jonfw

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by jonfw 6y ago
The root of the problem is a lack of self control, and putting things in scarier packaging will not solve that problem. It's sort of like distributing tissues as a solution to the COVID pandemic, it's just addressing a symptom. Wh
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> don't really care whom you blame, I care about the results. Our society could do much more to stop people from being fat and unhealthy, yet 70% of the country is overweight, and more people have chronic health problems than don&#
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by jonfw 6y ago
If a dog is fat it's somebody else's fault, if a person is fat it's their fault. > Are their grandchildren and great-grandchildren going to inherit a civilization that they would want to be born in to? How should I know ho
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by jonfw 6y ago
I'm sure this is also affected by a large number of 'idle' hours where people are running it in the background or something
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by jonfw 6y ago
Too focused on relative income distribution, not enough on standards of living. Americans live in bigger houses with fewer people living in them, they own smart phones, cars, huge TVs, appliances, HVAC, video games, plenty of clothes. They
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by jonfw 6y ago
Since when is UNC-CH not a great university?
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These companies/practices exist in the US as well, one of the companies you mentioned offered me a 2 year contract with an early termination fee that was 4-5 months salary
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by jonfw 6y ago
Let's say I'm working on a project and am blocked by technical issues that I don't understand. What do I do next? What is the channel for client feedback to reach the dev team? Can you give me an example of how this has worke
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by jonfw 6y ago
who are the next largest furniture manufacturers, and how does Ikea's durability/sustainability match up with them? Ikea doesn't compete with hardwood furniture... They compete with Wayfair, target, and Walmart furniture. Ike
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Farming is a pretty good example. Life isn't zero sum
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If you care about display, trackpad, and battery life, the M1 macs blow everything else out of the water, and for pretty cheap.
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I like these on slack as well, and it's particularly nice that they're almost always positive or celebratory
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The good part is that you can be your own site admin, or you can choose one who reflects your ideals. Moderation is great, the trouble is when a single moderation standard is used across a monopolized market.
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by jonfw 6y ago
Does the Brookings poverty rate adjust for cost of living? I can't find a source. The core of the argument OP is making is that you can have a more comfortable lifestyle in a rural area on a lower income.
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by jonfw 6y ago
iMac is due for a refresh soon, and I'm hoping that this means an M1 iMac that can serve as a Thunderbolt Display
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The great thing about these peripheral pursuits is that they reduce opportunity costs and the consequence of failure. There are only so many games in a season, and only so many practices in between games. In athletics, if you want to build
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by jonfw 6y ago
This is great, but I'm wondering how reliable it is to use browser storage for persistence
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Containers work great for me if the target users are also familiar with them
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Facebook, Google, and Microsoft have all demonstrated how difficult it is to break into this market... Amazon thought it was cheaper to spend a billion dollars on Twitch than to build a competitor itself You either have to be the first move
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by jonfw 6y ago
My impression is that most of the open standards upon which the web is based such as HTML, HTTP, IP, etc. are mostly government funded either through academia, CERN, military, etc. Things are a little different now that private industry is
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I make heavy use of both package managers and containers at my job, they solve different problems. Just because you don't have the problem that containers solve doesn't mean they aren't there yet
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by jonfw 6y ago
I got rid of my childhood legos when I was like 15 in a garage sale. The lego bucket was completely disorganized and it was easily the hottest commodity we had there- there was a woman who showed up 5 minutes early to buy it and the next 6
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by jonfw 6y ago
> But let me just note that we invented all these life "efficiencies" - and are less and less happy (loneliness, drugs, etc). There are quite a lot of non-packaging related factors that also play into this
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It's great that she's made that choice, and it's also great that it's her choice to make. That wasn't the case before.
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by jonfw 6y ago
I'm in a sales engineering style role, the way our incentives work is 'pool based'. Sales success funds the pool for our team, and the pool is distributed among the team based on performance. We have a breakdown of how manage
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I think the point OP is making is that a sales person shouldn't justify or create the need- they should identify an existing one and solve it. Which is similar to what a CSR does.
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Crypto is great- but BTC is a terrible crypto. Modern cryptos trade faster, with more anonymity, and more efficiently. BTC will never see mainstream transactional use- it's purely a store of value. It still has some transactional use i
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He's skipping company meetings and minimizing one on one communication, it doesn't sound like his boss is the absentee one
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The alternative isn't that these people get paid, the alternative is that they continue to get their resumes screened and either remain unemployed or go back to the undesirable field they were in pre-bootcamp. That's the reality f
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Just compare the value proposition to something like college. People will sacrifice quite a lot to get into the career they want to be in- and it's very often worth while. I won't make the argument that this is preferable to field

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