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by kartan 7y ago
Occam's razor: No. That serviceman was looking for an affair. That's it. :)
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by kartan 7y ago
I pass by Adolf Fredrik Church, where he is buried, each day. It was sad to see two people guarding his tomb all day, even in the rain, in the day that commemorates his dead. I have also read a book about his assassination that I will recom
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by kartan 7y ago
CJR seems not compliant with GDPR. Do they think that the content should be delivered to all the world to read? The big newspapers have taken GDPR seriously as probably other regulations and are safe to be seen around the world or send you
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by kartan 7y ago
Now we know. Thanks for sharing.
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by kartan 7y ago
> Predicting anything is a gamble. And casinos win all the time. Yes gambling and predicting are interconnected. They both share a common history. > One simply does not know what will happen but one makes assumptions. Tomorrow the sun
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by kartan 7y ago
I like the conclusion of the article that broad knowledge is needed to do good predictions. But, I do not see the point on going against experts. Probably the learning is that the most convinced and self-assured you are in a topic the easie
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by kartan 7y ago
The article knowledge has been lost to time. In "relational databases" you always name the foreign key as the relationship between tables. From "A Practical Guide to Relational Database Design" from the year 2000. "
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by kartan 7y ago
> "If that really is a 13th-century coin, that does not indicate 13th-century Spanish were over here,' said Harmon. 'That indicates that someone brought over a coin that was really old even then.'" Mystery solved
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by kartan 7y ago
> How might we make books actually work reliably? The read is interesting, and it has an interesting premise. But, it is one well known. Techniques like SQ3R ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQ3R ) have existed for dec
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by kartan 7y ago
The problem is not about the tests but the long working hours. Do not give your time for free, the company just gets used to it and they will fire you the same when they do not need you anymore, or you get personal responsibility that don&#
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by kartan 7y ago
> what happened that Hail Corporate was killed? As has happened with other subs, it began to be full of extreme opinions on one side and the reasonable posts were downvoted in the other. So, you end up with a toxic environment where it i
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by kartan 7y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/hailcorporate started to gain some momentum and was killed fast. My guess is that the professional community, people that earn money manipulating/contributing paid-content to Reddit, is qu
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by kartan 7y ago
> I think it's unethical to tax anyone's income How will you pay for a functional society then? All these people that are rich, it is rich because they live in very complex, healthy, educated societies. That does not come from
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by kartan 7y ago
> more of their OWN money How is it their own money if it is the state money? That is all the point. It is not their money. If I buy an apple an I do not want to give the money to the cashier because "it is my money", I am stea
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by kartan 7y ago
> Simply put, people vote with their feet, and the rich have the best shoes money can buy. I have been on vacations on Malta. It is a nice place for a vacation, but it is not the most interesting place in the world to live in. Rich peopl
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by kartan 7y ago
> Don’t focus too much on long-term plans. I always have long-term plans. But, I abandon them as soon as I find a better way to achieve my goals. Goals do not change so often, tho. > Find good thinkers and cold-call the ones you most
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by kartan 7y ago
> Why is this a bad thing? It is not. :) I kept myself out of the internet for most of my life. Once I reached my 40s, I decided that I was wise enough to share my experiences in a way that can enrich myself and others. And, I think that
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by kartan 7y ago
Some one that has that job like an architect, technical director, CTO. With the help of the people that needs to with with the code. No heroes, no working extra hours, no crunch time but just people with different functions.
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by kartan 7y ago
> A "hero" project is one where 80% or more of the contributions are made by the 20% of the developers. If that 20% leave, the other 80% would contribute equally or the ration 20/80 will be preserved? This seams a feedback
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by kartan 7y ago
We imagined a world where machines will work for us. We may be wrong.
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by kartan 7y ago
I think that it is like any other country. The USA has existed for 232 years. But Alaska and Hawaii only joined in 1959. New Mexico joined in 1912. And has been divided for 1.7% of the time (4 years of civil war) while still was incomplete.
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by kartan 8y ago
> Those who contributed most was highly regareded by the simple fact that their existence increased your own chance of survival. Long term I think that you are right. But in the short term may be more useful an idiot that is on your side
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by kartan 8y ago
> "The sales pressure was relentless," she recalls. "The totality was horrible." This sounds very dystopic. > These include tools to analyse e-mails, conversations, computer usage, and employee movements around the
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by kartan 8y ago
> The government provides no bodyguards. The police investigates only after the crime. Anonymity is the most important defense. Don't take it away. Does people that make more money keep it private thou? I see what cars people have,
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by kartan 8y ago
> This presupposes that they’re are rational, intelligent, and can handle bad news. Yes. People makes mistakes. But this is the same rationality to forbid democracy. And even in its imperfection it is a good system. Let people know and
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by kartan 8y ago
> This idea is nonsense. You have a valid point. But, this system works in other countries. People is able to ask for other citizens taxes. But, the person "investigated" gets a notification of whom asked fir its tax returns.
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by kartan 8y ago
> The social landscape has changed for the worse. People no longer want to connect with friends, they want to show off how better/popular/wealthier they think they are. It is the gamification factor. People is optimizing their
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by kartan 8y ago
> You will also easier end up poor if you have bad cognitive control. My personal experience is that many middle class people has little control. But, the effect on them is small. That clothes that they do not need or that extra vacatio
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by kartan 8y ago
> The lack of impulse control won't sudden vanish once the refund arrives I see why you reason like this as the reality seems counter-intuitive. The cause is poverty the effect is harder times taking economic sound decisions. Not t
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by kartan 8y ago
> That tax withholding is the only way that many Americans manage to save speaks more to a lack of self-control than anything else. I understand that it may seem so. But, when there is millions of Americans in that situation then it is

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