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WettowelReactor··on Ask HN: how you successfully quit your full-time job?
With no generated side income how do you throw off the yolk of that monthly income?
WettowelReactor··on Demonstration at Home of Google Developer. Google Bus Blocked in Berkeley
Gentrification is a really complex problem that is superficially bandied about. While it involves changes they are not all negative and the net impact on existing residents is very situation.

http://www.npr.org/2014/01/22/264528139/long-a-dirty-word-ge...

WettowelReactor··on Ask HN: Boilerplate SaaS app for Python?
Have you looked at web2py (http://www.web2py.com/)
WettowelReactor··on Royal pardon for codebreaker Alan Turing
The British government has taken steps to address teh 26,000 that are still alive [1]. While this should be automatic it is still a step towards progress.

[1] <http://www.theguardian.com/law/2012/sep/02/home-office-gay-s...

WettowelReactor··on NSA Coworker Remembers Edward Snowden: "A Genius Among Geniuses"
Part of what he may be trying to get at is that the US population has no idea of just what the stated mission of the NSA is. Do we as a population think that spying on our allies is OK? This is a discussion that needs to happen publicly and not under a classified umbrella.
WettowelReactor··on New Google Sheets: faster, more powerful, and works offline
or you know $22 a month for office365.
WettowelReactor··on Uruguay legalises production and sale of cannabis
No dispute about the harmful effects of hard drugs. The question is whether the current model of criminalization is effective at handling those issues.
WettowelReactor··on Electric Car owner charged for stealing electricity from school
Or in this case you could divert the funds used in prosecution to secured covers for the outlets. Same outcome, no further use of the resource, with a reduced cost to everyone involved.
WettowelReactor··on On Penny Arcade, Exploitation, and the Myth of the Do-Everything Rock Star
What about most folks who work for not for profits? Often their wages are below what they could make in other positions but they value they derive from their work has merit. I am not claiming that working for PA has a feel good social cause but by the same token they may offer other value to those who want to work there.
WettowelReactor··on Your A/B Testing Isn't Working Nearly as Well as You Think
So A/B testing does not work because people using it don't understand the underlying statistics and don't have a large enough sample size. So the solution is an even more complex test with even more variable? Makes sense to me.
WettowelReactor··on Statistics Done Wrong – The woefully complete guide
What is puzzling to me is that many of the statistical errors showing up in all the science literature are well understood. The problem is not all the junk science that is being generated but that the current tools and culture are not readily naming and shamming these awful studies. Just as we have basic standards in other fields such as GAAP in finance why can' we have an agreed upon standard for data collection and analysis of scientific data?
WettowelReactor··on McDonald's Tells Its Employees to Sign Up for Food Stamps
McDonalds has about about 1.7 Million employee's. For arguments sake lets round that down 10 1.5 Million. Assume none of them work full time, in-fact lets say they work 1/3 of a full time job so about 700 hours a year. That's just over 1 Billion labor hours a year. Now they make about 5 Billion in profit so just how much more pay can they squeeze out of that? Every dollar increase in base pay would shrink profits by 20%.
WettowelReactor··on Grabbing random DHL package signatures
The door analogy does not carry over well. Its more like I had a yard sale on my front lawn with an invisible line beyond which you are trespassing.
WettowelReactor··on Twitter, NYT Whois and DNS altered, Syrian Electronic Army takes responsibility
When we used to have MelbourneIT they sent us an email with our login password in it in a promotional email. When I inquired how they could possibly be properly securing my account when if they where storing my password in some recoverable fashion I got a form letter back stating they followed all the industry security practices. Needless to say I started the transfer of all our domains that same day.

Their exact response: "Our systems follow strict security measures and only enables us to send the password out to the main email contact in case of password recovery being requested. So rest assured your account password is safely stored with us. "

WettowelReactor··on No Calls, Thanks. The Road to Efficiency.
I do not understand the stigma associated with talking on the phone. Having some time discipling into when you take/return calls is no different than taking an organized approach to email.

Personally I find that calling is like a superpower in business. If you want better rates, better service, and better options you are almost always better of calling rather than relying any other means.

WettowelReactor··on NSA revelations could hurt collaboration with 'betrayed' hackers
You make it seem like crypto is a solved domain. Implementation of crypto is incredibly difficult to do right even when the underlying "math" is provably secure.
WettowelReactor··on The Scientific 7-Minute Workout
Starting Strength is bandied about like the bible of fitness. While it is a great read, especially for beginners, you should take any such cult following with a grain of salt.

For anyone who has never done free weights I cannot recommend enough the need for finding a competent trainer when you are starting out. Although SS goes into great detail on how to properly perform the lifts nothing compare with having a professional evaluate your form.

This is even more important in a sport like lifting where often times the first hint that you are not using proper form is through injury.

The big catch to this advice is that most professional/fitness trainers are worthless. I don't have any advice on how to weed out the good ones from the bad ones other than getting recommendations from someone you trust.

WettowelReactor··on Florida Teen Charged With Felony After Science Experiment Goes Bad
Last line in the article since it has been updated: "We've also obtained the police report from the incident. It shows that Wilmot was mixing toilet bowl cleaner and aluminum foil."

Link to police report: http://www.scribd.com/doc/138927259/Wilmot-Arrest

WettowelReactor··on The people we're leaving behind
Calling them a traitor is pretty preposterous. Your argument also seems to indicate that monetary gain is the only motivation for these folks doing what they do. It is possible that they are true patriots for their country fighting injustice at the cost of their own homes.
WettowelReactor··on PC sales plunge, Microsoft and Windows 8 blamed
Have you looked at Vizio's new ultra-book lineup. They have all been upgraded to touchscreen and the 15in models run at 1920 x 1080
WettowelReactor··on How can we get Google Support?
I would think the fact that they are, by and large, getting away with not having any support, a great argument that they have made the right decision for now. If not having support is not impacting the bottom line what would their reasoning be for adding it.
WettowelReactor··on Bitcoins can now be used to pay for Domino’s Pizza
The fact that a currency like bitcoin with all the shortfalls you are describing has any traction is more indicative of the feeling we have about our current options.
WettowelReactor··on Why the Fuck?
The other solution is for the U.S. to reign in all the statutory laws that have dropped the requirement of mens rea. Originally to be criminally guilty you had to have intent and action. Over the last few decades we have been progressing or law system to exclude intent making it possible to be found criminally guilty of crimes you had no intent on breaking. Including a strong default of mends rea in all laws that do not otherwise mention it would allow defendants to use the laws convoluted nature as a valid defense.

P.S. I am not a lawyer and probably completely wrong.

WettowelReactor··on The TSA wants to be everywhere in 2013 - here's why we shouldn't let it
A very small percentage of Americans ever enter an airport. If the TSA presence expands beyond that their tactics will be felt by a far greater percentage of voting americans. It may be that expanding beyond airports will be very detrimental to the TSA's longevity.
WettowelReactor··on Verizon Is Blocking Google Wallet Anti-Competitively
You can't install it from the play store but side-loading works fine with or without rooting the phone. You have to continue to side load all updates though so keep that in mind.
WettowelReactor··on xkcd: Instagram
How is it that when it comes to copying corporate owned assets like music the debate is always on how its not theft as the core product remains. Yet now that we are talking about user submitted content that view does not hold.
WettowelReactor··on If Tech Is So Important, Why Are IT Wages Flat?
Salaries are one of those numbers where averages are a very poor metric. The compensation for the highest earners tends to be astronomically more than those a few percentage points lower on the pay scale. I suspect the median salary of CEO's is still somewhere around the 750K range.
WettowelReactor··on Forget Disclosure — Hackers Should Keep Security Holes to Themselves
The quote "Vendors are motivated to protect their profits and their shareholders’ interests over everything else." misses the point. You cannot build share holder value over any extended period of time by screwing your customers. It is cheaper in the short run not to patch flaws but completely detrimental to you long term image. Just look at Microsoft who is still seen as the poster boy if insecurity despite nearly a decade of security reform.
WettowelReactor··on The Worst
Yes if you re-frame the whole discussion as pay for value then the concept of best or worst is irrelevant. What additional value does expensive cutlery provide over the bargain bin equivalent? Surly durability and use are comparable so it comes down to a subjective valuation of aesthetics. At the same token springing for quality stainless steel cookware can provide a lifetime of service vs. the cheap stuff.
WettowelReactor··on New York City celebrates day without violent crime
Yup, when the massive snow storm hit Baltimore 2 years ago their murder rate for that month was a historic low. As soon as the snow was cleared the crime rate returned to normal.
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