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Ask HN: How common is a 4-day work week in our industry?
25 points by i_dont_know_ 5y ago|12 comments
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by i_dont_know_ 5y ago
I think there's also something to be said for passive processing. Sometimes I'll know I need to write some code or some function and I'll just think about it in the back of my head while doing other things, sometimes for a wh
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by i_dont_know_ 5y ago
I definitely feel bad for the guy, and I hope he got/gets the full help he needs. That having been said, I think there's something about meditation traditions that come from and are part of monastic traditions vs. meditation techn
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by i_dont_know_ 5y ago
I want to respond to you here because I think you've captured my point quite well in two ways, though maybe unintentionally. I really hope this gives you some personal insight somehow. (Part I) > I understood (and still believe) wha
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by i_dont_know_ 5y ago
I'll assume you're asking this genuinely. For the 'legal' part... you're generally not allowed to install whatever arbitrary software you want on other people's machines without some sort of consent, even in an
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by i_dont_know_ 5y ago
This reminds me of a random, but chilling, scene in "Minority Report". The protagonist confronts a man he thinks is responsible for killing his child. The man decides to reassure the protagonist by explaining how kind he was to th
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by i_dont_know_ 6y ago
So, this could be done in 1 of 2 ways: 1. There would be detailed ballot initiatives that contain full legal proposals, details of their execution, budget, etc. and voters simply vote "yes" or "no" to them. We see this a
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
I live here and this is the first time I've heard of it framed in terms of liberty. When schools started closing across Europe, government officials started talking keeping the schools open so health care workers wouldn't have to
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
I've started seeing this pattern as well, and it really has me wondering. If you have a team of relative newbies, they learn from trial-by-fire and grow really fast. I guess it's up to you if you have the time/bandwidth/
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
Someone has linked to a really nice legal review somewhere up in the comments, so my question is mostly answered now... but to answer your question about what I see as a difference in wording above: If the law said "All citizens have
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
Thank you! Just what I was looking for :) Though I get sadder the deeper I read
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
But it's not framed as "rights of citizens" in the actual wording of the Constitution (it was intended to be, yes, but that's another topic). For instance, the first amendment doesn't say "All citizens have t
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
Exactly
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
I've heard people say the US constitution lays out limits of what the US government can do, as opposed to rights of US citizens. So, if the US government wants to hold you in detention, they have to tell you why, not because you have t
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
Also want to ask if anyone has a 'parents' Linux setup that has worked well over the years... I tried once maybe 8 years ago and had to figure out how to walk my mom through a kernel panic through the phone... didn't work wel
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
I do actually resent the way google imposed HTTPS everywhere, but my issues were with the rollout as opposed to the tech. Rant for another day :) But with the security/encryption/signing for email... yeah, if it was just an &quo
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by i_dont_know_ 7y ago
As someone who runs their own personal mail server, this annoys me to no end. I set up DKIM, SPF, and reverse-DNS records and resented every moment of it. Even after all that, there's some chance that an email from my server will be ma
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
Thank you. Though I don't think this is a comprehensive list, it really brings home some of the frustrations when talking to others in tech about economics, particularly getting them to critically examine economic inequality. Because
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
I've worked on FOSS before and got a handful of messages from people like this. They're very very few and far between, but I always found them fascinating because of how much it broke their worldviews. They're usually people
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
I had a situation like that years ago. I stuck around long enough to build a very comfortable cushion, quit, and then spent the better part of a year afterwards being very picky about jobs and eventually landing the most rewarding, most p
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
I'll give you the same advice everyone else is, but word it slightly differently, because thinking this way really helped me: Be OK in your own vulnerability. 'Toughness' implies some sort of everything-proof shield that you
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
Really good point. The industrial revolution pushed "the west" pretty far in terms of power/economics but there were thousands of years of human history prior to it. In that longer view of history, China has always been a maj
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In the internet age, don't argue like Socrates(medium.com)
3 points by i_dont_know_ 8y ago|1 comments
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When democracy itself fails, and one possible solution(medium.com)
5 points by i_dont_know_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
I negotiated this with previous employers. I do consulting work now and I've negotiated this with myself as well :) I think I'm more productive this way, because, after a 3-day weekend I generally have a fresh perspective and feel
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
I think you're getting it very wrong; this isn't about people saying "let's just allow illegal immigrants the full rights of legal immigrants". There are some people saying that, but they're a small minority. T
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The Masterful Misdirection of the GMO Debate(medium.com)
3 points by i_dont_know_ 8y ago|0 comments
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
Really? You wake up with a stuffed nose and immediately rush to the doctor's office? I don't. If it feels like a cold or flu (the most frequent sicknesses at work), I'll just rest at home for a few days and I'm better. T
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
A link to the whole HR manual. Some places have insanely condescending HR policies (requiring doctor's notes to 'count as sick', or strict hours for a job that could be done remotely, strict dress codes, weird rules about lun
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by i_dont_know_ 8y ago
I'm also not convinced this is above-board with the organizations whose works are being resold. Once upon a time, we had newspaper machines where you put in a quarter to open the machine. You'd take one and leave the rest for othe

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