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by mch82 9y ago
Do you work for a salary? If you do, the shareholders (or private owners) of the company you work for earn a passive income off of you. The point of the passive income idea is that you can earn marginally more by increasing your salary, or
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Hi Daniel, thank you for taking the time to comment. I appreciate your view that shortcuts and silver bullets aren’t a recipe for success, and probably agree with you. However, I don’t recall anything in 4HWW promoting shortcuts or silverbu
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This author has either not read or not understood the 4-Hour Work Week. At no point does the 4HWW talk about passively creating a business. What the book does point out is that when you sell billable hours you only make money at work, while
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Private companies also behave this way. It’s not unique to government. If a mall shuts down, the stores don’t get to stay open. If a restaurant closes early, the waitstaff doesn’t get paid for missed hours. If budget gets tied up in other p
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For what reasons?
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This is a very interesting way to look at the issue. Income source strikes me as the most significant challenge. How will the citizens of these communities earn money? In addition to remote work, local manufacturing, education, healthcare,
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How come people continue to live in flood planes, hurricane zones, or the Northeast? Massive Winter Storm Hits Northeast - https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/04/575643483...
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Great to see efforts like this trying to move the needle on the designer usability of “native” UI toolkits for Python/Go/Ruby/etc. Any ideas for other ways designers can help improve/influence the UX of “native” toolkits
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Umair Haque proposed an option in his HBR essay “Betterness: Economics for Humans.” He uses the analogy that GDP is like the RPM gauge on a car, hard to use without the context of a speedometer. He proposes new measures to supplement GDP an
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The community docs for Rasperry Pi do win out for the moment, and so do product and accessory availability. Long-term, it seems like the goal of the BeagleBone foundation is to support each board for a number of years in order to allow for
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Unfortunately, I'm waiting on the publication of the MOOC and course materials to find out. It looks like the latest book, "BeagleBone Robotics Projects, 2nd Ed", https://www.amazon.com/BeagleBone-Robotic-Proj
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The article cites and links to a video of a bee learning to move a ball into a goal that's pretty cool!
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$79 for a replacement battery seems reasonable, https://support.apple.com/iphone/repair/battery-power > If you're covered under AppleCare+, we'll replace your battery at no charge if it retains less t
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People in the United States aren't throwing away old iPhones. Apple has a recycling & buy back program, https://www.apple.com/recycling/ . other companies also buy back old phones.
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BeagleBone Blue was also released for sale this year, https://beagleboard.org/blue > BeagleBone® Blue is a complete, Linux-enabled robotics computer. Community-supported and fully open-source, the real-time performance,
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This will be changing as software is responsible for the control of an increasing number of physical systems (cars, medical, aircraft, etc.) Edit: Unless we elect people who take away legal protections in place to regulate safety critical s
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Any thoughts on the article? I thought it raised some interesting ideas about net neutrality in the context of ownership of the Internet. Edit: and also the difference between the experience of using an internet of independent websites vs a
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The Death of the Internet(theoutline.com)
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Solar chargers built by Tesla’s solar business unit
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The "Creating and Interpreting Cumulative Flow Diagrams" post from 2006 explains a simple way to visualize and measure flow. The only data required to construct a cumulative flow diagram is state transition timestamps. A cumulativ
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Have you looked at the chances of modern construction surviving these quakes?
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Every once in a while Apple still gives developers a mini opportunity to be early in a small featured segment of apps. For a while they featured books made with iBooks Author. Now, they're probably going to feature apps with ARKit. Wat
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One of the lessons is to move early on new platforms, it's much easier to sell an app in a store with hundreds items than millions and when rank is influenced by sales those early sales really add up. Some of the earliest apps I bought
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Any chance most of the software you're writing is headless? My experience has been the opposite. I first learned C in college, and loved making command line interfaces but never understood how to make GUI applications. When I was intro
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Cool set of links to pull together. Nice UI evolution case study for designers to look through. Thanks! Edit: Do the images in the earliest post display for others? I see image missing placeholder icons.
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Does Apple want people to design custom websites for iPhone X, or is it more likely Apple want's people to make iOS apps instead of websites when that level of tailoring matters? I still use the web on an iPhone 5S. Even with cropping
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Discussion on this topic a couple comments away on this parent post... still unanswered. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15279456
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Very interested to find out if anyone has an answer
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For a while the OCP-Permissive and OCP-Restrictive licenses seemed like they could move open hardware forward, but I don't see as much about them recently. Any idea what's happening with licensing and when OCP licenses make sense
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It depends on the city and the rules in the state where the city is located. Larger cities are pretty independent with taxation, police, fire, education, sanitation, and health services. Smaller cities can be overseen by regional government

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