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7y ago
very hard to think of any country that has NOT done this. History shows that people and their countries do bad things.
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7y ago
print key guides, maps, cheatsheets
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7y ago
see also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backpressure_routing
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7y ago
relax ng?
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8y ago
There are three roles in play here: * individual contributor (engineer). someone has skills to do something. works out how to achieve something. * manager. someone who ensures teams are happy, succeed and progress. manages resources (money
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8y ago
I live in London and travel to America 10 times a year over the last 3 years. I would agree with above. In the USA I see more people with chronic healthcare issues that have not been treated (they just get on with it). I suspect its because
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8y ago
> These two ideas directly conflict with one another and create a dichotomy: If I have the freedom to beleive what I want, how does this translate into having the initiative to observe the world accurately and debunk pseudo-science? no t
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8y ago
Energy, AI, Healthcare: none of these are problems. They are all ways to solve problems, or at best domains that constrain thinking. Energy is a field/domain, there are problems you can solve here, but they could tend towards optimiza
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8y ago
brains don't think, minds do.
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actually things can and have been caught. Space tethers have been succesful https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_tether_missions#TSS-1R...
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Thats XML?
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or Zeller's congruence https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeller%27s_congruence
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The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magical_Number_Seven,_Pl...
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l'esprit d'escalier ("staircase wit") https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'esprit_de_l'escalier
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go at night...
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no, pedantant is what you are doing: correcting above comms
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8y ago
someone is https://www.amazon.co.uk/How-We-Can-Save-Planet-ebook/dp/B00...
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8y ago
sounds like "five whys" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/5_Whys
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Prosopagnosia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosopagnosia
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8y ago
"supported by grants and donations" according to their site.
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8y ago
This is why I moved to Signal after the whole brexit/us election saga. open source and not run by an advertising company
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8y ago
There's no such thing as the Internet, just some else's network.
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8y ago
Such as http://www.onlondon.co.uk/ though they raised money through a fund raising platform https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/on-london-co-uk (Edit to add link to fundraising, disclaimer: also I personally know
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9y ago
you misunderstand 'ever' with computing the mistake is that it is somehow different to trains..
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https://thinkprogress.org/walmart-fires-thousands-after-bonu...
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9y ago
https://thinkprogress.org/walmart-fires-thousands-after-bonu...
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9y ago
this is a sweeping statement, and not true. for example, i often use xml documents with no text - for example <contraindications> <pregnancy/> </contraindications> and really the rule of thumb about attributes v
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9y ago
the big problem is the lax use of the word 'productive' creativity requires headspace. this article has some ideas that help. but fundamentally productive .neq. hours. Yes to achieve things you need to work hard, but its got to be
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Robert A. Heinlein, who gave the authors extensive advice on the novel,[2] described the story as "possibly the finest science fiction novel I have ever read." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mote_in_God%2
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Turing letters found in old filing cabinet
(bbc.com)
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