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by alpine 14y ago
I've often experienced what I like to call 'déjà-vous at scale'. Many times while re-watching a film or re-reading a book, I recognise that my mind, triggered by some apparently inconsequential detail, has spawned a series of thoughts ident
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by alpine 14y ago
I have tricked myself into achieving ambitious goals by breaking down the next few days' objectives into small, doable tasks. I will even go as granular as 'make cup of tea and fix typo while kettle boils'. I've found that if I can get into
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by alpine 14y ago
I don't think limiting your reading to The Atlantic and Economist is a good idea. I would advise reading fewer stories from a wider selection of sources then applying point 6. "Why" to the text. Why was the story written? Why was the story
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by alpine 14y ago
Can you minimise the number of things that require your distraction each day? If so, you might still be able to make progress against your main project, although not as quickly as you would like. Try to cycle through your distractions back
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by alpine 14y ago
Assuming we had all taken a wrong turn technologically ie the Internet concept had not occurred to someone, then Rocket Mail would be fun: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocket_mail
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by alpine 14y ago
Or a medieval strongbox?
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by alpine 14y ago
I would love to see a traffic analysis to tpb during these last few weeks compared with theoretical models, that have presumably been developed, to predict how robust the Internet is in general with regard to self-healing/route-around prope
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by alpine 14y ago
When coding, I also have to stop and think about: - website vs web site - setup vs set up That is just two examples that come to mind in as many seconds.
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by alpine 14y ago
You are absolutely right, he was talking about words that were important to the Party. Words that facilitated criticism, dissent etc. However, my point still stands. If you consider a child with a good vocabulary in two languages versus an
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by alpine 14y ago
I think it is pushing it to say Steve's approach (which would probably have been to say nothing, then back-track 3 weeks later) was a PR technique. Having read the Isaacson biography, it's clear Jobs was 100% sincere in his belief that he k
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by alpine 14y ago
That's exactly what Steve would have done.
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by alpine 14y ago
I agree. Worryingly, it could be evidence of a move away from traditional Steve values, ie don't back down (straight away), don't apologise, don't explain. Alternatively, it could be Apple realise they made a huge mistake, were about to s
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by alpine 14y ago
I'm not really talking about the 'biased' stuff - they take anonymous contributions from all kinds of people so there are bound to be articles that one considers biased, simply because of this. What I'm referring to is a subtle pro-globalis
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by alpine 14y ago
It also has an agenda (basically, globalist, pro-EU etc) which is easy to miss if you are overly-impressed by the intellectual veneer. That said, my favourite Economist contribution to the world of letters is the Big Mac index, which is rat
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by alpine 14y ago
You might be interested in Benjamin Franklin's Thirteen Virtues.
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by alpine 14y ago
I'm not so sure about the statement that being bilingual reduces the vocabulary. If this is true, this would discourage me from raising a kid to speak two languages... after all, wasn't George Orwell's thesis in 1984 that removing words fro
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by alpine 14y ago
I don't think the problem is with the financial industry. The issue is most definitely with the financial/political system. We haven't run true capitalism in the Western nations for decades. It has been a hodge-podge of crony capitalism mix
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by alpine 14y ago
The thing that interests me most about the Elon Musks of this world is our economy's carrying capacity for such talented and ambitious people. Can we support 100 EMs? Would we run out of things to do? Perhaps this is the wrong way to look a
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by alpine 14y ago
A lot of trading has been replaced by machines running High Frequency Trading (HFT) algorithms. There is no reason to believe the people commissioning these systems are more ethical or less tempted to break the rules for personal gain than