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by insoluble 11y ago
My biggest failure in 2015 was probably that I was too reactionary. I lacked the autonomy that I often had in the more distant past. Instead of making and following long-term plans, I found myself doing small projects and waiting for people
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by insoluble 11y ago
Personally I have never liked the idea of a middleman when it comes to charity, among other things. Similar to how micro payments can work well only with really low transaction fees, charity needs a low overhead to make proper sense. If you
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by insoluble 11y ago
> Being a programmer will be much less glamorized. This is exactly what I am expecting more than perhaps any other significant change within this time-frame. When influential social programs try to push as many young people as possible i
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by insoluble 11y ago
This is probably a good idea since the product obviously applies to a large portion of society, rather than a specific niche.
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by insoluble 11y ago
Strong moderation with clearly defined goals and rules could go a long way, granted you had the resources to back it up long enough for it to become self-sufficient. Stack Exchange has some categories with strong moderation and rules. The p
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by insoluble 11y ago
I was in a software segment that had a high risk of chargebacks, and my chargebacks went down when switching from ShareIt to PayPal.
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by insoluble 11y ago
> but kids like to create things sometimes As time goes on and as technology progresses, the minimum parts or components used while "making something oneself" become more complex. For example, there would have been a time when
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by insoluble 11y ago
Perhaps they have never had to decipher lengthy cryptic code written by others, nor code written by themselves in the distant past. Maybe you could throw some ugly, cryptic code at them and let them experience firsthand what it's like
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by insoluble 11y ago
WinSCP -- supports all the encryption goodies, is lightweight, and easily handles connecting to a bunch of servers at once.
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by insoluble 11y ago
How is this all that different than simply raising taxes and trying to use that money toward the same end? While I have never messed with Forex, my understanding is that it relies on an ongoing seesaw between the value of currencies or othe
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by insoluble 11y ago
> if we could get the rich people ... to fund this idea One problem is that there is very little incentive for the average rich person to care about making education affordable. After all, if poor kids can get a good education, then how
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by insoluble 11y ago
> better beyond the environment you created That sounds like an interesting approach to life: Improve your environment; watch yourself improve; then repeat. It's like a big optimisation problem slowly working its way toward the maxi
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by insoluble 11y ago
> change the situation and preconditions instead of trying to reprogram the machine Kudos on recognising the prevalence of this phenomenon. When people are running in a reactionary mode, trying to reprogram the system is asking for failu
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by insoluble 11y ago
Since designers are presumably aware of things like Photoshop and related technologies, it could be useful to explain by analogy. For example, a framework could be said to have "macros" that apply various types of "effects&qu
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by insoluble 11y ago
> should I move my money to currency B before A loses its current power? Just like with investing, the more knowledge you have on why the recent changes have occurred, the more prepared you are to predict whether now is the time to &qu
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by insoluble 11y ago
> Kernel/userland hardening is a thing [forgive me if I misunderstood the topic] If you're running a server, then you really should keep the Web side of things in an even more restricted zone than normal Users. I create extreme
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by insoluble 11y ago
I personally cannot tell you since I haven't ever got a job on there. However, I have found ones on Elance and Guru before. In terms of finding a small job, it would usually take me between 5 and 10 hours of looking around and submitti
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by insoluble 11y ago
Why not just have a timestamp in the query string? This way, each tab could have a different such timestamp of when the page was first loaded in that tab. When the page is refreshed, a new request will be made with the old (previously reque
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by insoluble 11y ago
You can set filters for the price range on Upwork, and you can use RSS or another type of feed to bring in new listings as they come out. Writing your own feed filtering can really help to weed out the undesirable listings. I agree that Upw
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by insoluble 11y ago
Certain healthcare innovations could in theory increase efficiency quite a bit for many people across various domains. Only if there were a way to make people smarter. Perhaps computer-brain interfaces could improve efficiency in some areas
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by insoluble 11y ago
Although I cannot say I've tried this since my products have been very niche, you could always try to come up with ten possible reasons why people might not care about your service, list them on a questionnaire, and then run them using
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by insoluble 11y ago
It's hypocritical because it shows that they don't want random people reading data going to and from their website but yet they advocate that others should accept random snoopers.
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by insoluble 11y ago
I would be more interested in something that doubled the efficiency (output/effort ratio) of work for 10 million people. The focus on money alone is asking for manipulation or even abuse. For one example, if we somehow pushed 10 millio
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by insoluble 11y ago
Except when that business is in making plugins for popular software. At least, many people seem to base their businesses on making plugins. In fact, even making apps for a particular platform or operating system has this problem. The real q
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by insoluble 11y ago
This approach may be suitable with more experienced clients, but smaller/newer clients may lack the experience or "self-awareness" to reflect in this manner. It's curious that inexperienced developers are bad for clients
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by insoluble 11y ago
It's surprising the big search engines don't already do something this simple. Maybe a browser plugin could perform this analysis on blocks of text and append a small div at the upper right/left showing the score for each blo
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by insoluble 11y ago
A way to sort or filter Web searches (sites, articles, posts, comments) by the IQ and or age of the person who wrote it. This would help people to minimise low-quality content. Even if the person were unknown, heuristic methods could be dev
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by insoluble 11y ago
I've been waiting for this too. It would be better if somehow only the best performers received this update. The problem is determining which performers are doing their jobs correctly .
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by insoluble 11y ago
> Along those lines, one of the most valuable things is the bugs you don't write and the bad design decisions you don't make. This point is very important yet elusive. I do contract development, and it's often difficult to
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by insoluble 11y ago
Indeed, some of the acts must have been motivated more from the Quran than anything else. This could probably be said of the Bible and various other texts as well. One question is the proportion for each various classification of root cause

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