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by ronaldx 13y ago
If there was a way to cancel it without being at the location, that would destroy the use case. The app is targeted at people who know they don't have any willpower and therefore it ought to be strict. Sorry for your wife, but I think
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Sure, it happened to be an attribute (randomly) of our ancestor who reproduced before dying ( not randomly).
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by ronaldx 13y ago
What I claim is that this iteration of humans have survived catastrophic black swan events in the past, and that catastrophic black swan events will happen in the future (in a very-long-term, i.e. evolutionary, timeframe). Living humans don
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> (just as our tendency to get fat ... I suggest that the tendency to get fat is protecting us as a species on an evolutionary scale. It's unwise to believe we could ditch that just because we haven't needed it for the last 2 g
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by ronaldx 13y ago
On the other hand, I don't understand why you would be searching for those results on a general search engine. If I search for "Chinese", I explicitly don't want restaurant results (I would have specified that). If I s
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> The stock market has historically never dropped in value over a 15 year period. Feel free to clarify this, because I don't agree. The records of the FT30 index only go back to 1935[0] - which is not nearly long enough to make reli
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> I strongly disagree with his assertions that saving up for retirement is ill-advised and that traditional investments (stocks, etc.) are too volatile and risky to be useful. With my retirement age ~40 years away, it's not clear to
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by ronaldx 13y ago
>Fixed fines are silly, make it a percentage of revenue or profit. Give them a real incentive to change. What do you think Google's claimed revenue/profit in France would be, in that case?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The fact that the 7th paragraph says "Now I'm not calling for..." implies that the connection was made in the first 6 paragraphs, yes.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The article is deliberately connecting the two (e.g. in the first paragraph), which is why I comment on it.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
One aspect of this system is that potential employees get an early sense of how much Automattic values their time. $25 per hour for overtime work = apparently not that well. In my opinion, they would likely get better results paying $0, and
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> What makes a teacher successful? ... Their No. 1 finding: "They were strict," she says. "None of us expected that." Teachers are not successful because they are strict (it's not directly causative): they are
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by ronaldx 13y ago
You can use whatever curve, shape and symbol you like, but the unicode U+0079 should essentially represent the letter 'y' (rather than 'umbrella'): that's precisely the point of it. If I don't get your symbol,
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by ronaldx 13y ago
The mean would give the same quantity of information but biased (in this case) by the infant mortality rate, which probably should be examined seperately. The median is the preferred statistical standard. What you are looking for is a distr
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by ronaldx 13y ago
* Why do you think GDP is the most significant stat? I suggest that GDP primarily represents the status of the wealthy, and that working people may not be sensitive to GDP. Why is GDP your KPI, rather than, the status of the poorest in soci
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Why do I have to download the Mac or Windows apps in order to export the notes?
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> It might very well be that they have relations, don't make it sound like that's a bad thing. It is a bad thing here: it shows that Google is apparently willing to act preferentially to favoured businesses, undermining the i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Apologies for the cynicism: A 'one year cliff' creates incentive for a sacking just inside a year. Employees should consider whether it's in their best interest. Best wishes for the future.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Exactly: basing a purchasing decision on any point, other than cost, is more expensive.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I think the issues in bdwalter's comment (above) illustrate the problem. The concept of Evernote is great and it initially appears well-executed (in fact, it is very well-engineered). But, there are many serious problems that users i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> Not one single animal, insect or fish has evolved specifically to be eaten. This is an attractive statement but is not trivial: I would question it. (with the caveat that evolution is a passive process) Species may gain evolutionary be
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Hanlon's razor has become an excuse for malice and should not apply: Stupidity (within government) is malice.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I knew that graph was misleading, but I still missed that it was total student debt vs per capita median income. I nominate it for worst graph of the year: if you set out to make a biased graph, you couldn't do much better. Drawing
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I agree with your assessment of the situation, but not with the conclusion that robotic tools are as effective as hands: Robotic tools have been optimised for specific, planned and clearly-defined surgeries, and I know they can offer less i
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by ronaldx 13y ago
An intermediate step would be robotic tools that could be controlled by a surgeon as effectively as their own hands. As such, I do not believe we will see majority-robotic surgery within 20 years.
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by ronaldx 13y ago
> He told me that the day-to-day processes are ancient. It's a basic tenet of air safety that everything can be done by hand when equipment fails. For example, it's a requirement that you should be able to do vector calculation
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by ronaldx 13y ago
I disagree, for the most part. Perhaps a focus on vacation policy is not preferred, but if you have multiple employers competing for your attention, then pay and conditions ought naturally to be the deciding factor. Asking about pay and con
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Why wouldn't founders take such salaries, which are not outrageous? Saying that founders shouldn't take a fair salary - comparable to what they might get elsewhere - puts them in a untenably risky position that would limit the p
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by ronaldx 13y ago
For as long as high unemployment results in a lack of competition for labour, and for as long as welfare is insufficient to cover a person's needs, people are obligated to take whatever employment is available. People are obligated to
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by ronaldx 13y ago
Worth noting that first generation iPad, the current model until March 2011, will only run iOS 5.1.1 and has essentially been obsoleted by now. Yes, it is theoretically possible to support earlier versions but Apple makes it practically ver

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