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by ux-app 11y ago
> "It is hard for the company to deal with" Shouldn't this be considered the cost of doing business? Here in Australia we have mandatory employer retirement contributions of 9.5%. I'm sure small business would love no
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by ux-app 11y ago
> "It's ridiculous the sense of entitlement parents have." It's not a sense of entitlement that drives these kinds of changes. It's a recognition that child rearing is an important societal activity, and that in
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by ux-app 11y ago
Thanks for your European perspective. I live in Southern Australia, so about as far away from Europe as possible, so all of my knowledge on the issue is anecdotal. In the EU, hasn't the net result (across Europe) been a positive one? I
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by ux-app 11y ago
> "The first is that the disparities between regions within a country like the US are quite different from the disparities between countries across the world." That's a fair point, I'm sure there are differences which
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by ux-app 11y ago
Thanks for pointing this out and you're absolutely right. The per capita comparison is much better, and shows Estonia's economy at 54% smaller [1] (Bulgaria makes for an even starker contrast at 82% smaller per capita [3]) Edit -
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by ux-app 11y ago
Off the top of my head I don't know of any one country that has a huge disparity (though I'm sure examples exist), but the EU is a good case study. Legal Economic migration within the EU is definitely an issue, however it hasn&#
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by ux-app 11y ago
> "Without borders, people will just flock from one place to another, destabilizing and draining the cities of resources..." I'm not sure about that. After all, even within countries there are huge disparities between reg
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by ux-app 11y ago
>As a consumer device, I found the tablet to be a solution without a problem. When I'm at home (and not working), my preferred device is the iPad. I much prefer to browse the web on the iPad from the couch than from my desktop. It&#
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by ux-app 11y ago
> "I've always valued passionate employees over anything else, and, it turns out that there's a huge percentage of the population that are actually dead - they don't know it, but, in terms of their processes, they&#x2
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Stop Using Gratuitous UI Animation(medium.com)
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Facebook’s legal team goes after defunct Yale class project(arstechnica.com)
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by ux-app 11y ago
> You're making incredible judgements I'm not passing judgement at all. I'm saying that having a device that is designed to suddenly and explosively discharge a projectile is inherently unsafe. To back up my claim I posted
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Stop Getting in My Way – Non-Blocking UX(medium.com)
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by ux-app 11y ago
> Humans will make mistakes; that's a fact of life. I agree. This is a fact of life. This combined with the utterly vanishingly tiny chance that you will be the victim of a serial killer make gun ownership for the purpose of safety
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by ux-app 11y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YqcvuRRggM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUonA66btgI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK_1yDAqsnM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvfbikv0g
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by ux-app 11y ago
> You play it your way; I'll play it mine. Of course. I just find the idea of guns making you safe so laughably absurd (and provably false). I'm sure they make you feel safer though. Maybe that's worth something. Here&#x27
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by ux-app 11y ago
> My intention is not to preserve "human life" but the lives of my family and myself. The irony of course is that (statistically speaking) you would be vastly lowering you and your family's chances of surviving the event.
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by ux-app 11y ago
> but my having a firearm is going to put me at a marked advantage over someone who doesn't No, statistically speaking (and via simple logical deduction) it will dramatically increase the chance that a life (yours and/or your a
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by ux-app 11y ago
> 'Cause I'd say, grab a shotgun and shoot in their general direction. This is terrible advice. The chance that you are the victim of a serial killer is so vanishingly small as to be not worth considering. Therefore if you have
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by ux-app 11y ago
Contrary to what Hollywood would have you believe, the vast, vast majority of home intruders don't want to murder you (it's so rare that these people get special nicknames like "Son of Sam" or "Zodiac Killer").
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by ux-app 11y ago
I don't understand how a gun would make things better in any of these scenarios. Without a gun the worst case scenario is that some property is stolen. Big deal. With a gun the worst case scenario is that a human being's life has
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by ux-app 11y ago
Hi, This has been my side project for a while now. I've posted lots of updates recently and would love to know what you think. Cheers, Eli
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Show HN: UX-App – Interaction and User Experience Design App(ux-app.com)
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California fiber optic cable vandalism continues unabated(arstechnica.com)
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by ux-app 11y ago
I've developed https://www.ux-app.com , I'm looking for someone to partner up with who is interested in business development/marketing. If you're a UX or Interaction Designer with an interest in business dev a
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by ux-app 11y ago
> A new graphics card with > 6 GB of VRAM will probably last quite a few years from now. Isn't the Titan the only card with more than 6gb ram? You'd hope this would last a few years!
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by ux-app 11y ago
I'm a gamer too, and the trend of craptastic console ports is troubling. There are exceptions. GTAV is awesome even on ageing hardware. I have a 660ti and a phenom II, and the game runs wonderfully. I'm hopeful that the coming VR
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Building a new generation of intelligent machines(magazine.utoronto.ca)
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by ux-app 11y ago
> hurting your metabolism What do you mean by this? Do you mean I'm affecting the long term ability for my body to extract energy from food? I very much doubt that a few days of fasting would have any such long term effects. Quite
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by ux-app 11y ago
cool, thanks for the fyi :)

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