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by barrysteve 4y ago
The conversations will happen elsewhere and so will the relationships. Management is locking themselves out from the team leaders and suddenly those off site 'adult kerfuffles' are exactly the conversation you needed to hear to pr
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Ketroc in the Starcraft 2 AI Arena tournament mentions the same pattern. Starcraft 1 came out before the internet and web had crushed the meta. People would figure out how to play with their friends and then meet up at local tournaments to
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by barrysteve 4y ago
A repeating theme we are seeing lately across industries, is that management is not flexible enough to allow everybody to fit into a role they'd stick with. Management just wants to organize teams and little tribes of people to cover t
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by barrysteve 4y ago
A reduction of desire is exactly the dulling of the soul we mean. This guy is losing motivation to find a better partner and you show statistics which support that very idea?? Porn does not satisfy, as you can tell by the OP's disconte
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Psychology and the Spanish Inquisition share a flaw. They both cannot truly tell you the contents of a man's soul. Didn't stop the psychologists and inquisitors from trying though. What kind of evidence would satisfy you?
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Porn dulls people. It dulls the personality, the soul and relating to people. Your innate drive for a better romantic partner is being replaced with porn. The dull emptiness could be a space for envy to grow in you.
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by barrysteve 4y ago
The guiding principle behind B evaporated. People don't go to university for higher universal meaning anymore. They go to get knowledge they can trade for a better living. A goal directed attitude has taken over, as described by Erwin
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Internalizers shouldn't work around things, they should turn away from evil. The Missing Stair metaphor was started from talking about a rapist in a bdsm community. Sexual immorality should be removed from the communion. Generalizing t
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Rape victims dont like falling into a black hole where they are 'marked' as victims. They dont like when most people in their life relate to the rape event as the primary subject and not the person who was raped.
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Can I export my website's content and styling if I need to switch Online Store Providers?
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by barrysteve 4y ago
People don't really take Elon at his word anyway. They lap up his mystical attitude towards starry eyed goals. He appears to be a really science and tech oriented guy and he is technical but people dont come to hear it. His conversatio
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Gather a list of techniques to illuminate people who are trying to sell you a red herring. We do critical thinking all the time in a basic way when we try and determine if an advertisement for a product is 'bull ship' or not. It&
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Trucks have truck licenses and are expensive to obtain, or require getting a job and passing screening. Lighting up buildings, destroying a dam (how??) and other civil engineering misadventures require way more thought and planning than sho
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Construction companies did something similar with building new homes. Supply issues came in, prices skyrocketed and it killed a bunch of companies and significantly delayed finishing old contracts. Over subscribing works until it doesn&#x27
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by barrysteve 4y ago
You're right. A lot of articles are paywalled, extermely padded advertising vehicles which people come to the comments to avoid. The audience might be reacting accordingly. The better and more readable articles linked on HN could demon
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by barrysteve 4y ago
It just locks you in even more than normal programming does. This is a feature in some places like modding video games or making cookie cutter websites. But for devs it can be a restricting middle man with no benefit.
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by barrysteve 4y ago
The topic raised by a new speaker doesn't always grab everyone's attention though. It happens in group conversations too. I'm amazed HN can still find some periphirally related topic to talk about and save an otherwise dead t
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Every community worth some money was captured by a specific interest group. All the organic growth got turned off and the places that still nurture organic growth are front ends for shopify/unreal engine/alibaba, ect. The real sen
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Autocalc this battle??
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by barrysteve 4y ago
The mid-game lerk and fade gameplay versus shotgun marines favours skilled players a lot. A good lerk can soften up marines forever and a good fade has little reason to die while continually getting kills everytime it leaves the hive. A goo
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Metafilter turned incredibly political in 2014 after jessamyn left. It made the site less useful for non-Americans.
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by barrysteve 4y ago
Like monks??
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by barrysteve 4y ago
If you were stuck on a desert island, would you prefer a boat or a raft to rescue you? I'd pick boat everytime. Words do have meaning and in a sense it's all we have. Approaching CS as a series of abstract mathematical problems to
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by barrysteve 5y ago
Why would you ever say that? Facebook is suffering a slow death from burning up all it's good will on bad faith money grabs. The news feed could still be the place where people discuss their lives, but close to zero people trust facebo