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by jddj 7y ago
Tracking time spent on various tasks can be useful (if not required, eg. for claiming R&D grants). But I feel like tracking time in office/time at desk is a different beast. Happy employees, at a certain level of knowledge work, ha
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by jddj 7y ago
The 'only' there is doing a lot of work. I don't have a citation for this, but my feeling is that historically, the majority of the people posting hate on social media aired their fringe views in much smaller and more direct
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by jddj 7y ago
“While improving efficiency, we still only successfully interdicted about six percent of known drug movements [in 2018].” Huh, could it be that criminalisation of a market where a very significant proportion of the population want to buy
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by jddj 7y ago
While it's better now in many ways, some of which you've already dismissed, the future matters now because our choices now effect our options tomorrow. In a way, with your browser choice you're effectively voting for the inte
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by jddj 7y ago
While I agree for the most part, these are people who are in positions of power and would like to stay there. They have their personal biases, and their livelihoods depend on their staying in power. When they say (not in so many words) that
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by jddj 7y ago
This was definitely it, thanks.
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I'm glad that they claimed not to know sign language. There's a tendency among the healthy and able-bodied (myself included) to assume that if someone is deaf or has a disability which prevents them from speaking then they've
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by jddj 7y ago
These shops are still very commonly called "Pakis" in Spain (at least, in the cities where I have spent time), even by young people. Edit to add: Reading further down, there are some Americans saying that they called them packies
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by jddj 7y ago
In Buenos Aires there's a beautiful old cemetery called La Recoleta. One of my most jarring and bizarre memories from my time in Argentina was watching as hundreds of tourists took smiling/sultry pouting/peace sign selfies wi
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by jddj 7y ago
"I had a privileged life and I got lucky and I’m unhappy. They say it’s like the “me generation.” It’s not. The arrogance is taught, or it was cultivated. It’s self-conscious, that’s what it is; conscious of self. Social media is just
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by jddj 7y ago
An appropriate excerpt from Matt Levine's column (the gist is that relying on the FTC, rather than Congress, is backwards): " Americans are biased toward thinking of bad things as being already illegal, always illegal, illegal by
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by jddj 7y ago
To the US treasury, for general use. Most (all?) federal fines are this way, although if they specified that some of the total were to be used for direct compensation to victims, then that could be included in the total as reported by the m
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by jddj 7y ago
> Why does it go without saying? Mainly because their motivations for doing so (namely: tax avoidance) were spelled out by the companies and their accountants in a series of email leaks. That's the thread we're in right now.
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by jddj 7y ago
Are we sure that it's the stability of Mauritius which is the sought after quality here? That seems a little euphemistic. Not that it's an unstable nation, all things considered, but I feel like it goes without saying that these c
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by jddj 7y ago
I was all geared up to play devil's advocate here, but any response I could formulate seemed to distill down to data being extremely powerful, and so undermined the thesis. Still though, if Facebook has solved the "50% of my ad s
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by jddj 7y ago
What incentives are there to claim that their company can sell your company access to their secret sauce which greatly improves some metric which is notoriously hard to measure?
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by jddj 7y ago
Completely agree. Some of the most literate, easy to comprehend and maintain, stateful, Gui-heavy desktop apps I've written / worked on have been detailed models of interactive objects, because it was appropriate for the problem
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by jddj 7y ago
I keep an older windows laptop around for maintaining a couple of wpf and Xamarin apps. Visual studio for mac might cut it, but I don't have a mac. My other laptop runs Linux and that's where I prefer to be. But the truth is tha
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by jddj 7y ago
The baker can shun the gay couple, the Nazis can spend their time and angst declaring under a cover of "Free speech is a human right" that all other ethno-religious groups are sub-human and unworthy of rights, and a reasonable hum
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by jddj 7y ago
This could actually be pretty effective. Airbnb is very quick about disappearing anything from their platform with a less than perfect rating. I discovered this after stumbling across some darkly funny bad reviews and then diving into their
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by jddj 7y ago
Using DuckDuckGo is pleasant in ways that Google just isn't, but can be easy to forget. I'm reminded every time I somehow default to Google by mistake (using different browser or PC, for example) and am hit with one of those &quot
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by jddj 7y ago
There are subtle differences everywhere which could have real framing effects or make no difference at all except to the expression itself. In English one spends time, for example, much like one spends money. I love that as a metaphor but
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by jddj 7y ago
It could, these terms usually depend on subtle imagined points of reference. If time is a horizontal line, and you are at 'now' and the meeting is at '1pm', if you imagine the meeting as something which is facing you, th
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by jddj 7y ago
Not really addressing your point, but a sidenote on the topic of Australian regulations -- Due to some subsidies/incentive schemes which came through in some states about 10 years ago, some residential Australian rooftop solar installa
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internalized by regulation would imply that the externalities (eg. Climate change) are effectively factored into the cost of producing power by burning coal due to the cost of complying to imposed regulations. This still isn't the ca
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by jddj 7y ago
Pumped hydro actually emits significant levels of greenhouse gases (methane rather than CO2, though). https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/nov/06...
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by jddj 7y ago
This was a good read. I like to consider myself fairly rational, but even so a small handful went against my intuitions. Admittedly, the article defines itself as a list of things which have been labelled as pseudoscience at one point or an
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Amazon pledges $700M to teach its workers to code(wired.com)
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As great as it might be to snap our fingers and arrive at that reality, between here and there there's a big dirty transition period riddled with potential human suffering. Given that a significant number of people identify many ethica
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by jddj 7y ago
I think it probably has a number of factors, none of which excuse us on a whole for allowing these diseases to earn the adjective "neglected". But it's not hard for me to imagine that many of the people working on this would

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