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by ska 4y ago
I think people tracking was just an optional extra/add-on. It sounds like the RSSI signal was there in the first place to set up the mesh based on what other lights had active sensors...
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by ska 4y ago
I agree it's a combination of travel an nuclear families but those things are highly interrelated. For what it's worth most of the small-town vibe I'm familiar with from actual small towns is behind the trend to nuclear fami
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by ska 4y ago
> and most chat apps these days should have pretty great auditability capabilities. Most chat apps default configuration isn't going to do this well at all out of the box. With some significant back end work, you can for sure do thi
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by ska 4y ago
This - providing meals - is a time honored tradition in many many cultures and communities, for exactly the reasons you mention. I think the somewhat recent focus on nuclear families and breaking of social cohesion that came with it makes t
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by ska 4y ago
> unlikely to have learnt enough There is an important caveat here - sometimes the original is rough not because you didn't know how to do it better, but because you were emphasizing speed and flexibility e.g. very early stage start
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by ska 4y ago
Honestly it depends on the type of work. If you are essentially freelancing full time, consider changing your billing to daily or weekly rates anyway. If you are doing highly specialized work that relies on experience & knowledge, do ho
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by ska 4y ago
They have a 180 day review commitment. A 30 day delay on their side would be unusual and burn a big chunk of that clock.
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by ska 4y ago
> what if they worked on something that was a good investment of their time? It's not always obviously true that there is such a project. Neither companies nor teams are fungible enough to make this necessarily true, at least not to
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by ska 4y ago
There is nothing irrational about it being difficult having to accept your evaluation of your worth in the situation did not match theirs, even if it has no material effect on your income, etc.
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by ska 4y ago
It's probably higher than appears at first blush, at least to do at scale. But not a huge barrier. But there isn't an open market for manufactured lenses, you have to get them into consumers hands, and you have to get prescriptio
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by ska 4y ago
> If you have the pre-requisite knowledge Isn't this a pretty big barrier though? In the times the article discussed, plenty of parents bought chemistry kits for science-inclined kids without any real idea of what they were; assured
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by ska 4y ago
> but keeping talent away from work is suboptimal for society I think this is basically a non-issue in practice. People with such iron-clad non-competes typically either a) take a non competing job, or b) work on something anyway. The
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by ska 4y ago
This is probably the wrong way to think of it. Especially at screen sizes, there are certain photos your iphone 13 can take that are comparable to what you would get with your nikon gear. However there are photos you can get with that 1.
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by ska 4y ago
It was always pretty accessible, at least since 35mm was developed.
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by ska 4y ago
This has always been true. Most of what professional cameras and lenses get you is the ability to get shots you otherwise couldn't - lower light, further distance, faster action, etc. Particular effect in DOF of flattening. Nothing t
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by ska 4y ago
Having known a ton of mathematicians, I'm not at all convinced this holds (although it undoubtedly is a subset)
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by ska 4y ago
Every jurisdiction is different in details, of course, but "at-will" just means you can fire someone, not that you get to decide what happens after unilaterally (e.g. you may owe severance)
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by ska 4y ago
> because they swept up by the impending doom of Musk's takeover and stopped working? To a first approximation I would guess 0. When a company is teetering on calamity, people don't just stop doing things, they just stop doing
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by ska 4y ago
> I guess I should. Not just technical ability, but state of mind etc. Anything needed quickly (not everyone will have such) should be straightforwardly accessible by someone who is both distracted and busy.
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by ska 4y ago
Are you so sure? They are similar reasons, at least in part.
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by ska 4y ago
> there will be people studying it. "people studying something" == "nerds" ? [edit: i was probably too offhand about that, but what I meant is that the fact that people are engaged in something like this misses at lea
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by ska 4y ago
It seems the start is always ~20 years ago from when you talk about, regardless of when you talk about this sort of thing.
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by ska 4y ago
wouldn't you expect numpy to mostly mitigate the differences?
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by ska 4y ago
> Why is stress after trauma a 'disorder'? It isn't. Sometimes you can experience trauma, then experience stresses, and react to the stress in normal ways. The disorder is when this doesn't happen, and you have aty
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by ska 4y ago
> Are cash buyers really 25% of the market in the US? Not in the sense that they didn't finance part of the purchase, as I understand it. It just means the cash is already there from the point of view of the buyer.
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by ska 4y ago
> I've pondered on this a lot. Houses have been treated as "nest-eggs" There is a nasty policy trap here, in that reducing the investment value of houses can mean (as a federal government) you are expecting pain down the r
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by ska 4y ago
Aren't you just emphasizing one of the three scenarios? It doesn't seem to contradict the statement you are responding to.
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by ska 4y ago
> And what does that have to do with preferring to work from home? Wasn't it saying that such people likely prefer WFH, (and not the converse) ? > It's almost comical the implication that I don't think that implicatio
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by ska 4y ago
This is probably worth an application of a much more general principle: if you have experienced something directly it's quite likely to be fairly common, however if you haven't experienced something it's not good evidence tha
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by ska 4y ago
> That appears not to be the case and there are numerous counter examples that disprove it. My point was that the existence of said counterexamples doesn't prove anything very strong, only that clearly Uber isn't only stealin

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