isolli

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   by isolli 8y ago

   To be fair, in Slack I also miss important conversations when they happen in threads while I'm not looking.
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   by isolli 8y ago

   I also have to admit I was pretty impressed with their Machine Learning offering: https://youtu.be/hXG_zvpaZF4
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   by isolli 8y ago

   Well let's see how appraisers fared here [0]: "Intra-family flipping In the past two years, the Soni family essentially created their own market in Santa Ana by flipping enough homes in a small area, said Lackner, the appraisal fr
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   by isolli 8y ago

   Required reading on Flickr: https://gizmodo.com/5910223/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost...
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   by isolli 8y ago

   And the problem is not new: the Romans were already fighting olive-oil fraud! From Olive Oil's Dark Side [0]: "The Romans instituted elaborate mechanisms to prevent fraud. [...] These careful records were intended to prevent the s
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   by isolli 8y ago

   > as long as it's not deceiving and knowingly putting people in harm's way I think you've answered your own question here. This is exactly what the Housing Authority was doing, if the article is to be believed.
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   by isolli 8y ago

   A female friend of mine ranked #2 junior champion in Germany, and she received special coaching to encourage her to take more risks. So apparently the German Chess Federation believes that women's disadvantage in chess comes (at least
8. 608.▲
   by isolli 8y ago

   Is encryption optional? In general I'm more worried of forgetting my password (and thus losing all my data) than of unauthorized access to my home desktop.
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   by isolli 8y ago

   It reminds me of Czech, where a fixed list of prefixes can be used to modify the meaning of any verb, with very creative possibilities! https://mluvtecesky.net/en/grammar/prefixes
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    by isolli 8y ago

    No, you have to read the article in their app or website. The other way would be nice!
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    by isolli 8y ago

    That's what I like about Blendle [0]: you can request a refund for articles you don't like, so it makes the transaction almost frictionless. No need to think long and hard about the decision, just request a refund if the article i
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Try Blendle: https://launch.blendle.com/ Articles cost between $0.10 and $1.15 (most between $0.20 and $0.50). You can request a refund if you don't like an article, which makes the transaction almost frictionless. The
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Do you have more information on this? I would be interested.
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Notion (can't scroll down with the keyboard, only the mouse) or Intercom (customer's replies are not displayed until you reload).
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Thanks for the tip!
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Chrome has become the de facto standard browser. I regularly run into websites that don't work (or don't work well) in Firefox.
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    by isolli 8y ago

    References? I only see vague assertions...
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Tangentially related (2014): http://cepr.net/blogs/beat-the-press/wage-price-inflation-an... "Thanks to the eccentricities of Alan Greenspan, the Fed did not raise interest rates. Instead it allowed the unemp
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    by isolli 8y ago

    That's misleading. Economists follow real wages, which take inflation into account.
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Hasn't Obamacare addressed that? Or are you worried that the exchanges may go away?
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    by isolli 8y ago

    All the Obamacare horror stories paraded in 2010 were easily debunked. Everyone acknowledged that some people would be hurt in the transition. The surprising fact was that it was so hard to find someone who was convincingly, demonstrably hu
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Talking to people in Argentina in 2015, I realized that 40% inflation also brings many headaches that we are not used to with a 2% rate.
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Similar approaches were used during the French revolution [0], after the American revolution [1], and by the Nazis before the war [2]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assignat [1] https://en.wikipedia.org&
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Naive question: why is Apple iOS not affected by this?
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    by isolli 8y ago

    For anyone interested in maritime tragedies: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04/inside-el-faro-the-w... Spoiler alert: it's a sad story and no one survived.
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Source?
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    by isolli 8y ago

    And what are your thoughts regarding Spain and Italy?
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Agreed about London vs. the US, and the same would hold for Paris, but Berlin is the exception: apartments (and expectations) are huge compared to any other capital city. I'm not sure why that is. Being physically cut off from the worl
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    by isolli 8y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion, but I don't have any blocking extensions installed. If you use Notion you can check for yourself: there is no way to scroll down a page with the down arrow if the content exceeds the screen.
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    by isolli 8y ago

    No. It's a work computer (Ubuntu 16.04) so I just use Firefox as is. I checked and the Trello bug was gone, but the Notion bug is still there: for content that exceeds the screen, the down arrow will not let you go down further than th