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by shard 6y ago
I agree with you and feel WFH is very liberating mentally. My biggest concern is career progression. In the office, it's easy to jump into conversations where you form connections with your coworkers, and find out who are the decision
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by shard 6y ago
Especially with distributed teams. When you try to have meetings with Europe and Asia at the same time, there's only a small window available that fits two of the groups (which every other meeting is fighting for), and the third group
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by shard 6y ago
Ah, good point. Let's say 10,000 miles a year, 30 MPG for small car and 15 MPG for large car, and $3/gallon gas. That give an extra $1000 in gas per year for the large car, or an extra $83 per month if a large car is needed once a
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by shard 6y ago
This was based on the parent's comment of half an hour to drive to the rental place, and a half hour wait. To err on the conservative side, assuming that this adds another half hour to drive to the destination, this is 1.5 hours for pi
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by shard 6y ago
The bigger the company the more its employees are hired through the standard recruitment process -- is that not directly proportional?
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by shard 6y ago
That depend on whether he interacts with his wife only for sex. There are obviously many other tasks a wife can do, which could require hiring the prostitute for basically all waking hours, and that's not even getting into the misalign
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by shard 6y ago
Just so I can get an idea of the magnitude of the number, I am making an estimation. Please point out any egregiously incorrect numbers. Price difference between smaller car and larger car: $15000 Lifetime of car: 8 years Frequency the larg
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by shard 6y ago
I think the point is that for very low bandwidth, the "deepfake" version will score higher than the heavily compressed video stream for PSNR.
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by shard 6y ago
I think this really depends on the individual learning style. Some people are able to extrapolate from examples and internalize it (e.g. those people who learn language simply from watching TV), and others need a more explicit structure to
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by shard 6y ago
1. ∀ Species ∈ Mammal, ∃ at least 1 member of Species that rapes 2. John does not rape 3. ∴ John is not the raping member of a Species of Mammals Pardon any misuse of symbols, it's been a while.
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by shard 6y ago
One issue is that often it takes someone who has had language instruction experience to properly explain nuances. I've often asked my spouse questions about grammar usage, and since it is instinctive for her and not a premeditated deci
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by shard 6y ago
The usefulness of having a greeter to limit shoplifting has been reduced drastically as many stores have implemented policies where regular employees are prohibited from preventing a shoplifter from leaving, due to liability issues if the e
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by shard 6y ago
How much of that difference was due to the different soundtrack? I noticed the difference as well and attributed most of it to the slow and sappy music of the upscaled version versus the fast and irreverent music of the original.
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by shard 6y ago
I would have thought that the comment "xenophobia is natural" is fairly uncontroversial. It's certainly not an artificial construct forced upon people (although certain expressions and targets might be). That's why there
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by shard 6y ago
I got a bed laptop stand from AliExpress, used it when I had back problems and had trouble being in any position except lying down. $15 and worked fine with my laptop. The same item on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Laptop-A
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by shard 6y ago
Depends on the drug, and the interpretation of "not striving for more": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amotivational_syndrome
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by shard 6y ago
For me at least, a round watch face blends better, and it's harder to tell whether it is a smartwatch or not out of the corner of your eye without specifically checking the face of the watch. For square watches, I can pretty much tell
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by shard 6y ago
I am moving up levels of abstraction, and not evading the question. Your question is only a subset of the bigger picture. My point is that it is neither reasonable nor desirable to enforce all laws all the time. This does not mean that the
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by shard 6y ago
Everyone is likely breaking some law at all times. That's why there's that video of a law professor telling you to shut up when you face a police officer. Not all laws can or should be enforced at all times. Not all laws are enfor
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by shard 6y ago
Just wait until smart glasses finally take off! At least people can ignore their smart watches, it'll be hard to ignore a flashing icon in your field of view.
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by shard 6y ago
I have had a Samsung smartwatch for 5 years now and have been very satisfied. I'm not a big user of health functions, but sleep tracking, being able to see messages quickly without having to reach for my phone, and having an alarm on m
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by shard 6y ago
For many, a watch is a fashion accessory. Thus, a watch that fits their style is important. If their fashion style identifies strongly with a particular sex, then a watch that clashes with that style would be less appealing.
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by shard 6y ago
I think this depends on the culture of the company. In sale&marketing-centric companies, it can be as you described. In engineering-centric companies, engineers sometimes create features and products that customers haven't asked fo
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by shard 6y ago
The historical films also represent the directors' vision, as they had to choose the lens/film/exposure/processing to interpret the image and get their message across. 4K HDR would just gives them more knobs to tweak. A
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by shard 6y ago
Good point about ancient aliens. I feel like that is the Walmart of science shows. But the same trend towards "edutainment" is also what brought us Neil deGrasse Tyson, someone who can be entertaining and didactic at the same time
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by shard 6y ago
> Much of the footage used in the film is borderline unwatchable without the post-processing used That's an interesting commentary on how much technology has advanced, and how we have become so desensitized to it. Consider that when
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by shard 6y ago
After reading your comments, I was curious so watched the two clips as well. Although the 4K version was a bit nicer to watch (which I watched first), I didn't feel a significant difference compared with the original. Perhaps I am bias
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by shard 6y ago
I've always had the thought that religious texts should be updated with modern prose and sensibilities. Not for the believers of the religion, but for the non-believers. People are not incentivized to slog through some text that was wr
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by shard 6y ago
> Get out of your ivory tower and into the real world. Your ad hominem attack devalued your whole argument. Argue the merits of his points, not your preconceptions of his mental state.
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by shard 6y ago
The historical films also represent the directors' vision, as they had to choose the lens/film/exposure/processing to interpret the image and get their message across. 4K HDR would just gives them more knobs to tweak. A

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