ImTalking

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by ImTalking 10y ago
Not a chance. Brilliant jerks are a cancer on the team and business, and they very rarely deliver.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Been there. Was involved in a telco software project where one person was a genius, a true unicorn. We were in meetings where some of his insight and perspective left us scratching our heads in amazement. Yet he was the most destructive co-
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by ImTalking 10y ago
What possible 'main force' could there be other than money?
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by ImTalking 10y ago
No. But reading articles like this will.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
You might benefit from changing your perception of your work. Rather than think about the result, think about the 'duty' of each day's work. This is what I do. Most people think of the word 'duty' similar to a &#x27
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Not a chance. The terms of this new deed may be more onerous than the original employment contract, and might land you on trouble if, for example, you did some programming outside of this company while you were employed.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Yes, they were adamant that they needed their own time.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
There are many who say maintaining the marriage is more important than the kids. The kids are born into the marriage and then 20 years later (hopefully) are gone but the marriage must endure. Having said this, my brother married a seemingly
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Does this mean that consciousness is a dimension? Would a (say) lifeless planet 'be' 3D if not observed or would it remain encoded in 2D? (Asked by a layman).
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by ImTalking 10y ago
It's so easy to see the outcome of these policies. Intolerance begats intolerance begats violence. There can be no other outcome other than an increase in violence, both domestic and international. And what will Trump do when the viole
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by ImTalking 10y ago
The fact that no one really knows what to do; that no one has the magic formula. That you just have to try different things and see what sticks. Keep moving forward. Shakespeare was right: we are poor players that strut our hour upon the st
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by ImTalking 10y ago
I suggest that they visit all the time. The first thing a truly intelligent species would do is discard the physical form since it's inefficient and it decays over time. Think of the movie 'Lucy' where, at the end, she discar
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by ImTalking 10y ago
I'm sure it has been quite a few years since Warren Buffett has made investment decisions on his own. Now he will have quite an intellect behind him.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
I don't like those quotes (like 'the harder I work, the luckier I get') because 'luck' by it's very definition is random. We had a horrible situation in Melbourne yesterday where some nutbag drove his car down
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by ImTalking 10y ago
> We all know stories of ambitious and talented people like Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, who grew companies and created great wealth. True. Yet both were extremely lucky at the beginning. We all know the story but Gates' mother knew IB
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Technology is allowing anyone to have a voice. This is a good thing. Whether you are a human rights advocate or the biggest racist, you can now air your thoughts and gather a following. Each of us are becoming a political party of 1. Think
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by ImTalking 10y ago
I think you can overcomplicate this question but a leader is someone that, over time, people follow. Why they follow is up to the individual. Gandhi was a leader, but then conversely, Hitler was also a leader. There is no morality in leader
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Not sure education alone can do what you desire. In the case of cigarettes, education was coupled with ever-increasing taxes to decrease the percentage of smokers. And speaking of cigarette taxes, they are certainly used, as you say, as a f
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by ImTalking 10y ago
"Scientists found additional similarities between the frog genes and human genes. For instance, genes in frogs have very similar neighboring genes as humans about 90 percent of the time. In other words, the frog genome contains the sam
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by ImTalking 10y ago
> The University of Mississippi grows and harvests cannabis for studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse, yet because NIDA's congressionally mandated mission is to research the harmful effects of controlled substances
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by ImTalking 10y ago
How empathetic of you. So any substance which eases crushing symptoms of a mental disorder is a crutch to you? Glad you're Ok.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Although I don't know, I would assume that some of the 10,000 scientific abstracts reviewed were funded by NIDA, which does not fund any study on cannabis that does not show harm.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Because that's exactly what should happen.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Something anecdotally we have all known for decades.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
It is possible that schizophrenics and similar disorders naturally gravitate to cannabis to lessen their symptoms.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
> The evidence reviewed by the committee suggests that with greater frequency of cannabis use, there is an increased likelihood of developing problem cannabis use. So they are saying that if you smoke more, then you could possibly smoke
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by ImTalking 10y ago
> If you draw the lines... That's my point. It's harder to draw the lines, and it's harder to maintain those lines if the additional 42% of Americans voted.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Because if everyone voted, it would be prohibitively expensive to gerrymander down to small areas such as individual city-blocks. You may have a generally Republican area but a small area/block within would be Democrat because of (say)
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Gerrymandering would be a non-issue if voting was mandatory.
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Obviously, this is great news and well-done by the Gates family. But I always wonder if we shouldn't be putting this kind-of money into what I consider society's most pressing problem which is our social intelligence, or in a sing

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