jaredhansen

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by jaredhansen 7y ago
Well, it finally happened: we outlasted Google! Hi, founder of Breezy here (www.breezy.com), a secure cloud / mobile print infrastructure that actually is "enterprise-ready". (For example: we have tens of thousands of acti
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by jaredhansen 7y ago
"hereby ordered" means exactly nothing without legal authority behind it. The President can't just "order" companies to randomly do things. I mean, he can, but they don't have to comply, and there's no leg
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by jaredhansen 7y ago
>The problems with this industry aren't technology problems, they're people (political) problems This is an underappreciated insight. I am working on something in a related field and I appreciate your insight here. I'd l
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by jaredhansen 7y ago
>The war on drugs costs us $51 billon annually and the only upside is that corporations selling legal drugs like alcoholic beverages and prescription medications get to keep their artificial monopoly.* That $51B "cost" is kno
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
It's almost as if the GDPR were less a carefully designed way to increase the degree of freedom individuals experience while perusing the web, and more an expensive and highly visible way to demonstrate that EU functionaries are Doing
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
It seems like every dozen threads or so in the last year have at least one thread with bizarrely cantankerous / dismissive replies, with a few lonely voices saying when did you all get so unhappy? Tulsa's initiative here is rea
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
>I saw how the internet changed government almost 20 years ago, and can say that cloud and microservices are now also revolutionary. Please elaborate. I would be very interested to hear more about this from your perspective. Thanks!
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
> It's not so easy to understand the real agendas here. The real agenda has a lot more to do with impressing your neighbors with how eco-conscious you are (ideally via cheap signals like signs and bumper stickers) than it does with
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Photos of the Tashkent metro in Uzbekistan(theguardian.com)
1 points by jaredhansen 8y ago|0 comments
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
I never heard anything like this either, and in fact my own experience was opposite that of the author's: the precision emphasized in law school simply adds an additional dimension to the enjoyment of prose (or, once in a great while
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Kahn Academy for Kids(khanacademy.org)
5 points by jaredhansen 8y ago|0 comments
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
Anyone who does anything sufficiently valuable to society should worry about liability. Addictive or not, tons of value = tons of $$ = tons of envy = tons of political points to be had by taking you down a peg.
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
>slack is the most trivial software you can think of This is like saying that food service at 30k feet in a passenger airline is trivial because all the server has to do is walk up and down a narrow aisle handing out food from a cart. Si
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
Tyler Cowen's conversation with Mr Gawande[1] was well worth the time. I don't know enough about him or the new company's plans to speculate on how this will all work out (although: neither does anyone else in this thread),
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
While Theranos was flying high, much was made of the company's connections to DC power elite - Kissenger on the board, etc.[1]. And the implication usually seemed to be that the deep bench of Serious And Important And Powerful People
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
Yes, but that's a rather large if , isn't it now? Access to capital is a moat all its own.
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
>but what's stopping a building owner from offering hot desks + coffee themselves? That is not at all what WeWork offers. I'm typing this from a Regus office space (probably the best known incumbent), and having worked out of W
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
The headline could stand alone as a succinct master class in the value of the "relations" part of PR. Imagine Uber getting a headline like this from TC in 2018, assuming it did exactly the same substantive thing.
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
The CEO of a massive public company that lives on data is calling for new regulations that his company will be better equipped to deal with than competitors will? Color me shocked.
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
Note that what "technical recruiters" want is not guaranteed to match what the hiring firms themselves want. There may not be a great solution to this problem from an applicant's perspective (because if you fail to impress th
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
>it's good old fashioned hard work: hire more bin men, and put up more information posters I don't think that's the primary problem either. "Bin men" must be paid and they are going to be too expensive, and &quo
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
Speaking as an employer of remote programmers: initiative cannot be underestimated. Often this can stand in for other skills, in that if you don't have skill X yet, but you've demonstrated again and again that you can and will f
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
>I think the problem is the "bad" things I may or may not have done in the past is none of the potential employers business. But that's simply not true. Peoples' past behavior has a predictive value over their prob
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by jaredhansen 8y ago
First, that's completely the wrong framing. Maybe checkr doesn't "care enough" about the people who have been punished, but it's not like the company exists out of spite. It exists to serve the legitimate business
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
> (2) It seems like streamlining and increasing the ability of governments to monitor parolees... >It seems like the founders want to make a positive impact on society, but there's a whole lot of slippery slope and other ethical
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
The original press release from the team has much more detail on the technology itself, and is here: http://www.prweb.com/releases/prweb15276833.htm
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>The hoi polloi from 1st world countries are unlikely to listen to uneducated 3rd world peasants. Not just unfair/ungrounded, but incorrect as a matter of usage: "hoi polloi"[0] means the exact opposite of what you'
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>Okay, I'll take the bait. I'm about as good a representative sample of the people you're talking about as anyone else. This starts off strong, but then ... >I'm 39. I've been in technology in a professiona
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
Unlikely to be a lot of risk of consumer confusion here.
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by jaredhansen 9y ago
>I admit that I do not get at all why people make such a fuss about wine. At the end of the day its purpose is to get people drunk and not taste too bad along the way. "I admit that I do not get at all why people make such a fuss

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