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by scriptman 4y ago
Reminds me of one of these: https://imperatorworks.com/ They are very expensive, but I've always wondered if getting one would be worth it.
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New findings suggest laws of nature not as constant as previously thought(newsroom.unsw.edu.au)
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New findings suggest laws of nature not as constant as previously thought(newsroom.unsw.edu.au)
1 points by scriptman 6y ago|0 comments
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Neuroscientists Say They've Found an Entirely New Form of Neural Communication(sciencealert.com)
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Clues to chronic fatigue syndrome in overactive immune response(medicalxpress.com)
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Dementia symptoms reversed in mice, human trials next(mobile.abc.net.au)
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by scriptman 9y ago
I see what you mean and that's a good and interesting idea. However, I think while it would be revealing in some areas, it would mask other problems. For instance, if you look purely at the FTE, you wouldn't see that George had wo
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by scriptman 9y ago
But we're not talking about treating workers badly by any reasonable definition. These are workers that were paid more than the average Australian worker, they got far more Christmas holiday leave than the Australian worker. They weren
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by scriptman 9y ago
I think you've moved the goal posts a long way there. A living wage as defined by the Harvester judgement, which seems to be what you are referencing, was based on begin paid enough money to be able to afford food, shelter and clothing
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by scriptman 9y ago
I'm not advocating what you are suggesting. I agree that workers should be paid extra for working additional hours. I also agree with you that it's important to get an accurate read on how much an employee earned. My point is that
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by scriptman 9y ago
You are right that per FTE is probably a better measure technically, but this just leaves the unions a loophole: they can just classify workers as something other than FTE. They are very clever at finding these sorts of loopholes and except
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by scriptman 9y ago
When annual salaries get reported in this context, you have to watch for the pea and the thimble trick where they take the base hourly rate and multiply that by standard hours to arrive at the annual salary, but nobody actually gets paid th
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by scriptman 9y ago
The labour unions were unwilling to compromise to stay competitive with international factories. I was surprised when it was reported that Toyota wanted to reduce the Christmas shutdown period from 21 days to 10 days in line with other inte
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by scriptman 9y ago
Not for me. I think The Fall of Hyperion is my favourite in the series, although it's hard to split it with Hyperion. The pacing is very different between each book, almost to the point it can feel like each book has been written by a
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by scriptman 10y ago
I do a select first using the where clause I intend to use to get the row count. Then open a transaction around the update with that same where clause, check the total number of rows updated matches the earlier select, then commit. This app
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Jobs set for huge 2017 pay rises (Australia)(news.com.au)
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by scriptman 10y ago
I think displaying anger can be useful sometimes. Actually being angry isn't that useful as it usually means you've lost control of the situation.
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by scriptman 11y ago
>Money saved is the very definition of economic inactivity When people save money, do you really think they put it under a mattress? No, they put it in a financial institution like a bank, who can then use it as capital to loan out furth
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by scriptman 11y ago
>Actually, the markets created some of the most disease-ridden, sewage-infested hellholes The two most polluted places in the world currently exist in China and Russia and stem from when they were run by Communist dictators ships without
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by scriptman 11y ago
> Your "solution" is also well on its way to making the earth uninhabitable It's not just my solution. It's the solution consistently voted for in many countries by the most educated general population in history. If
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by scriptman 11y ago
Considering that markets when combined with stable institutions, property rights and the rule of law, have done more to reduce poverty, increase lifespans and health than any else in history, I think the onus of proof is on the other side.
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by scriptman 11y ago
>Those are two absolutely different things. One stems from production, transportation, and financial improvements across the board, the other comes because fewer people want to buy anything. That's true, but they are measured the sa
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by scriptman 11y ago
Wasn't the organisation that built Chernobyl a state owned company and in many ways equivalent to a not for profit? Government owned or not for profit doesn't necessarily mean better. In many cases it's worse.
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by scriptman 11y ago
Everyone is scared of deflation, but is completely comfortable with the rapid drop in the price of electronic goods over the last few decades. I'm simplifying a bit. The traditional theories that warn against deflation are concerned ab
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by scriptman 11y ago
I find it frustrating that so much journalism these days exaggerates environmental issues, with any factual errors seemingly brushed off as just showing an excess of virtue.
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by scriptman 11y ago
It's a shame you deleted what you wrote. It was an interesting perspective and it challenged some of my assumptions. I wish you the best of luck with your start up. I am genuinely curious as to how an incubator/accelerator model m
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by scriptman 11y ago
I understand what you are saying and I agree that our visions are very different :) What would be your financial model? Bear in mind that I'm in Australia, so $20k - $30k to me might be something completely different to you. From my pe
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by scriptman 11y ago
I have been mulling over a similar idea. I was thinking about including the creation of an MVP as part of the offering to encourage non-technical founders to get involved. However, the financial model I had been thinking about was that I wo
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by scriptman 11y ago
This makes me think of Feynman's comments on Cargo Cult Science: "In 1937 a man named Young did a very interesting [experiment]. He had a long corridor with doors all along one side where the rats came in, and doors along the othe
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by scriptman 11y ago
This was indirectly discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9705832 ... and included a link that discusses the WSJ article about half way down under the heading "Revenue": http://mattermark

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