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721.
by scandox 7y ago
Would suit me. I get a blade 2 all over every 6 weeks. I always wanted to setup super cheap kiosk-based hair cutting (I was going to call it RyanHair), but I basically felt the clippers were going to be stolen all the time.
722.
by scandox 7y ago
It also sounds like the person he commissioned to commit the crime was killed in the course of the crime and the victim was also shot in the leg!
723.
by scandox 7y ago
Well even a stopped clock tells the right time twice a day.
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by scandox 7y ago
If you're quoting someone you should indicate that. If you're quoting Bryan MacDonald well I think you should validate it pretty carefully. And if you are Bryan MacDonald...well I'm not surprised how you turned out Bryan.
725.
by scandox 7y ago
Don't be afraid to fire the client. Be conscientious but don't allow your priorities to be kidnapped.
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by scandox 7y ago
It's not even perfectly clear that human level intelligence is enough for driving. We accept a lot to get it over the line: 1.25 million deaths and 30-50 million injuries. We broadly accept the benefits outweigh the negatives (lives ex
727.
by scandox 7y ago
I only encounter two groups of people in my life: People with more money than they can sanely spend who nonetheless feel slightly as if they're behind the curve People who are struggling to make ends meet every day and who are one or t
728.
by scandox 7y ago
Ok so they can arbitrarily set a unique price for a specific domain?
729.
by scandox 7y ago
I agree the author seems very naive and you're right to zone in on the only substantive thing he did say. However I'm still unclear about some points. For example can they sell oxfam.org from under Oxfam's nose? How does that
730.
by scandox 7y ago
An elderly German man told me a story. He was some kind of trade representative in Yemen, based in the Port city of Aden. New Zealand (I think) and Yemen had recently concluded a trade deal for live sheep. The first shipment was to be met w
731.
by scandox 7y ago
Well it's not about heroism or villainy. It's just imperfect humanity.
732.
by scandox 7y ago
From a linked source [1]: > Vint Cerf, former Chairman of the Board of ICANN and founding President of the Internet Society, said in a statement: “When the Internet Society won the bid to operate the .ORG registry, it enabled a productiv
733.
by scandox 7y ago
Yes indeed I had neglected the "To whom"...which reminds me how often I think a message is aimed at me (egomania) when in fact it has an audience I am not even aware exists...
734.
by scandox 7y ago
Credibility of sources. I learned this in 40 minutes of a medieval history class. It is simply the constant habit of asking: Who is speaking? Why are they speaking? What have they to gain or lose from speaking? What have I to gain or lose f
735.
by scandox 7y ago
Well I admit working is a poor term. Perhaps framing it as "working for me" or "least scary for me" is more honest. I'm more afraid of direct democracy than anything. I basically think I'll be dead within a few
736.
by scandox 7y ago
So you don't reckon representative democracy works at all. In which case what is there to talk about here? You should be out attending to the business of revolution, not yakking on forums about incremental change right? Personally at p
737.
by scandox 7y ago
> This is nothing new. What we as citizens think of that is completely irrelevant. Unless the majority of the population would really care about encryption and it would influence the 4-yearly vote-thing (elections). You are contradicting
738.
by scandox 7y ago
We are certainly very good at rearranging multiple deck chairs on the Titanic at once. Our ability to grapple with any serious problem affecting the entire human system appears to be low at present.
739.
by scandox 7y ago
> Marshall and Hedren wrote a script for the project, whose working title was Lions, Lions and More Lions. Heroic and funny. They accumulated more than 70 wild animals and sold the shirts off their backs. What kind of manic energy makes
740.
by scandox 7y ago
I love Wikipedia. I know almost nothing about Jimmy Wales bar hearing one radio interview with him the content of which I do not recall. And yet somehow his name is a negative for me. How does that happen?
741.
by scandox 7y ago
Well the mistake is so consistent I started to wonder if they have created a new archetype: someone who not only adopts early but also adapts to the challenges of a beta product...
742.
by scandox 7y ago
We do indeed have title search but instead of being a system for the protection of ordinary persons, it is generally a wringer through which one is pushed by the legal profession. Of course you can sue your solicitor if they failed in their
743.
by scandox 7y ago
Americans simply have no idea how (relatively) straightforward and simple their model of property purchase, sale and ownership are. In Ireland you get this letter in 8 point font from a company with no phone number demanding 1000 euro for g
744.
by scandox 7y ago
Last time I used a MAC within 5 minutes it asked me for an F-ing credit card. Why would anyone expect a platform that can do that to be anything but a walled garden?
745.
by scandox 7y ago
Sometimes the problem can be one of self-definition, or of self-definition over time. Professionally, I have had years where I was definitely in maker mode and years where I was in manager mode. There are times when for a few months your he
746.
by scandox 7y ago
That's an interesting take. From my admittedly loose reading I had thought that they did sell it as a baby milk thickener / were aware of its use as such. Also I suspect more entrepreneurs would be concerned about being implicated
747.
by scandox 7y ago
I think his character and intentions have become such a trope that it has made it near impossible to gauge the good or bad faith of the person who starts discussing them. In a sense his name has now transcended rational discussion and becom
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by scandox 7y ago
I do this a lot. I draw lines and squares and in my mind (as I do it) they are directly meaningful with respect to what we're talking about.
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by scandox 7y ago
Most of the work we want done is project based. Like "Build this API for us and afterwards we'll take it in-house". Mostly I hire for several weeks or even months of work. So yes interviews will occur. As for tickets...well I
750.
by scandox 7y ago
Some of these encounters can be genuinely painful. People avoiding video chat is the most obvious sign often. Then you get on a call with someone and they are as terse as they possibly can be so that their accent will be "masked".

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