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by isolli 8y ago
Hm you're right. At some point I could no longer move lists around, but it's back now. It was the third UI to break after Intercom (customer replies not shown unless I reloaded) and Notion (down arrow does not scroll the page down
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by isolli 8y ago
In general you would be right, but this is at work.
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by isolli 8y ago
I have always used Firefox, ever since they implemented tabbed browsing (an incredible improvement, for those who don't remember the time before that). However, in recent times I have had to switch more and more apps to Chrome because
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by isolli 8y ago
An interesting point is that the Cuban government uses an extremely regressive taxation system to extract maximum revenue from the people providing services to tourists. According to the people I spoke to, the first bracket is taxed at 100%
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by isolli 8y ago
I fondly remember the Ultima VI manual, complete with cloth map. Those were the days :)
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by isolli 8y ago
A random stranger once shared this piece of wisdom with me: "the days are long but the years are short". Sometimes at the end of a long day I try to remember this :)
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by isolli 8y ago
This meta-study supports the use of acupuncture to treat chronic pain: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullar...
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by isolli 8y ago
And how would you call medicine that has been proven not to work? This is what the original discussion is about: the medical system can be too slow to recognize and stop harmful practices. There are many examples: Thalidomide, operating on
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by isolli 8y ago
I don't know, it's a matter of definition. What I know is that the article makes a good point.
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by isolli 8y ago
I believe you find this article interesting: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/11/upshot/labels-like-altern... "My friends who believe in homeopathy don’t really care. Those who favor conventional med
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by isolli 8y ago
I think the analogy does not hold. The reason these railroads are so well developed is because they lead to land the operator owns. If I apply the analogy, ISPs will develop infrastructure only if it leads to content they own. In other word
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by isolli 8y ago
This article makes the case for government intervention [0]. The central thesis is that, had Microsoft not been sued for antitrust in the 90s and wary of yet another lawsuit, they would have killed Google in its infancy. Apparently anonymou
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by isolli 8y ago
Sure you had good insurance then, but you could have easily lost it by losing your job. And before Obamacare the only way to be absolutely safe from the negative outcomes I listed was to be rich.
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by isolli 8y ago
> because I had good insurance through my employer However, you only get this peace of mind without being rich thanks to Obamacare (whose days may be numbered...). Before, you had to be rich to self-insure against the following events: -
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by isolli 8y ago
I would also add: The ability to live in a nice family home in a nice neighborhood. Which is on track to become prohibitively expensive in most places.
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by isolli 8y ago
Can you provide examples? I can only think of a counter-example: Ingvar Kamprad, the (Swedish) founder of Ikea, and by some accounts at times the richest man on earth.
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by isolli 8y ago
Or better, all of the above :)
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by isolli 8y ago
An interesting example, one of the best-known book openings in French literature ("Aujourd'hui, maman est morte."), and the difficulties translating the sentence in English: https://www.newyorker.com/books&#x2
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by isolli 8y ago
Yes, but even in industries with razor-thin margins the solution to a labor shortage is to increase salaries. Some of the companies will go under, and the most productive ones will survive. It's capitalism, quite simply.
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by isolli 8y ago
How can preventing competition be great? If innovative startups are prevented from entering the market because of predatory pricing, it does harm customers.
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by isolli 8y ago
Can you really call it a fun fact when 7 people died?
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by isolli 8y ago
What platform do you trade on? Do you use a broker or trade directly on an exchange?
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by isolli 8y ago
How about percussive sounds, such as a cymbal crash? These show very high frequencies in a Fourier analysis. Wouldn't that invalidate the application of the Nyquist-Shannon theorem?
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by isolli 8y ago
Could this Civilization clone have useful ideas for you? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C-evo
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by isolli 9y ago
It is relevant because IT projects are inherently difficult, and many of them fail. Just because the French government failed at two projects mentioned in the original comment does not mean that a) it's particularly bad at IT projects
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by isolli 9y ago
Such a comment is meaningless without context. How often do corporate IT projects fail? How often do government IT projects fail?
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by isolli 9y ago
I highly recommend this book (by a French author), which covers the years 70 AD to 1943, so not far! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Book_of_Abraham_(novel) I don't know if some would call it biased, but it made
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by isolli 9y ago
Thanks. We're only acting on it insofar as we read about it and try to find practical ways to deal with it. We're not going to medicate her! And when we discuss the topic, we always start with: "We believe that..."
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by isolli 9y ago
My wife and I believe our daughter has a (thankfully) mild form of autism. It took us a while, but when the realization came, it was a relief, as we stopped being angry at her and at ourselves: 1) hopefully we did not do anything wrong to
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by isolli 9y ago
Dean Baker often complains about this, most recently here [0] > Apparently German employers don't understand basic economics. Their ignorance is jeopardizing the whole economy, according to the DIHK Chambers of Industry and Commerce

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