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by mathewsanders 3y ago
Both ACLU and HRC have convenient tracking for these bills. Last year over 300 bills were introduced, and 29 were signed into law (still far too many). https://www.hrc.org/press-releases/human-rights-campaign-wor... h
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by mathewsanders 4y ago
> A space rock generally stops burning by the time it reaches about 30km altitude. When I was around 12 years old and friend and I were camping and staring up at the stars and a meteorite took a path very close above us. I remember heari
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by mathewsanders 4y ago
Exactly. And outcome for many companies typically boils down to either an increase in revenue, or an increase in cost savings - but normally we use proxies for measuring those (like number of new sign ups, or decrease in churn, increase in
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by mathewsanders 4y ago
Yup! I had a great reminder of this recently: I always ignore spam text messages, but got a phishing attack message made to look like a USPS update about 2 months ago they almost fooled me because I had a legitimate package that was missing
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by mathewsanders 4y ago
I don’t have a home lab, but I do have my ONT, a router, an AP, an 8-port switch connecting a bunch of devices (Phillips hue hub, Lutron hub, Apple TV, PS4, and Nintendo Switch) and it’s all just a jumbled birds nest of Ethernet cables - co
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by mathewsanders 4y ago
I moved from New Zealand to the United States and one of my early culture shocks was the large portion sizes. I’d order food to go and it would easily be two meals. I wondered if it was some sort of expectation that when you ordered food at
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by mathewsanders 4y ago
I was working for Air New Zealand part time while I was doing my MSc (~2000) which also coincided with when direct online sales jumped from being a niche sales channel to the airlines major source of revenue- I loved it so much I dropped o
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by mathewsanders 4y ago
For anyone in this situation and thinking nothing will help, I also had a positive experience with exposure therapy. Around 15 years ago I remember walking to get a pizza and approaching the restaurant getting pins and needles on my back, a
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by mathewsanders 4y ago
Paris shared in a 2020 interview that her “Barbie airhead” was a defense mechanism and act to hide childhood trauma. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-real-paris-hilton/ I think she’s savvy to be able to use it to
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by mathewsanders 4y ago
Would it be feasible to have a machine readable image like a QR code as the obscured image, so if people took a photo of a poster some metadata about the poster could be exposed to the camera app to then be passed onto the user? Or does thi
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
As an avid reader for as long as I can remember (I have a vague memory of being able to read before I spoke, but that might just be quirk of memories from early childhood) it’s an interesting insight that spoken and written vocabularies are
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
Yes! I had a similar thought: we have the word sonder for the realization that everyone in the world has complex lives, it would be great to have a word that represents the amazing complexity of every single human-made object. I look around
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
Hmm. Maybe it’s regional? I spent years of my life finding all the best pancakes and French Toast of Auckland cafes and they all (at least aspired) to be thick and fluffy- unless they were intentionally crepes which are also very common. Th
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
Cue this chart showing how close the ratio of fetal dose to effective dose of nutmeg is (spoiler it’s bad). https://trevoroldak.com/uploads/drugdoses.jpg
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
I remember those machines being above the size of 4 office photocopy/print machines- it’s pretty amazing thinking of all the mechanical internals that must be in those things. I’ve sometimes wondered what became of them all, were they
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
Between ~2000-2010 I worked for an international airline and I can share that we were testing a lot more innovative search interfaces for consumers. This was still pretty much the dawn of online ticket sales, and people were still either ca
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
My interpretation of the 70% isn’t that you set 10 OKRs and it’s considered a success if you don’t achieve 3 of them. Instead it’s that you set targets in the various key results, normalize them to a 0-1 scale, and if you’ve achieved an ave
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
Dennett was also influenced by the (controversial) theory from Julian Jaynes that consciousness is possibly something that emerged in humans much more recently in human history. I’ve had a copy of the book on my shelf unread for a couple o
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
Reminds me of this sentence in this post about ‘Elvish technology’ https://essays.georgestrakhov.com/elvish/ > The Elves do not imitate nature, they let nature do its magic and try to help it as best as they can. Al
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
Never heard of peppercorn rent until reading your comment- as a nice coincidence I was reading a Reddit thread on weird NYC trivia that included a link out to this article of the Queen visiting NYC in 1970s to collect 279 years worth of bac
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
I read an interesting article on the Big Lie over the weekend and it mentioned an example from 2016 where private non-profit conservative groups were involved in promoting Green and Independent candidates with the intention of diluting vote
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Ask HN: How did web development become so bizarrely complex?
67 points by mathewsanders 5y ago|90 comments
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
This was my exact thought, and was wondering if they were using ‘designed’ and ‘built’ in that sense of being planned and directed. I’m with you and agree that it’s an unforeseen side effect. I’d even take it a step further and suggest that
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
> The final Start Menu integrated functions other than starting programs, to give users a single-button home base in the UI. Windows 95 must also be one of the better marketing campaigns for any software product. As I was reading this I
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
What is the UX for switching between apps or moving the screen like? Can you do this with keyboard shortcuts or do you find yourself switching between keyboard and touch screen for some interactions? I find this idea of using a keyboard sup
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
I’ve tried a few times to understand what P=NP means and never felt like I understand what it’s about. I get that problems can have constant/linear/polynomial/exponential complexity to solve so I (think) I understand ‘P’. Ove
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
I found this list really useful and will be sharing with my team. Thank you author and OP! In my mind I’ve always categorized tech debt as being broader, and including pretty much anything that doesn’t have a direct benefit to our end users
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
Wow. I feel like a cliche, but after reading the link I realize that I have the same, and had just assumed that it was something that everyone else also experienced and so never questioned it. For some reason I’m better at getting triangles
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
I have a background in research, and moving to the United States I’ve had some situations where I’ve coached people in a team who’ve never directly talked to their customers. Something I always have to do with Americans is to practice getti
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by mathewsanders 5y ago
A small group of friends are doing a book club on I/P and I asked a couple of them who’ve been to Israel on birthright trips if they felt the population was religious or not. Their anecdotal perspective was that there is a large group

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