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by swombat 11y ago
Iceland seems to be pretty awesome from a political point of view. And it's still close to most European cities.
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by swombat 11y ago
Good ideas often come from unexpected places. "Weighing in" makes it sound like some sort of ponderous, heavy process. It's just someone offering their advice. The expert is free to decide against that advice!
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by swombat 11y ago
Interesting article, but I'm sad to observe that Bellows stopped short of actually implementing his vision of transparency, in a number of ways. If he's reading this, I'd suggest having a wander through my articles at http:&
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by swombat 11y ago
I'd disagree, at least as far as internal transparency is concerned. My experience in founding and running GrantTree for the last 5 years has been that total internal transparency of all business data (including the finances and indivi
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by swombat 11y ago
That sounds awful. I'm sorry you had to be a party to such an event. Even if there were all these other older and more experienced people who should have acted intelligently, it sounds like you're still feeling guilty that you did
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by swombat 11y ago
> The front plate glass window on my house kills more birds than that researcher, every week. Thump. Thump. Thump. Wtf? What kind of terrible bird-trap of a house do you have? I've never had a bird die by flying against one of my wi
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by swombat 11y ago
Which includes the vast majority of exploitable passwords. Passwords that only work on my local machine are of less concern when it comes to being hacked by a random keylogger software.
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So anything that monitors your clipboard (basically every spyware worth its salt) will have a copy of all your passwords then? That doesn't seem very secure.
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Programmer destroys unique software configuration On Tuesday in Redomond, VA, a programmer uncovered a unique software configuration that was being activated under very specific circumstances. This specific software configuration had never
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by swombat 11y ago
Not to be overly pedantic, but I think "going to college for a few years" is enough to change someone, no need to ascribe the cause to drugs.
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Collaborative communication - HN at its best :-)
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I don't envy your position! It's hard to balance those things fairly. Good luck! And thanks for taking on the hard job of keeping the HN discussions civil... :-)
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Even more important than low-IQ jobs, I think there are many jobs where EQ is a bigger factor - and EQ can be trained, unlike IQ. Jobs that involve caring for people, old and young, jobs that involve just being there and being a loving an
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by swombat 11y ago
Hey dang. Sorry for wading in, but it is a public conversation thread after all... Personally, I don't find that to be a xenophobic slur. If someone said "nobody in their right mind wants to live in Switzerland" or said that
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I feel it's worth making the point that everyone talking about penalties is avoiding: Penalties are pointless. Financial penalties applied to a company this size basically just get socialised. Either employees (generally innocent of th
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by swombat 11y ago
I don't think it's fair to say it had nothing to do with the original concept. It's just a couple of steps removed: Idea 1: Allow strangers to sleep in your house on an air mattress. Idea 1b: Allow strangers to sleep in you
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by swombat 11y ago
On the other hand, most of the best ideas seem like ludicrous ideas at first, so discarding an idea just because it seems ludicrous when glanced at may not be the smartest thing to do. Getting into the habit of validating ideas is a good th
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Amazon and the Future of Work(danieltenner.com)
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I'm using an iPhone 5S bought almost two years ago, with no battery issues whatsoever (plug in overnight, use all day, don't worry about battery unless an app goes haywire and the phone is running hot for a few hours). My wife is
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by swombat 11y ago
I think the problem you're pointing to is not that pop music is somehow more difficult or more performance based - a lot of pop music is basically electronic music and has relatively little performance element. What you're noticin
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by swombat 11y ago
I guess he still needs to develop the advanced bullshitting (sorry, I meant "rationalisation") skills required to say, "Well, I think it's a duck, because it looks like my internal picture of what ducks are supposed to l
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by swombat 11y ago
IANANR (I Am Not A Neuro-Researcher), but it seems to me the "only" step you're requiring is that of self-consciousness. We can explain why we think it's an ostrich because we can point our neural networks at themselves,
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Climbing a tree can improve cognitive skills, researchers say(sciencedaily.com)
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My company (GrantTree) does totally open salaries. AMA...
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Open pay scales are a start, but non-transparent salaries can easily hide in there if all you have is pay scales. You need two things for actual salary transparency: 1) Everyone's actual salary is accessible - as in, the actual amount
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by swombat 11y ago
It's sad and sort of amusing that most people here seem to be misunderstanding the point of this entirely. Unfortunately, this is likely prophetic of the way people within Accenture will misunderstand this too. Most of the grievances i
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by swombat 11y ago
No, I don't think that's a valid Step 0. Here's a simple counter-argument: If we were talking about Air Companies instead of Record Companies, you wouldn't say that Step 0 is to stop breathing air. You'd agree that
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by swombat 11y ago
I'll probably get downvoted to oblivion for this, but who cares... I think paying money that ends up in the pockets of large record companies who then spend that money to pass laws that break the internet is morally reprehensible. I th
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Legal action for... refusing to serve the UK market? I don't think any corporation can be forced to provide a service in a country that they decide to withdraw from... can they?
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Yes. The person doing the punishing is the one idiot. He's able to get away with it because the 64 million don't understand that he's an idiot. Concerted actions by a good cross-section of large tech companies would be suffic

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