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by stakkur 5y ago
This story is examined nicely in Rutger Bregman's book Humankind: A Hopeful History . TL:DR; It turns out that in the real world, nothing like the Lord of the Flies happened; in fact the opposite happened. Highly recommend Bregman&#
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"The legislation bans the use of the software by county government agencies and administrative offices, including by the King County Sheriff’s Office." So anybody else can use it anywhere, including third-party contractors perfo
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My last year commuting (2019), I calculated my commute and related prep/travel time: 612 hours. Six hundred and twelve hours . Almost a solid month. So, I worked my way into 100% remote, and I make it clear often that it's mandat
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This title is something up with which, I cannot, put
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Windows is like Idiocracy. It’s a disastrous shitshow of capitalism gone absurd, yet everyone there thinks it’s fantastic and that Windows is what plants crave.
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A note about the 'Ka-Bar' knife, since I've both been in the Marine Corps and am into knives: the military doesn't use it. In the real world, if you want a knife in the service, you typically buy it yourself. Does the US
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Computing Science? Algorithmology?
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You just described what Reddit is for me.
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You summarized my exact feelings about it, especially #1, 4, and 5. I get the feeling that the team hasn't done their homework on potential users and existing solutions.
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No analysis needed: it's symbolic. It won't do anything at all--except, of course, make many lawyers richer. DeSantis is doing this as a favor to certain folks.
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It's simple: Ford will sell a shit ton of these. Killer feature: onboard power for external devices. This will be huge for the trades--and the trades are a primary target market for Ford trucks.
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Ask HN: Best Financial Literacy Resources?
1 points by stakkur 5y ago|1 comments
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(Another) Zojirushi stainless insulated 16oz mug. Keeps warm all day (longer if you preheat), spillproof, and nigh indestructible. I had my first one for six years but lost it; it was still going strong.
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I'm at a similar decision point. What software are you using to write on the Chromebook?
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I always tell my managers "I don't need a 'one-on-one'; I will reach out to you if I need help or your time to discuss something, and I hope you will too. This is simpler for me, and saves a lot of time." Forcing th
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Having done both, in my experience the two have almost nothing in common, especially in process. Some of the most famous novels have no real structure at all, solve no problem, and don't adhere to any consistent rules of construction&#
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They used tracking software on employee's computers. That alone was enough for me to close the link without reading further. My company uses Microsoft's inane version of this, and the only real thing it measures is the amount of m
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What I Learned Writing and Publishing a Nonfiction Book(jamesgill.net)
1 points by stakkur 5y ago|0 comments
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I don't agree. Self publishing has not only arrived, in some genres it outsells trad pub books. One discussion: https://mashable.com/article/self-published-authors-making-a... From that article: "According t
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"98 percent of the books that publishers released" is the key phrase, and it's nothing new; the sell rate in traditional publishing has always been quite low. But this does not include books sold in all the other self-pub
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> is it because making $37k a year in Texas isn't good enough for a no-education, no-experience job? Maybe it's because it offers no meaningful health insurance, is most likely not full-time (such a job rarely is), and has l
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"But what if, she writes, those benefits are actually providing a safety net to American workers so that they do not need to take terrible jobs for low wages at terrible companies under terrible management?" Exactly this. A sign
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Ask HN: How did you learn to touch type?
1 points by stakkur 5y ago|4 comments
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WHOIS information should be private by default, at no additional cost.
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The Most Toxic Person in the Workplace(youtube.com)
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Here's my practical, psychology-based guide to reducing loneliness: 1. Find ways to help other people. 2. Help them. 3. Do it again. Reducing loneliness is not about 'having friends', it's about making efforts to partici
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Here’s a a similar tool that’s been around for a while and works great: slidewriter.io
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by stakkur 6y ago
The story mentions Kim Stanley Robinson, but he has another set of 'climate future' stories called Three Californias. I just happened to finish reading them, and while they're not explicitly about climate science, they'r
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by stakkur 6y ago
I'm not even sure there's a widely accepted definition of what 'software engineering' is, or what constitutes a 'software engineer'. I like the idea of having a body of knowledge, but given the loose definition
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When you test in production...

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