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27,567karma·4,366submissions·November 17, 2011
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"I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are."
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> Who needs some proprietary system (there’s also a so-called “three word” competing system). Just use lat/long which are universal.
> Plus Codes are open source and there are no licensing …
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It's not surprising that a continent is more diverse than a country.
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> A selection of only 2000 people seems too small The population of Finland is 5.503M. A sample size of 663 represents 6M population at 99% confidence levels. 2000 is more than a decent sample size…
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Africa is a continent while India is a country. India is indeed much diverse than almost other countries.
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> It will apparently continue to be available for Android users. That's another interesting move.
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An interesting 2016 article about Snapchat's confusing UI - "How Snapchat Built a Business By Confusing Olds" [0] and HN discussion [1]. > Compared with Twitter or Facebook, Snapchat…
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I think this is another opportunity to look at it under the GDPR lens.
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The answer may lie here. > Nielsen, a research firm, estimates that around 70% of women in the country cannot afford sanitary products: 300m use unhygienic alternatives like newspapers, dry leaves …
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> Many laws affect groups disproportionately, and how we decide who to hurt and why is what politics is, in part, about. Let me quote John Rawls with "The Difference Principle" [0] which …
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It is about false advertisement and breach of contract, though.
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This is one thing which is quite ridiculous in Germany for all contracts - phone, Internet, electricity, gas etc. Once, I had a bike sharing company which charged me 3€ the next year after I forgot to…
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> The problem was that it was peak Summer in Barcelona, we were there for a long period of time, and the only available units were minimum 5x the price. I've never got this at all. Why should …
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False Dilemma - it isn’t either/or.
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> Media and internet are not censored. Singapore has strong censorship mechanisms for the media and Internet. It ranks 151 on the Freedom of Press Index [0]. [0] https://rsf.org/en…
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> That conversation could convey the character of the candidate but I couldn't evaluate their ability to do new research. It all depends on the questions asked to the candidate. You don't…
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One company wanted approached to interview me for the position of a "scientist". Their initial step of the interview process was to spend 4-6h on some "challenge" they designed. I …
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> I might be a minority, but I would refuse to spend two of my evenings per week interviewing people. I’d rather spend time with my family instead. It seems to me this is an issue with your employe…
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> I wonder what went into the decision process to include each of these libraries. The decision making process was a survey [0]. The two criteria used were (1) usage of software inside and outside …
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> Basically, you might be dead on the money that they are not 'trustworthy enough', but lets not lose sight of the fact that even being an order of magnitude from human performance might …