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SoundShader – Yet another sound visualizer with a simple, but interesting idea(github.com)
21 points by 25mph 6y ago|3 comments
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by 25mph 6y ago
Interesting. Mind is often divided into two halves: the lower concrete mind that constructs specific thoughts with shapes and the upper abstract mind that sees ideas. From your story it sounds like LSD suppressed your lower mind, so you cou
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by 25mph 6y ago
Reorgs are like fire: they are often used to erase evidence of incompetence.
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by 25mph 6y ago
From the gov's point of view, citizens and companies are shareholders in the "US corporation". Right now, the poor citizens own a 10% stake in the corporation. UBI is about giving them maybe 20%, at the expense of diluting th
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by 25mph 6y ago
Police is the HR of the state: they protect the state from the citizens.
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by 25mph 6y ago
When there's nothing newsworthy, the news agencies use the future tense.
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by 25mph 6y ago
Tech leadership really means the middle management, i.e. folks hired to manage the line workers. Wait until they find out about the race of most capital owners!
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by 25mph 6y ago
In the corporate setting, if a large org is deemed incompetent, a common solution would be to mark that org as second class and create another similar org with the first class status. The second class org would get funding cut, no raises, n
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by 25mph 6y ago
It's not like these companies are dumb. They'll factor the diversity coordinate into their equation.
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by 25mph 6y ago
Perhaps the location is only a side effect, while the true reason is the low supply of qualified coders. Why do corp lawyers command $400-600/hour? Why not to just hire a lawyer in India for $40/hour? Why not to hire a cheap accou
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by 25mph 6y ago
I'm sure Zuck doesn't know the concept of fairness and would laugh if someone would explain it to him. Words that Zuck understands are "efficient", "justifiable", "profitable".
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by 25mph 6y ago
Someone who's paid 400k can afford to buy a bunch of phones and laptops, install whatever survelliance software on them and leave them at a rented trailer.
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by 25mph 6y ago
Reminded me of one conversation long time ago: - We're offering you whopping 3.5%. How cool is that? - Do I hear it right that you want my contribution to your company be 3.5%? - Blank stare.
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by 25mph 6y ago
Some non-compete agreements with binding-arbitrage by a employer-chosen arbiter. Employers will try to limit options for labor. Whether it's enforceable is another story.
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by 25mph 6y ago
What stops one from paying the difference at the tax returns filing?
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by 25mph 7y ago
The morale of the story: don't sign incomplete forms. As for the GC case, I believe he can still make it work if he makes enough noise to get noticed by governor-level politicians. As a backup plan, he can immigrate to Canada: about th