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by tobtoh 11y ago
Actually it doesn't. There has been quite a bit of research and the most effective form of charity to improve conditions is through direct cash transfers. Basically, the recipient is the best positioned to identify what will help them
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by tobtoh 11y ago
1Password allows this - 1Password+Dropbox is how I manage my passwords.
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by tobtoh 11y ago
By political agencies, do you mean government agencies funded by the taxpayer?
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by tobtoh 11y ago
If you are a manager, your job is to get your team to produce the right outcome - the right outcome being not just a good product but a good sustainable team. If your team feel insulted/humiliated/upset, they are less likely to pr
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Adblock sold to Adblock Plus(theregister.co.uk)
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by tobtoh 11y ago
In Australia, we have a similar bridge but on a much simpler scale - a rope bridge that spans the Hume highway (for animals that need a continuous bridge). For our native animals that glide (but can't fly), poles spaced 30m or so accom
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When radiation isn't the real risk(nytimes.com)
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Slime mold finds food(x3.cdn03.imgwykop.pl)
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by tobtoh 12y ago
As I understand it, the NRA oppose these safety features as it provides a stepping stone to the full control/ban of guns. ie once you have a mechanism to restrict guns to an individual, it's easier to extend that (technically&#x2F
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Mary Meeker's (KPCB) annual report on Internet Trends 2014(kpcb.com)
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Facebook fraud response: Are Facebook Ads a Waste of Money?(jonloomer.com)
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by tobtoh 13y ago
Exactly this - I remember my parents had a Volvo with similar seats and my brothers and I loved sitting back there. We always imagined we were in the gun turrets of the Millennium Falcon shooting down cars.
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by tobtoh 13y ago
In Australia, there is am organisation called Good Company ( http://www.goodcompany.com.au/ ) which coordinates charity organisations requiring assistance with professional people willing to donate skills. I'm sure there
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by tobtoh 13y ago
For those people wondering why so many comments here are saying 'Glad to see Kathy blogging again', it's because she stopped blogging in 2007 after getting severely harassed online. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by tobtoh 13y ago
Just because it comes from Mailchimp and/or includes an obvious unsubscribe link doesn't mean it's not spam. There are countless sites whose default behaviour goes like this: * require an email address to create an account to
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by tobtoh 13y ago
That's not really proof of anything since your headache could be purely psychological especially since you already suspect that the multivitamins are causing your headaches which means you are not an independent observer, but a biased
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by tobtoh 13y ago
I was always under the understanding that running (potentially) ruins your knees by damaging your cartilage - bone thickness or density isn't the issue. That's why swimming is often recommended because there is no impact on your c
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by tobtoh 14y ago
Maybe you could OkCupid style analysis blog posts on t-shirt design, what's popular, what sells ets ... I'd imagine that could drive quite a bit of traffic/lead generation. OkC doesn't do those blogs anymore, but you can read their old entr
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by tobtoh 14y ago
Install the browser plugin 'FB Purity' ( http://www.fbpurity.com/ ) which can 'force' FB to always display the 'most recent' posts. It also can do a lot of other useful things like filter out the app notices, game notices etc. I've been usi
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by tobtoh 14y ago
What's so surprising about a comment like that? It seems like a way to build some rapport with the parents - a recognition that they have a hard job - a harder job than other parents with handicapped kids. And how the parents respond to a q
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by tobtoh 14y ago
One way it is bad for FB is it makes it harder to make acquisitions. Frequently, when you buy out another company, you offer a mix of cash and stock ... but if your stock is tanking ...
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by tobtoh 14y ago
As a frequent FB user, I find it interesting watching how my FB experience is noticeably degrading now that they have IPO'ed and have to 'prove' results. The sponsored posts that look similar to normal user 'likes/shared' posts, the 'Friend
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by tobtoh 14y ago
A variation of this hack which is used by my local car wash: Buy a booklet of 10 pre-paid vouchers for the car wash and get a free car wash ... right now. According to the owners, moving the 'free' car wash to be immediately available rathe
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by tobtoh 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that FB knew exactly what they were doing. They did think things through and decided the the short term PR loss was worth the benefits of gaining access to the email of 90% of their user base.
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by tobtoh 14y ago
I first heard of this via email ... an email that had a spelling error, associates itself with Wakemate (but is a different domain) and when I visited the Wakemate site, find it is offline. Up until I saw this HN link, I had assumed the Wak
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by tobtoh 14y ago
With Facebook making this change, I guess anyone who is unaware of this and syncs their Facebook contacts to their phone (either directly or via apps) stands to lose the 'real' email addresses of their friends and especially once they sync
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by tobtoh 14y ago
There is another issue - if you download FB contact details to your mobile address book (either directly or via a separate app), you will wipe out all the 'real' email addresses of your friends!! And as you sync your phone to your desktop/c
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by tobtoh 14y ago
Whilst I salute the guy for showing initiative and entrepreneurship, I wish these sort of articles got less attention (everywhere, not specifically on HN). These sort of articles are starting to get the feel of the 'Get rich quick' or 'Work
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by tobtoh 14y ago
If you are giving them the inventory management software for free, that is a huge hook for cash strapped small businesses. And once your 'trojan horse' is installed, it's a lot easier to convince a small business owner to 'activate' the pro
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by tobtoh 14y ago
Sorry Karunamon, you are wrong - you are special (or at least lucky). I concur with the original post that Facebook sets and unsets options, or in my case ignores them as it sees fit. In one example, I have a friend who no matter how many t

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