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by mseebach 9y ago
Use your imagination. Having a scrap of inside knowledge is a great asset for recruitment. You establish yourself as an insider and the target is more likely to spill some beans. “Yeah, getting all those Foo widgets to that secret storage p
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by mseebach 9y ago
Cash in an ATM is orders of magnitude safer than cash in a till, most significantly for the store staff as less cash invites fewer (traumatising, dangerous) robberies. When I worked in a convenience store 20 years ago, we’d dump cash into a
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by mseebach 9y ago
It’s a reminder to assess people on their actions, especially the outcomes (rather than intentions) of their actions, and not speculation on what might be in their heads.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Then either the ATM had 20x too much cash in it, or the store will be unable to satisfy 19/20 requests for cash back? People withdrawing cash from the ATM (often incurring a non-trivial fee) to pay in the same store, rather than just p
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by mseebach 9y ago
Moving the cash from even a free-standing ATM to the till seems unlikely to be a net improvement in security.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Signage for a waste disposal site presumes a waste disposal site. If you’re recklessly leaving radioactive material around in an abandoned hospital, thinking about signage is a rather marginal improvement.
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by mseebach 9y ago
> There are many powerful organizations that would like access to that data. It's not about access to the data, but rather about controlling the flow of information. The rise of social media and Google represents a shift of power aw
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by mseebach 9y ago
That has got to be a solvable problem. EDIT: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Children-Headband-Headphone-Comfort...
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by mseebach 9y ago
I was thinking of headphones.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Perhaps an outright ban is a bit heavy-handed, but we do need to come to terms with what the appropriate etiquette for the usage of personal electronics is. I guess I could care less is someone wants to spend a show checking Facebook, but i
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by mseebach 9y ago
What about profiting off a cute drawing of a mouse, specifically Mickey? That's almost 100 years old, so it's not really a case of "having made it to". Feeling despondent about the hollowness of popular culture is exactl
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by mseebach 9y ago
I really don't know. It just seems to be once of the anecdotes people use to illustrate the genius of Jobs.
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by mseebach 9y ago
Oh, I guarantee you that the Turkish government agrees wholeheartedly and would very much like to speak with the perpetrators.
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by mseebach 9y ago
The article's tacit acknowledgment of the legitimacy of arresting people for having had the app installed at all is pretty off-colour as well.
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by mseebach 9y ago
I couldn't really figure this out from the article: What's the link between antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and manure run-off/sewage? It's obvious that there'd be more bacteria, but what's the deal specifical
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's some bias to this, though. Good management is much more "everything and everybody just seemingly by if self seems to be more or less in the right place" and less "Steve Jobs screaming at everybody about rounded c
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by mseebach 9y ago
Excellent, I'm happy (and feel validated) that this exists. As this would replace Skype (or whatever conferencing tool you're using), it's not really an additional dependency, is it?
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by mseebach 9y ago
I've been listening to enough poor-quality phone/Skype podcast interviews, and figured that someone should build an interview tool that will setup a real time conference, exactly like Skype, but also record the audio in high quali
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by mseebach 9y ago
The only reason to invoke NSA in this context is for their ability to make a 10000x investment, with no concern for this being (directly) economically viable. The question then is, what will they do with control of the blockchain?
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by mseebach 9y ago
It seems, in practice, that a robot is what we abstractly imagine , but once implemented in the concrete, it's demystified and everybody goes, "Oh that ? That's just a machine".
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by mseebach 9y ago
Anecdotally, it seems to me that restaurants that want to serve these small plates that I think he's referring to, have moved to tasting menus where a number of of these small things are combined with one or two more substantial dishes
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by mseebach 9y ago
I'd argue that this definition of "productive" is insufficient. Conveniently, the link to the study is broken (and to "vouchercloud.com", not BLS, the stated source of the study), so it's hard to check the numb
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by mseebach 9y ago
The trick is to abstain from all luxuries in life (thus, the "strictly need" qualifier). Of course, we don't really want to do without the luxuries, so we work to earn their cost -- and we also don't want to do without t
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by mseebach 9y ago
Well, might be geographical/context sensitive, then. They could well be better known for lagers in the US , which being overall better known for weissbier.
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by mseebach 9y ago
They're definitely best known for their weissbier - especially historically. Lager/pilsner is only 150 years old.
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by mseebach 9y ago
There's nothing nazi, nor anything really to apologise for, in that. A weissbier, especially a dark variant, is really quite different from crisp lagers. Crisp is not really a word I'd use to describe weissbier at all. That said,
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by mseebach 9y ago
It already it. Most people middle class and up work way more than they strictly need to for simple wellbeing. It's just that our standards and expectation for wellbeing shifts, and shifts quickly.
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by mseebach 9y ago
He, and Keynes' prediction of 15 hour work weeks, were largely right. We spend quite few hours in the week doing the work we need for basic shelter, food and security, at least to a 1845/1930 standard. You could theoretically live
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by mseebach 9y ago
You say that like there's a rational security analysis behind TSA's policies in airports. But yeah, planes have a nasty habit of offering to amplify an attack of a certain magnitude by falling out of the sky and killing everyone o
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by mseebach 9y ago
All thrift stores I know of and have donated to exist to raise money for a charity. They should be thrilled to move stock. But the vast majority of books are next to worthless, so your "read more" crowd will have plenty of options

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