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by jib 11y ago
Privacy is a protection and insurance for the future. Things, like say, recording the religion of someone in an open, embracing and understanding society that has full religious freedom, so you understand what your population identifies see
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by jib 11y ago
The stats piece is close to nonsense as well, if you measure ASA from your phone system's call duration when you have a virtual queue you are lying to yourself at best.
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by jib 11y ago
The math of say 10 sec max queueing vs say 5min wait time is pretty straight forward but maybe not intuitive. You pay significant (30%+ sometimes, depends on volume) overhead for those last minutes (queueing theory, Erlang C formula). For t
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by jib 11y ago
I think that most people would be a lot happier if they saw life as a series of low probability events rather than trying to create a story of accumulation. Life does not accumulate things (luck, good fortune, bad fortune, karma, any other
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by jib 11y ago
I agree for what it's worth. If you read Stephenson for character or environment description, or even a coherent story, you will have a bad time. If you want to read about strange ideas from a guy who spent way too much time thinking a
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by jib 11y ago
Swedish social security numbers are public information btw, just to clarify the insanity - I can call in to the government register and ask for anyone's number, there isn't even any obfuscation or semi-privacy about it like US SSN
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by jib 11y ago
That is Stephensons style though. I think what Seveneves needed was a proper ending. It felt like he got bored and just threw together an end in like a tenth of the space it would have needed. Balance between the stories was off by a lot. O
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by jib 11y ago
I enjoyed all of Anathem and would have happily read another 500 pages of it. Not sure if Stephenson is the best example, his long book style is quite unique. Usually it works for me (Anathem, Cryptonomicon, I've read both at least twi
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by jib 11y ago
This is an argument that a lot of people make in a lot of business cases. It is not a correct argument. Find huge amount. Say "if only X%" (usually 1% or something else low) then increase of 1%*huge amount which is still a huge am
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by jib 11y ago
Uber for food is logistics. Cleaning is trust. I would argue that a recommendation engine would be a far better thing for cleaning services than a logistics solution is. Facebook are a lot closer to the solution for cleaning services than u
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by jib 11y ago
That sketch annoys me. Sure, marketing/sales/PM/design guys are idiots, whatever. Here are 11 things "I can't do it" can mean: I don't have time I don't want to I don't have anyone who knows how
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by jib 11y ago
I disagree on Uber for Cleaning Services being the same. For a cab company, I want a large fleet of cabs, so that I can get the closest one fast. I dont need huge levels of trust in my cab driver. Get me where I want to go, dont kill me in
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by jib 11y ago
Caring about dressing nicely is a Moneyball thing to me. If you care about how someone dresses when you hire them, odds are you're using bad criteria for your decisions. That's not to say that you can't get great people, but
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by jib 11y ago
The weather app example at the start annoys me. I want a weather app for data, not decision making. I want to consume a couple of data points easily, for various needs. 7 of those 8 apps do that. Rain amount (bike or bus today?) Wind amount
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by jib 11y ago
There's a class of interviews that are like this though. Knowing about that class is important because it's in heavy use. If it says "competency based interview" anywhere, don't do theory or generalities, prep as ma
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by jib 11y ago
Hygiene factors vs motivation factors. Some stuff will make you happy, some stuff will make you unhappy. They are not on the same scale. Pay is mostly hygiene - not enough, absolute, or more importantly relative will make you unhappy. It wo
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by jib 11y ago
Being smart (and intelligence in general - I dont know if we need to establish exactly what definition we use for that, but something like an ability to quickly see and adjust to logical patterns) is a great secondary ability in my view. Yo
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by jib 11y ago
I'm ok with that. Perception matters. I dont think it is cold as much as realistic. I would much rather have my contributions to the pension cut. Someone decided that providing milk is too much of a pain in my office. We used to have a
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by jib 11y ago
I went to the same school (I presume) in Gothenburg. I came into the CS classes with a decent amount of math background, and a small amount of programming classes (FORTRAN, C, ADA and other kinds of evil you use in chemistry and physics). O
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by jib 11y ago
Sorting long lists is a good one. Filtering of various kinds.
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by jib 11y ago
I would also add that a largish company isn't one place, it is many smaller places that only looks the same from outside. Once you're past that 150 number or so, you will have multiple cultures and environments. There will be the
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by jib 11y ago
Swedish average wages are close to the top (if not at the top)in EU. The wage gap is a lot lower than most countries though. Just mentioning since I stated Swedish wages were low not long ago, but when I looked it up that wasn't the ca
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by jib 11y ago
It isn't about individuals though. It is about having a sructure that makes large scale, cooperative projects possible. If you are going to have ventures where large groups of people work a significant amount of time together to create
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by jib 11y ago
We have postcodes now! Or well, eircodes. Which are totally not postcodes, but rather unique house identifiers that happen to look as postcodes. And that noone will use. http://www.eircode.ie/
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by jib 11y ago
PayPal does to some extent. And then people complain about how expensive PayPal is. In a commodity, race to the bottom world of cc processing I am not sure it would be a good business practise to bundle fraud prevention and processing. Let
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by jib 11y ago
You would wish so:). But no. Merchants are on the hook for all costs, including penalties for incoveniencing the cc companies (either a set fee per fraudulent transaction, or high fees if exceeding thresholds of fraud if you are a larger gu
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by jib 11y ago
Finding out what they do is a fairly unusual need though, right? When I look up a company website (rarely) I'm not looking to find out what they do, typically. My use cases are something like: I want to order something, I want info on
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by jib 11y ago
Shuffled is also a feature. You almost never buy a 32" TV and a 34" TV at the same time, right? So it is highly unlikely that similar items would benefit from being next to each other. It helps for finding if that was a problem, b
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by jib 11y ago
http://objekt.fastighetsbyran.se/Objekt/?source=Hemnet&Objek... That is 60k (just randomly checking places up north).
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by jib 11y ago
Lots of places in Sweden with great internet, great nature and ok prices. If super cheap is your focus, maybe not, but it is quite affordable outside cities. The North for mountains, the west or north for forests and lakes.

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