cconcepts

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by cconcepts 9y ago
Personally, because a thorough understanding of the Bible shows that its teaching is quite different to what is often portrayed in media and in the assumptions of people like myself who had not previously read it. You can take many individu
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by cconcepts 9y ago
It annoys me how much I want to leave Facebook (if only to stop them gathering MORE data on me - I can't erase what they have) but don't because of the convenience of getting in touch with or finding out more about whoever I meet
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Pointing out someone's mistake and not taking the opportunity to belittle them; Good ol' HN
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by cconcepts 10y ago
As a Kiwi, what catches my attention about this discussion is that "raising the standard of living" in pure economic terms is still a primary political campaigning tool in NZ. How do you measure the great things we already have an
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Something that beautifully summarises the Orwell/Huxley discussion for me is this quote by Neil Postman in Amusing Ourselves to Death: What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no rea
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Surprisingly civil folks, thanks for the discourse.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Relevant comic: http://adam4d.com/death-of-christianity/
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Friend, I think you misunderstood what I was trying to say
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Yes, thankyou. An unhealthy habit for any worldview is to live in an echo chamber of people who agree with you.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
They challenge my belief and make me think about it in ways I otherwise wouldn't. Miracles are, by definition, hard to believe and are a suspension of testable, repeatable scientific law. Something that, an all powerful God could do if
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Very well written article. On a social note, it does feel as though (and I could be wrong) the seeming uptick in discussion about Christianity is because it is associated with the Trump/Republican/"How on earth did so many pe
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by cconcepts 10y ago
> then starts talking about market sentiment and concludes by analyzing it's chart You summarise my experience of the financial industry well. If you haven't already, read "Where Are The Customer's Yachts" by Fre
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Very well written. Although this article is quite emotive and could be considered an extreme point of view, I think it is important to read in order to understand the multitude of voices wanting to be heard in the current quagmire. I disagr
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by cconcepts 10y ago
I dont get the indicators that its a new product. These guys look like they have been doing this since 2014: http://www.drawattention.co
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by cconcepts 10y ago
About time. Although I avoid them like the plague the subjective "feeling" of malls has always seemed to me like a succession of gimicks to get people to buy more stuff they dont need. Often, and this is really being presumptive,
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by cconcepts 10y ago
>"members of Congress attacking one another with sticks and hot pokers" ....in the good old days....
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by cconcepts 10y ago
In the contract economy, imagine that all of us, with our small contracting companies and associated specialities, are day labourers standing at the dockside waiting to be hired. The dock manager (Google) opens a gate to the strong looking
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Any suggestions on where to search for such an email address?
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by cconcepts 10y ago
So how do I combat against this? We're a small, honest company providing great products and services for the companies that need them but we're getting killed online because no one can find us. I've forked out a lot (for us)
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by cconcepts 10y ago
The spammy links thing fascinates me. I don't know much about search algos or SEO but on our small, industrial business site we couldn't understand why, after many hours and thousands of dollars spent on the procedures that Google
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by cconcepts 10y ago
I started typing out a comment but you said what I was trying to say in half as many words, thanks
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - The subject is extremely interesting, challenging and thought provoking but I felt like Ashlee Vance (Author) was somewhat inspired by Walter Isaacsons Steve Jobs in terms of
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by cconcepts 10y ago
When you're from NZ, no one is desperate to kill you or trade with you. Its a double-edged sword.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
I'd agree with you if human worth was measured by how many zeros appear on your bank statement. Thankfully, it isn't.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
It must be a vote of confidence to have such shrill and obviously poorly informed voices campaigning against you. If they had some depth to their arguments they would at least make you think twice but such desperate tactics pretty much tell
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by cconcepts 10y ago
Did not know about the crash.
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by cconcepts 10y ago
> "Fuller told The New Yorker in 1966. Appealing to people to remedy their behaviour was a folly, because they’d simply never do it. Far wiser, Fuller thought, to build technology that circumvents the flaws in human behaviour – that
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by cconcepts 10y ago
In my line of work, the recent increases in health and safety legislation and resulting costs of compliance with having personnel on site in situations where they might get harmed in any way means that the return for automating processes is
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by cconcepts 10y ago
I can't remember where I saw this quote last year but it rang terrifyingly true to me: "The people who used to tell me that Wikipedia is unreliable now get their news from viral facebook posts"
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by cconcepts 10y ago
For those that need it in metric, a cake is roughly equivalent to a scone...

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