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Create Cathedrals, Not Bricks(coda.io)
2 points by pns 3y ago|5 comments
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Almost 2% of Anguilla's GDP came from selling .ai domains in 2021 [pdf](gov.ai)
3 points by pns 4y ago|1 comments
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by pns 4y ago
Revenue from domains in 2021: $199.99M XCD [1] = $7.40M USD [2] Nominal 2021 GDP: $380M USD [3] $7.40M/$380M = 1.94% [1] page 64, http://www.gov.ai/documents/finance/2022%20Budget.pdf [2] 1 XCD = 0.37 USD h
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by pns 4y ago
The effort may outweigh the costs if there are higher value projects this would be prioritized against (including the on-going support burden) For example, a project that made Chrome users 1% better off is probably worth far more to the ove
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Not all English syllables include a vowel(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by pns 6y ago|0 comments
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by pns 8y ago
While I find it interesting from a safety/convenience perspective, I also can't help but see WALL-E becoming more and more real
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Uber vs Waymo: Opening Arguments Decks(axios.com)
2 points by pns 9y ago|0 comments
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by pns 9y ago
See cloudflare blog post conclusion - they're quite aware it's hopefully unnecessary and possibly just a flair factor (their pun :) but may help prevent an attack ever so slightly. "Hopefully we’ll never need LavaRand. Hopefu
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Don’t Open This Cookie (Disastrous Day Inside) (2007)(nytimes.com)
1 points by pns 9y ago|0 comments
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by pns 9y ago
Thanks! While qualitative, the radiuses are more directional than precise. The key thing with the outer radius is that it's usually outside one's country or even continent.
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The Inverse Donut of Bougieness (Where does your food come from?)(medium.com)
8 points by pns 9y ago|2 comments
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An alarming number of scientific papers contain Excel errors(washingtonpost.com)
91 points by pns 10y ago|69 comments
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by pns 10y ago
It's a legal issue because courts have previously interpreted large differences (i.e. beyond recovery time) in _paid_ maternity vs paternity leave as a gender discrimination issue. See linked NYT article above One example from the arti
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by pns 10y ago
While some gap in paid maternity vs paternity leave is permissible as women uniquely have to recover from a childbirth (considered short-term disability), courts have found 6-weeks as the typical recovery time and thus the typical allowed d
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by pns 10y ago
You'd think "next to Sal's general store" would work, especially given how prevalent that approach is. In fact, through our research, even for folks working the same delivery area day after day, they consistently fail wi
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by pns 10y ago
Fair feedback re: comms on website. The OkHi approach is use your phone number as your universal key to share your address (with obvious privacy controls in place to control who can access it). The address itself is a GPS point + a photo -
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by pns 10y ago
From having worked on addressing in Nairobi, Kenya for the past two years, I can tell you the precision problem is worse than you think actually. You're making the assumption * someone knows how to use a map to a very high degree of pr
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by pns 10y ago
It's interesting in these situations to see the outgoing manager's departure as much as a failure of that manager as of the organization itself. I think you're exactly right to be diagnosing why the manager didn't work o
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by pns 10y ago
Is that really any different than any company's IT department figuring out what needs to get done and then, afterwards, deciding whether to insource or outsource the work? If the "conflict of interest" biases taxpayers - awes
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by pns 10y ago
If hard drive is encrypted (and like most companies like Google, almost certain they would be), then you wouldn't be able to get much unless you someone got them to disable screensavers/computer sleep and keep the machines on for
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by pns 10y ago
It's an all-equity deal from the letter
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'Autism in Love': Dating and Courtship on the Spectrum(theatlantic.com)
3 points by pns 11y ago|0 comments
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by pns 11y ago
I agree Seth doesn't make the strongest points for the broader message he's getting at. That said, I find it a useful because there's still value in his words to be taken. As John Stuart Mill says in On Liberty: "Though
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by pns 11y ago
Living as an American in Kenya give me a lot of perspective to what the logical endpoint is if certain government practices get put on steroids, such as this. While in the United States it sounds alarmist to think of this all as a system of
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by pns 11y ago
I think you're right, but it's more nuanced. Nontechnical people can be very helpful early in the recruiting funnel though, and that's a critical time suck/skillset that the technical folks don't have to invest in a
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by pns 11y ago
Thanks! Where were you thinking about doing the project and digitalizing for what purpose? It's been quite an interesting ride - I used to live in SF and now am seeing see firsthand such an interesting contrast. There are so many emerg
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by pns 11y ago
OkHi | Full Stack Engineer | Nairobi, Kenya - Solve a problem affecting 4B people across the world http://okhi.com There are more people in the world without a physical address than with. 4 billion people in fact. It’s our missi