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by simoneau 6y ago
I have this situation right now with the bank in Singapore. The only way I can stop the email is to visit one of their branches. On the other side of the world.
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by simoneau 6y ago
"expresso"
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by simoneau 6y ago
My oldest child is about to enter the Boston Public school system. Many of my peers think I’m crazy to want to send my kids to public school, but we really value community and equity. I don’t yet know what level of academic achievement my k
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by simoneau 6y ago
I don't understand why counterfeiting isn't just an immediate ban for the vendor. Isn't this a huge liability risk? Or do the get some protection because they're just the "marketplace", like a common carrier?
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by simoneau 6y ago
Buying on Amazon is becoming a real roll-of-the-dice. Last week I wanted to buy refill cord for my string trimmer (weed whacker, in local parlance). Listed among the third-party options was this apparently OEM part: https://www.a
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by simoneau 6y ago
> Writing this piece, I found myself thinking about Ibram X. Kendi’s book “How to Be an Antiracist.” Kendi’s central argument is that it is policy outcomes, not personal intent, that matter. “Racist policies are defined as any policy tha
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by simoneau 6y ago
And they are heated along the way!
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by simoneau 6y ago
I don't understand why this doesn't get more discussion. It's a much more conservative step than "medicare for all" and would do a lot of good.
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by simoneau 6y ago
I’ve always looked at crowdfunding as a bet. That is, here’s something I wish existed and maybe these people can do it. If you think of it as a way to preorder, you’re bound to be disappointed.
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by simoneau 6y ago
It does allow someone who is filtering Y/N for this to check Y. Maybe that's enough to open some doors.
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by simoneau 6y ago
Good point. Existing institutions which are starting online programs have a huge advantage here.
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by simoneau 6y ago
The WordPress criticisms are weak. It's still a good recommendation.
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by simoneau 6y ago
Still better than Jira!
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by simoneau 6y ago
Does anyone have a good sense how online degrees are perceived by employers? Or graduate programs? I wonder if the pandemic will be shifting these attitudes.
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by simoneau 6y ago
These all sound like good motivations to me. But it seems for an organization to use this software, you need to convince yourselves that you understand who the licensor is and what their business is, and that your business doesn't comp
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by simoneau 6y ago
Make sure you're cool with micro's license: https://polyformproject.org/licenses/shield/1.0.0/ The noncompete clause is problematic.
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by simoneau 6y ago
Companies I've worked at make it fairly easy for me to expense a purchase, with just manager sign-off or similar. I just need some sort of up-front price for pre-approval, and a receipt afterward to send to accounting. As soon as you g
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No One Wants Your Used Clothes Anymore (2018)(bloomberg.com)
4 points by simoneau 6y ago|0 comments
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by simoneau 6y ago
See also "Machine with Concrete", by Arthur Ganson https://www.arthurganson.com/concrete-1
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Rome is an experimental JavaScript toolchain(romejs.dev)
2 points by simoneau 7y ago|0 comments
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by simoneau 8y ago
I recommend Whole Earth Disciple by Stewart Brand. One of the founders of the environmental movement explains why he was wrong about nuclear power and other issues. “We are as gods, and have to get good at it.”
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by simoneau 8y ago
Choosing walking directions comes pretty close to meeting this use case.
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by simoneau 9y ago
Do the cone-handling machines strike anyone else as over-engineered?
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Yelp is selling Eat24 to GrubHub for $287.5M and the stock is skyrocketing(techcrunch.com)
5 points by simoneau 9y ago|0 comments
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by simoneau 11y ago
Ze Frank has a great piece on how we make fun of other people for what they like, and why we should stop ourselves from doing it. "Don't Yuck My Yum": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knro0i2JH44
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by simoneau 11y ago
The SourceForge deathwatch continues.
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Proxy.hopblocks.com serves any site, stealing traffic and potentially passwords(news.ycombinator.com.proxy.hopblocks.com)
1 points by simoneau 11y ago|0 comments
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by simoneau 11y ago
By "native" they mean Electron-based deployment of HTML/JavaScript. More info: http://blog.yhathq.com/posts/how-rodeo-works.html
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by simoneau 11y ago
Look at the complexity of the solution needed to solve a simple challenge[1] on the demo pages: https://i.imgur.com/B6qFqww.gif The blocks nest four deep. It's a good illustration of how hard hard it is to make graphic
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by simoneau 11y ago
Whenever I see claims like this, I wonder about the causality. Aren't both number of children and intestinal worm infection both correlated with poverty? If so, how did they control for this?

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