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by ci5er 9y ago
What is the purpose of positive affirmation? It sounds like a tool to desensitize yourself to your failure to succeed. But you make it sound like a good thing - so I'm missing something: what is the purpose?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> You'll learn that everyone basically shares the same thoughts of inadequacy, the same kinds of guilt and shame. Can you provide a reference? I believe that I have met the best-of-the-best, and find I stack up as a very sad number
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by ci5er 9y ago
If people weren't lemmings, that would be a valuable indicator. But, it turns out that...
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by ci5er 9y ago
Given who the establishment's people's friends are, and the nature of the revolving door, I find it hard to find fault with that assessment. But "the wealthy" is maybe a too broad brush. Co-conspirators, maybe...
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by ci5er 9y ago
Well, certainly, enough forces are at work as to make serious prognostication of this type a fool's game...
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by ci5er 9y ago
The bureaucracy is beholden to itself (and acts to survive on that basis), and the elected official presents a principle-agent problem. Now, I understand how it is supposed to work. But I am asserting that this is not how it does work.
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by ci5er 9y ago
> How many times do we have to hear these kinds of stories of abuse [...] Well, probably more, if this type of stuff keeps getting conflated with legitimate cases of abuse and trolling. As is ... people are getting frothy about the appli
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by ci5er 9y ago
He was descriptive and prescriptive. His descriptive narrative was prescient.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Sure. I agree. If that was the choice. But we have an incompetent and bloated organization dedicated to serving themselves, not the people. EDIT: Where I come up a bit baffled is where people got the idea that government is here to serve th
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by ci5er 9y ago
You make a good point. I did a survey of national and local monopolies a while back, and I couldn't find many sustained ones (in the US) that weren't sponsored by the state. Oligopoly is another matter entirely. > Also don&#x27
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by ci5er 9y ago
I hope they don't get married. I've been happy with capitalism since (at least) March of 1776. And, you know, we both have our flaws (like when she goes out with politicians and gets dirty, no denying it, from time-to-time), but I
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by ci5er 9y ago
1) Liability 2) Brand Dilution 3) Trademark Protection
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by ci5er 9y ago
> A state, on the other hand, will redirect those resources towards social good. A state is also an abstract entity. Composed of people with a range of incentives based on their positions. Elected representatives offer us a fine view int
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by ci5er 9y ago
"Now that you are super-successful - let the state take your money. Because, reasons" ? Why do you believe that the state (with its lifetime employeed mediocraties or venal politicians), with no competition itself to always be imp
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by ci5er 9y ago
Would it be out of line to ask you to make a specific critique? I may be taking the parent comment out of context myself (as sparse as it is), but I worry about nation-states manufacturing dependency.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Not to quibble with your quibble (but here I go anyway)... The term "Marketing Spend of X" or "Operating Spend of Y" is fairly common business-analysis-speak. At least in certain regions of the United States. IIRC, I als
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by ci5er 9y ago
To your last line -- I've got a PHP sub-system that I would love to have re-written to match our chosen stack language set, maybe simply because we could then have fewer required skills on the team (few of us are PHP guys). But for all
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by ci5er 9y ago
Well, that makes sense, doesn't it? Back in "the day" when certain US companies were trying to convert all the Whitepages and Yellowpages nation-wide into CD-ROMs, they'd ship phonebooks from each zip-code to China to ha
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by ci5er 9y ago
Coming soon: More regulation!
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by ci5er 9y ago
Well, the 2.9 billion base pairs of the haploid human genome correspond to a maximum of about 725 megabytes of data, since every base pair can be coded by 2 bits. That's pretty dense.
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by ci5er 9y ago
> What??? What what? Do you disagree? Back of the envelope-wise (depending on their definition of "digital data"), that seems to be about within two or three zeroes of correct, no?
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by ci5er 9y ago
Ha! I have a friend that at 5am, his cat will walk up on his chest and tap his left eyelid with an extended index claw. Tap tap tap. Smart critters. They freak me out. But, I hear you.
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by ci5er 9y ago
Makes sense. I (we) had that when we first moved to the US, and were not spending the night in adjacent futons. We got a bigger bed - and it helped. But I can see how that would work or not depending on...
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by ci5er 9y ago
Maybe so. But, for me, subliminally - it feels when I wake up that there is a felt difference from having spent the night alone or not. But, again, maybe that's just me.
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by ci5er 9y ago
What about a king size bed? With dual twin size coverings? I'm not judging - but sleeping in the other room or on the other bed seems to defeat the point of being together, no? I was married for a long while - and I miss it. That said
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by ci5er 9y ago
I'm a fan of RDBMS (E-R) and SQL - it's cute and all for things like purchase orders and shopping carts and orders and receipts and the like. But for things like clinical informatics (even the non-semantic kind), graph traversal i
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by ci5er 9y ago
> able to go against the grain of mainstream economics and find valuable insights. Like what?
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by ci5er 9y ago
"The poor" and "the rich" are categories. How can there be recourse when no individual harm has been done? If a single rich person did something wrong against a single poor person - then, of course, there is a path to re
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by ci5er 9y ago
Maybe GP was posing the question to a literate audience?
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by ci5er 9y ago
> I encourage people to write a book (or books). It is a really fun process. I don't mean this in a derogatory way, but you are insane. I've written a couple for MK and SV and edited a few more conference books and a few more c

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