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by cc101 2y ago
I'm a Forest Service voluntary camp host. I think that one Seasonal Technician that I work with is typical. Five days a week she cleans bathrooms and collects garbage bags from bear-safe deposit boxes. During a fire she does radio-c
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by cc101 2y ago
It seems to me that many online influencers shamelessly cause harm in their pursuit of profit. Example: I recently saw an online ad that in an alarmed voice urged alzheimer's patients to never drink cold water. Distracting attention
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by cc101 2y ago
Annual vegetation has to die. If you could increase the rainfall, you would get more dead vegetation to burn next year along with increased fire risk.
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by cc101 2y ago
Motivation comes from visualizing the end product of an activity. If your team lacks motivation, it is either because your product lacks value or because they have lost emotional contact with what that value is. That's where you shou
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by cc101 2y ago
greed
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by cc101 2y ago
Nothing. Authors have the exclusive privilege of selling copies of their works. That's all. They do not own their work. The language belongs to all of us. We grant the privilege to encourage original works. Not you nor anyone else
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by cc101 2y ago
Seems like a good idea, but I only read on my Mac. My iPad (and iPod) are for other purposes. I don't own an outrageously expensive iPhone.
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by cc101 2y ago
The biggest problem with large numbers of people moving to another country lies in the bureaucratic bottle neck they all must pass through. Expect to spend several months to several years before you are done. When I moved to Mexico, it too
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by cc101 2y ago
If you have lost interest in your job, this snippet from my mission statement may help. I does for me. I will remember that enthusiasm is voluntary and arises from imagining success. I find the pleasure and enthusiasm to begin working on
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by cc101 2y ago
If you have something to say, SAY IT! Dreamy artsy fartzy intros are a waste of my time.
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by cc101 2y ago
I would be deeply disappointed if Apple did start advertising on X.
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by cc101 2y ago
Subtracting down votes from up votes is a worthless feature. Separately, the two numbers convey information. Subtracting one from the other destroys information and produces a meaningless number.
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by cc101 2y ago
Put a whole lot of effort into exploring and mastering various ways to learn. Get very good at it in many different contexts. You'll be doing a lot of it in your live. You will have to re-invent yourself multiple times. If you don&
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by cc101 2y ago
Good move on Apple's part. They are hugely dependent on the PRC. This makes them vulnerable to collapse if relations between the US and the PRC deteriorate. Given the PRC's stated intention to invade Formosa about 2027, the US
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by cc101 2y ago
If this is a question, not an intro to your explanation, then: Hatters (in Britain) used mercury to cure the hides they used. Mercury vapor can cause brain damage. Enough hatters were visibly mad, that the saying arose.
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by cc101 2y ago
There are some insightful techniques here that can be applied to control any kind of dialog.
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by cc101 2y ago
Yeah. I guess I can see that.
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by cc101 2y ago
In high school many of us were deep into math.
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by cc101 2y ago
This portrait is so stunning it's news. Art defines our world today as well as any other kind of news. As hackers we must understand our world to place ourselves in it. Otherwise our career is without a soul. This is already a stron
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by cc101 2y ago
Fast? Not at all I'm afraid. Frequently, I can barely talk. I gave up on talking to people except as necessary over 70 years ago. I much prefer email. Writing well is a slow process for everyone. It's a process of seeking out
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by cc101 2y ago
I have ADHD and in my old age Aphasia. Here is an editing strategy that lets me write with clarity and precision. The key is to relax and write down my initial thoughts even though I know they are poorly expressed, incomplete, and even fa
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by cc101 2y ago
I am a campground host for a US Forest Service campground where I often meet homeless people. I wrote this comment on a recent HN post: < America, you don't know who your homeless people are. I'm a Forest Service camp host. Ho
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by cc101 2y ago
I began my career in 1968. I saw a great many changes in what I did. The word careen refers to things like a cannonball bouncing in unpredictable ways through a battlefield. It's with good reason it resembles the word career. If you
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by cc101 2y ago
America, you don't know who your homeless people are. I'm a Forest Service camp host. Homeless people are common guests there. They greatly differ from the popular image of the homeless as destitute, dirty, criminal, and living
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by cc101 2y ago
Some good points. Some more like paranoia.
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by cc101 2y ago
I made an app to: display web sites and files, highlight and drag noteworthy text or images into an item in a note outline, associate a comment with each note, drag a group of relevant notes into an item in a report outline, associate each
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by cc101 2y ago
I'm a camp host for a USFS campground. It takes 3+ seasonal employees to clean the bathrooms, remove the trash, monitor the chlorine content of the drinking water and repair things. Together they maintain a dozen or so campgrounds. A
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by cc101 2y ago
We tend to get so buried in what we are doing, it's hard remember what it will feel like when we succeed. My lack of motivation to start a task seems to be because I have forgotten to day-dream a bit about the future benefits of comple
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by cc101 2y ago
Not going to happen for this developer.
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by cc101 2y ago
I suspect it might come from the Bible story of Jesus breaking too little bread to feed the multitudes.

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