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by teachingassist 6y ago
It seems extremely unlikely that there was a flat population for millions of years (considering e.g. the human population has doubled in the last 50 years), and this wouldn't be my starting assumption. A small, flat population is even
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Does Apple offer more than the legal minimum in other countries? I'm curious, I don't know, but in my experience buying Apple products in several countries, they offer the legal minimum nicely, without resistance (which is already
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> Redis isn't UX. The hackathon isn't about "product design" either. Please check the parent link for the "Judging Criteria" section (two of the three strands are Usefulness and UX) and "Project Ideas&q
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If you're going to pay for a prize competition in product design, when your company doesn't have product design as a core skill, then maybe it would be a good idea to find independent, expert judges of product design from outside
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I can give you a list of professional women UX experts who would have been delighted to have been asked (before now), and if you can't, then I believe you shouldn't be composing a panel for judging UX - because you don't know
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> No one said women are incompetent, The commenter above literally says "maybe [men] were the only competent people avaliable". For clarification, are we reading this differently?
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It's definitely the fault of my comment that nobody bothered to ask a women to be part of a panel judging products. I totally see how that's possible. (sarcasm)
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If you genuinely believe this: that it makes no difference, why would you choose to have an all-men judging panel?
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We're gonna have six out of six men on a judging panel in 2021? Grim. [Edited for downvoters: this is important because of natural biases in human judging, it serves as an automatic warning to women and other genders that they are unli
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I commented this because I find it does relate to your point - in my view, you have identified a false motivation/incorrect user story. By my understanding, this is exactly what the parent article is identifying as potentially damaging
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I don't mean to pick on your example... but it's absolutely not true that I go to a restaurant because I'm hungry. There are other ways I can and would sate my hunger if that was my genuine motivation. For me to go to a resta
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> one has to wonder if an ultra liberal attitude towards sex I've moved from an area with a liberal attitude towards sex, to an area with a more Christian attitude towards sex, which extends to political decision-making around sexua
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> It's a scummy practice, sure, but hiring two things as a package isn't illegal in itself. I believe this would technically depend on whether one is employed or self-employed. Only self-employed people are generally obligated
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> 10x the median income just isn’t that much. If you have three kids You are taking home (in California; approximately) net 7.4 times what people with three kids on the median income are taking home. If you choose to live a median lifest
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If you're demanding sources but haven't provided any of your own, you're simply trolling. Look up Brooks's Law yourself. It begins with "under certain conditions", none of which apply here.
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Cool. My point is that a federal world government would or could work the same. (The federal government can't force all states to do something because 1. the federal government's force is limited by its powers, and 2. the stat
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> Compare this to the government of a state, which does not have the right to violate its own law. States [of the USA] selectively comply with federal law all the time - an obvious example is Colorado legalising marijuana. You seem to th
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> This is very similar to the idea that throwing more devs at a project will help it deliver more quickly. This is a nonsense ad absurdum argument. It's self-evidently true that more devs will, in general, deliver projects more quic
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I can't source a hypothetical, no. Do you think that invalidates my point? [Edited in response to your edit: fuel and battery technology has improved significantly over the last decade, with little or no political pressure, and shows s
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If governments had the guts to implement these policies (e.g.) 10 years ago with phased introduction, then we would already have replacement fuel sources and not have to limit anything. I'd personally be happy if we did that even now,
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You can likely do better than this within rational numbers by working with integer numerator and denominator; you'll still have to make compromises for irrational numbers.
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> From what I recall (could be wrong here, not first-hand knowledge), the SMS thing was a decision made by a single team ages ago I have worked in a tiny charitable organisation, where it was easily understood that if we collected user t
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> increased nighttime sleep... led to small decreases in labor supply. This indicates to me that they found something better to do, than this study.
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A Jenga turn requires you to remove a block from the tower, and then add the same block to the top of the tower. You seem to be claiming that you believe these two actions (subtracting and adding) are theoretically of equal difficulty - but
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> “this has brought me joy, i wish to give something back” The scenario includes bringing potential harm to an identified person.
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Also - if you have the power to demand that much payment, you have the power to negotiate a contract which protects you. At-will employment doesn't apply here.
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Whether or not you agree with at-will employment, almost nobody would agree your private employer is, in general, obligated to employ you. So why would a service provider be obligated to continue to provide a service that you can profit f
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If you have 10m in the bank and want to be involved in events at that level, you can be: we would just instead call you an executive producer.
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The way I understand this is: consistency is important for managing expectations. Change is not a problem but consistent application of expectations is important (in my opinion, this would include expectations around how you manage change).