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by shard 8y ago
There's a cost not just in time, but also in willpower. There is some disagreement as to whether willpower is a finite resource or not, but if there is even a partial limitation, then coming up with that willpower needs to be taken int
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by shard 8y ago
Amazingly thorough list. Did you compile it from your experiences? What field of engineering are you involved with? Hopefully you did not experience all these problems personally.
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by shard 8y ago
iPhones have had 4 mics since the 6s, and that is enough to do some beam forming and target individual voices. Phones with 3 mics such as Pixel phones, iPhones starting with 5, and various phones from other manufacturers, can have some basi
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by shard 8y ago
After working out for many years I have come to accept that squeezing out single digit percentage gains is not worth the physical and mental effort required, and that maintenance is sufficiently satisfying. My goals have shifted from bulkin
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by shard 8y ago
That's very astute. You are right, there's nothing in those activities that command a higher pay. For product managers, it's the work that comes after doing all the above which commands the higher pay: Synthesizing all the in
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by shard 8y ago
Because the outside air is polluted and having to wear a air filter while exercising is unpleasant. Because I have to watch out for traffic and pedestrians outside, and driving to a cycling/running path takes about 15 minutes anyway. B
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by shard 8y ago
Do you interact with them only in a business setting, or in social settings as well? And are they mostly older men? I am wondering if they also dress in formal attire in social situations, and if age/gender has something to do with it.
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by shard 8y ago
Back in college there was a class where all exams were take-home, and all homeworks and exams could be deposited in the professor's mailbox. I read the text, did homework with my classmates, passed the exams, and never even found out w
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by shard 8y ago
I don't think that's the reason. That's a similar situation with Kryo / Mongoose / Denver CPUs that are the respective companies' own designs and are really just using the ARM instruction set.
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by shard 8y ago
How about googly eyes?
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by shard 8y ago
The person he was replying to was talking about cost to design the chip, which would imply employer costs. The error has to stop somewhere.
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by shard 8y ago
Sure, everyone has a different number. For example, in the article you linked to, there is this metric: "the fully functioning managed employee costs about 2.7 times the base salary".
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by shard 8y ago
Have you ever thought about what the business model is for benchmark companies? It probably won't come as a surprise to many of you, but there's a major conflict of interest when it comes to benchmark companies. They have "b
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by shard 8y ago
Remember, the cost to the employer is roughly double the employee's salary, therefore the $250,000 per annum cost means the employee salary is $125,000 per annum. Not exactly top dollar.
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by shard 8y ago
Using a Samsung Gear S2 watch and not Android Wear, but after 1.5 years, I am still wearing it daily. Main use cases are: alarm that never fails to wake me, convenient message notification in situations where it's impractical or inconv
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by shard 8y ago
I don't know if notches are the best example. If Google has been keeping track of display technology, and I have no reason to doubt that they haven't, they had probably saw this coming miles away and had been preparing. Sure, it&#
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by shard 8y ago
I thought he was just quoting poorly the ultimate caption that was the front-runner previously: "Christ, what an asshole!"
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by shard 9y ago
I don't know the exact details for Russian, but it's not so easy in Korean, even though about a quarter of the words are of English origin. First the transliteration sounds could be quite off, as it could be based on the spelling
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by shard 9y ago
Neither is the basics of the Korean writing system (I memorized the writing and pronunciation system in about a day). However, if you want to look up what a word means, is it easier to type in the Latin alphabet or hunt and peck the Korean
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by shard 9y ago
Unlike you, I found that the author discussed many instances of hacking in the article. He hacked social conventions in order to walk freely in places where otherwise it could be dangerous for him to walk. Social engineering is a very appro
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by shard 9y ago
Any apartment built in the last 10~15 years should not have those problems. Here is a rendering of an apartment in Gangnam, Seoul, one of the densest cities in the world (about 2x of New York). http://ojsfile.ohmynews.com/ST
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by shard 9y ago
Here is a counter-counter-perspective: Gladwell twists the truth a bit to make a good story, however AskAKorean also twists the truth a bit to make a good refutation. Based on the transcript that AskAKorea posted, it's very clear that
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by shard 9y ago
I can think of many reasons why one would work for someone where the applicant's name is relevant. Some include: lack of choice (the fact that many people here can afford to reject jobs based on such things is a privilege that not ever
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by shard 9y ago
I would say that it's a comment that's not good to give in polite company, but something that one close friend would say to another. Sometimes brutal truths or tendencies of society can be overlooked by some people or deliberately
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by shard 9y ago
You read too much into my reply. My only point was that hepatitis A is a disease that is easily defended against, and I wanted to spread that knowledge.
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by shard 9y ago
Hepatitis A vaccines are fairly simple: 2 shots in 6 months give 12 months of protection, and a third shot after 6 more months gives 20 years of protection. Children as young as 1 year old can be given the vaccine. Please talk to your docto
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by shard 9y ago
$250, ouch. What's the payback time on that?
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by shard 9y ago
This is definitely one of those "if you squint at it, it could be racist" borderline comments. I feel that the problem with these comments is that it normalizes the acceptance of alienness as untrustworthy. That may have been true
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by shard 9y ago
Some counterpoints and comments. 1. So many legit items come from China that as a consumer you can't dismiss something out of hand just because it came from China. 3. Huawei is a Chinese name, Xiaomi is a Chinese name. See #1. 4. This
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by shard 9y ago
Jonathan Haidt proposed a similar system in his book "The Happiness Hypothesis". He called it the automatic and controlled sides. The automatic side/system 1 is also what's being described in the book "The Inner Gam

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