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by sfg 4y ago
Yeah, I got to the landing page and left immediately. I want to see what the site is about before signing up or doing anything.
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by sfg 4y ago
"working from home certainly increases the amount of control that people have over their day" Yep. This outweighs all the benefits of being in the office that are mentioned in the article.
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The Complete Argument Against Crypto(stephendiehl.com)
32 points by sfg 5y ago|9 comments
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by sfg 5y ago
Where does contracting fit into all of this? If you leave the formal structure of employment and don't fit into the set job titles of a company (or within, but as a contractor and so a different pay band), then can you effectively work
35.
by sfg 5y ago
Don't connect them to the internet.
36.
by sfg 5y ago
Impressive. How did you get people to try the free version? What worked?
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Why this website is not, and may never be, HTTPS(misc-stuff.terraaeon.com)
10 points by sfg 5y ago|1 comments
38.
by sfg 5y ago
You might not, but I think many do, hence the angle of the NYT article (which is within their 'Privacy Project').
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by sfg 5y ago
They bought under the condition of the ownership structure and also the law. If, as alleged, the law was broken, then there is nothing wrong with shareholders seeking redress.
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by sfg 5y ago
It was always a non-issue. I live in a mixed Apple and Android house and its a non-issue. If it was an issue, we'd just consolidate our house, but we don't, because -- like you -- we don't find it enough of an issue to care.
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by sfg 5y ago
Yeah. Plus, this is such a minor issue. You get a device and the charger for it and that is the end of it. If you buy multiple devices that you carry around with incompatible chargers then you carry (assuming you even need to charge on the
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Elite Biases Make Policy Biases(overcomingbias.com)
153 points by sfg 5y ago|148 comments
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by sfg 5y ago
Why isn't it hard to block access to the back-end services that the app communicates with? If it doesn't require back-end services, then why is it more resilient than an offline PWA?
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by sfg 5y ago
Do they have a PWA option? Or an ordinary web site? The world needs to get away from closed stores and back to open systems.
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by sfg 5y ago
I like the 'more logical still' style. The structure of the whole looks incomplete and unbalanced without the second full-stop, which I find ugly. I guess that I care more about logical structure (or my idea of logical structure),
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by sfg 5y ago
It works best, when the entire company is remote.
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by sfg 5y ago
Syntax highlighting helps reveal structure, so you can understand the whole at a glance, before then zooming in on a part to gain deep understanding. Without the revelation of structure, identifying the parts to go deep on would only be har
48.
by sfg 5y ago
https://www.azquotes.com/author/86806-Dick_Guindon
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by sfg 5y ago
Growth and change is why they exist. Its why they might replace things in other sectors and so make those sectors better. Its why they might fail and make things worse, at which point, it is why someone else will come along to try and make
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by sfg 5y ago
Tree Style Tabs in Firefox. Vertical with nesting.
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by sfg 5y ago
https://apse.io/faq/ "It depends. Screen resolution and multiple monitors affect how much storage an image takes. For a general guideline, if you have a 1080p monitor and run it nonstop for a full 8-hour workday,
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by sfg 5y ago
Is there no licence with any sort of model training clause: "If this licence or the source code it covers is used to train a statistical model, then the model and code used to create the model are covered by this licence (which has ter
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The First Hacker(shkspr.mobi)
6 points by sfg 5y ago|0 comments
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A founder’s perspective on 4 years with Haskell (2016)(baatz.io)
2 points by sfg 5y ago|0 comments
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by sfg 5y ago
It's one of those articles you either relate to or don't and if you don't, you're going to pick up on the flaws. Not everyone that fails to relate will complain about those flaws, but any article designed to evoke emotio
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by sfg 6y ago
If a grabby alien civilisation spreads out, then would not the frontier going parts become alien to each other, due to the distances and time involved, which will lead to both divergent development and difficulties with communication. Given
57.
by sfg 6y ago
Ask.
58.
by sfg 6y ago
So, alone or they're hiding?
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by sfg 6y ago
What time periods are long enough to warrant significant changes to how likely we think it is that the Dark Forest Model corresponds to reality? I would have thought very long, given the scale of astronomical observations.
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by sfg 6y ago
> Slab I'm guessing, it is https://slab.com/ ("The knowledge base that democratizes knowledge"), which I discovered by searching for "Slab for Slack".

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