wojt_eu

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Comment · 8 years ago
Comment · 8 years 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 experience directly affecting management skills. Some similarities are obvious now that I think about it – you want to help them grow and flourish. You set expectations and put boundaries while avoiding micromanagement and try not to spoil internal gratification with bribes. Well, except firing – you don't fire kids early due to lack of culture fit.
Comment · 8 years 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 stats of lifetime earnings difference that was corrected for selection bias.
Comment · 8 years 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 transference of 0's, 1's and 2's.

Q: If I wrap this cable around my arm, can I punch faster than the speed of light?

A: No, that requires their 16 meter length version.

Comment · 9 years 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.
Comment · 9 years 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.
Comment · 9 years ago
Research that contradicts benefits of frequent physical activity for office workers? Paint me surprised. Can you share some links?
Comment · 9 years 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

Comment · 9 years 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).
Comment · 9 years ago
Comment · 9 years ago
And then replicate the experiment.
Comment · 9 years 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 or even negotiate some royalties.
Comment · 9 years 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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