wickedwiesel

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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
If I may nitpick your response: the data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is from 2009. 2018 data suggests 71% of workers receive paid sick leave. [1] BUT, the data is highly skewed if you look at income. [also 1] The worst paid workers
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
In Unix these are shared object libraries. In this context, I believe .so is the file extension for extensions that can be loaded by web servers during runtime. I think the person in the story was trying to change the Apache2 configuration
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
There is the obvious plug to the Century of Self documentary, if someone hasn't seen it yet but is interested in the subject of "creating needs and wants": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPmg0R1M04 or http
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21989855 from yesterday (where there was 0 interaction with the subject)
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Asimov’s Empire, Asimov’s Wall(publicbooks.org)
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
I am all for scrutiny of claims like this but I cannot verify some of your statements. I would encourage you to actually look at the report that is the basis for the claims. (The report btw is not the work of a single Uni professor but four
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
I dont want to nitpick, but some of his most influential work - dubbed the "annus mirabilis" papers / "amazing year" [0] - was done while he was an assistant examiner at the patent office in Bern. Definitely not a p
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
If I may offer my opinion as an outsider from the EU: something like this may actually open up the traditional Left vs Right spectrum to something that is more closely resembles the existing diversity of opinions and values. For instance, h
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World Map of Submarine Cables(submarinecablemap.com)
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Elon Musk Leaves Twitter(twitter.com)
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
A PAW is a "privilged access workstation", i.E. a dedicated, hardened machine just for the purpose of admin tasks. Due to the specialized tasks it needs to run, the workstation can be - cut off from general purpose Internet etc.,
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
Sorry, maybe I am missing something here. For local admin, I agree re context switching etc. But for O365 admin, we have a similar setup and I admin O365 through a separate container tab or Powershell where you need to connect to Azure sep
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
Happy to see that this comment has reached you in person. Please pass on my compliments to your team. It looks like they are doing a good job.
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
In our SMB we went with Nutshell CRM [0]. The starter version has all the features minus sales automation. The UI is fine, they have well written docs [1] and their security docs is actually insightful [2]. Things like an well written API a
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
This is a two-part answer. First, the big difference about GMOs is that "farmers must purchase fresh seeds as retailers sell them only as hybrid cultivars, which prevents growers from replanting them the following year." [3] You c
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
> But thanks to their scientific innovations, they feed the world. It's difficult to realize how many lives they have saved or improved, but they are probably on the top 10 list of most impactful entities for increasing well being a
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
It is really interesting to see how this is different from country to country. The Wikipedia overview [0] is fascinating! Of course, as as European, it is mind-boggling how little (none) paid leave parents get in the US. I also like how Spa
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by wickedwiesel 7y ago
Yes, India and China may be "greener". But, as the referenced article [0] states: The greening in China is from forests (42%) and croplands (32%), but in India is mostly from croplands (82%) with minor contribution from forests (
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by wickedwiesel 8y ago
There are several examples of cash rewards for rat hunting like in Jakarta [1], but the "classic" version of where this went wrong is the "The Great Hanoi Rat Massacre" of 1902 [2] where rat hunters would just chop off l
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by wickedwiesel 8y ago
He writes in his FAQ [1]: > I don't want the administrative workload coming with donations. I don't want the project to become in need of funding in any way: no dedicated home page + no forum = no cost = no need for funding. I
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by wickedwiesel 8y ago
You can make this point about these "side effects" for other countries as well. You will find plenty of commentators making the point that the US' War On Drugs has effectively been institutionalizing racism against blacks in
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by wickedwiesel 8y ago
Supply Chain Transparency is an important topic in many companies' sustainability and business & human rights efforts. For example, the United Nations Guiding Principles for Business & Human Rights and some related legislation
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by wickedwiesel 8y ago
For this kind of information you can look at rankabrand.com > 9. Does the brand (company) have a published list of direct suppliers that have collectively contributed to more than 90% of the purchase volume? Microsoft, "Microsoft pr
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by wickedwiesel 8y ago
As you probably know, Google does have quite clear policies on the matter.[0] You and your colleagues could raise that these are there for a reason, approved by senior management, and there to help you respect your users' rights. I lik
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by wickedwiesel 8y ago
Treating team members and colleagues as human beings who bring their whole self to work is, imho, essential to enabling people to deliver their best work. Understandably, but somewhat irrationally at the same time, companies as they mature
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by wickedwiesel 8y ago
If you look at the latest data (2016) from the UNHCR you will see this picture: https://datawrapper.dwcdn.net/G3qnc/2/ Neighboring countries in conflict regions tend to be most heavily affected by migration as con
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by wickedwiesel 8y ago
Atmosfair ( https://www.atmosfair.de/en/offset/flight/ ) has received positive press and reviews ( https://www.test.de/CO2-Kompensation-Diese-Anbieter-tun-am-m... ) in Germany. Its calculation al