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by stoney 15y ago
> The time spent learning the course would still have been spent, had one not used this special method of revision Not necessarily true. He specifically lists learning and understanding concepts as they were taught as a part of his str
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by stoney 15y ago
Well then you have the basis of a perfect system: configure your email client to only alert you of emails not marked urgent.
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by stoney 15y ago
> How about instead... industries that create easily copied content get with the 21st century and stop bitching. I like the ideal of what you're saying, but I worry about the practicality of it. I don't see how you could finance a huge
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by stoney 15y ago
I guess you could approach this kind of question from a risk/probability point of view. Not everyone who practices guitar becomes great at it, but some do, so if you practice guitar you expose yourself to a potentially big upside (assuming
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by stoney 15y ago
But if you go down the road of leaving it up to suppliers to secure against copying, you end up with ridiculous DRM systems. Would you rather receive an un-DRM'ed mp3 in exchange for the promise that you won't make copies of it for everyone
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by stoney 15y ago
Maybe highway robbery, but pretty standard in Australia - mobile phones are expensive here. As someone pointed out in another comment, Telstra's standard price for off plan data is $2/Mb (for a consumer mobile, not a b2b contract which is
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by stoney 15y ago
The article did say at the end that they've put in measures to stop it happening again. Presumably something along the lines of monitoring usage per SIM. I would guess that it just didn't occur to the power company or Telstra that someone
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by stoney 15y ago
I find that scheduling activities with other people that start at around the time that you want to finish work is very effective at enforcing sane working hours. I meet a friend to go climbing two nights a week, which pretty much forces me
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by stoney 15y ago
The problem with switching to electricity is that the electricity distribution network has a limited capacity. Increasing the capacity of the connection to every single dwelling would be enormously expensive (and energy consuming!), so the
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by stoney 15y ago
I've seen enough instances of this kind of thing now that I've got two facebook accounts - my real account and my spam account (just like I have two email addresses).
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by stoney 16y ago
I was just thinking the same thing - why doesa Firefox insisted on installing updates just when I open it to use it (which really is exactly when I don't want it to be doing it). Why not do the updates when I close it down?
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by stoney 16y ago
I think the dispute here isn't so much whether or not Montessori education has or doesn't have advantages, rather it's the confirmation bias inherent in finding famous people who had a Montessori education and then using them to hint that t
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by stoney 16y ago
Assuming that societal advantage results in more offspring. Do the rich have more kids than the poor? I'm not sure that they do.
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by stoney 16y ago
Do people with blue eyes reproduce more? I've not heard that before. I thought the ratio of blue to not blue eyes was due to the whole dominant/recessive gene thing (do I mean gene, or maybe allele? a long time since I learned this stuff
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by stoney 16y ago
Another tactic for getting yourself out of a rut is to just try something new. The more different to your current activities the better. Something physical that involves other people is a good bet, but anything that strikes you as interes
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by stoney 16y ago
Uploading your music to Dropbox would be a good example. As far as I know nothing stops me doing that, and it achieves a fairly similar functionality to the proposed Amazon service. Dropbox even use Amazon's servers to store their data (I
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by stoney 16y ago
I agree, it's an interesting problem. Thinking about it maybe there's a kind of bathtub curve of photos that I'm interested in - I'm highly interested in photos around me and of close friends - I don't really care about photos of acquaintan
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by stoney 16y ago
But the reality is that 99% of the time, companies don't need a chapel roof painted, they just need a quick watercolour to put in reception (abandoning the painting analogy now). It's a business decision - is it cheaper to hire one genius t
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by stoney 16y ago
Given the frequent privacy-related news stories that appear here, I thought that this anti-privacy essay was an interesting alternative view point. And actually a fairly persuasive argument against privacy.
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How Privacy is Ruining the World(marinatingthemind.com)
1 points by stoney 16y ago|1 comments
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by stoney 16y ago
If I'm after a UK or Australian company I'm as likely to try .co.uk or .com.au first - but only because I've lived in both of those places so I'm familiar with the extensions.
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by stoney 16y ago
Basically I do this too. But I'd add: Moved to country in vastly different time zone? Put pictures on facebook and send newsletter style email every now and then.
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by stoney 16y ago
But possibly bad for the community in that it pretty much removes the possibility of getting bought by a company that wants your talent/customer base more than they want your product.
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by stoney 16y ago
I don't know about these particular reactors, but I've worked at nuclear power plants in the past and the final cooling backup plan was generally a variation of "fill the building with sea water". The reactors I knew (I assume it's similar
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by stoney 16y ago
I'm not sure how meaningful "profit" is in the context of a privately owned company. Ok, so they only had $2,127 left over at the end of the year after costs, which sounds pretty small compared to the revenue number, but that's after payin
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by stoney 16y ago
The title is different on the two submissions. Could have been a factor?
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by stoney 16y ago
I think it depends on what you mean by "leading". As I understand it, Bin Laden is a kind of "thought leader" to the AQ movement - sort of how you could say Mick Jagger leads the rock n roll movement (terrible example!). No doubt BL has a
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by stoney 16y ago
Who says it really was CommanderX behind the facebook profile?
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by stoney 16y ago
But that's assuming that you're hiring more programmers to do the same task. Programming is partitionable at a larger scale - if I hire more programmers I can start more projects/create more products. So I guess what I'm saying is that for
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by stoney 16y ago
Walmart could open a new store. That would need more employees and, presumably, the store would generate a profit for the group. So looking at the marginal employee doesn't tell the whole story either - hiring one more employee isn't enou

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