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by Litost 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, how does what he says stack up against those who came after, I ask this because this is one of my favourite management talks by Russell Ackoff [1] and he mentions Dr Deming so assume he was influenced by/work
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by Litost 5y ago
We tend to be quite building inspection heavy over here in the UK but I gather if you work with people who know the system well, you can get off-grid style buildings built. Hopefully this is quite a useful example that featured on two episo
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by Litost 5y ago
It makes me shudder as well, the first thing that comes to mind is the paperclip maximizer - https://terbium.io/2020/05/paperclip-maximizer/ .
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by Litost 5y ago
David Graeber (from Bullshit Jobs fame) talked about this at some length [1]: "Why did Keynes’ promised utopia – still being eagerly awaited in the ‘60s – never materialise? The standard line today is that he didn’t figure in the massi
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by Litost 5y ago
It's been a while since I've read the Humanure Handbook and I've not practiced many of the techniques in it but it does cover this topic in great detail: https://humanurehandbook.com/ I believe it is possible
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by Litost 5y ago
With a title mentioning cannibal ants and a bunker, I'm surprised no-one has referenced Phase IV yet, but given it was a box office flop from 1974. I've not watched it in so long, but I seem to remember it being quite scary as a k
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by Litost 5y ago
To anyone else who's curious links for the above: https://blog.cloudflare.com/why-we-terminated-daily-stormer/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Daily_Stormer
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by Litost 5y ago
There must be other examples, but you're right in the famous case of Prince changing his name to an abstract symbol to get round a contractual issue he was having with his record label. Apparently journalists started saying "The
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by Litost 5y ago
This quote “You’re efficient when you do something with minimum waste. And you’re effective when you’re doing the right something.” reminds me of a Systems Thinking talk Russell Ackoff gave a long time ago [1] where he talks about the diffe
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by Litost 6y ago
Ha, yes I always have fond memories of the days when people wrote a serviceable chess program in 1KB which you typed in from a magazine [1] and I compare that to nowadays when I can have a Firefox Tab using 1GB+. Also some of the optimisati
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by Litost 6y ago
I'm not the best person to answer this either, but whenever anyone says old code is fragile and we should just throw it all out and start over, I always point at this, possibly famous post, by Joel Spolsky: https://www.joelo
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by Litost 6y ago
Fascinating, I've not read any of these books, but I'll stick them on top of my list. Do his books come to a conclusion on how to solve the "conflict" between the Wizard and the Prophet, it was hard to tell just reading
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by Litost 6y ago
"To be fair much of Scotland used to be covered in forestry and has been denuded. There are some interesting projects showing what happens if the land is simply protected from over grazing (particularly by deer)." Interesting this
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by Litost 7y ago
Did Jung mention anything about alternating between both? Am I right in thinking this is a spectrum so it's perfectly fine/possible to be somewhere in the middle or is the argument this really is an either/or?
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by Litost 10y ago
I was going to say discovering music is easy, maybe it's just me, but like anything, just get stuck in? a) Find some bands you like, go see them live. b) Get talking to people at the gigs (this helps if they're smaller venues), th
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by Litost 11y ago
I thought this was quite an interesting comparison between "Old Google" and "New Google": http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/never-trust-a-corpora... Something i'm increasing attributing to
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by Litost 11y ago
Surely if all the bad streams are coming from the same small number of accounts, or maybe many accounts that don't pay much/any subscription, this problem is simply neutralised by rejigging the payout formula? Assuming this is sti
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by Litost 11y ago
Much as i don't want to cause any further depression in an already quite depressing thread, but if you follow Joseph Tainters work on The Collapse of Complex Societies. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0R09YzyuCI a) Co
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by Litost 11y ago
Ah thanks, it's been over a year since i did the initial evaluation, sounds like i'm overdue another :).
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by Litost 11y ago
I'm still slightly new to editing OSM as a MTBer, maxerickson and c0nsumer have covered the details of how to do this already very well, but i found after comparing a seemingly never ending number of competing apps in this space, i fou
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by Litost 11y ago
Anyone else find it slightly revealing, and obviously disappointing, that any conversation about wealth nowadays only seems to encompass financial wealth, as though all other forms of wealth [1] were either redundant or meaningless. I often
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by Litost 11y ago
First time i saw it was on the london underground: https://www.flickr.com/photos/litost/15113770968
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by Litost 11y ago
Yes, i do love Banksy's take on advertising, much as i do Bill Hick's (even more angsty) [1]. Though you do have to wonder, i thought i heard Chomsky say that 1/6 of the world is engaged in Marketing/PR and Advertising w
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by Litost 11y ago
Pretty tangential, and i've no idea yet as to it's accuracy, but i loved the idea that the human race's "emergence into consciousness was triggered by our ancestors encounters with visionary plants". From an ironica
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by Litost 11y ago
This reminds of what Peter Higgs (of Higgs Boson fame) said "I wouldn't be productive enough for today's academic system" http://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-b..
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by Litost 11y ago
I'd have to agree with the other commentator on this, the BBC is hardly unbiased, it's under huge pressure to tow the conservative party line via threats to its funding and it's coverage is often populist (a lot of stuff abou
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by Litost 11y ago
I've just watched this and assuming it's unbiased which it seems to be, it makes a number of very compelling arguments to go vegetarian/vegan. Not least the huge water, grain and land requirements and the resultant methane em
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by Litost 11y ago
I was curious about this, as a relation has gluten intolerance. This reckons that the gluten content of wheat hasn't really changed: http://nogluten-noproblem.com/2014/03/has-the-gluten-content... And enterta
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by Litost 11y ago
I'm thinking aloud and obviously taking a negative purist view here, but does anyone else wonder, if in 20-30 years, if civilisation has actually advanced any, if we'll look back at ads in the same way we now seem to be treating t
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The Inefficiency of Capitalism: An Anarchist View (2003)(libcom.org)
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