ImTalking

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by ImTalking 10y ago
Agreed. I have always felt that technical people approach their jobs from the wrong side. They cram every technical acronym on the CV in the hope that something will stick. They don't understand business. Business wants value. The CV s
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by ImTalking 10y ago
I agree. A person has no clue what will happen until one is in the 'game'. Sitting on the sidelines writing a plan is a futile exercise. However, once you are in the game then plans are important.
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That explains my mid-section.
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Certainly possible. Problem is that the issues are very diverse. You have increased carbon, over-population, resource depletion, increased toxins in environment, etc, and each would require very different technological solutions. Also, I th
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Any technical solutions to the global issues we face will be thwarted by sociological factors due to our immaturity as a species. Climate, for example, requires cooperation on a global level and all populous industrialised countries must pa
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I don't think life can survive itself in order to become super-intelligent. It's easy to see why we have the Fermi Paradox. Homo Sapiens have been around for say 100,000 years yet the last 200 years, as we have become technologica
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Hence Finland's experiment with a basic income.
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While I am optimistic about the human race being able to solve the global issues such as climate change, I feel we do not have the political will to do so without getting first to the brink of disaster.
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More and more dollars pumped into smaller and smaller returns.
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But we allow this to happen across society. The Catholic organisation, for example, has it's own morality. And it is completely accepted that you should not join that church if you do not agree with that morality.
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But why do you get to question Facebook's idea of morality? If you don't like it, don't use the service. To question someone's morality solely due to it being different than yours is, bluntly, a waste of time.
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Why complicate it? Morality is upto the individual entity whether it is a person, or a business, or a govt-body. For example, I believe there are still 'dry' counties in the US. They have decided that a no-alcohol policy is the mo
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Does not Facebook get to decide it's own morality, just like anyone else?
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I would say that galaxy clusters forming after only 2.6B years is an indication that our models are already wrong.
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Laws should only be there for harm, not morality.
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As our instruments get better, are we going to find these clusters further and further out until we hit the supposed age of the universe @ 13.7B years? Then what? When do we start thinking that maybe the models are potentially wrong?
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Would be interested in understanding the difference between a 'starting a business' and a startup.
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I wouldn't think so. What they gain in wisdom they lose in baggage. It's like the success rates of 2nd marriages are worse than 1st marriages. You would think that people would get smarter with their 2nd, but it's not the cas
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by ImTalking 10y ago
If the guy is a scammer, then why is his fall disastrous?
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by ImTalking 10y ago
Yeah, I can see your point. I am on the autism spectrum somewhere and I am very fortunate that I do not have the crippling anxiety and self-doubt that the OP and others are grappling with. I quit IBM after 6 years because I wanted to have m
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I was on a tennis scholarship and played a season of pro tournaments until it was apparent that tennis was not my future. Joined IBM upon graduation. Why is this not plausible?
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Mate, you self-worth is being jeopardised by (may I say) your own deluded thoughts and your reliance on external validation. When I first joined IBM research right out of school I thought that everyone would be some Einstein and I would be
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It depends on how apocalyptic you are about the future. On the one hand, I'm pretty pessimistic about the current political will necessary to create global policy on climate change solutions. I feel we are too primitive right now; too
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You could always buy a goat.
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I agree... I always eat before exercising. I would, however, caution on a carb-heavy meal pre-workout. Studies have shown: 1) Consuming carbs pre-workout reduces the fat burned during workout. 2) Consuming protein pre-workout helps preserve
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Then you have to make a decision then. Do you want to make revenue from the product, or make revenue via customisations? Problem with the customisation approach is there is limited leverage.
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Agreed. I was bought out by a company who charged high license fees but did not charge for customer development. So every customer wanted all these customisations to the point where most of the development was customer-initiated changes. Wo
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Fruit is OK, you just need to go easy with it though. Most fruits are just big fructose bombs with very little nutrition. Berries are good.
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Do not eat anything made of flour. Minimise daily carbs and have a periodic starch reload to refill glycogen levels.
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If you exercise and are more tired, then you need to eat more. And stay off the sugars and carbs.

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