the last point that makes me pause, as pairing/unpairing/switching is a PITA and I have four devices I want to hear audio from. I though only
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Waterproofing could perhaps be the main feature, the 6S being the last one who didn’t get it. I also wonder if they increased screen durability, with all the shots of phones getting into purses against keys etc. Also I feel the camera is ge
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“Pro” is not just for productivity but comfort of use as well. As an analogy if you sit on a chair 8 hours a day you’ll want a super nice chair, even if it wouldn’t have direct effects on productivity compared to a just decent one. For most
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As someone planning on upgrading a kid’s device, better performance: you never have any, we get tons, in particular when multitasking. I confess I am used to the 13” pro so I am more sensible to the glitches perhaps. Touch ID is a real QOL
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Sometimes they’ll tell lies that their boss tells everyone willing to listen. Everybody knows these are lies, but they won’t always give you that “read between the line” interpretation during an interview. The most obvious one is usually “w
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It's a kind of embrace/extend process: - new ideas come to an enterprise - they decide to apply it and see the "shortcomings" - apply additional processes to where they feel it doesn't match You end up with somethin
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IMO the comparison would be more apt between an all-in-one scanner /printer/fax with a big touch screen, and a single purpose laser printer. The first doesn't take much room compared to what it does, it can do a lot of things
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by hrktb 7y ago
There was incredible amount of stuff you could do in text, like ･゜ﾟ･ :.｡..｡.: ･'( ﾟ▽ﾟ )'･ :.｡. .｡.: ･゜ﾟ･ . or ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=ε=┌(;￣◇￣)┘ And people started to have auto pasted ascii art. That’s the point where emoji is a more concise,
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> Are people regularly buying far more than they can consume? Yes, and it's not limited to food. It's the same phenomenon as someone buying too many games on Steam or buying more books than they can read. You are right in that
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What train are you boarding on ? Apple was an oasis of reliable design because short of Lenovo and Dell other brands were horrible in critical ways(e.g. no decent *nix support, or lack of decent international keyboard), and Thinkpads have a
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Elastic cloud is not a great option for beginners, at least not at this point. For instance there is no purge of old indexes out of the box, a lot of configuration options are not available, performance issues are inscrutable. I think it ne
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It should have been dealt at a different level. His student visa should have been accepted anyway, and open an investigation on him as a US resident if you think he could be a terrorist threat. He passed several layers of heavy screening al
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> text form as being completely subordinate and subsumed by its audiobook version Close to this, an other angle is to see the text version as source, and the audiobook as a representation. The source having more information, or allowing
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by hrktb 7y ago
I kinda of see what you are pointing at, but by definition every alternative structures we’ve seen survive long enough is now part of our tradition, so “traditional”. I don’t see this as just a play on word, there is a wide variety of exist
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It’s super niche, but I have two specific use cases: - loading an account family members have access to, without linking to the main credit card. - loading foreign accounts, where small transactions are painful with most cards.
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I am wondering how you effectively start from the edge cases. To deal with errors, in particular complicated ones, you need the main skeleton coded and a central case working. Are the 20% left (btw a fifth of stuff missing feels huge) reall
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by hrktb 7y ago
Is it disproportionate ? There are still a overwhelming number of US centric news, on subject that arguably would be more thought provoking if it was on other countries (that is arguably not that interesting, even to a US reader (I am think
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Isn’t it the same issue, and something that needs to be explained and taught to the students coming there to learn?
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I see the role of a manager to guide and help people, someone with just good technical skills should be an architect , an expert or technical lead. I know a lot or organizations don’t make that distinction, but I also made a conscious choic

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