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by wojt_eu 9y ago
An example of how frequency is closely monitored before energy demand surge in Britain due to Tea Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slDAvewWfrA https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/tea-time-in-britain-c
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
I've read how being responsible for family make employees plan their work better because they want to get home for the dinner, how it makes them more responsible or loyal – but that's the first time I hear about parenting experie
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
This shows correlation but not causation. Hypothetically: people with certain background (social class) and traits (IQ) are more likely to go to college, and they would fare as well or better without college. I'd be very interested in
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
I love Q&A on that page: Q: We are talking 'digital' audio, correct? 1's and 0's ... not analogue audio that really benifits from serious quality??!!!! A: This cable is such good quality that it supports the transfer
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
I already feel nostalgic about gas-powered cars, their place is alongside steam locomotives as movie props and tourist attractions. Imagine people doing gas-punk cosplay in a couple of decades.
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
Then the bank has incentive to shift responsibility back to you, e.g. by requiring withdrawal request to be signed with your private encryption key. And you have an incentive to care about security of this key.
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
Research that contradicts benefits of frequent physical activity for office workers? Paint me surprised. Can you share some links?
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
I don't see that much of consumerism advocacy here. Quite the contrary - being frugal to extend runway, achieving ramen profitability etc. Also with rampant ageism in tech you do need to retire before 40 /s
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
Poland has Central Anticorruption Bureau (CBA) and Internal Security Agency (ABW). They both report to Prime Minister, while Police reports to Ministry of Interior and Administration).
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
> The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a new report asking Americans to just do anything at all for Christ's sake for 30 minutes each day. http://www.theonion.com/video/health-officials-urging-
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
And then replicate the experiment.
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New paper finds no association of grit with creative achievement(digest.bps.org.uk)
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
Well, the monkey seems to have borrowed the equipment and outsourced technical parts of the process to a specialist and focused on the creative part. Pity the camera owner did not sight a contract, he could have charge a fee for assistance
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
If we increase our energy consumption 100-fold this estimation of net loss in wind would approach 1% which sounds bad. I guess we might need wind protector after all.
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
"One Second After" is a story of a town struggling after EMP attack on the U.S. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4922079-one-second-after
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
> Nazi's are an easy target. The problem starts when things are not as clean cut -- when actual politics are involved, as opposed to crude stuff like "exterminate all jews" and "blacks are inferior", etc that Naz
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
Click-bait titles can be moderated and edited more easily.
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
One thing I've heard AA does right is asking attendees to talk about each their recent drinking acts and what preceded them. This forces some to realize their patterns and triggers for the first time.
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Enclose.io: Compiling your application into a single executable(enclose.io)
2 points by wojt_eu 9y ago|0 comments
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
They install more analytics, A/B testing scripts and survey popups to figure out why.
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Benjamin Button moves from an iPad Pro running iOS 11 to a 13“ MacBook Pro(medium.com)
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
As I understood the comment, the purpose of mentioning race and appearance was only to stress that just wandering at night caused the harassment. I think this also implies syngrog66 acknowledges that people are also harassed based on their
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
After a couple days the fraudster could claim that the wire transfer bounced, take another two days to check with their bank. Then they could say the problem is on recipient bank's problem with SWIFT/BIC code format and pretend to
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
One word; Hummus
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
The word "hammer" changed quite a bit, but I still find it interesting that it origins from Proto-Indo-European word for stone: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-Eur... It still sounds
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Redux Is the Pivotal Front End Innovation(medium.com)
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
In general it's about pressue to get the main task done quickly. I thought of some common reasons I feel this pressure: - external, e.g. bug hurting our clients. - feeling bound by an overly optimistic estimate, like couple hours
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
That gets my goat is a problem that gets in a way of solving problem I was tasked to solve. An example would be the test suite segfaulting on my machine while I'm responsible for hunting down a nasty bug. Often I'll take a stab at
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
My first guess would be that being poor relative to peers is more stressful and depressing and relates to more substance abuse problems. When hardships are shared among whole generation it could affect them differently.
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by wojt_eu 9y ago
My work to/from work is 25 minutes. I have a habit of walking rather fast but noticed I often get worked up about some issue that's neither urgent nor very important. Only when I force myself to walk at more leisurely pace I find

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