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by parallel 5mo ago
That's a really inspiring story to me. Do you have any more info about your business e.g website or blog? (I realise these are computer things and exactly what you were moving away from.)
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by parallel 6mo ago
s/w? Does that mean sidewalk?
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by parallel 6mo ago
Pointy bit on the bridge of the nose.
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by parallel 1y ago
I find this more meaningful when I think of the numbers as arbitrary unordered labels rather than familiar natural numbers. For example, if they were words like “cat” “tree” “nut” etc then the exercise feels more like it's constructing
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by parallel 3y ago
I'm making a conscious effort to do more things that have no extrinsic objective, to do things just for their own sake. This is a familiar concept, it's a hobby (or art?). I feel I'm missing some of the joy and satisfaction t
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by parallel 3y ago
I think you're providing ways to describe deception that are themselves deceptive.
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by parallel 4y ago
I think "mandatory tips" is just another name for a bill.
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by parallel 4y ago
Is this where cryptocurrencies come in? The convenience of a cashless transaction without the tracking.
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by parallel 4y ago
People do tip in Australia, it's just not expected. Tipping a genuine act of generosity to reciprocate exceptional service. The correlation between service quality and tipping is an interesting one, why does anyone do a good job in any
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by parallel 4y ago
Agreed, you don't have access to a phone at all while in remand. Bail conditions can restrict who you live with, where you live, interstate travel etc. These are all huge losses of liberty that we accept as a society the same way we a
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by parallel 4y ago
I feel like there must be more to it that this. Wouldn't any physical structure that's not homogeneous and isotropic also break symmetry in the same way. Does the room I'm in break symmetry as there's a different likelih
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by parallel 4y ago
It's 26M AUD too, less than 20M USD.
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by parallel 5y ago
Another way to think of it is that the business owners decided not to take some profit out of the business in order to improve the culture of the workplace.
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by parallel 6y ago
Perhaps an attempt at humour? The article specifically says "spell out your acronyms".
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by parallel 6y ago
I disagree with this but it may just be a style thing. Reading "Hey, how are you?" in the middle of the content put me on guard, I feel like I might be being manipulated somehow.
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by parallel 6y ago
This is not true, please don't propagate stereotypes on a public forum even if it is an attempt to brag about Australian culture.
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by parallel 6y ago
You might be thinking of Groupon, from memory their origin story involves emulating software functionality with spreadsheets/email lists/much manual grunt work.
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by parallel 7y ago
This is the "two wrongs" argument. They do bad things so we should be able to do bad things back.
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by parallel 7y ago
Needing the money more doesn't change the agreement.
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by parallel 7y ago
Words work because we agree what they mean in advance. You can't redefine "shelter" to suit your argument. Just make it with the standard definitions of words.
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by parallel 8y ago
I recently encountered an English equivalent 'ass glue'.
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by parallel 9y ago
If you're asking about the ranking algorithm it's described here https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html .
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by parallel 9y ago
Not specific to the context but "despair" seems to fit.
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by parallel 9y ago
I find this also happens when playing chess. I don't fully consider the implications of a move until I've just made it.
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by parallel 9y ago
The problem is the distribution of wealth. Mankind doing "less work" could be great for all or great for a few and terrible for the rest.
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by parallel 9y ago
It's not cash, it's equity.
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by parallel 9y ago
Well, he's not buying treasury bonds.
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by parallel 10y ago
I thought the writing was excellent and the content insightful.
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by parallel 10y ago
These are keyboard shortcuts not a command-line.
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by parallel 10y ago
This might actually be really useful when communicating online with developers overseas who don;t speak English natively. Recently started using upwork and found myself rewriting instruction to use common words.

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