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by mrmanner 7y ago
While the format is an important point, I don’t understand why one would print a newspaper front page on good paper?
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by mrmanner 7y ago
No, but I don’t remember the relevant context in that thread that got its last reply a week ago so I’ll have to refer back to at least some of what’s being replied to if it’s not made abundantly clear :)
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by mrmanner 7y ago
One benefit is that a well crafted inline reply can be shared out of context with a new recipient and they have a chance to understand the important points without wading through an entire garbled thread with lost formatting and a billion H
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by mrmanner 7y ago
I’ve had a slightly buggy mail setup that can’t quote email sent from Outlook for a few months now. So what I’ve done for shorter replies is simply delete the entire fudged quote and write my response. It works all the time, except for exce
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by mrmanner 7y ago
I think your resume looks really good if you explain that you solved complex problems with Visual Basic because it was the right tool for the job given the circumstances. If it’s the only thing you know, maybe not.
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by mrmanner 7y ago
>> They don’t complain about business constraints and they put out stellar work. > Given the above, humans will also factor in the moral and ethical side of what they are doing. And they can, will and should criticize those busines
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by mrmanner 7y ago
While Pearson have the advantage of some connections at universities and in the education sector, they also have the disadvantage of being a large and slow organization. Hiring 25 people won’t get you a better product than that lone wolf ha
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by mrmanner 7y ago
There's a thought provoking web site out there, Low Tech Magazine. Their basic idea is that electricity 100% of the time isn't as important for everyone and everyting as we think. The need for base capacity is still there of cours
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by mrmanner 7y ago
In a way it's true that we transport things too much - but container ships are extremely efficient compared to almost all other means of transportation. The thousand miles in the 18-wheeler is probably a far larger part of the transpor
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by mrmanner 7y ago
I’m still a Facebook user, but I’m thinking more and more about leaving. Not so much because of the tracking as for the expectation of maintaining tens of hundreds of “friendships”. Keeping track of what former colleagues are up to, meeting
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by mrmanner 7y ago
> It should be up to the user to decide whether to take on updates, regardless of what you think because that's their computer and not yours and you each deserve control over the computers you own. Which is why the user can CHOOSE t
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by mrmanner 7y ago
> A painted bike lane provides no sense of security, and is for the most part completely ignored by car drivers. If car drivers completely ignore a painted bike lane, that needs to be followed up by the police. So they need to be part of
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by mrmanner 7y ago
My hometown tried giving away studded tires to 20-30 people in exchange for them sharing their experiences after commuting a whole winter. Maybe the same could work for temporary bike lanes - the city buys a hundred bikes, a hundred people
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by mrmanner 7y ago
My most productive time each day is the ~half hour on the bus or train to work. I plan my day, answer all simple emails, and when I’m in the office I can get right to the important things. I get that many jobs (and even more employers) requ
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by mrmanner 7y ago
The basic idea of “experimentation is good” holds for bike lanes as well — before making a permanent strategy decision for an entire city they could try painting bike lanes in a neighborhood or for one commute where people are willing to tr
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by mrmanner 7y ago
Some alternatives to spending resources on porting your application are adding more features, providing better support, or making the application work even better on your chosen platform. Doing that and letting the small portion of users fo
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by mrmanner 8y ago
The same incentives have been there for a hundred years in print journalism, when ads where placed manually, and they didn’t succumb then. The long term loss of readers is worse than the short term ad gains.
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by mrmanner 8y ago
1) I specifically meant "the information they already have", so you would only have to add that which is additional (e.g. medical expenses). 2) There are probably less bureaucratic ways to deal with subsidising medical expenses. S
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by mrmanner 8y ago
As a fellow Scandinavian, I find this kind of American distrust of government quite amusing. “We don’t like it when the government controls us, so let’s have it bury us in paperwork and complicated bureaucracy whenever we want to do anythin
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by mrmanner 8y ago
The IRS could make a web site where you fill in only those things they don’t know already, and it then makes all the calculations for you, and allows you to approve or change them?
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by mrmanner 8y ago
They could use the information that others (banks and employers) report to them about your finances to pre-fill all the forms. That way you only need to add things that are missing and double check what’s there.
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by mrmanner 8y ago
The Swedish system works the same way, but as long as your own business isn’t too complicated it’s still quite simple to file. You have to have your books in order anyway, and tax filing is usually as simple as copying over some numbers fro
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by mrmanner 8y ago
If I were to employ someone, I’d say your experience would move you to the top of the pile. Your startup may not have worked out, but you must have learned so many important things along the way! About coding and shipping real products, but
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by mrmanner 8y ago
But at least you only need to trust them now, and not every incarnation of them in the future =)
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by mrmanner 8y ago
But still porn is only a small subcategory of the content the article was discussing, and probably most content being rejected as "adult" or "nudity" or "explicit" is very much not porn. It may be informational
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by mrmanner 8y ago
While I agree that we should be cautious, this is more or less the same arguments that where used against industrialization, cars, trains, children reading books, movies, vaccines, etc?
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by mrmanner 8y ago
I think this activity is called “Pokémon Go”
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by mrmanner 8y ago
> People can go buy a cheaper item that was shipped around the world 3 times before landing on supermarket shelves. This is a very good argument for higher carbon taxes -- they would make the shipped item more expensive. And if transport
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by mrmanner 8y ago
Well, it's a small ISP and they've always been involved in Internet politics. Their customers know that, and probably chose them (at least in part) because they are political.
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by mrmanner 8y ago
Yup. They put out a press release explaining how to do it, and on the PR stunt blocking page they put up for elsevier.com they have instructions as well. But they didn't include a link to the instructions on the court mandated blocking

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