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841.
by barrenko 4y ago
What made the switch for me was NNT's Black Swan and the rest of the books in the series.
842.
by barrenko 4y ago
A lot of the Clojure community seems to be like that. And the biggest beast of them all, aphyr.
843.
by barrenko 4y ago
We'd solve the climate crisis in seconds if AC units were outlawed.
844.
by barrenko 4y ago
For similar tales in other "discipline" try Meru documentary as well.
845.
by barrenko 4y ago
Not sure if I remember the documentary correctly, but didn't he re-learn to play with a different hand orientation, e.g. right then left hand?
846.
by barrenko 4y ago
Yeah well, the pesky thing about management is that it's secondary function is to entrench itself.
847.
by barrenko 4y ago
Well, if someone was to pull it off at this point in time it would be Zuck, but we're a couple of years early me thinks. Or maybe we won't go meta/vr at all.
848.
by barrenko 4y ago
.Net suffers from the same problem as computer science in the popular joke - names for things.
849.
by barrenko 4y ago
Great!
850.
by barrenko 4y ago
I don't know the exact quote but it goes something like - there is no human issue that is not a political one.
851.
by barrenko 4y ago
It will work for a lot of people, and further the divide we have going on now :D.
852.
by barrenko 4y ago
Somewhat similar to climate crisis. If we shut off AC's globally for two days, we'd figure out the solution.
853.
by barrenko 4y ago
People from SEE go to Hamburg, people from Hamburg go to NY.
854.
by barrenko 4y ago
Isn't 50% moving around bananas?
855.
by barrenko 4y ago
We are leaving zilch to children.
856.
by barrenko 4y ago
This is like one of those "every animal shape evolves to crab eventually" but for social networks.
857.
by barrenko 4y ago
In my case it was La Femme Nikita (not too different from CSI).
858.
by barrenko 4y ago
This is not like a retort but more an addendum - Just like healthcare, 20$ flights and shitty food, EVERYONE around that individual or item is paying for the rest of the actual value (or the environment, aka our offspring).
859.
by barrenko 4y ago
Never has questioning the status quo in a workplace not ended me in an "Apocalypse Now" type of situation. Best of luck.
860.
by barrenko 4y ago
The first sentence is and will always be true.
861.
by barrenko 4y ago
It is corruption 101.
862.
by barrenko 4y ago
Moby Dick. NN Taleb basically has a book trilogy dedicated to making complicated life bets. Start with Black Swan. You can skip some.
863.
by barrenko 4y ago
It goes to minus something imho, wherein lies our problem.
864.
by barrenko 4y ago
Not sure what's funny here, the banks and the accredited, "respectful" folk lose our money all the time.
865.
by barrenko 4y ago
Netflix does not have a defined product.
866.
by barrenko 4y ago
Yup, killing the family unit is a shot still heard.
867.
by barrenko 5y ago
Yup. In the context of thinking as a sort of "digestion" - I can think only when writing or walking / running. I can hardly do any thinking just thinking.
868.
by barrenko 5y ago
This is pretty awesome (in addition to this whole thread).
869.
by barrenko 5y ago
Drawing.
870.
by barrenko 5y ago
To be more precise, the response is actually - freeze, and then fight or flight.

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