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by ci5er 8y ago
> I can think of several where that has not happened yet. Tell me more! :-)
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by ci5er 8y ago
It's an iterative process. Anthro-centricism is powerful in terms of what it makes "obvious". The universe spins about the earth. That atoms are made up of objects. That we are the pinnacle of local evolution. That reality is
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by ci5er 8y ago
You can. G'donya. If you print a report on the result - you're done. Bottoms up, mate. If you are collaborating - the issue isn't tools that you and I might know that may or may not be better than Excel (like R), it's th
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by ci5er 8y ago
Maybe. I don't know. Your comment simply caught my "is that so?" filter. I'm going to have to go learn more. Thank you.
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by ci5er 8y ago
Thank you. We probably ended up with 10 or 14 trees in total (there would have been more, but crop dusters in the north of our place kept not dusting low enough and their herbicides would kill our trees ... which is a travesty on the blast
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by ci5er 8y ago
Are you sure? I seem to remember my grandfather taking me to transplant saplings that grew from seeds from fallen apples from around a few trees. I was young, and my alcoholic memory is faulty, but I don't recall any grafting. (This wa
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by ci5er 8y ago
I loved the 80s so much more than the 70s, so I'm not sure where you are coming from. EDIT: I did remove an insult from an earlier draft of an earlier comment that you were probably a kid (as most people here are) that didn't reme
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by ci5er 8y ago
At least you're funny. (And, no, I have not downvoted you)
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by ci5er 8y ago
Exponential growth, feed back loops and side effects are all hard to reason about intuitively. "Business Dynamics" by Stermer was surprisingly good. "How we know what is not so" by Thomas Gilovich is a good tonic against
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by ci5er 8y ago
Nice clip. I'm sorry that I don't find it compelling for the purpose of answering the question as asked. Maybe you went to a different logic school.
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by ci5er 8y ago
I didn't downvote the person, but I did ask for clarification and got downvoted. Can you explain your claim 'objectively true'? There are too many non-concrete nouns running around for me to be able to keep track of...
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by ci5er 8y ago
That is a bold large-ish declaration. Would you be kind enough to define: 1) Today's capitalism crisis, and 2) Reagonomics' role in being the cause instead of the cure? Thanks so very much.
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by ci5er 8y ago
I must be thinking of something (I wouldn't have guessed it to be reddit; maybe it was), but I just added a space as an edit to the end of an above comment and didn't get a '*', so I guess it wasn't here. Mea maxima
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by ci5er 8y ago
Me too. Most of my friends don't go to the gym - they drink. Maybe I hang out with the wrong crowd.
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by ci5er 8y ago
Ummm, I don't want to say that reading is fundamental (even though it is), but, of the 36% of his acquaintances that go to the gym for that reason, about just over 25% (of his 'crowd' in aggregate, not of the 36%) take steroi
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by ci5er 8y ago
We (the company I worked for as a Systems Engineer in Japan) sold hundreds of millions (billions?) of HC11s. Pretty much a 6809 SoC. Now, they were embedded in mass-consumer devices, so only a few people had to program them.
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by ci5er 8y ago
Wet Streets Make Rain(tm ). Not the same thing, but the psychology is related. Ref: Michael Crighton; Gell-Mann
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by ci5er 8y ago
Disaster recovery is hard. For startups, I finally learned to do this drill: Restore the entire business to fully operational status on clean computers from offsite backups in under 24 hours. You always hope you won't need it, but...
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by ci5er 8y ago
> that history is at least partly made by whoever is telling it Absolutely. I am not a relativist, but I find that any narrative that challenges mine (while wrong, haha) is interesting. I'm not going to call it alternative history f
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by ci5er 8y ago
I'm curious, in your experience, (and I am curious - not being argumentative), how socially connected do you find the citation graph to be? A while back, I was mapping innovation diffusion, as indicated by papers and patents and hiring
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by ci5er 8y ago
Someone, before now, for some reason, flagged this thread. (And I'm wondrously curious as to why - because the flaggers clearly saw something objectionable about this rising thread (as opposed to 'wrong') that I am apparently
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by ci5er 8y ago
> The research that matters, yes. There and in a few others all around the world. Do you have any basis for this claim? I've found that (for example) the top research in cosmology and the top in material design and the top in semico
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by ci5er 8y ago
I'm a SIGGRAPH rando who implemented a clone of RenderMan in 1992 or so on Sun Workstations. (It wasn't that great of an implementation (Pat Hanrahan helped me with one bit), but because of the Sun's networking capability - i
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by ci5er 8y ago
Well, it's certainly not my style, but I would generally take it as an expression of intense feeling about the topic. If it were my wife or my child or my parent saying this, it would probably reduce me to tears. If it were a community
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by ci5er 8y ago
> I'd be terrible at being a celebrity. You and me both.
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by ci5er 8y ago
That makes sense. I also hate personal confrontation. In the past, I have even had my own sub-ordinates (I hate that word - but they were the engineers that reported to me) confront me, leaving me, from time-to-time to go home and vomit and
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by ci5er 8y ago
I may be odd-man out here, but I really didn't see any part of his mind that needed to be changed. What did you disagree with?
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by ci5er 8y ago
"Yes, it's true: I am a rocket scientist" often quothe one of the stupidest persons I have had the opportunity to meet on this ball of dirt, because he had a PhD in aerospace engineering. That said - he was good looking, had
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by ci5er 8y ago
Ok ... I'm pretty sure I'm going to express this badly - but I'll try... A long long time ago, humans got humanized in places where small numbers of them grouped together and cooperated/traded/shared with each other
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by ci5er 8y ago
> [...] the average MBA in big business isn't exactly a reader. I've worked with several MBAs in big business[0]. They didn't seem illiterate. What prompts this comment/impression? [0] FWIW - I prefer them to the aver

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