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by johngalt 9y ago
The best way to not bring all that emotion home is not to have it in the first place. Anger is caused by frustration is caused by desire. People who dont give a damn about their jobs clock out at 4:56 and rest easy. The people who burn out
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by johngalt 9y ago
You know how you have that hacker meetup, or small conference that starts off as all meaty tech topics? How great that feels to be able to learn/teach/demonstrate advanced topics knowing that everyone is on the same page. Then gra
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by johngalt 9y ago
Agreed that it will be different once AGI completely supplants human efforts, but at that point you are examining the singularity. Robots that are better than humans at everything, could also design better robots etc... If/when that ha
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by johngalt 9y ago
Counterpoint: even if it is different this time, it's different in a good way. As the need for human labor decreases, costs fall to the floor. This is specifically true for knowledge work that is not constrained by resource inputs. Ima
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by johngalt 9y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if that "someone" was the CEO or someone working on the CEO's behalf. What else could even make sense? Even if some coworker had a grudge or a bone to pick with OP, they had to know that OP would
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by johngalt 9y ago
Yep. Congress and the courts regularly find it an excessive abuse of power whenever they are affected by it personally. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2014/03/12...
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by johngalt 9y ago
The safest answer is separate bike infrastructure. Full Netherlands style. http://www.aviewfromthecyclepath.com/2011/11/first-cycle-sup...
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by johngalt 9y ago
Tbh I never would have bought a VW before and now I would consider it. They are probably the most honest of any car company at the moment. They cant risk another scandal. Likely the most undervalued by the market as well.
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by johngalt 9y ago
Anker's battery charging docks are why I'm still using a Note 3. I know it seems silly, but it is amazing to be able to just swap batteries whenever I get low. I never have to leave my phone somewhere plugged in and charging.
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Jevons paradox applied to employment.
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by johngalt 9y ago
If your goal is to move the max people for min cost, buses almost always win. Those aren't the only variables which are important however.
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by johngalt 9y ago
From the complaint: > ... the “Wizards Wanted” section of its website. Indeed, given that a “wizard” generally is defined as “a man who has magical powers,” and virtually without exception images of wizards are male, Magic Leap’s recruit
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by johngalt 9y ago
The problem isn't overbooking. The problem is not auctioning the seats higher when overbooked. I've seen a number of overbooked southwest flights and people can't line up fast enough for a $300 flight credit + next available
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by johngalt 10y ago
Openstack created a lot of possibilities for the way it "could" work or "should" work, but almost no methods where it does work. The problem with Openstack is it had too many moving parts, and no standard/reference
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by johngalt 10y ago
I despise the subtle shifting of definitions: > The highest-paying jobs disproportionately reward those who can work the longest, least flexible hours. These types of job penalize workers who have caregiving responsibilities outside the
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by johngalt 10y ago
First off don't bother trying to outbid google/facebook/amazon. Instead look to the good engineers that they can't hire. Large companies can afford to put a large list of requirements down and throw out anyone who doesn&
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by johngalt 10y ago
It showcases some interesting dynamics regarding businesses becoming involved with politics and power. It's a good walk through of how "we just want the government to make companies give their fair share" can easily turn into
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by johngalt 10y ago
> owned every single second of his existence Cool, so I get all those years of back pay with OT. Feel free to deduct the $10k royalties from the hundreds of thousands you owe me. Every time I thought about music, wrote music, played or p
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by johngalt 10y ago
I can beat anyone at chess. Just agree to play on my chessboard, with my rules, and only the pieces I allow you to have. These sorts of contests are often more about generating marketing material for the developer than they are about actual
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by johngalt 10y ago
It is not that simple. Often increased demand can lower prices. Economies of scale and all that. For example if you cut total airline passengers to 10% of current numbers, over time prices would stabilize at a much higher level for an indiv
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by johngalt 10y ago
> You have to deny them victories, even on issues that you support. And then the right does the same, and nothing ever gets done in the Legislature. Now any real progress needs to be made by the judiciary or by executive fiat. "Let
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by johngalt 10y ago
> 120 divided by 5 = 24. Not bad! 24 mph is only a bit faster than the speed at which experienced parachutists land. Better yet, just put your hands in front of you and land on all ten fingers. Then it's only 12mph. /s In reali
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by johngalt 10y ago
Ha love that. 'I know you're the guy saving the company and all... but my printer is jammed can you take a look?'
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by johngalt 10y ago
The manager is not the bad guy. They are doing everything they should do in the scenario I presented. Checking into an outage affecting a critical system. Criticizing the sysadmin's findings based on the evidence that Amazon's s
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by johngalt 10y ago
Sysadmin: I can forgive outages, but falsely reporting 'up' when you're obviously down is a heinous transgression. Somewhere a sysadmin is having to explain to a mildly technical manager that AWS services are down and affecti
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by johngalt 10y ago
Next year seems extremely ambitious. Wouldn't humans next year, mean non-crewed test flight this year?
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by johngalt 10y ago
The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. -Keynes
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by johngalt 10y ago
Close orbit around a relatively cold star. Interesting. I wonder what their 'day' vs 'year' looks like. Also their atmosphere and surface pressure. They could be 7 copies of Venus for all we know.
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by johngalt 10y ago
Two gut feelings about this. 1. Progress/inflation doesn't scale as homogeneously as we think. Producing a consumer good such as a car or computer is easier to optimize than providing healthcare, or an education. It also scales di
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by johngalt 10y ago
Legal tech is ripe. E-discovery is what everyone is paying attention to, but no one has got it right so far. Additionally there are many other areas with opportunities that aren't getting as much attention. Basically take on anything L

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