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by hrktb 7y ago
> However, you can't control how your manager acts You can choose your manager and try to be under someone who acts as you expect though. Just as your manager tries to hire people that will be a good fit for their team. It goes both
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by hrktb 7y ago
I interpret it as a point about the mechanism being in place.It being marketed as a parental control is accessory.
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by hrktb 7y ago
How would you account for people self-persuading themselves when they take the job, and know to keep that belief alive for self-preservation ? We have inate abilities to model reality in a way that helps us, not just in a cognitive dissonan
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by hrktb 7y ago
There could be two saving factors: - pollution would tend to stay closer to ground level, rooftop being less affected - not using pesticides and other chemical can offset the pollution they’re exposed to
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by hrktb 7y ago
One of the issue is that Google is not neutral to these results: the bot went out its way to index these pages, give exposure, and if any single person posting these videos can’t be found and sued to force them to remove it completely it wi
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by hrktb 7y ago
While it’s a valid point, there are many workarounds. Also even in json, splitting documents in smaller chunks (ndjson for instance) is the standard practice to avoid having to parse it all in one go.
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by hrktb 7y ago
Burnout perhaps ? I think depression can cause color perception loss (not complete, but colors fade out). Also when getting used to a second or third language (i.e. french _ english) one can temporarily get overwhelmed and have difficulty t
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by hrktb 7y ago
I think you might be referring to the later protests. Before the gov. "concessions", they shut down basically a quarter of Paris. Even without using public transportation, you could try to walk from the Louvre to Etoile for instan
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by hrktb 7y ago
> the ideas that a featured product would be featured because it makes the company more money is in no way scandalous! This is completely true for most retailers. In particular for in person sales where people can straight assume they ar
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by hrktb 7y ago
You are right, and checked back, La Defense -> Chatelet is 9.4km (that's the two RER stations left open after shutting down CDG Etoile and Auber. And they basically shut down anything between these stations) They shut down 36 statio
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by hrktb 7y ago
I'd argue at this point most people who wanted to hear about the protests has, and knows what it is about. Or anyone picking up that there's protests from this piece would find the relevant info very fast. It's actually how I
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by hrktb 7y ago
> However, this wasn't due to people going to protests, this was due to increased violence, and even attacks inside the stations. Yes, and it's legitimate from a business point of view. But then, if the police wanted to shut do
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by hrktb 7y ago
yes, this piece would not stand as a news article on its own (it's also not its goal). I think the reaction we have to it is that it is willing to present aspects that might not resonate with most people, nor have any specific signific
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by hrktb 7y ago
> The MTR is the one technology the Hong Kong protests could not do without, an autonomous fiefdom that the police mostly stay out of. It is neutral territory This is a godsend. During Paris protest earlier this year the gov would just s
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by hrktb 7y ago
Fundamentally it is not what western media think as “news”. It is long, ultra detailed, first person, and doesn’t cover the central point covered by other news outlets. If a NYT editor was reading this it would cut it down to a fifth of wha
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by hrktb 7y ago
I find the term “oppresive” to be more and more difficult to get a handle on when everything is on a spectrum now. People draw the line somewhere that puts them in the “non-appressive” camp, and justify it in so many ways (“you can’t compar
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by hrktb 7y ago
It seems those who sticked with it got regular updates until it was a decent game. Not playing it myself, just what I heard from the vines.
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by hrktb 7y ago
You are right, but I think it goes beyond that. Any control interface is by definition acting on something dynamic, so even pushing a physical button, we expect the some status to reflect the result instantly. I think touchscreen could be b
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by hrktb 7y ago
At this point is “manual” even accurate, as these controls are gradually not linked to anything ? (thus allowing to move control around, or input adjustement for instance) Also (from 2016): http://www.boeing.com/777x/re
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by hrktb 7y ago
As with everything it depends. Throwing a whole category of input under the bus because it failed when we tried in some uses would be short-sighted. Especially as we’ve had touchscreens for less than a few decades. > inherently inferior
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by hrktb 7y ago
Did it become any easier to get a permanent visa for instance ? Japan has a long history of allowing a mass of low wage workers to come in with very bounded conditions (work limited to elderly care for instance) and it rarely translates to
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by hrktb 7y ago
> 2) They are improving the unit economics of ride sharing and that, if the trend continues, they will be positive in the future. I think the main contention is that they could as well be at their max expansion right now. Not in a purely
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by hrktb 7y ago
The disconnect would be between a gov. agency freeing money for national companies, and investors who can invest in whatever they want, including investing in other countries and bribing the gov. to free more money. As you point out investo
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by hrktb 7y ago
As far as I know the registering part is mandatory for legal use but lets the accepting party decide to check it or not. For instance as you point out for banks you can open an account without any check (you’re giving them money) but you wo
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by hrktb 7y ago
“Wordplay” is too generous IMO. The original russian proverb is also double speak, as we would say now. It’s obvious when applied to trivial situations: “I trust my wife, but I take the time to verify her phone every night and check the pri
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by hrktb 7y ago
Isn’t this equivalent to stamping PDFs with your signature like we do elsewhere ? Also the stamp has to be registered to have legal value, which makes it tough to change. But your idea of signing with the result of some personal certificate
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by hrktb 7y ago
I see Google as a super huge organisation with smaller organisations within (I never worked there so that's just an image). It would be less surprising to have these kind of disfunctionments within giant corps I think. As a consumer,
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by hrktb 7y ago
does it ? > Reagan used the phrase to emphasize "the extensive verification procedures that would enable both sides to monitor compliance with the treaty"
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by hrktb 7y ago
It’s crazier in languages where adjectives take genders as well. Japanese is blessed in this regard. (I fixed the remaining bits)
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by hrktb 7y ago
“Trust but verify” litteraly meant “Don’t trust” (as in “don’t trust the Russians” in context). Was it the nuance you intended ?

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