kiith_naabal

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   by kiith_naabal 8y ago

   I find the incredibly involved deception of WWII fascinating. See also Operation Mincemeat[0], where the British Army dressed the corpse of a Welsh homeless person as an officer of the Royal Marines, gave it a number of fake documents, and
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   by kiith_naabal 8y ago

   It references an xkcd from September 2011, which gives you a lower bound for last modified at least.
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   by kiith_naabal 9y ago

   You're not wrong - avocados planted from seed take anywhere from 5 to 13 years+ before they flower and produce fruit. http://ucavo.ucr.edu/general/answers.html
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   by kiith_naabal 9y ago

   Fun fact: most Swedes are covered by unemployment insurance, which gives you 70-80% of the income from your last job for a year.[1] I imagine this helps, as it's not only a safety net if your startup tanks, but also a runway for starti
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   by kiith_naabal 9y ago

   It's a good point, though they did also measure how time-stressed people felt. People who felt time-poor but didn't buy time-saving services had poorer life satisfaction. If you were time stressed and bought the services, you were
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   by kiith_naabal 9y ago

   My personal definition is that a programmer is someone who can write a computer program, and a developer is someone who writes computer programs for money. So you're a programmer, but not a developer. In the same way that you might be