hammeringtime

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by hammeringtime 7y ago
A shift in culture that allows you to bring your children to work would be and would be absolutely sensible for white collar and several blue collar jobs. Young children (under three) babble and screech and cry and explore and try to fing
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by hammeringtime 7y ago
To the extent that was generally true... * most mothers were still with their infants and very young children. The babies weren't being taken care at a daycare where you can have one staffer trying to deal with 4 crying newborns. * mot
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by hammeringtime 11y ago
* Influence by Cialdini - great overview of the psychology of human motivation and influence. You'll get the inside dirt on a lot of sales and marketing tricks. * Seeing like a State by James Scott - a good political history with lots
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by hammeringtime 11y ago
" My one big mistake in life has been providing a trust fund for my five children. I’m very comfortable paying for an education for as long as they want to study in a reputable university. However, providing additional funds so they c
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by hammeringtime 11y ago
The real problem is poverty and more generally extreme inequality. I don't understand how people can make statements with this when it is so at odds with the facts. The homicide rate in Baltimore in 1911 was 5.8 per 100,000. Last yea
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by hammeringtime 11y ago
Two of my favorite books growing up were The Real Diary of a Real Boy and The Great Brain . Both are accounts of a young boy growing up in 19th century, small town America. The Real Diary is about Exeter, NH in the 1840s. The Great Br
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Defending Your Time(blog.barricade.io)
2 points by hammeringtime 11y ago|0 comments
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by hammeringtime 11y ago
It is infinitely better to have a product, customers, and technical debt, than to have no product or no customers and no technical debt. Personally, I focus on avoiding technical debt when the cost of the debt will outweigh the costs of cle
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Mona Lisa is no mystery for micro-sociology(sociological-eye.blogspot.com)
8 points by hammeringtime 11y ago|1 comments
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by hammeringtime 11y ago
" Imagine a city where police commit blatant traffic violations and never ticket one another. The authorities could decrease power inequalities by developing an online system in which all citizens are able to anonymously report dangero