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by sdoering 5y ago
It shouldn't, but as network effect shows it works. It is easy. It provides some (felt) value for the people using it. A cigarette does the same. It provides value the moment it is lit and the first drag enters the lung. I quit smoking
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by sdoering 5y ago
Wow. What an interesting story. I would never have come up with a scheme like that.
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by sdoering 5y ago
I did not want to punch the easy target with digital infrastructure. Our 100 MBit includes satellite TV and telephone flatrate for 30 € per month. Still not in the range of other countries, but at least significantly cheaper than the big pl
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by sdoering 5y ago
Thanks for the fact sheet. Quite an impact since 1986.
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by sdoering 5y ago
Mean, median and distribution taken together tell you something. Not the whole picture but way more than any one metric looked at in isolation. In my experience taking one single metric (be it mean or median) without context is more often t
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by sdoering 5y ago
I don't know what you are talking about. There is nothing bloated about multiple systems necessary to track my time or my expenses while project managers also insist that you use jira to track time because they otherwise have no way of
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by sdoering 5y ago
I admit I have no first hand experience about the US part, but I read a lot of stories about rural or even city infrastructure in the US and oftentimes can't help but think that in a lot of countries I grew up as being labeled 3rd worl
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by sdoering 5y ago
Ahh I understand a bit better. Average or median? Because if you have a bar with 9 people and together they have each an average net worth of say 100k nothing much happens to the average when the next regular Jane enters the bar. But once B
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by sdoering 5y ago
I remember when my employer (together with a whole bunch of other agencies) got bought by a global consulting company. Towards us employees as well as to the market the talk was always to generate better opportunities that one agency alone
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by sdoering 5y ago
Just being curious. Could you explain the graph in [0]? I just don't understand it. Probably because as a non US citizen I for example already don't know what Chained Dollars are. If I made 50k in say 2012 and now make 52k in 2022
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by sdoering 5y ago
On a totally unrelated side note, I profoundly want to thank you for pointing out that threads can be collapsed. I am using GN since 2011 now and never knew this. I wondered how and just now realized the small '-' at the end of a
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by sdoering 5y ago
Additionally I really am fed up with people splitting everything in Slack into multiple lines so that I receive multiple notifications from what should have been a three to five liner. Was it a nuisance when work from home started more and
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by sdoering 5y ago
Thanks for the tip. I need to try this one out. I really despise this pattern, as described by OP.
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And even if they don't love it they use it because they get subjective value out of that usage as these people have lots of contacts (or maybe groups) there. I don't use FB anymore. For more than two years now. But I still keep th
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by sdoering 5y ago
When I'm stuck in a traffic jam on the autobahn in Germany and it's almost impossible to move forward at all, I see it all the time that people want to change lanes in the hope that they can gain a few meters there. In return, the
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by sdoering 5y ago
If you let the system play and then just change the politeness so that many cars switch lanes you create turbulence and the average speed drops down. I found it very interesting to see.
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by sdoering 5y ago
Interesting jumps you make. Why should I want to dismantle capitalism? I have no qualms with people making money. I like to make money myself. As long as I treat others fairly and take care of others, why shouldn't I be compensated for
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by sdoering 5y ago
I can't even imagine how these experiments are passing an ethics committee. I had never heard of this experiment before, but this report is one of these moments, that make me question, if we took the wrong branch of reality. A billiona
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by sdoering 5y ago
I remember when I stumbled upon the first video explaining the bullet journal method. Long before a Kickstarter or the idea of making money through the method. It was the first productivity/self organisation method that I could stick t
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by sdoering 5y ago
Disclaimer: Anecdata Privately I host nearly everything on a shared host in Germany (that is everything I can host without sudo) [1]. For company policy reasons I must absolutely use AWS or GCE. For an internal project I need to setup Matom
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by sdoering 5y ago
In general I would agree. I was thinking about what you wrote in my current context. I very much don't like ads. I don't like the described feeling of generated want. On the other hand I am currently trying to help a local rural c
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by sdoering 5y ago
You could also use something like 'embetty' [1] and proxy your users from YouTube, Twitter and the likes to ensure their privacy. [1] https://github.com/heiseonline/embetty-server
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by sdoering 5y ago
I did the same. Wouldn't want to miss it on my 2018 model. Edit: By the way. Thanks for reminding me. I looked at the site and they now have support for wireless Android Auto. So I might just be able to ditch the somewhat unreliable co
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by sdoering 5y ago
I wanted to try it. I wanted to see if it could help me solve a business problem. Sadly I just wasn't able to understand the first steps to get something out there. I really still want to like it. But currently I have no idea how to pr
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by sdoering 5y ago
> how can you be so blithely supportive of rule-by-decree in supposed democracies Because that is the reason we life in a democracy with checks and balances implemented. In Germany some decrees were canceled by our (up to the highest) co
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by sdoering 5y ago
Our company is heading exactly in this direction. As we have people who don't want to or are not able to regularly work from home we provide office space. And as we have people who are either too far away from the main project team or
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by sdoering 5y ago
When I started to WFH at the beginning of the pandemic nearly two years ago I thought that a few days/weeks would be a nice change of scenery. Now, two years later I wouldn't want to go back to the office. I can imagine doing offs
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by sdoering 5y ago
Maybe the dev isn't very clear about this. I agree it could be more clear up front. But does this mean devaluing their work by calling them "just another hustler"? I believe this isn't necessary. And sadly it totally dev
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by sdoering 5y ago
In your sister comment there was a link to a repo generating a static sige: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30234601
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by sdoering 5y ago
I don't know for rails, but whatever dev I do on my Windows machine I just do it via VSCode in WSL2. Or I ssh into my dev machine (shared hosting via uberspace). I haven't even tried to setup dev environments for python, php or js

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