Aqueous

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by Aqueous 10y ago
Yes, it is important. However, some project managers obsess over it. Instead of focusing on delivering something the client wants and finds valuable they obsess over estimates, minimizing change orders, and time spent, to the point where it
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by Aqueous 10y ago
I think that in spite of Facebook and other 'walled gardens' or 'silos,' the web is more open now than it's ever been, even if it's tempting to argue otherwise. Everything you need to build a web application li
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Actually, "Shouts and Murmurs" is the The New Yorker magazine's humor column. The "Daily Shouts" is the daily Internet-only version of 'Shouts and Murmurs.' And thus ends another smug, elitist, pedantic, h
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by Aqueous 10y ago
best answer ever.
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by Aqueous 10y ago
I would argue that this site is not quite public in the same sense that Twitter is. Sure - anyone can register and post comments and articles, but the community of this site is extremely self-selected to those with a specific domain of know
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Twitter is a cesspool, but isn't an open, public conversation between everyone in the world pretty much guaranteed to be a cesspool? I don't see how you can stop that from happening without compromising the principle of Twitter it
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Dare I say it - might envy / jealousy towards another culture actually help the Arab world get out of this slump? It is precisely because the Arab world is so closed off - in terms of trade, in terms of cultural exchange, to Western cu
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by Aqueous 10y ago
But is it really risk analysis if any negative eventuality, no matter how unlikely or infrequent, is a deal-breaker? Risk analysis is exactly that - figuring out what the risks are, their likelihoods and potential impacts, and then figuring
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Fair enough - I guess I was tired of being taken for a ride like every other time I've read an article about this obvious con artist. In this case, it still felt like I was being taken for a ride several thousand words into this absurd
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by Aqueous 10y ago
It seems like Wright is attracting more and more (overly credulous) journalists to perform fawning bio pieces on him in lieu of the only evidence that will ever actually conclusively convince anyone. This evidence, unlike the several hundre
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by Aqueous 10y ago
But it also doesn't. And a lot of this culture on campus is about replacing objective facts and knowledge with highly individual, subjective facts and knowledge, privileging "my truth" above all else. In this mindset, there&#
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by Aqueous 10y ago
When I say everyone else is an idiot about what cars they buy I'm being hyperbolic and also joking, so no offense intended. There are plenty of excellent cars and excellent car-based experiences to be had. AWD cars that I've owned
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by Aqueous 10y ago
As an 18 - 34 year old man and recent Subaru owner, I can only reason that it's not just that lesbians are (intelligently) into Subarus, it's that everyone else is an idiot about what cars they buy. Subaru means AWD! Furthermore,
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by Aqueous 10y ago
If Parsey McParseface can parse its own name, it is considered what's called self-hosting ....
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by Aqueous 10y ago
The end of the article talks about probable acquisition by Google or Facebook. So this is probably not going to be in the desert very long.
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by Aqueous 10y ago
I don't know, but based on the last line I err on the side of caution. People don't react well to world-wide humiliation. I agree that he is completely untrustworthy and can't be relied upon to give an accurate representation
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by Aqueous 10y ago
If "playing the media like a fiddle" means "walking away with your tail between your legs, a sad, broken man..." then sure.
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by Aqueous 10y ago
There's evidence of deliberate deception, alongside a suspicious lack of evidence about what transpired out of view of the public. So there are grounds to believe this guy is full of shit.
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by Aqueous 10y ago
Theory: Andresen met with Wright on Wright's terms, in a hotel conference room prepared and controlled by Wright. Wright anticipated that Andresen would ask for a clean-room laptop to work with. One of two things happened: either (a) W
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by Aqueous 10y ago
The explanations for how Craig Wright could have deceived so many credible people are getting incredibly complicated. If in the end Craig managed to dup four major news media outlets, Bitcoin devs, Matonis, and apparently other members of
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by Aqueous 11y ago
...or that
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by Aqueous 11y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions about me. Just like everyone else in the world, people have said things that have hurt me, too. But I can recognize that the temporary emotional injury I experience is not a good reason to overturn th
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by Aqueous 11y ago
In public life we have to - and should - encounter and tolerate people whose opinions we find abhorrent. I would much prefer a world where I feel emotional discomfort being in the presence of someone I loathe than a world where such a perso
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by Aqueous 11y ago
When will people learn that you don't fight a view by attempting to suppress it?
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by Aqueous 11y ago
"Anti-authoritarians question whether an authority is a legitimate one before taking that authority seriously." But there also some individuals who think any authority is illegitimate. I have friends and close relatives who I wo
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by Aqueous 11y ago
They declassified them in 1978. So these documents have been publicly available for a mere 37 years. Figures - what else are they hiding that they aren't hiding?
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by Aqueous 11y ago
> None of which got started during the current technology cycle. Then I need to understand why the current technology cycle is fundamentally, essentially different from previous ones. A business needed to bring in more money than it spen
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by Aqueous 11y ago
I guess I get that but the marketplace is also a big place and often times there is room for more than one player. Apple and Samsung, Gillette and Schick, Pepsi and Coke. You don't need to totally wipe out competition in order to be a
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by Aqueous 11y ago
I don't really understand why they need to grow quickly. You only need to grow quickly if you take millions of dollars and need to distribute a profit to your investors before too long. Whatever happened to growing slowly, proving the
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by Aqueous 11y ago
Apologies for the mistake, but I'm quite familiar with Bitcoin (and also have a financial stake in this matter). You can see my past comments here on the subject (many of which, regrettably, also contain the capitalized C) Not just dir

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