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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I think of emojis as the written equivalent of body language and other non-verbal communication.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Aren't flights priced based on value and supply and demand, not the direct cost of a providing the flight?
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Tufte says to set aside 1/3 of your meeting time to have everyone read the agenda and relevant information at the start.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Depending on the device, I would say. Maybe if it were phrased, "Do you regularly see annoying popups that ask you to update your software?" Shoot, I guess even that is a poor wording. I do know, however, that every time Apple p
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Engineering is a discipline of taking a problem you cannot solve, breaking it into component problems that you figure out how to solve.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Is FB keeping users in their comfort zone, or have users clearly and regularly indicated they want their ideologically safe spaces? If the latter, any attempts FB makes will be create an exodus, lose-lose.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
OTOH, if a site monetizes primarily through its email list, they may not care if people who don't sign up see their content. There are similarities in the selection criteria used by 419 scammers.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I've had this experience as well. I'd love an opportunity to chat with someone who runs these click farms for a living, so I can understand their motivations a little more clearly. I can't wrap my head around why someone wou
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Except that also serves as a placeholder for your turn to speak. I frequently find myself taking an extra second to think before I speak only to have my turn pass me by, because someone else started up right away.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I don't share your opinion that because other people have it worse, you cannot be dissatisfied.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Historically, ice was actually towed (stowed and sailed) from the Northeastern US to e.g. India, and other hot climates. It was a huge industry in the northeast in the 17th(? I think) century. Got this info from an awesome documentary call
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
But now you're making a subjective statement about the pay. Without context (supply, demand, how much revenue you generate for your employer), how to determine what is highly paid? I fully reject the idea that more hours should be a r
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Interesting point, I hadn't realized there were manufacturing/assembly lines for food. Makes sense. Do you think it's likely we'll see robots making high quality goods like this, or will they always be commoditized and
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Wasn't the original discussion about robots replacing human labor? A single human can do those things. I think it's another discussion whether we can make robots who each do one thing well. Roomba, etc. Besides the space constra
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I dunno, my aunt still makes a good living programming for the AS-400, as she has done for multiple decades.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I'd love to read more about this, without all the general Jobs fluff. Any recommendations?
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I don't think the fact that developers make hundreds of thousands of dollars means they have to put in more work. They are being paid to create a certain amount of value, and capture what is generally a small fraction of it. How does y
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I am appreciative of both the summary and the original comment. Please don't feel like your thunder was stolen -- your breakdown was fantastic and taught me quite a bit about a situation I was mostly unfamiliar with.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
IME not all but many.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I got more from his comment than yours, even with a steep "spam" penalty. Sometimes the sheriff is worse than the criminal. Because my comment otherwise adds nothing, here is a random fact: the French courts of 17/18th centu
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Now 34. For me, realization that group interactions were not what i like. I used to have e.g. 64 friends, i would hang out with 8 at a time. Now, I maybe have 8 friends, hang out 1-1. Can't have more and actually know them. Depth, not
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I also think the shouting of "liar, misogynist, ..." -- that type of reaction by people, to call others names -- is a component of what led people to vote for Trump.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I'm afraid those aren't my initials. I'm in California, just been enjoying the hell reading through your posts that you nicely collected into an index recently I stumbled upon. Your arguments are intriguing. I was tempted t
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
Would you say that Gene Wolfe's books mentioned bear thematic similarity in this sense to the Foundation series? Trying to build on something I already know.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
I can think of a few reasons. 1 - they might give you big bags of cash 2 - they think they can be the ones to turn it around (what, execs, big egos? unrealistic expectations? complete faith in their self as savior of mankind? surely you
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
It does not, but it is a useful benchmark to evaluate the claims of a swimmer with below average times who insists they become team captain.
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
"Calling people out" is not a technique to help people grow. It's ridiculing them after applying a label from a distance. The more people insist it was racists and sexists behind the vote, the more they miss the point. Part
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
To add on, part of the galvanizing force that created the political block (those tens of millions) was they don't like GP's exact attitude! People really, really, really, don't like it when you deny or trivialize their experi
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
This creates an intractable problem when their job is deemed too dangerous for a civilization to allow to continue. If someone's job is their identity, and their job harms others, what are some other possible solutions? (Retraining ru
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by asdfasdfa11112 10y ago
At the risk of sounding like I'm speaking for all Americans, I think most Americans are more comfortable with a politician spending their own money to get elected rather than be influenced by someone else's money. How many America

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