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by apatters 4y ago
So update the documents? I mean, you're clearly not describing a high documentation culture, you're describing a culture that underinvests in intra-organizational communication. I run a high documentation, low meeting culture by n
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by apatters 4y ago
It was a smart acquisition for sure, but "ruthless business genius" is a bit of hyperbole imho. FB's market cap was in excess of 200B at the time and they were growing like crazy. 16B on buying what they had failed to build i
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by apatters 4y ago
If you have different goals competing for your limited time and energy (entrepreneurship, changing the world, building relationships, etc.) and you're not sure which to pursue, consider the values of self-actualization and personal age
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by apatters 4y ago
When someone develops a distorted picture of the world and becomes an activist based on it, that's just as bad for society as if they had never activated in the first place. In fact you could make a case that it's worse, mass shoo
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by apatters 4y ago
The issue is absolutely bad government policy. The Reason article isn't very good but its premise is correct. I'm surprised to find myself saying this, but Truthout wrote a much better investigative piece almost a month ago: http
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by apatters 4y ago
I wish people would give less medical advice over the Internet, even when it's well meaning. You're sort of right but the reality is that you can't just go find the root cause and "solve" it most of the time. How do
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by apatters 4y ago
The reason I'm still a bit skeptical about password-less authentication is because the cost savings opportunity is enormous. So enormous that it would be easy to lose sight of everything else. About a third of Yahoo Japan's custom
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by apatters 4y ago
It may be, but I suspect that disadvantage is far outweighed by the benefits of genuinely listening to people.
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by apatters 4y ago
What you're doing doesn't sound like ghosting. Ghosting is cutting off contact without warning or regard for the psychological consequences. It's very easy to not be a ghost, all you have to do is provide a kind resolution. I
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by apatters 4y ago
If we legally mandate this what will the consequence be for small businesses that can't afford the cost to comply? (Even if you mandate it for only the big players - what if there end up being only three players who can afford it, they
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by apatters 4y ago
Can't stress enough how valuable this is for small business. Auto-importing and auto-classifying transactions from financial institutions completely changes the way that bookkeeping functions. It also gives you real-time understanding
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by apatters 4y ago
I remember feeling in the mid aughts like a bunch of marketing bros who didn't know shit about tech, were flooding into tech. They were what ruined it imo. They were incapable of having any passion for the engineering because they didn
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by apatters 4y ago
You just don't engage with them, or engage selectively. If someone wants to engage in bad faith, you politely end the discussion, and introduce distance into the relationship. You're not required to provide any explanation or atte
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by apatters 4y ago
It would be consistent with criminal monopoly behavior if Google's next step was to start charging us for submitting spam reports... watch this space
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by apatters 4y ago
I believe the HN guidelines actually say something about this, but either way: I think there is tremendous value in interpreting other people's statements as charitably as possible. Why take offense when none may have been intended?
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by apatters 4y ago
They built Gutenberg because a significant and growing percentage of the user base was resorting to page builder plugins like Divi, Elementor etc. to create richer layouts than what the classic editor could handle. These plugins have a lot
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by apatters 4y ago
Honestly, an AGPL'ed, fully transparent, shareable, forkable and self hostable algorithm to do this is a whole new ball game. Where it will land us remains to be seen but compared to the current state of affairs I want to find out.
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by apatters 4y ago
This is like saying we should blame the smoker, the junkie, or the gambling addict. The latter is an especially accurate comparison because these companies turn their games into gambling machines. Sure, personal responsibility is important.
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by apatters 4y ago
These have helped reduce my social anxiety (I used to have a lot, now I have almost none) : 1. Exposure, simply spend more time in public and around other people, the only way to develop comfort and social skills is time and practice. 2. Ge
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by apatters 4y ago
Elementary's problem is it has two inexperienced founders who aren't negotiating with each other very well, I'd hardly call it a meltdown, nor particularly relevant to the examples in this article. The entrepreneur in me will
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by apatters 5y ago
Are you saying that asymptomatic patients are equally likely to spread Covid as symptomatic patients? I don't think the study supports that conclusion. If you read the Conclusions section, it absolutely does not make that conclusion. T
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by apatters 5y ago
If you're going to post conclusions based on a sample size of one family, I think it's fair for me to post conclusions based on the current scientific consensus: - Vaccines DO reduce your chance of infection (never to zero, by how
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by apatters 5y ago
Lagrange is very good. It seems I can't set a custom homepage URL, I hope he adds that at some point. Can anyone recommend a good de facto homepage as a jumping off point for exploring what's out there on Gemini today? There are a
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by apatters 5y ago
How much of this stuff works in b2b and higher ticket services, I wonder?
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by apatters 5y ago
Actually the idea is brilliant. If you can demonstrate empirically that meat from happy pigs tastes better, now you have the beginnings of a commercial case for raising the pigs ethically, which has the potential to drive far more improveme
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by apatters 5y ago
That estimate seems wildly low given that the S&P 500 has returned about 10% a year since its inception 65 years ago. Also from your link, Vanguard estimates about 2% annualized inflation over the next 10 years.
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by apatters 5y ago
I like to think of it this way: - Actions arise from thoughts - We have an executive center in our prefrontal cortex which we use to create thoughts and compel the actions we want, it maps pretty closely to most people's ideas of consc
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by apatters 5y ago
At first I thought this would be a service which takes your Twitter profile and turns it into a website with a CMS backend, which sounds like a great idea for anyone who wants to escape Twitter but doesn't have the tech savvy to set up
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by apatters 5y ago
No, those aren't the same things at all. Your parents weren't listening to rock music while saying "I know this is bad for me and I want to stop, but can't." Comparisons of social media to alcohol and tobacco are ap
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by apatters 5y ago
Or even monopolies. Even Smith acknowledged that regulation was necessary to curtail anticompetitive behaviors which are inevitable. 250 years later we've somehow forgotten these lessons and perverted our markets so that there's p

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