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by ilkan 7y ago
Whether retirement was voluntary or forced, the health of the person at retirement time and social/vocational continuity could be bigger factors than the act of retirement itself.
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by ilkan 7y ago
The meaning of non-controllable is "can't be fixed". “The quality of the drive does seem to affect the tip,” List said. “It just matters way less than all these [other] factors.”
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by ilkan 7y ago
Imagine if every coder was paid below minimum wage and depended on tips in every paycheck... it assumes a default that the employee needs a daily threat of punishment from moody strangers to do acceptable work. Not a fun environment.
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by ilkan 7y ago
a) That's not a business, it's a bait-and-switch scam. b) Non-tip countries have many restaurants.
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by ilkan 7y ago
I was troubleshooting WhatsApp over the phone for a relative work different hardware... Took me a bit of time to realize "solid triangle-ish" was wifi and "cup" was microphone. But for the Gen-Z and after, how would you
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by ilkan 7y ago
Same. I got mine a used iphone4 mainly for whatsapp a few years ago and it was hard doing phone support for an 80+ year old. Harder when she can't describe the ux, interfaces aren't standard (back vs cancel vs < vs x), and in m
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by ilkan 7y ago
I disagree with that characterization of "the population". Internet use is mandatory, as government, banking and corporate services use more and more online-only application or submission processes. Lowers costs by eliminating pap
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by ilkan 7y ago
My split is reference/search (ebook), entertainment/immersion (ebook) and education/assimilation (paper). Ebooks are still too undifferentiated and featureless for effective learning. For example I can often remember that a d
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by ilkan 7y ago
Water-only fasting was popular in sanatoriums and weight loss spas in the late 1800's/early 1900's... practice was stopped after lack of electrolytes caused several patient deaths from heart arrhythmias.
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by ilkan 7y ago
When I visited Thailand the tour guide said "Don't go around talking about how cheap things are because 1) it's priced for the locals who don't make as much as you do and 2) it may imply that you think they're infer
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by ilkan 8y ago
Are you staying an engineer all your life or eventually be an exec? Do you want to be well paid or influential? Are you a PhD who likes doing one thing in depth, or are you a get-sh*t-done person who likes multiple interesting projects? Do
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by ilkan 8y ago
Why do waiters make more than cooks? There's your answer
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by ilkan 8y ago
Imho odds are your manager is right. Are you working for a 3 letter agency, its contractor or subcontractor; are you revealing trade secrets or company priorities, or implying them by revealing your knowledge on a subject; are you using you
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by ilkan 8y ago
I finish my warm shower with 10 seconds of cold. It's energizing and you won't need coffee.
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by ilkan 8y ago
The author's field of study is lake habitats worldwide. They are also showing changes in the life inside the water. The author suggests the changes inside existing lakes, reduction in insect life around lakes, and general loss of inse
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by ilkan 8y ago
Dick Tracy in the 40's Edit: Star Trek communicators, 1960's
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by ilkan 8y ago
Interesting prototype but not practical beyond trivial use cases yet (plus this is clearly a guy's version of booking a hairdresser.) Generally I'd have other requests like it's a date can we have a quieter side, or view of t
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by ilkan 8y ago
There's a far-future sci-fi novel where "please" and "thank you" are considered insults when spoken to people...bc that's how the wealthy prefaced and ended their computer commands. Vinge, perhaps?
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by ilkan 8y ago
I don't travel much. But they are called porters (or, redcaps in Barbados because they wear red caps for easy identification). Let's say you are elderly, tired or have a lot of baggage. You wave a porter over, he or she takes the
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by ilkan 8y ago
Are you only half-way through the JS course at Code Academy? Afraid of being rejected for coding jobs? Do you know the posted requirements are BS, and you're confident you can grow into any developer role? For the next 30 days, you can
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by ilkan 8y ago
Diet and bite sensitivity. I get a few tiny ones that I usually don't notice, a relative gets many huge swellings that need medical attention. I believe different attractors are weighted more strongly in different types of mosquitoes t
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by ilkan 8y ago
It's scale. Finding individual vloggers, making deals and tracking results would be to time consuming to scale up to $1M/day per company. An ad platform is a centralized management and spend system for large groups of individual s
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by ilkan 8y ago
We don't create factories around people. Reinvent fashion, kitchens and house plans to fit the machine. That's very doable. Restrict the solution space to find the answer. (Let Marketing handle the user acceptance issues)
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by ilkan 9y ago
Creating an accurate numeric ranking of the tens of thousands of varieties of criminal, civil, financial, social and etiquette crimes and infractions, which may or may not be written down, is impossible. If you don't know the methodolo
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by ilkan 9y ago
False. This is unjustified double punishment for kids whose parents don't care. I notice you tried to justify immorality by splitting the response into "morally" and "pragmatically". Implying both (1) morality can b
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by ilkan 9y ago
AKA the difference between Google and Facebook disclosure of private information (none vs a lot).
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Google's One-Time 'Chief Technology Advocate' on Making Facebook Likable(theatlantic.com)
2 points by ilkan 9y ago|1 comments
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by ilkan 9y ago
How misleading. The article is about the challenges, and possible diagnostic and repair benefits, of creating electronic circuits that don't trigger the immune system. Not "competing with ai".
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by ilkan 9y ago
This doesn't sound like a technical problem. More like a government is being defunded, half the vans need repair, lack of senior management, no direction, other priorities, shortage of techs, hiring freeze, the remaining people only wo
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by ilkan 9y ago
Protip: NAC prevents hangovers. I take one before and one after if I'm expecting an epic night out. The downside is, I don't get drunk so all the drink spend is wasted money. The upside, I come across as impervious instead of natu

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